Zhihao Yao
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
4317A Guttenberg Information Technologies Center (GITC)
Education
Ph.D.; University of California-Irvine; Computer Science; 2023
M.S.; University of California-Irvine; Computer Science; 2020
B.S.; University of California-Irvine; Computer Science; 2017
M.S.; University of California-Irvine; Computer Science; 2020
B.S.; University of California-Irvine; Computer Science; 2017
Awards & Honors
2025 IEEE Computing’s Top 30 Early Career Professionals , IEEE
2023 Best Artifact Award, ACM MobiSys 2023
Website
2026 Fall Courses
CS 701B - MASTER'S THESIS
CS 700B - MASTER'S PROJECT
CS 489 - COMPUTER SCIENCE RESEARCH PROJ
CS 791 - DOCTORAL SEMINAR
CS 792 - PRE-DOCTORAL RESEARCH
CS 488 - INDEPENDENT STUDY IN CS
CS 725 - INDEPENDENT STUDY I
CS 790A - DOCT DISSERTATION & RES
CS 726 - INDEPENDENT STUDY II
CS 700B - MASTER'S PROJECT
CS 489 - COMPUTER SCIENCE RESEARCH PROJ
CS 791 - DOCTORAL SEMINAR
CS 792 - PRE-DOCTORAL RESEARCH
CS 488 - INDEPENDENT STUDY IN CS
CS 725 - INDEPENDENT STUDY I
CS 790A - DOCT DISSERTATION & RES
CS 726 - INDEPENDENT STUDY II
Past Courses
CS 332: PRINCIPLES OF OPER SYS - HONORS
CS 332: PRINCIPLES OF OPERATING SYSTEMS
CS 332: PRINCIPLES OF OPERATING SYSTEMS - HONORS
CS 485: ST: TRUSTED COMPUTING AND SECURITY ARCHITECTURE
CS 630: OPERATING SYSTEM DESIGN
CS 785: ST: TRUSTED COMPUTING & ARCHITECTURE
CS 791: GRADUATE SEMINAR
CS 332: PRINCIPLES OF OPERATING SYSTEMS
CS 332: PRINCIPLES OF OPERATING SYSTEMS - HONORS
CS 485: ST: TRUSTED COMPUTING AND SECURITY ARCHITECTURE
CS 630: OPERATING SYSTEM DESIGN
CS 785: ST: TRUSTED COMPUTING & ARCHITECTURE
CS 791: GRADUATE SEMINAR
Conference Proceeding
"PACE: Policy Adaptation for Cybersecurity Events through Formal Verification of LLM-Generated Firewall Policies"
IEEE BigData 2025, December, 2025.
"PyPitfall: Dependency Chaos and Software Supply Chain Vulnerabilities in Python"
IEEE BigData 2025, December, 2025.
"Casper: Prompt Sanitization for Protecting User Privacy in Web-Based Large Language Models"
IEEE CSCloud 2025, November, 2025.
"Catamaran: User Privacy Violation Detection in Mobile Logging"
IEEE SecDev 2025, October (4th Quarter/Autumn), 2025.
"Formal Trust and Threat Modeling Using Large Language Models"
IEEE 2024 Annual Computer Security Applications Conference Workshops, December, 2024.
IEEE BigData 2025, December, 2025.
"PyPitfall: Dependency Chaos and Software Supply Chain Vulnerabilities in Python"
IEEE BigData 2025, December, 2025.
"Casper: Prompt Sanitization for Protecting User Privacy in Web-Based Large Language Models"
IEEE CSCloud 2025, November, 2025.
"Catamaran: User Privacy Violation Detection in Mobile Logging"
IEEE SecDev 2025, October (4th Quarter/Autumn), 2025.
"Formal Trust and Threat Modeling Using Large Language Models"
IEEE 2024 Annual Computer Security Applications Conference Workshops, December, 2024.
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Conference Abstract
"(Poster) StreamGuard: Enabling Secure and Uncensored Video Calls on Mobile Devices"
ACM MobiSys 2024, June, 2024.
ACM MobiSys 2024, June, 2024.
Journal Article
Xinlin Wang, Zhihao Yao, Marios Papaefthymiou.
2022. "A real-time electrical load forecasting and unsupervised anomaly detection framework."
Applied Energy , vol. 330 , no. A , pp. 120279.