Overview
Personal Profile
I am a Lecturer in Cyber Security and member of the Security and Trust of Advanced Systems group at the Department of Computer Science, University of Exeter.Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London. There, I worked on two EPSRC-funded projects, advised by Professor Pasquale Malacaria:
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EPSRC project: CHAI – Cyber Hygiene in AI-Enabled Domestic Life
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EPSRC project: Customised and Adaptive Approach for Optimal Cybersecurity Investment
Education
My educational background includes a BEng with First Class and the Excellence Prize from Newcastle University, an MSc with Distinction and PhD from Imperial College London. I was supervised by Professor Erol Gelenbe at the Intelligent Systems and Networks reserach group.
For Prospective Students:
Prospective research students are encouraged to contact me. Kindly email your CV and research proposal for discussion. Inquiries about potential funding opportunities are also welcome.PhD Funding Opportunities:
Publications
Copyright Notice: Any articles made available for download are for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the copyright holder.
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2023
- Zhang Y, Malacaria P. (2023) Keep Spending: Beyond Optimal Cyber-Security Investment, 2023 IEEE 36th Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSF), 10th - 14th Jul 2023, 2023 IEEE 36th Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSF), DOI:10.1109/csf57540.2023.00024. [PDF]
- Zhang Y, Malacaria P, Loukas G, Panaousis E. (2023) CROSS: A framework for cyber risk optimisation in smart homes, Computers & Security, volume 130, pages 103250-103250, article no. 103250, DOI:10.1016/j.cose.2023.103250. [PDF]
2022
- Zhang Y, Malacaria P. (2022) Optimization-Time Analysis for Cybersecurity, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, volume 19, no. 4, pages 2365-2383, DOI:10.1109/tdsc.2021.3055981. [PDF]
2021
- Zhang Y, Malacaria P. (2021) Bayesian Stackelberg games for cyber-security decision support, Decision Support Systems, volume 148, pages 113599-113599, article no. 113599, DOI:10.1016/j.dss.2021.113599. [PDF]
2020
- Zhang Y. (2020) G-Networks and the Performance of ICT with Renewable Energy, SN Computer Science, volume 1, no. 1, article no. 56, DOI:10.1007/s42979-019-0056-2. [PDF]
- Gelenbe E, Zhang Y. (2020) Sharing Energy for Optimal Edge Performance, SOFSEM 2020: Theory and Practice of Computer Science, Springer International Publishing, 24-36, DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-38919-2_3. [PDF]
2019
- Zhang Y. (2019) OPTIMAL ENERGY DISTRIBUTION WITH ENERGY PACKET NETWORKS, Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences, volume 35, no. 1, pages 75-91, DOI:10.1017/s0269964818000566. [PDF]
- Gelenbe E, Zhang Y. (2019) Performance Optimization With Energy Packets, IEEE Systems Journal, volume 13, no. 4, pages 3770-3780, DOI:10.1109/jsyst.2019.2912013. [PDF]