Bo Yuan
Professor
Bo Yuan
Professor
Education
BS, MS, Shanghai Normal University (China); Ph.D., State University of New York at Binghamton
Bio
Bo Yuan is a professor and chair of Computing Security Department at Rochester Institute of Technology. His main interests are in cybersecurity education and research. His research areas are in computational intelligence and its application in cybersecurity. Dr. Yuan is the PI of multiple cybersecurity grants including the five-year, $4 million CyberCorps (R) Scholarship for Service grant funded by National Science Foundation (NSF). He is also the associate director of the Center for Cybersecurity at RIT and has led to RIT's recent successful designation as CAE-CD and CAE-R by NSA. Dr. Yuan is the current chair of IEEE Rochester joint chapters of computer and computational intelligence societies. Before he joined RIT in 2003, Dr. Yuan was a staff scientist at Manning & Napier Information Services for six years. He received a Ph.D. in system science from Binghamton University in 1996.
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In the News
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March 21, 2022
RIT competes in 2022 Northeast regional collegiate cyber defense competition
A team of Rochester Institute of Technology cybersecurity students competed in the 2022 Northeast Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (NECCDC) March 18-20.
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March 22, 2021
RIT wins Northeast regional collegiate cyber defense competition
A team of RIT cybersecurity students is moving on to the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (NCCDC), after taking first place at the regional competition March 19–21. The annual event is part of the nation’s largest college-level cyber defense competition.
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January 11, 2021
RIT Sponsored Research garners $82 million
RIT had its best year ever for sponsored research funding. For fiscal year 2020, which ended June 30, RIT received 382 new awards totaling $82 million. The record funding follows almost $58 million in research expenditures in fiscal year 2019, also a record.