Yuan Cheng Associate Professor


Short Bio

Yuan is an associate professor in the College of Computing at Grand Valley State University. Previously, he served as a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science at California State University, Sacramento, where he attained the rank of associate professor with tenure in 2022. Prior to his tenure at Sac State, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Cyber Security (ICS) at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), San Antonio, Texas. He earned his Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science at UTSA, under the guidance of Dr. Ravi Sandhu and Dr. Jaehong Park. He completed his B.Eng. degree in Information Security from the School of Computer Science & Technology at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China. Raised in Ningbo, Zhejiang, his native tongue is the Chinese dialect of Wu.

College of Computing
Grand Valley State University
Mackinac Hall D-2-212
1 Campus Drive
Allendale, MI 49401
yuan AT ycheng DOT org

Ph.D., University of Texas at San Antonio, 2014

Research Interests

  • Access Control
  • Authentication
  • Internet of Things
  • Privacy
  • Social Computing

Teaching

Fall 2024:
  • CIS 457 Data Communications
  • CIS 615 Information Security Principles

News

  • 12/23/2024: I will serve on the TPC of ACM CODASPY 2025.
  • 10/7/2024: Our paper "A Zero Trust Module for Cybersecurity Education" with Xinli and Vijay has been accepted for publication in 28th CISSE (The Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education), 2024.
  • 9/22/2024: I will serve on the TPC of CISSE 2024.
  • 5/22/2024: Our paper "User Perceptions of CAPTCHAs: University vs. Internet Users" has been accepted for publication in DBSec 2024.
  • 3/20/2024: I will serve on the TPC of ICCCN 2024.
  • 3/11/2024: Our paper "Exploring Cybersecurity Hands-on Labs in Pervasive Computing: Design, Assessment, and Reflection" with Anyi, Bruce, and Xiaohong has been accepted for publication in the 2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition.

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