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Dr. Wei Yu is a Full Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at Towson University, USA, and serves as the Ph.D. program director in Information Technology since 2023. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Texas A&M University (2008), with prior degrees from Chinese institutions. His research focuses on cybersecurity, privacy, cyber-physical systems (CPS), IoT, data science, and machine learning applications.
Key contributions include foundational work on secured edge intelligence in CPS domains like smart energy, manufacturing, and transportation. He has pioneered federated learning frameworks for privacy-preserving data analytics, digital twin architectures, and reinforcement learning for industrial IoT control.
He has received prestigious awards including the NSF CAREER Award (2014–2021), USM Regents’ Faculty Award (2015), and Wilson H. Elkins Professorship (2016). His professional service includes senior editorial roles at IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, and IEEE Access.
Research spans CPS security, IoT forensics, and AI-driven CPS applications. Notable projects include adversarial mitigation in federated learning, CAPTCHA robustness, and edge computing for smart transportation systems.
