{"id":2,"date":"2026-09-20T02:20:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T02:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/y9wang\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-09-20T03:37:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T03:37:03","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/y9wang\/","title":{"rendered":"Yao Wang \u2014 Academic Profile"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Yao Wang<\/strong>   About<\/a>   Research<\/a>   Teaching<\/a>   Publications<\/a>   Service<\/a>   Contact<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n

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TEACHING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR \u00b7 PHD CANDIDATE \u00b7 OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY<\/p>\n

Yao Wang<\/h1>\n

I work at the intersection of machine learning, incomplete multi-view clustering, trustworthy semantic communication, and cybersecurity education.<\/p>\n

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Email me<\/a><\/div>\n\n
Google Scholar \u2197<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n
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CURRENTLY<\/p>

Teaching Assistant Professor, School of Cybersecurity
PhD Candidate, Computer Science<\/p><\/div>\n

AFFILIATION<\/p>

Old Dominion University
Norfolk, Virginia<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n

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ABOUT<\/p>\n

About Me<\/h2>\n

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.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n

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RESEARCH<\/p>\n

Research Interests<\/h2>\n
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Incomplete multi-view learning<\/h3>

Imputation, contrastive alignment, prototype graphs, and transformer models for learning coherent representations from incomplete views.<\/p><\/div>\n

Trustworthy semantic communication<\/h3>

Scalable algorithms for robust multi-modal communication, with attention to distortion, bandwidth, fidelity, and trustworthiness.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n

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TEACHING & EXPERIENCE<\/p>\n

Teaching & Experience<\/h2>\n

Teaching Assistant Professor \u00b7 2025\u2013Present<\/small><\/h3>

School of Cybersecurity, Old Dominion University<\/p>

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Guest Teaching Assistant Professor \u00b7 2023\u20132024<\/small><\/h3>

Reverse Software Engineering and Principles & Practices of Cyber Defense, ODU<\/p>

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Teaching Assistant \u00b7 2023\u20132024<\/small><\/h3>

Network Security, Cybersecurity Fundamentals, and Computer Architecture, ODU<\/p>

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Assistant Instructor \u00b7 2022<\/small><\/h3>

CCI CyberExL Program, William & Mary<\/p>\n

Education<\/h3>\n

PhD, Computer Science<\/h4>

Old Dominion University
2023\u2013Present<\/p><\/div>

MS, Cybersecurity<\/h4>

Old Dominion University
2022\u20132023<\/p><\/div>

BS, Information System and Technology<\/h4>

Old Dominion University
2017\u20132020<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n

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PUBLICATIONS<\/p>\n

Selected Publications<\/h2>\n

Deep incomplete multi-view clustering via multi-level imputation and contrastive alignment \u2197<\/a><\/h3>

Z. Wang, Y. Du, Y. Wang, R. Ning, and L. Li \u00b7 Neural Networks 181, 106851 \u00b7 2025<\/p>

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PGFormer: A Prototype-Graph Transformer for Incomplete Multiview Clustering \u2197<\/a><\/h3>

Y. Du, Y. Wang, Z. Wang, R. Ning, and L. Li \u00b7 IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems \u00b7 2025<\/p>

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Contrastive multi-hop semantic communication \u2197<\/a><\/h3>

Y. Wang, C. Hu, J. Li, R. Ning, L. Li, and D. Takabi \u00b7 IEEE MILCOM \u00b7 2025<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n

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SERVICE & OUTREACH<\/p>\n

Service & Outreach<\/h2>\n

CSSA at ODU<\/h3>

President \u00b7 Organizing cultural and social events that support international students and foster cross-cultural understanding.<\/p><\/div>

NSF Regional I-CORPS<\/h3>

Co-entrepreneur Lead \u00b7 Conducted 40+ customer-discovery interviews for a privacy-technology startup concept.<\/p><\/div>

CCI CyberArt<\/h3>

Senior Personnel & Co-designer \u00b7 Connecting cybersecurity, creative arts, and educational outreach.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n

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CONTACT<\/p>\n

Contact<\/h2>\n

I welcome conversations about research, teaching, collaboration, and shared academic interests.<\/p>\n

y9wang@odu.edu<\/a> \u00b7 Google Scholar \u2197<\/a> \u00b7 CV available upon request<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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