Yingshu Li
IEEE Fellow
Professor
Director of Graduate Admissions

Department of Computer Science

Georgia State University


25 Park Place, Suite 717

Atlanta, GA 30303, USA

EMAIL: yili@gsu.edu


Current Students

Graduates

PhD Graduates

  1. Dr. Chenyu Wang (Fall 2019~Spring 2024), Assistant Professor, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA, USA. Thesis: Towards High-Fidelity Digital Twins in Internet of Things.
  2. Dr. Bingyi Xie (Fall 2019~Spring 2024), Lecturer, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA. Thesis: Copyright and Data Privacy Protection for Generative Adversarial Network Applications.
  3. Dr. Akshita Maradapu Vera Venkata Sai, (Fall 2018~Summer 2023), Assistant Professor, Towson University, Towson, MD, USA. Thesis: User-centric Privacy Preservation in Internet of Things Networks. Provost’s Dissertation Fellowship, Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award, 2022 Grace Hopper Celebration Student Scholarship.
  4. Dr. Madhuri Siddula (Fall 2016~Summer 2020), Assistant Professor, North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, NC, USA. Thesis: Privacy Preserving User Data Publication in Social Networks. GSU Three Minute Thesis Competition Winner.
  5. Dr. Dongjing Miao (Fall 2016~Fall 2018), Professor, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China. Thesis: Computational Complexity and Algorithms for Dirty Data Evaluation and Repairing. Outstanding Graduate Research Award.
  6. Dr. Xu Zheng (Fall 2016~Summer 2018), Associate Professor, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China. Thesis: Privacy-Preserved Linkable Social-Physical Data Publication. Outstanding Graduate Research Award.
  7. Dr. Yi Liang (Fall 2014~Summer 2018), Amazon, Atlanta, GA, USA. Thesis: Privacy Leakage Through Sensory Data on Smart Devices.
  8. Dr. Zaobo He (Fall 2013~Summer 2018), Professor, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China. Thesis: Privacy Preserving Data Publishing. Outstanding Graduate Student Award, PAMCO 2016 Best Paper Award, Outstanding Graduate Research Award, Molecular Basis of Disease Graduate Fellowship, ICDCS 2015 Travel Award.
  9. Dr. Meng Han (Fall 2012~Spring 2017), Professor, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. Thesis: Influence Analysis Towards Big Social Data. Outstanding Graduate Student Award, MSN 2016 Best Paper Runner-up Award, Globecom 2016 Travel Award, Service Award.
  10. Dr. Guoliang Liu (Fall 2011~Fall 2016), Software Engineer, CareerBuiulder, Norcross, GA, USA. Thesis: Data Dissemination and Information Diffusion in Social Networks.
  11. Dr. Mingyuan Yan (Fall 2010~Summer 2015), Associate Professor, University of North Georgia, Dahlonega, GA, USA. Thesis: Data Aggregation Scheduling in Wireless Networks. Outstanding Graduate Student Award, Service Award.
  12. Dr. Shouling Ji (Spring 2010~Spring 2013), Professor, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. Thesis: Data Collection and Capacity Analysis in Large-scale Wireless Sensor Networks. Outstanding Graduate Research Award, MSN 2012 Best Paper Award, SECON 2013 Travel Award, ICDCS 2012 Travel Award, INFOCOM 2012 Travel Award, SenSys 2011 Travel Award.
  13. Dr. Jing He (Fall 2009~Spring 2012), Professor, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA, USA. Thesis: Connected Dominating Set Based Topology Control in Wireless Sensor Networks. MSN 2012 Best Paper Award, N^2 Women Young Researcher Fellowship, SenSys 2011 Travel Award, MILCOM 2011 Travel Award.
  14. Dr. Marco Valero (Fall 2009~Spring 2012), Director of Technology, Cox Communications, Atlanta, GA, USA. Thesis: DI-SEC: Distributed Security Framework for Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks. Outstanding Graduate Student Award, ICC 2011 Travel Award, MILCOM 2011 Travel Award.
  15. Dr. Chunyu Ai (Fall 2006~Summer 2010), Professor, University of South Carolina Upstate, Spartanburg, SC, USA. Thesis: Energy-efficient Data Management in Wireless Sensor Networks. Outstanding Graduate Student Award, Provost's Dissertation Fellowship, N^2 Women Young Researcher Fellowship, MSN 2009 Best Paper Award, WASA 2009 Travel Award, ICDCS 2008 Travel Award.
  16. Dr. Yiwei Wu (Fall 2006~Spring 2010), Software Engineer, Ingenico, Alpharetta, GA, USA. Thesis: Connected Dominating Set Construction and Application in Wireless Sensor Networks. Outstanding Graduate Research Award, MILCOM 2007 Travel Award.
  17. Dr. Chinh Trung Vu (Fall 2005~Summer 2009), Van Lang Technology Development & Investment JSC, Hanoi, Vietnam. Thesis: Distributed Energy-efficient Solutions for Area Coverage Problems in Wireless Sensor Networks. Outstanding Graduate Research Award, MILCOM 2006 Travel Award.

