Dr. Yuchen Yang is a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the College of Information Sciences and Technology at Pennsylvania State University, starting from July 2025. She received her Ph.D. in the Department of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University, advised by Dr. Yinzhi Cao. During her doctoral studies, she also worked closely with Dr. Neil Gong at Duke University.
Dr. Yang has broad interests in computer security, privacy, and trustworthy AI, with an emphasis on enabling seamless real-world deployment of AI systems aligned with societal values. Her work has been published in top-tier security conferences, including IEEE S&P, ACM CCS, USENIX Security, and NDSS, as well as CV/NLP conferences such as ECCV and EMNLP. Her research has made a notable societal impact, with features in media outlets like MIT Technology Review, IEEE Spectrum, and being listed among the Normalized Top-100 Security Papers. She also serves as a PC member for multiple conferences and journals, including IEEE S&P, ACM CCS, ICLR, ICCV, DSN, TDSC, etc. For more information, please visit her website.
