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Computer Information Systems

Dr. Yongzhi Wang

Yongzhi Wang

Assistant Professor

yongzhiwang@cpp.edu
Building 164-3008
(909) 869-2524

Dr. Yongzhi Wang received his Ph.D. degree from the School of Computing and Information Sciences at Florida International University and received my M.S. and B.S. degrees in Computer Science at Xidian University, China. Prior to joining Cal Poly Pomona, he was an Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi, TX, and an Associate Professor at Park University, Kansas City, MO. His research interests include Cybersecurity, Software and System Security, and Artificial Intelligence. 

Recent Courses

  • CIS 2650 - Contemporary Operating System
  • CIS 2670 - Cloud Infrastructure

Research Interests

Computer System and Software Security, AI Security, Cybersecurity,  Machine Learning , On-Device AI.

Selected Publications

  • Yongzhi Wang, A. Habib, L. R. Kesara, B. Jasti, R. Hu and T. Singh, "Detecting Black-Box Model Probing Attacks Through Probability Scores," in IEEE Access, vol. 13, pp. 103060-103076, 2025, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3578565.
  • Yongzhi Wang, Pengfei Gui, Mehdi Sookhak, "Sort-then-insert: A space efficient and oblivious model aggregation algorithm for top-k sparsification in federated learning", Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), Volume 158, 2024, Pages 1-10, doi: 10.1016/j.future.2024.04.022.
  • Yongzhi Wang, X. Zhang, Y. Wu and Y. Shen, "Enhancing Leakage Prevention for MapReduce," in IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), vol. 17, pp. 1558-1572, 2022, doi: 10.1109/TIFS.2022.3166641.
  • Yongzhi Wang, Y. Zou, Y. Shen and Y. Liu, "CFHider: Protecting Control Flow Confidentiality with Intel SGX" in IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), vol. , no. 01, pp. 1-1, 5555. doi: 10.1109/TC.2021.3122903 
  • Yongzhi Wang, Yulong Shen, Cuicui Su, Jiawen Ma, Lingtong Liu, Xuewen Dong, “CryptSQLite: SQLite with High Data Security” in IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), vol. 69, no. 5, pp. 666-678, 1 May 2020. 
  • Yongzhi Wang, Yulong Shen, Cuicui Su, Ke Cheng, Yibo Yang, Anter Faree, and Yao Liu, “CFHider: Control Flow Obfuscation with Intel SGX”, IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM’19), Apr 29- May 2. 2019, Paris, France.
  • Yongzhi Wang, Yulong Shen and Xiaohong Jiang, "Practical Verifiable Computation–A MapReduce Case Study," in IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), vol. 13, no. 6, pp. 1376-1391, June 2018.

Awards:

  1. Best Paper Award, Yongzhi Wang, Ahsan Habib, "Protect Data Confidentiality for On-device Machine Learning through Split Inference”, The 10th International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing, May 19-22, 2025, Tampa, Florida, USA.
  2. Best Paper Award, Yongzhi Wang, et al., "CryptSQLite: Protecting Data Confidentiality of SQLite with Intel SGX", 2017 International Conference on Networking and Network Applications, Oct 16 – Oct 19, 2017, Katmandu, Nepal.

Grants:

  1. 2024-2025, PI, "Protect On-Device AI Security with Multi-Enclave Architecture and Autoencoder”, CAHSI-Google Institutional Research Program.
  1. 2016-2018, PI, “Research on the Result Integrity and the Sensitive Data Confidentiality in Hybrid Cloud-based Outsourced Computation”,  National Natural Science Foundation of China.