Yuan Cheng Assistant Professor
Short Bio
Yuan is an assistant professor in the School of Computer Science at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China. Previously, he was an associate professor in the College of Computing at Grand Valley State University and a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science at California State University, Sacramento, where he earned tenure and was promoted to associate professor in 2022. Before his tenure at Sac State, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Cyber Security (ICS) at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), San Antonio, Texas. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science at UTSA, under the guidance of Dr. Ravi Sandhu and Dr. Jaehong Park. He also holds a B.Eng. degree in Information Security from the School of Computer Science & Technology at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China. Raised in Ningbo, Zhejiang, his native tongue is the Chinese dialect of Wu.School of Computer Science
University of Nottingham Ningbo China
Room 442, Sir Peter Mansfield Building
199 Taikang East Road, Ningbo, China 315100
yuan DOT cheng AT nottingham DOT edu DOT cn
yuan AT ycheng DOT org
Ph.D., University of Texas at San Antonio, 2014
Office Hours
Tu 10 am - 12 pm (PMB442) or by appointmentResearch Interests
- Access Control
- Authentication
- Internet of Things
- Privacy
- Social Computing
Teaching
Autumn 2026:- COMP3048 Compilers
- COMP4128 Databases, Interfaces and Software Design Principles
- COMP1039 Programming Paradigms
News
- 9/21/2026: Our paper "Controlled Evaluation of Architectural, Classifier, and Training Refinements in MolTrans-Based Drug-Target Interaction Prediction" with Hao Pang, Fiseha Berhanu Tesema, Tianxiang Cui, and Yanwen Mao has been published in BMC Bioinformatics. Congratulations, Hao!
- 6/20/2026: I will serve on the TPC of IEEE CIC 2026.
- 4/1/2026: Our paper "How Enforcement Shapes 2FA Usability and Perceived Workload: A Comparative Study Across Populations" with Zhiyu and Francisco has been accepted to SecureComm 2026. Congratulations, Zhiyu and Francisco!
- 2/27/2026: Our paper "A Comparative Analysis of Third-Party Script Behaviour in Consent-Based and Implicit Web Tracking" with Chongwen has been accepted to ACM CODASPY 2026. Congratulations, Chongwen!
- 10/28/2025: I will serve on the TPC of ACM CODASPY 2026.