Yizheng Chen

Assistant Professor
5224 Iribe Center
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Research Group(s): 
MC2 - Maryland Cybersecurity Center
Education: 
Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology (Computer Science)
Biography: 

Yizheng Chen is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and a member of the Maryland Cybersecurity Center.

She works at the intersection of AI and security. Chen's research is focused on using AI to solve security problems, such as detecting malware, vulnerability, attacks and fraud. She is also interested in improving the robustness of these machine learning models.

Previously, Chen was a postdoctoral scholar at University of California, Berkeley and Columbia University. Her work has received an ACM CCS Best Paper Award Runner-up and a Google ASPIRE Award. Chen is also a recipient of the Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship.

She received her doctorate in computer science from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Go here to view Chen’s academic publications on Google Scholar.