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Yiwen Hu Assistant Professor 1000 Hilltop Rd Email: huyiwen [at] umbc [dot] edu |
Research Interests:
I am actively seeking self-motivated students for Ph.D. or Research Intern positions. Selected students will receive full support including tuition remission, monthly stipend, and health insurance. If interested, please send me an email with your CV, transcript, and a brief description of your research interest.
Biography
Dr. Yiwen Hu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), where she joined in Fall 2025. She earned her Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan State University, where she was advised by Professor Guan-Hua Tu and Professor Li Xiao. Prior to that, she received her B.S. degree from Zhejiang University in 2018. Her research interests lie broadly in security, mobile networks and systems, IoT, formal methods, and vehicle-to-everything (V2X), with a recent focus on securing and innovating 5G and next-generation mobile network protocols and technologies.
Recent News
Honors and Awards
MSU CSE Recognition for Outstanding Research 2025
ACM GetMobile'25 Research Highlights 2025
MSU Dissertation Completion Fellowship 2024
ACM SigMobile'24 Research Highlights (First-Author Paper) 2024
MSU Graduate School Travel Grant 2024
ACM GetMobile'23 Research Highlights (First-Author Paper) 2023
911 CVD report contributed to GSMA standard changes (First-Author Paper) 2023
AT&T Security Award (First-Author Paper) 2023
MSU Graduate Fellowship 2023
ACM MobiCom'22 Best Community Paper Award Runner-Up (First-Author Paper) 2022
ACM MobiCom'21 Student Travel Grant 2022
Carl V. Page Graduate Memorial Fellowship 2022