Yao Li

Yao Li is an Assistant Professor at the School of Modeling, Simulation, and Training, University of Central Florida (UCF), where they also serve as Director of the Privacy Lab within the Institute for Simulation & Training. Their research focuses on privacy management in digital environments, human-computer interaction, and cybersecurity, with applications across defense, education, and social media domains.

• Research interests include privacy in real-time information sharing, cross-cultural privacy differences, and usable cybersecurity.
• Key projects involve NSF-funded CyberCorps Scholarship for Service, studies on live-streaming privacy, and social media privacy settings usability.

Recent publications analyze privacy strategies in live streaming, cross-cultural social media norms, and collective privacy management. They teach courses in modeling/simulation mathematics and cybersecurity/privacy design. Their lab focuses on privacy challenges in collaborative and real-time digital systems.