Ying Yuan

Ying Yuan


EU Marie Curie Fellow
Phishing, Machine learning, Cyber security

My research interests include Adversarial Machine Learning, AI Security, Web Security and HCI, where I primarily focus on using Machine Learning/AI for web security purposes and analysing the security of Machine Learning/AI systems.

I was a Postdoctoral researcher at Sapienza University of Rome, Örebro University and University of Padua, where I was supervised by Prof. Luigi Vincenzo Mancini and Prof. Mauro Conti, respectively. Prior to that, I was a PhD student (in Computer Science) at University of Padua (2020-2024), in the SPRITZ Security and Privacy Research Group, supervised by Prof. Mauro Conti and Prof. Giovanni Apruzzese. I was also a visiting scholar at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), supervised by Prof. Gang Wang (2023); and a visiting scholar at University of Liechtenstein (2023), supervised by Prof. Giovanni Apruzzese. The title of my PhD dissertation is “Machine learning for phishing website detection”.

Hobby

I love cooking and exploring delicious food, from Baozi, Hunan and Sichuan cuisine to fresh seafood, basil shrimp spaghetti, chestnut cake, pho, orange chicken, crab cake, and crispy fish and chips… they never fail to make me happy 😆. I also like traveling (or hiking) and have left my footprints in Italy, Iceland, Singapore, Switzerland, Sweden, Liechtenstein, France, the Netherlands, Croatia, the United States, Monaco, and Czechia… Each journey has brought me beautiful memories!

Feel free to contact me if you would like to share something with me!

What’s New

  • [10/2026] I’ve been selected as a DAAD AINeT Fellow!
  • [10/2026] Joined the Program Committee of IEEE EuroS&P’27 and IEEE SaTML’27.
  • [9/2026] Invited to serve as a Session Chair at ESORICS’26.
  • [7/2026] Attend the EuroS&P’26.
  • [6/2026] Joined the Program Committee of USENIX Security’27.
  • [5/2026] Joined the Program Committee of AISec’26.
  • [4/2026] I’ll co-organise the workshop HumSec’26 @ ESORICS2026 (Human-targeted Cyber Threats and Defenses).
  • [3/2026] Joined the Program Committee of ACSAC’26.
  • [3/2026] Accepted paper to IEEE EuroS&P’26!
  • [3/2026] I began my employment at Örebro University (in Sweden)!
  • [2/2026] I’ve been awared the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship!
  • [1/2026] Joined the Program Committee of ESORICS’26.