Lei Yang is an associate professor with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno. He received his Ph.D. degree from the School of Electrical Computer and Energy Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, in 2012 and was a postdoctoral scholar at Princeton University and an assistant research professor with the School of Electrical Computer and Energy Engineering, Arizona State University. His research interests include big data analytics, AI/ML for cyber-physical systems, edge intelligence in IoT and 5G, and data privacy and security. He was recognized among the top 2% of researchers, according to data from Stanford and Elsevier. His research was featured in the National Science Foundation Science360 News. His papers have won the Best Paper Award Runner-Up award at IEEE INFOCOM 2014 and the Best Paper Award at IEEE PES General Meeting 2022.
