Yao Wang — Academic Profile
TEACHING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR · PHD CANDIDATE · OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY
Yao Wang
I work at the intersection of machine learning, incomplete multi-view clustering, trustworthy semantic communication, and cybersecurity education.
CURRENTLY
Teaching Assistant Professor, School of Cybersecurity
PhD Candidate, Computer Science
AFFILIATION
Old Dominion University
Norfolk, Virginia
ABOUT
About Me
I am a Teaching Assistant Professor in the School of Cybersecurity and a Computer Science PhD candidate at Old Dominion University, advised by Dr. Lusi Li. My academic work combines careful technical inquiry, hands-on teaching, and open collaboration. I am interested in learning methods that remain efficient, robust, and trustworthy when data or communication conditions are incomplete.
RESEARCH
Research Interests
Incomplete multi-view learning
Imputation, contrastive alignment, prototype graphs, and transformer models for learning coherent representations from incomplete views.
Trustworthy semantic communication
Scalable algorithms for robust multi-modal communication, with attention to distortion, bandwidth, fidelity, and trustworthiness.
TEACHING & EXPERIENCE
Teaching & Experience
Teaching Assistant Professor · 2025–Present
School of Cybersecurity, Old Dominion University
Guest Teaching Assistant Professor · 2023–2024
Reverse Software Engineering and Principles & Practices of Cyber Defense, ODU
Teaching Assistant · 2023–2024
Network Security, Cybersecurity Fundamentals, and Computer Architecture, ODU
Assistant Instructor · 2022
CCI CyberExL Program, William & Mary
Education
PhD, Computer Science
Old Dominion University
2023–Present
MS, Cybersecurity
Old Dominion University
2022–2023
BS, Information System and Technology
Old Dominion University
2017–2020
PUBLICATIONS
Selected Publications
Deep incomplete multi-view clustering via multi-level imputation and contrastive alignment ↗
Z. Wang, Y. Du, Y. Wang, R. Ning, and L. Li · Neural Networks 181, 106851 · 2025
PGFormer: A Prototype-Graph Transformer for Incomplete Multiview Clustering ↗
Y. Du, Y. Wang, Z. Wang, R. Ning, and L. Li · IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems · 2025
Contrastive multi-hop semantic communication ↗
Y. Wang, C. Hu, J. Li, R. Ning, L. Li, and D. Takabi · IEEE MILCOM · 2025
SERVICE & OUTREACH
Service & Outreach
CSSA at ODU
President · Organizing cultural and social events that support international students and foster cross-cultural understanding.
NSF Regional I-CORPS
Co-entrepreneur Lead · Conducted 40+ customer-discovery interviews for a privacy-technology startup concept.
CCI CyberArt
Senior Personnel & Co-designer · Connecting cybersecurity, creative arts, and educational outreach.
CONTACT
Contact
I welcome conversations about research, teaching, collaboration, and shared academic interests.
y9wang@odu.edu · Google Scholar ↗ · CV available upon request