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Bo Yuan

Professor

Department of Cybersecurity
Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences
bo.yuan@rit.edu
585-475-4468
Office Location
GOL-3705
Office Mailing Address
100 Lomb Memorial Drive Rochester, NY 14623 70-3706

Bo Yuan

Professor

Department of Cybersecurity
Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences

Education

BS, MS, Shanghai Normal University (China); Ph.D., State University of New York at Binghamton

Bio

Bo Yuan is a professor in the Cybersecurity Department at Rochester Institute of Technology. He was the department chair from 2014 to 2022 and oversaw the tremendous growth of the department and the cybersecurity programs. His research areas are computational intelligence and its application in cybersecurity. Dr. Yuan is the PI of multiple cybersecurity grants, including the CyberCorps (R) Scholarship for Service grant funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the DoD Cyber Scholarship Program. He is the POC of CAE-CD and CAE-R at RIT. Before he joined RIT in 2003, Dr. Yuan was a staff scientist at Manning & Napier Information Services. He received a Ph.D. in Systems Science from Binghamton University in 1996.

bo.yuan@rit.edu
585-475-4468
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Areas of Expertise
Cybersecurity
Malware
Computational Intelligence
Machine Learning

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Published Conference Proceedings
Mosli, Rayan, et al. "A Behavioral-Based Approach for Detecting Malware." Proceedings of the Thirteenth IFIP WG 11.9 International Conference on Digital Forensics, Orlando, FL, 2017. Ed. Gilbert Peterson and Sujeet Shenoi. Orlando, FL: Springer, 2017. Print.
Mosli, Rayan, et al. "Automated Malware Detection Using Artifacts in Forensic Memory Images." Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Technologies for Homeland Security (HST). Ed. IEEE. Waltham, MA: IEEE, 2016. Print.
Huba, William, et al. "Towards A Web Tracking Profiling Algorithm." Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security. Ed. Israel Soibelman. Waltham, MA: n.p., 2013. Print.
Schellenberg, Thomas, Bo Yuan, and Richard Zanibbi. "Layout-based Substitution Tree Indexing and Retrieval for Mathematical Expressions." Proceedings of the Document Recognition and Retrieval XIX. Ed. Christian Viard-Gaudin and Richard Zanibbi. Burlingame, California: Proc. SPIE 8297, 2012. Print.
Huba, William, et al. "A HTTP Cookie Covert Channel." Proceedings of the SIN '11 4th International Conference on Security of Information and Networks, 14-19 November 2011, Sydney, Australia. Ed. Mehmet A. Orgun, et al. New York, NY: ACM, 2011. Print.
Zanibbi, Richard and Bo Yuan. "Keyword and image-based retrieval for mathematical expressions." Proceedings of the Proc. Document Recognition and Retrieval XVIII. Ed. Gady Agam and Christian Viard-Gaudin. San Francisco, CA: SPIE, 2011. Print.
Book Chapter
Pan, Yin, Bo Yuan, and Sumita Mishra. "Network Security Auditing." Network Security, Administration and Management: Advancing Technology and Practice. Ed. Dulal Chandra Kar and Mahbubur Rahman Syed. Hershey: IGI Global, 2011. 131-157. Print.
Journal Paper
Brown, Erik, et al. "Covert Channels in the HTTP Network Protocol: Channel Characterization and Detecting Man-in-the-Middle Attacks." The Journal of Information Warfare 9. 3 (2010): 26-38. Print.

Currently Teaching

CSEC-559
UG Sem in Computing Security
0 - 3 Credits
This course explores current topics in computing security. It is intended as a place holder course for faculty to experiment new course offerings in Computing Security undergraduate program. Course specific details change with respect to each specific focal area proposed by faculty.
CSEC-659
Seminar in Computing Security
3 Credits
This course offers an opportunity to learn about a specific seminar topic in more depth. The course description will be replaced by the specific instance of the seminar, as it is proposed by faculty.
CSEC-759
Graduate Seminar in Computing Security
3 Credits
This course explores current topics in Computing Security. It is intended as a place holder course for faculty to experiment new course offerings in Computing Security undergraduate program. Course specific details change with respect to each specific focal area proposed by faculty.

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