Assistant Professor at Miami University -- Jun 2018 – Present
Dr. He is an Assistant Professor in Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Miami University. He received his Ph.D. degree in 2018 from Department of Computer Science at Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA. He received his M.S. degree in Computer Science from Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, China, in 2014 and B.S. degree in Computer Science from Yan'an University in 2011, Yan'an, China. Dr.
His research areas focus on data privacy and cybersecurity, including privacy preserving for data inference attacks; privacy preserving genomic data publishing; and data security in cyber-physical systems. Dr. He's current work focuses on privacy-preserving data collection and processing for the Internet of Things, and differentially-private algorithms for big data aggregation.
Published journal articles include:
He, Zaobo, Jiguo Yu, Ji Li, Qilong Han, Guangchun Luo, and Yingshu Li. “Inference Attacks and Controls on Genotypes and Phenotypes for Individual Genomic Data.” IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics 1 (2018): 1-1.
Zaobo He, Yingshu Li, Ji Li, Kaiyang Li, Qing Cai, Yi Liang. “Achieving differential privacy of genomic data releasing via belief propagation.” Tsinghua Science and Technology.
Hanzhou Zhang
Miami University, 2020 graduating senior, majoring in both computer science and engineering
Teaching assistant in the department of computer science and software engineering; has conducted research with one of his professors
Plans to attend the University of Southern California to pursue a master’s degree in cyber-security engineering
In October of 2019, He and Zhang attended IBM Security’s X-Force Command Cyber Range in Cambridge, Mass., where they took part in an exercise usually reserved for executives willing to spend thousands of dollars to attend. They were there were there as part of a'Boldly Creative' grant funded through the Cybersecurity proposal.
The two-day event is designed to help educate the next generation of cybersecurity professionals and give them a taste of the constant war of information being waged through firewalls, hacks, backdoors, and terminals.
[Is there any chance the Chinese government contributed funding to this grant program? --Editor]
On July 29, 2019, this event was held at Miami University:
Cybersecurity Summit, data defense in the education industry
"Cybersecurity and information professionals from the worlds of banking, insurance, pharmaceuticals, IT and others are meeting for a Cybersecurity Summit at Miami University in Oxford, Monday, July 29,2019 at the Farmer School of Business.
"Speakers and attendees will share the latest in best practices regarding data platforms, risks, employee exposure and more. The goal is to determine industry needs in cybersecurity, not only technical needs but also in the areas of policy, risk assessment and risk management.
"Miami is in the midst of a feasibility study for creating a Center for Cybersecurity, with faculty collaborating from departments of computer science and software engineering, information systems and analytics and political science. It’s funded by Miami’s Boldly Creative initiative, with faculty-launched programs aimed at spurring a new generation of academic excellence, enhancing its nationally recognized undergraduate teaching, learning and research with a sharpened focus on innovation and creativity. "
One can only speculate about these facts, but the FBI has already said that the Chinese government is deeply embedded in our universities, and it can safely be assumed that neither of the two individuals mentioned here are US citizens.
The fact that one or both of them are involved in these activities raises very important issues that need to be carefully examined. This is not to say that these individuals have done anything wrong, but from a security standpoint, these are big red flags.
It is also important to note that this is only two individuals. There are thousands more all over the US in various capacities that give them the access they need, not only to gain new skills, but to monitor emerging technologies and techniques that can be shared with the folks back home.
8 comments:
I am thinking that maybe, just maybe, that the US should start segregating the rest of the world (China) from our computer security conferences. In addition, stop Chinese nationals from being professors at our major technology universities too.
Just a thought.
11:18am, a very good thought too.
too late - China has paid too much money to the Demoncraps and will get anything they want.
Dont believe me - DO an audit on ALL politicians and family. Prove me wrong.
Great thought. Why the hell do our Powers to Be think it is okay for any country (China or Iran to name two) would be a good idea to let these individuals learn all there 8s to k ow about our computer systems etc. Scary.
Every University needs to be examined
I note that Dr. He's published articles talk about 'privacy of genomic data'.
That would be some handy stuff to know back in the old country.
If you look on their website under faculty and staff, you'll see that Miami has a number of other faculty members in Computer Science and Software Engineering that are likely not originally from the US.
Perhaps Iran has their fingers in the pie as well..
We as a nation need to get on top of this immediately.
All the useless verbiage from the government is cute, but has anyone thought to just send these 'spies' home for good? So easy and fast!
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