Yang Hu

Dr. Yang Hu is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science, University of Texas at Dallas. His research focuses on autonomous systems, cybersecurity, and cloud computing, with a particular emphasis on rethinking autonomous driving infrastructure through multi-system networking. He has received an NSF CAREER Award for a project aiming to redesign autonomous driving systems using advanced computing and communication technologies, benefiting AR/VR and industrial IoT applications.

Dr. Hu’s work bridges semantic gaps in virtual machine introspection and explores dynamic binary instrumentation frameworks like PEMU. His publications span cybersecurity, embedded systems, and graph processing optimizations. The NSF-funded project ($508,339) highlights his leadership in transforming autonomous systems through networked multi-object architectures.

His research achievements include contributions to guest OS fingerprinting in cloud environments and efficient graph processing algorithms. Collaborations involve hypervisor-layer automation tools like HyperShell and hybrid techniques for semantic gap reduction.