Dr. Yanmin Gong

    Yanmin Gong

    Electrical and Computer Engineering
    University of Texas at San Antonio
    Office: BSE 1.514
    Email: yanmin DOT gong AT utsa.edu


Short Bio

Yanmin Gong is an associate professor and Microsoft President’s Endowed Fellow in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at San Antonio, where she directs the Trustworthy and Intelligent Networked Systems (TINS) Lab. She is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award and CISCO Research Award. She received a Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering at the University of Florida, an M.S. degree in electronic engineering at Tsinghua University, and a B.E. degree in electronics and information engineering at Huazhong University of Science & Technology.

Research Interests

My current research interests include edge intelligence, trustworthy artificial intelligence, data security and privacy, and digital health.

Selected Honors and Awards

  • mHealth Scholar for NIH mHealth training institute, 2025
  • Cisco Faculty Research Award, 2022
  • NSF CAREER Award, 2021
  • IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) Early Career Researchers Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing, 2021
  • Rising Star in Networking and Communications, N2Women, 2021
  • Distinguished TPC Member, IEEE INFOCOM, 2020, 2022
  • NSF CISE CRII Award, 2019
  • Air Force Research Lab Summer Faculty Fellowship, June 2019
  • UT Rising STARs Award, 2019
  • President’s Cup Award, Oklahoma State University, 2018
  • Best Paper Award at IEEE GLOBECOM, 2017 <!– - Outstanding Achievement Award, University of Florida, 2012 – 2013
  • Guanghua Scholarship for Excellent Students, Tsinghua University, 2011
  • Providence Scholarship, Tsinghua University, 2011
  • Outstanding Graduate Award, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 2009
  • National Scholarship, Ministry of Education of China, 2008 –>

News

-[Feb. 2025] I am invited to serve on the Technical Program Committee of ACM MobiHoc 2025.

-[Dec. 2024] Our paper on efficient fine-tuning of large language models has been accepted for presentation at IEEE INFOCOM 2025. Congratulations to Zhidong and Zhenxiao!

-[Dec. 2024] Congratulations to Zhidong, who has accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor position at Shanxi University!

-[Nov. 2024] Congratulations to Zhidong, who has sucessfully defended his PhD dissertation!

-[Jan. 2024] Our paper on generative machine learning has been accepted to ICLR 2024. Congratulations to Zhidong!

-[Sep. 2023] Our team has received the NIH AIM-AHEAD Award!

-[Jan. 2023] I am honored to receive the CISCO Research Award. Thank you, CISCO!

-[Aug. 2022] I am invited to serve on AAAI 2023 TPC.

-[April. 2022] Congratulations to Rui, who has accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno!

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