Fan Yao is an associate professor in the UCF Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research interests include computer architecture, security and energy-efficient computing. Yao’s current research focuses on investigating information security and performance in emerging processor/memory architectures and exploring the implications of hardware-based threats on emerging applications including machine learning. His research group, the Computer Architecture and System Research Lab, publishes in many top computer architecture and system security venues. Yao received his doctoral degree in computer engineering from George Washington University where he received the Best Dissertation Award.