The Johns Hopkins University Department of Computer Science is excited to welcome two new assistant professors, Yinzhi Cao and Soudeh Ghorbani.
How can a self-driving car learn to avoid mistakes? How can researchers spot errors in a malware detection system before they cause problems? These are some of the questions Yinzhi Cao explores in his research. Cao comes to Johns Hopkins from Lehigh University, where he served as an assistant professor for the past three years. He has a bachelor’s degree in electronic engineering from Tsinghua University in Beijing, eearned his doctorate from Northwestern University, and completed his postdoctoral work at Columbia University. Cao’s research interests include web security, network security, and mobile security. He examines these problems from multiple perspectives; for example, he has worked to improve technology to track users across browsers while also developing a browser that allows for greater anonymity. He will be teaching web security in the fall.
Just as a city relies on infrastructure keep things moving smoothly, an app needs data infrastructure to run efficiently and securely. Soudeh Ghorbani designs foundational network systems to make this infrastructure both faster and more reliable. She also creates low-latency, provably-stable datacenters and cloud computing facilities and designs verification algorithms that enable network operators to ensure the safety and reliability of key infrastructures, such as systems that detect intrusions and block malicious traffic. Ghorbani received her doctorate from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and completed her postdoctoral work at the University of Wisconsin. She holds a master’s in computer science from the University of Toronto and a bachelor’s in computer engineering from the Sharif University of Technology in Iran. She will be teaching advanced networking in the fall.