Yan Bai, Ph.D
About
Degrees
Introduction
Research Focus:
Cybersecurity, Privacy, Cloud and Edge Computing, Internet of Things, and Blockchain
Teaching Focus:
Computer Networks, Information Assurance, Computer and Network Security, Digital Forensics
Honors and Awards
- 2016 Distinguished Teaching Award, University of Washington
- 2015 IEEE Outstanding Service Award as Student Travel Grants and PhD Forum Chair of the IEEE CloudCom
- 2012 UWT Outstanding Women, University of Washington Tacoma
Academic Service
- Program Development
- Co-Lead the development of the M.S. in Information Technology and Systems degree program at the University of Washington Tacoma
- Worked with other faculty and founded the B.S. in Information Technology degree program at the University of Washington Tacoma, offered since Autumn 2009.
- University Committee
- Senator, UW Faculty Senate (2015 – 2017)
- Council Member, UW Graduate School Council (2013 – 2016)
Teaching
- TINFO 300: Programming II for Information Technology and Systems
- TINFO 310: Foundations of Information Assurance
- TINFO 320: Foundations of Hardware and Software Systems
- TINFO 330: Foundations of Web Design and Programming
- TINFO 340: Foundations of Information Assurance
- TINFO 350: Foundations of Information Networking
- TCSS 371: Machine Organization
- TCSS 430: Networking and Distributed Systems
- TCSS 431: Network Security
- TINFO 441: Network Security
- TINFO 442: Computer Security
- TINFO 490/445/443: Digital Forensics
- TINFO 451: Routing and Switching
- TCSS 490: Computer Forensics
- TCSS 590: Computer Forensics
- TCSS 590: Information and Communication Security
- TCSS 590: Network Security and Privacy
- TCSL 510: Principles of Cybersecurity
- TCSL 550: Network and Internet Security
L. Wang, Y. Bai Q. Jiang, V.C.M. Leung, W. Cai, X.Li, “ Beh-Raft-Chain: A Behavior-based Fast Blockchain Protocol for Complex Networks, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering. Publication Date: 2021
S. Roy, J. Li, B-J. Choi, Y. Bai, “A Lightweight Supervised Intrusion Detection Mechanism for IoT Networks”, Elsevier Future Generation Computer Systems. Publication Date: 2022
J. Li, S. Alian, M. S. A. Tehrani, B. Maharjan, Y. Bai, “Drone-Assisted Fog-Cloud IoT Content Service Platform for Rural Communities”, IEEE International Conference on Mobile Cloud Computing, Services, and Engineering. Publication Date: 2020