John Yen is Professor of Data Science and Professor-in-Charge of Data Science in th
College of Information Sciences and Technology
at

Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State or PSU) is a Public university, public Commonwealth System of Higher Education, state-related Land-grant university, land-grant research university with campuses and facilities throughout Pennsylvan ...

. He currently leads the Laboratory of AI for Cyber Security at Penn State. He was the founder and a former Director of th
Cancer Informatics Initiative
there. Yen's current research goals are (1) using AI and big data to address challenges in cybersecurity, facilitated by scalable analytics and machine/deep learning, and developing theories and methods to model, simulate, and predict the behaviors and impacts of cyber attacks using distributed machine learning in cloud, (2) advance the frontier of

Artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence—perceiving, synthesizing, and inferring information—demonstrated by machines, as opposed to intelligence displayed by animals and humans. Example tasks in which this is done include speech re ...

by solving grand challenges in cybersecurity. Yen has been a

Principal investigator In many countries, the term principal investigator (PI) refers to the holder of an independent grant and the lead researcher for the grant project, usually in the sciences, such as a laboratory study or a clinical trial. The phrase is also often us ...

or co-Principal investigator of several multimillion-dollar research projects. Sponsors of his research projects include National Science Foundation, Army Research Office, Office of Naval Research, and Department of Energy. He is the lead inventor of a novel Artificial Intelligence architecture R-CAST, which empowers AI (agents) with a computational representation of a shared mental model, inspired by

Recognition primed decision Recognition-primed decision (RPD) is a model of how people make quick, effective decisions when faced with complex situations. In this model, the decision maker is assumed to generate a possible course of action, compare it to the constraints im ...

, for supporting decision making of a human-AI team with advanced AI capabilities such as anticipating information needs of teammates (human or AI) based on the current decision making context, and proactively offering relevant information to the teammate who needs it. This AI technology, developed with research funding from Army Research Lab, has been granted a U.S. patent and successfully applied to a real-world dynamic cyber-physical domain. Yen received his Ph.D. in computer science from the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

in 1986. His thesis advisor is Prof.

Lotfi A. Zadeh Lotfi Aliasker Zadeh (; az, Lütfi Rəhim oğlu Ələsgərzadə; fa, لطفی علی‌عسکرزاده; 4 February 1921 – 6 September 2017) was a mathematician, computer scientist, electrical engineer, artificial intelligence researcher, an ...

, the father of fuzzy logic. Between 1986 and 1989, he was the main architect at

USC USC most often refers to: * University of South Carolina, a public research university ** University of South Carolina System, the main university and its satellite campuses **South Carolina Gamecocks, the school athletic program * University of ...

Information Sciences Institute The USC Information Sciences Institute (ISI) is a component of the University of Southern California (USC) Viterbi School of Engineering, and specializes in research and development in information processing, computing, and communications techno ...

(ISI) for an AI architecture that pioneers a knowledge-level integration of a descriptive logic knowledge representation scheme with production rules. Before joining IST in 2001, he was a Professor of Computer Science and the Director of Center for Fuzzy Logic, Robotics, and Intelligent Systems at

Texas A&M University Texas A&M University (Texas A&M, A&M, or TAMU) is a public, land-grant, research university in College Station, Texas. It was founded in 1876 and became the flagship institution of the Texas A&M University System in 1948. As of late 2021, T ...

. He was the Vice President of Publication for IEEE Neural Networks Council, now

IEEE Computational Intelligence Society The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a 501(c)(3) professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering (and associated disciplines) with its corporate office in New York City and its operati ...

. Yen received the

National Science Foundation The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent agency of the United States government that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National I ...

Young Investigator Award in 1992. He is an

IEEE Fellow As of 2019, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has 5,082 members designated Fellow, each of whom is associated with one of the 41 societies under the IEEE. The Fellow grade of membership is the highest level of membershi ...

. Yen received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from

National Taiwan University National Taiwan University (NTU; ) is a public research university in Taipei, Taiwan. The university was founded in 1928 during Japanese rule as the seventh of the Imperial Universities. It was named Taihoku Imperial University and served d ...

in 1980, and M.S. degree in Computer Science from University of Santa Clara in 1982.

Books

Emergent Information Technologies and Enabling Policies for Counter-Terrorism
by Robert L. Popp, John Yen, 2006
Amazon

by John Yen and Reza Langari, 1998
Amazon

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Dr. John YenCancer Informatics Initiative, Penn StateIntelligent Agents Laboratory at College of IST, PSUGoogle Scholar Profile for John Yen
{{DEFAULTSORT:Yen, John Living people 1958 births People from Hsinchu UC Berkeley College of Engineering alumni American computer scientists American people of Taiwanese descent Santa Clara University alumni Artificial intelligence researchers Pennsylvania State University faculty

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