Name:Li Yang

Bio:

Li Yang is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Business and Information Technology at Ontario Tech University, and an Adjunct Research Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Western University. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Western University in 2022. He was awarded the FBIT Early Career Research Chair in Cybersecurity for Business, the FBIT Research Excellence Award, and the Ontario Tech University Research Excellence Award in 2026. Li Yang has been named by the IEEE Computer Society as one of the recipients of Computing’s Top 30 Early Career Professionals for 2025. Li Yang is also included in Stanford University/Elsevier’s List of the World’s Top 2% Scientists, and he was ranked among the world’s top 0.5% of researchers in ‘Networking & Telecommunications’ in 2024 and 2025. He is currently an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII) and IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM). His research interests include cybersecurity, machine learning, deep learning, AutoML, TinyML, model optimization, network data analytics, Internet of Things (IoT), intrusion detection, anomaly detection, concept drift, continual learning, and adversarial machine learning.

Country:Canada

Affiliation:Ontario Tech University

Research interests:Machine Learning, Cybersecurity