Danfeng (Daphne) Yao is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg. She received her Computer Science Ph.D. degree from Brown University. Before joining VT, she was a tenure-track assistant professor at Rutgers University Computer Science Department for two years. Her research interests are in network and information security, in particular user-centric security and privacy, social- and human-behavior pattern recognition, insider threats, secure information sharing,  data privacy, and applied cryptography. Danfeng has more than 30 publications on various topics of security and privacy. She received the NSF CAREER Award in 2010 for her work on human-behavior driven malware detection. She won the Best Student Paper Award in ICICS 2006, and the Award for Technological Innovation from Brown in 2006, both for her privacy-preserving identity management work. She also won the Best Paper Award in CollaborateCom '10 for her keystrok security work. Danfeng has one provisional patent filed for her recent bot detection techniques.

Please see projects at: http://people.cs.vt.edu/~danfeng

3000 Level Courses

• CS3114: Data Structures & Algorithms

4000 Level Courses

• CS4264: Principles of Computer Security

6000 Level Courses

• CS6204: Advanced Topics in Systems

CAREER: Human-Behavior Driven Malware Detection

Granting Institution: National Science Foundation
Amount: $529,998

Center of Excellence for Command, Control and Interoperability

Granting Institution: Department of Homeland Security
Amount:

CT - ISG: ROME: Robust Measurement in Sensor Networks

Granting Institution: National Science Foundation
Amount: $400,000

Detection of Data Exfiltration in Enterprise Environments

Granting Institution: Ball State University
Amount: $38,643

Exploring Personalized Security with Novel Learning Techniques for Host-Based Anomaly Detection

Granting Institution: USARO
Amount: $50,000

Novel Games for Analyzing Cyber-Security Behaviors: An Interdisciplinary Approach

Granting Institution: Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science (ICTAS)
Amount: $60,000

Real-Time Anomaly Detection and Quantitative Assurance for Securing Systems

Granting Institution: ONR
Amount: $449,997

REU Supplement: Human-Behavior Driven malware Detection

Granting Institution: National Science Foundation
Amount: $16,000

Secure and Flexible Information Sharing for Crisis Communication in Pervasive Computing Environments

Granting Institution: Rutgers University
Amount: $50,000

The Rutgers University Research Initiative on Cybersecurity Economics

Granting Institution: Rutgers University
Amount: $60,000