Master Graduates

  1. Lakshmi Sravani Kota, Project: Energy-Efficient Neural Networks for Arrhythmia Detection from ECG Signals, Fall 2025.
  2. Kiran Donuru, Project: Custom Chat Assistant for Rest-API Data Endpoints Powered GPT, Fall 2024.
  3. Shanshan Yuan, Project: Deep learning on Photo Privacy, Fall 2024.
  4. Niveditha Rayalla, Project: Touch Based Prediction Model with Mobile Sensor, Fall 2024.
  5. Ayantan Dandapath, Project: Multi-band Spectrum Prediction Using Graph Convolutional Networks and Recurrent Neural Networks, Summer 2024.
  6. Sreevarsha Kurella, Project: Smart Surveillance and Sensor System for Child Safety, Spring 2024.
  7. Hansika Yedlapalli, Project: WordWave – An Enhanced Audio Language Modeling for A Text-To-Speech System, Spring 2024.
  8. Shivani Kolanu, Project: Online Voting System using Blockchain, Spring 2024.
  9. Haijing Zhang, Project: Optimizing Mobile Crowdsourcing Quality with Four-Party Evolutionary Game in Edge Cloud Environment, Fall 2023.
  10. Sai Sirisha Vadapalli, Project: Enhancing Sequential Data Analysis Using the RVT Block Structure: Integrating Convolution, Self-Attention, and LSTM, Fall 2023.
  11. Bhavana Reddy Mamidi, Project: Multi-Class Brain Tumor Recognition through MSENet, Summer 2023.
  12. Rujula Malineni, Project: Music Genre Classification, Spring 2023.
  13. Gaayathri Pazhambalacode, Project: Music Recommendation System Using Implicit Feedback Mechanism, Spring 2023.
  14. Revanth Pendyala, Project: Methods to Identify Misconfigurations and Bypass Web Application Firewalls, Spring 2023.
  15. Lakshman Bodapati, Project: Diabetic Retinopathy Severity Prediction, Spring 2023.
  16. Aswini Sreepada, Project: Movie Recommender System, Fall 2022.
  17. Pranay Bachu, Project: Security and Privacy of Captcha Recognition Black Box Testing, Fall 2022.
  18. Archana Chandrashekhar, Project: Hospital Monitoring System Using Digital Twin, Fall 2022.
  19. Srikar Chowdavarapu, Project: Smart Home Recommendation System with Digital Twin, Summer 2022.
  20. Vinayak Renu Nair, Project: MES Simulator Tool for Data Transfer and Handover Scenarios, Summer 2022.
  21. Maha Lakshmi Annavarapu, Project: Location Based Recommendation, Spring 2022.
  22. Hunmin Lee, Thesis: Epidemic Vulnerability Index: Vaccine Dissemination Criteria for Successful Resolution to Epidemics, 5/4/2022.
  23. Sri Harsha Kacharla, Project: Discord Course Bot, Fall 2021.
