Curriculum Vitae
Academic Employment and Positions
- Ph.D. Student, Operations and Decision Technologies, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, August 2022 - May 2027 (Expected)
Education
- Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Major: Information Systems, Indiana University, August 2022 - May 2027 (Expected)
- Master of Science (M.S.), Major: Business Analytics, Fordham University, August 2017 - February 2019
- Bachelor of Management (B.Mgt), Major: Management Science, Fudan University, September 2013 - June 2017
Research Interests
- Applications: Cybersecurity – Phishing Websites Detectors Evasion
- Methods: Deep learning - Adversarial Learning, Deep Reinforcement Learning
Work-in-Progress Journal Papers
- Yang Gao, S. Samtani, “Generating adversarial phishing websites to evade machine learning-based anti-phishing detectors”
Preferred Workship Papers
- Yilu Zhou, Hao Sun, Yang Gao, “Protecting Children from Inappropriate Mobile Apps: A Text and Image Deep Learning Approach”, INFORMS 2nd Workshop on Data Science, 2018
Professional Services
- Volunteer, Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST), 2022. Indianapolis, Indiana.
- Volunteer, The 6th INFORMS Workshop on Data Science (WDS), 2022. Indianapolis, Indiana.
Professional Affiliations and Societies
- Association for Information Systems (AIS), Member
- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Member
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Member
- Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), Member
Skills
- Databases: SQL
- Programming Languages: C, Python
- Visualization tools: Tableau, Gephi
- Data mining tools: SPSS Modeler, WEKA, scikit-learn
- Major deep learning toolkits: PyTorch, Keras, Tensorflow
Work experience
- Ehomie New York Inc., Texas Associate Manager & Business Analyst, February 2019 – February 2022