Scholar
Yuan Hong
Google Scholar ID: KJuZW2wAAAAJ
University of Connecticut
Citations & Impact
Citations
1,973
H-index
24
i10-index
62
Publications
20
Co-authors
36
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Recipient of the NSF CAREER Award (2021), CCS Distinguished Paper Award (2024), CCS Top Reviewer Award (2025), USENIX Security Notable Reviewer Award (2025), and multiple Cisco Research Awards. He was also recognized as the finalist of the Meta Research Award (2021). His research has been published in premier venues across Security, Databases, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, and NLP, such as S&P, CCS, USENIX Security, NDSS, CSF, PETS, SIGMOD, VLDB, NeurIPS, CVPR, ECCV, EMNLP, KDD, and AAAI, as well as leading interdisciplinary journals (e.g., IEEE/ACM Transactions, TR_C).
Research Experience
- Currently, he is a Collins Aerospace Endowed Associate Professor in the School of Computing at the University of Connecticut (UConn) and affiliated with the Connecticut Advanced Computing Center (CACC). Between 2017 and 2022, he was an Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Cybersecurity Program Director at Illinois Institute of Technology.
Education
- Ph.D. from Rutgers University; M.Sc. from Concordia University, Montreal, Canada; B.Sc. from Beijing Institute of Technology.
Background
- Research interests span security, privacy, and trustworthy machine learning, with a focus on differential privacy, secure computation, applied cryptography, and adversarially robust learning in the context of computer vision, (large) language models, and cyber-physical systems (CPS).
Miscellany
- He received a National Physics Olympiad Prize in China.
