Li Yang, Organizer

Dr. Li Yang has been serving since 2019 as program director for the NSF CyberCorps and Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace programs, which seek to advance and bolster the U.S. cybersecurity education and workforce development. Prior to her tenure at NSF, Dr. Yang was a Guerry Professor and Director of the Information Security (InfoSec) Center at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC). Dr. Yang's research encompasses network and information security, mobile security, big data analytics, massive data mining, bioinformatics, cybersecurity education, and engineering techniques for complex software system design.