  24. Susanth Dasari, Project: Adversarial ML based Privacy Preservation against Face Detection on Social Media, Spring 2021.
  25. Huiwen Ju, Project: End-to-end Decentralized and Privacy-preserving Machine Learning Pipelines, Fall 2020.
  26. Khushboo Neema, Project: Mobile Application Development for Sports Applications, Summer 2019.
  27. Prakruthi Rao, Project: Image Captioning using Deep Learning Techniques, Summer 2019.
  28. Gowtham Potluri, Project: Web Portal for Graduation Milestones Forms, Summer 2019.
  29. Huafu Hu, Project: Online Graduate Student Management System, Spring 2019. Service Award.
  30. Weidong Zhao, Project: Chinese Input Prediction based on Sensory Data, Spring 2019.
  31. Rumman Ahmed, Project: Preserving the Privacy in Online Social Networks Using Enhanced Clustering Algorithms, Summer 2018.
  32. Xuan Liu, Project: Financial Annual Report Text Classification, Fall 2017.
  33. Ankush Chauhan, Project: Tap Position Inference on Smart Phones, Fall 2017.
  34. Linlin Zhou, Project: Improve Prediction Accuracy for Clinic Medical Data Analysis, Spring 2017.
  35. Hussah Albinali, Thesis: Identifying Mavens in Social Networks, Fall 2016. MSN 2016 Best Paper Runner-up Award .
  36. Huaping Ding, Project: A Platform for Comparing CDS Discovering Algorithms, Fall 2011.
  37. Shouling Ji, Project: Capacity of Dual-Radio Multi-Channel Wireless Sensor Networks for Continuous Data Collection, Summer 2011.
  38. Bhavya Kilari, Project: GSUZapApp-Send Notifications in a Single Click, Spring 2011.
  39. Manshu Zhang, Project: OCEF Finance System, Spring 2010.
  40. Soheil Rahim, Project: OCEF Finance System, Spring 2010.
  41. Sangeetha Glova, Project: Dimension Reduction for Biological Data, Summer 2010.
  42. Shan Bai, Project: Data Packet Loss Rate in Wireless Sensor Networks, Spring 2009.
  43. Chaitanya K. Sambhara, Thesis: p-Percent Coverage in Wireless Sensor Networks, Fall 2008.
  44. Yiwei Wu, Project: Construction of k-Connected m-Dominating Sets, Fall 2008.
  45. Chunyu Ai, Project: Authentic Delay Bounded Event Detection in Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks, Spring 2008.
  46. Shan Gao, Project: Coverage Scheduling in Wireless Sensor Networks, Spring 2008.
  47. Wiwek Deshmukh, Thesis: A Physical Estimation Based Continuous Monitoring Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks, Summer 2007.
  48. Chinh Vu, Thesis: An Energy-Efficient Distributed Algorithm for k-Coverage Problem in Wireless Sensor Networks, Spring 2007.

