Faculty
2025: AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention 2025
2025: Best Machine Learning and Security Paper in Cybersecurity Award 2025
2022: Busy Beaver Award für "Privacy of Machine Learning"
2021: Busy Beaver teaching award for seminar “Privacy of Machine Learning” at Saarland University (2021 Winter)
2019: Best paper award at NDSS
Dr. Yang Zhang is tenured faculty member at CISPA. His research concentrates on trustworthy machine learning (privacy, safety, and security). Moreover, he works on measuring and understanding misinformation and unsafe content like hateful memes on the Internet. Over the years, he has published multiple papers at top venues in computer science, including CCS, NDSS, Oakland, and USENIX Security. His work has received the NDSS 2019 distinguished paper award and the CCS 2022 best paper award runner-up.
International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE)
Knowledge and Information Systems An active learning-based approach for location-aware acquaintance inference
IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P)
The Web Conference (WWW)
The Web Conference (WWW)
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) walk2friends: Inferring Social Links from Mobility Profiles
International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM)
Complex Networks & Their Applications Modeling City Locations as Complex Networks: An initial study
COSN Location Prediction: Communities Speak Louder than Friends
APWeb Distance and Friendship: A Distance-based Model for Link Prediction in Social Networks