Fangyu (Amy) Lin

Fangyu (Amy) Lin serves as Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Systems and Cybersecurity at UTSA's College of AI, Cyber and Computing. Her research pioneers AI-driven solutions for privacy threat mitigation, combining technical innovation with behavioral analysis to address evolving digital privacy challenges.

Her academic credentials include:

• Ph.D. in Management Information Systems, University of Arizona
• M.S., National Taiwan University
• B.A., National Sun Yat-sen University

Dr. Lin's core research integrates Large Language Models and deep learning with privacy analytics, focusing on automated policy analysis, personally identifiable information (PII) extraction from social/dark web sources, and user-centered privacy alert systems. Her behavioral studies evaluate how AI solutions influence individual privacy protection motivations, creating a unique bridge between machine intelligence and human decision-making in security contexts.

Publication trends (2016-2024) reveal consistent methodological innovation in applying NLP and deep transfer learning to privacy analytics. Key contributions include dark web PII monitoring frameworks, structured policy change detection via self-attentive embeddings, and personalized exposure alert systems - all emphasizing practical applications for real-world privacy protection.

No scientific awards are documented in available sources.

While Dr. Lin serves as reviewer for ISR, WITS, and DTRAP, details regarding student advising, grant funding, or laboratory affiliations remain unspecified in current materials.