Yifan Zhang
Assistant Professor at San Diego State University
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYifan Zhang is an Assistant Professor and PhD-trained computer scientist with nine years of research and engineering experience bridging system security and ocean-related computing. After a PhD at Indiana University Bloomington and internships including Samsung Research America, Yifan's work spans security-focused systems research and interdisciplinary applications that connect computer science with oceanography. Based in San Diego, they combine academic rigor with industry pragmatism, mentoring students while publishing and building reproducible tools. Notably, Yifan's GitHub persona—"trying to understand computer science and the ocean"—signals a rare blend of domain curiosity that informs both theoretical work and practical research systems.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Indiana University Bloomington
Github Skills (56)
callgraph8
static-data8
api6
charm6
authentication6
static-analysis6
computation6
cli5
prototyping5
bytecode5
android5
source-code-analysis5
java5
codeql5
aws-lambda5
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Gao-Chuan/Monroe-Dream-Collect
Mar 2022 - Aug 2022
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
Gao-Chuan/Gao-Chuan.github.io
Jun 2024 - Jan 2026
Contributions:62 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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