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

News

-[Aug 2025] Invited to give a talk at the Machine Learning for Next-Generation Networks Workshop at MobiHoc 2025.

-[Aug 2025] Congratulations to Yu, who has joined the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Fisk University as a tenure-track Assistant Professor.

-[July 2025] Yu has sucessfully defenced his PhD dissertation. Congratulations, Dr. Zhang!

-[July 2025] Our project was honored with the Best Poster Award (selected from over 30 active AIM-AHEAD CDP projects) at the NIH AIM-AHEAD Annual Meeting in Dallas, TX.

-[July 2025] Invited to serve as Symposium Co-Chair for Communication and Information System Security at IEEE GLOBECOM 2026.

-[July 2025] Invited to serve on the Technical Program Committee of AAAI 2026.

-[June 2025] Invited to serve on the Technical Program Committee of IEEE INFOCOM 2026.

-[March 2025] I am selected as an NIH mHealth Training Institute Scholar (29 out of 267 applicants).

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

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