Biography
Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Santa Clara University. She received her B.S. and M.S. degrees from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications in 2004 and 2007 respectively, and her Ph.D. degree from the University of Rhode Island in 2012 under the supervision of Dr. Yan (Lindsay) Sun. She is the recipient of the 2019 Researcher of the Year Award at School of Engineering, Santa Clara University, and the 2013 University of Rhode Island Graduate School Excellence in Doctoral Research Award. Her research interests include trust, security, and privacy of emerging applications, such as Generative AI, Internet-of-things, blockchain, and online social media. She has published over 100 papers in prestigious journals and peer-reviewed conferences. Her papers have been selected as the best paper at the IEEE International Conference on Social Computing 2010 (acceptance rate = 13%) and the 9th International Conference on Ubi-Media Computing (UMEDIA 2016). She is currently an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Service Computing, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, a Youth EBM Editor of the Blockchain: Research and Applications Journal, an Associate Editor of APSIPA Transactions on Signal and Information Processing, and an Associate Editor of the Multimedia Applications and Tools Journal. She has contributed as an organizing committee and/or a TPC member for over 30 international conferences.
She is actively contributing to professional societies, including IEEE (senior member) and APSIPA. She is a member of the IEEE Computer Society (CS) Board of Governors, the Chair of the IEEE CS Geographic Activities Committee, and Treasurer of the IEEE CS Technical and Conference Board. She is a recipient of the IEEE Computer Society Technical & Conference Activity Board Rising Star Service Award (2023). She has served as the Chair of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Meeting Request Committee (TMRC), IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor(2022~2024), and the IEEE Computer Society Region 6 area 4 coordinator (2021~2024). She has been Chair of the IEEE Computer Society Special Technical Communities (2019-2020, and 2022-2023). She is serving as APSIPA US Chapter Chair (since 2025), and has been an APSIPA Distinguish Lecturer (2021-2022), and a member of the Multimedia Security and Forensics (MSF) TC for Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA).
- COEN 12 – Data Structure (Fall 2016, Winter 2017, Fall 2017, Winter 2018, Spring 2018, Winter 2019, Spring 2019)
- COEN 279/AMTH 377 – Design and Analysis of Algorithms (Winter 2016)
- COEN 146 Computer Network (Spring 2017)
- COEN 296 Secure and Trustworthy Online Social Media (Spring 2017)
- COEN 150 Computer and Network Security (Fall 2019)