Thesis/Project Committee

  1. Guangxi Lu, PhD (12-11-2023), Thesis: Exploring the Utility-Privacy Trade-off in Social Media Data Mining.
  2. Kainan Zhang, PhD (12-11-2023), Thesis: Towards Data Privacy and Utility in the Applications of Graph Neural Networks.
  3. Honghui Xu, PhD (12-11-2023), Thesis: Privacy-Preserving Deep Learning Mechanisms for Multimedia Data-oriented Applications.
  4. Tianbai Yue, MS (7-18-2023), Project: Vehicle Moving Speed Prediction & Travel Path Mapping System.
  5. Zuobin Xiong, PhD (8-8-2023), Thesis: Towards Privacy Preservation of Federated Learning in Artificial Intelligence of Things.
  6. Bhavya Busireddy, MS (12-6-2022), Project: WEBDMAP.
  7. Peng Wang, PhD (12-12-2022), Thesis: Image Based Attack and Protection on Secure-Aware Deep Learning.
  8. Moulika Achhe, MS (4-27-2022), Project: Comparison of COVID-19 Real Pandemic Data with SIR Model Results.
  9. Yogesh Chandel, MS (4-27-2022), Project: IoT Dashboard.
  10. Xucan Chen, PhD (5-2-2022), Thesis: Applying Data Mining Algorithms on Open Source Intelligence to Combat Cyber Crime.
  11. Jishen Yang, PhD (12-13-2021), Thesis: Privacy Protection For Visual Data Against Deep Learning Based Computer Vision Models.
  12. Fengpan Zhao, PhD (12-13-2021), Thesis: Spam Detection in Social Media with Privacy Protection.
  13. Soukaina Filali Boubrahimi, PhD (7-15-2020), Thesis: Time Series Mining: Ensembling, Shapelet Discovery, and Applications.
  14. Raghunandan Gardas, MS (4-17-2018), Project: Assword Wallet.
  15. Chaoyang Li, PhD (8-8-2017), Advisor-Dr. Bourgeois, Thesis: Full-view Coverage Problems in Camera Sensor Networks.
  16. Badrinath Jayakumar, PhD (5-10-2017), Thesis: Distributed Graph Storage And Querying System.
  17. Xiaolong Wu, MS (12-16-2015), Thesis: Optimizing Sparse Matrix-Matrix Multiplication on a Heterogeneous CPU-GPU Platform.
  18. Saloni Jain, MS (5-9-2015), Thesis: Real-Time Social Network Data Mining for Predicting the Path for a Disaster.
  19. Hari Uday, MS (11-18-2014), Project: Security in the Cloud for EMR.
  20. Shankar Potluri, MS (11-18-2014), Project: Atlanta Community Resource.
  21. Quintin Ash, MS (4-18-2014), Project: Encryption for Optical Burst Switching Networks.
  22. Jason Brelloch, MS (11-04-2013), Project: Firepath.
  23. Mingsen Xu, PhD (4-23-2013), Thesis: Collaborative Communication and Storage in Energy-Synchronized Sensor Networks.
  24. Diana Castro, MS (11-26-2012), Project: How to Create Blender Tutorials.
  25. Syed E. Haque, MS (4-11-2012), Thesis: Efficient GTS Allocation Schemes for IEEE 802.15.4.
  26. Gang Shen, PhD (3-9-2012), Thesis: Shadow Price Guided Genetic Algorithms.
  27. Brian Strickland, MS (12-01-2011), Project: Consumer Network Traffic Analysis Using Snort.
  28. Hailong Hou, PhD (4-15-2011), Thesis: Granular Word and its Application in Security and Searching Engines.
  29. Russell Holloway, MS (11-22-2010), Thesis: Covert DCF: A DCF-based Covert Timing Channel in 802.11 Networks.
  30. Rucha Patel, MS (11-17-2010), Project: Position Verification of Nodes in Clustered Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks.
  31. Akshaye Dhawan, PhD (8-5-2009), Thesis: Distributed Algorithms for Maximizing the Lifetime of Wireless Sensor Networks.
  32. Marco Valero, MS (4-14-2009), Thesis: Implementing Energy-saving Improvements to the IEEE 802.15.4 MAC Protocol.
  33. Telvis E. Calhoun, MS (4-10-2009), Thesis: A Covert Channel Using 802.11 LANs.
  34. Sunetri P. Dasari, MS (11-28-2007), Thesis: Peer-to-Peer Distributed SyD Directory Synchronization in a Proximity-based Environment.
  35. Xiuyun Shen, MS (8-2-2007), Thesis: A Domain-Specific Conceptual Query System.
  36. Anjum B. Reyaz-Ahmed, MS (5-3-2007), Thesis: Protein Secondary Structure Prediction Using Support Vector Machines, Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms.
  37. Aung Aung, MS (5-3-2007), Thesis: Distributed Algorithms for Improving Wireless Sensor Network Lifetime with Adjustable Sensing Range.
  38. Alexander F. Ribadeneira, MS (5-4-2007), Thesis: An Analysis of the MOS under Conditions of Delay, Jitter and Packet Loss and an analysis of the Impact of introducing Piggybacking and Reed Solomom FEC for VOIP.
  39. Sugandhi Madiraju, MS (12-5-2006), Thesis: An Agent Based Transaction Manager for Multidatabase Systems.
  40. Liyang Yu, MS (6-9-2006), Thesis: An Indexation and Discovery Architecture for Semantic Web Services and its Application in Bioinformatics.