Dr. Yan (Mia) Zhang

Title: Assistant Professor
Dept/Program: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Office: ASEC 353
Phone: 330-972-4570
Email: yzhang1@uakron.edu

Biography

Dr. Zhang’s research has led to multiple papers published or to appear in top security and networking conferences and journals including ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, and IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. 

Beyond research, she has served as a reviewer for various conferences and journals such as ACM WiSec 2020, IEEE ICDCS 2020, IEEE VTC 2016, IEEE High-Confidence Computing, and IEEE Internet of Things Journal. She also served as a TPC member of 2023 IEEE INFOCOM poster.

Research

Cybersecurity, and Privacy Issues in Mobile and Networked Systems, Internet-of-Things, AI/ML-powered Wireless and Mobile Systems, Mobile Sensing, Dynamic Spectrum Sharing, Mobile Crowdsourcing

Education

• Ph.D., Computer Engineering, Arizona State University, 2022
• M.E., Communication and Information Systems, Beijing Normal University, China, 2017
• B.E., Information and Computing Science, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China, 2014

Courses

Mobile Computing, Computer Systems Design, Hardware Security, Computer System