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