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.
ASONAM Inferring Friendship from Check-in Data of Location-Based Social Networks
COMPSAC Cryptographic Protocols for Enforcing Relationship-based Access Control Policies
ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (ACM SACMAT) A Logical Approach to Restricting Access in Online Social Networks
The Web Conference (WWW) Exploring Communities for Effective Location Prediction
International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE) Community-driven Social Influence Analysis and Applications
ARES A New Access Control Scheme for Facebook-style Social Networks
AsiaPKC Twisted edwards-form elliptic curve cryptography for 8-bit AVR-based sensor nodes
ICCSNT Efficient Prime-Field Arithmetic for Elliptic Curve Cryptography on Wireless Sensor Nodes