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Yunhe Feng

Title: Assistant Professor

Department: Computer Science and Engineering

College: College of Engineering

Curriculum Vitae

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Education

  • PhD, University of Tennessee, 2020
    Major: Computer Science
    Dissertation: Mobile Location Data Analytics, Privacy, and Security

Current Scheduled Teaching

CSCE 6940.973Individual ResearchSpring 2025
CSCE 5300.001Introduction to Big Data and Data ScienceSpring 2025
CSCE 6940.864Individual ResearchFall 2024
CSCE 5300.005Introduction to Big Data and Data ScienceFall 2024
CSCE 5950.873Master's ThesisFall 2024
CSCE 4950.773Special Problems in Computer Science and EngineeringFall 2024

Previous Scheduled Teaching

CSCE 6940.973Individual ResearchSpring 2024
CSCE 5300.001Introduction to Big Data and Data ScienceSpring 2024 SPOT
CSCE 5950.873Master's ThesisSpring 2024
CSCE 4999.773Senior ThesisSpring 2024
CSCE 5934.872Directed StudyFall 2023
CSCE 6940.864Individual ResearchFall 2023
CSCE 5300.005Introduction to Big Data and Data ScienceFall 2023 SPOT
CSCE 5300.009Introduction to Big Data and Data ScienceSpring 2023 SPOT
CSCE 5300.005Introduction to Big Data and Data ScienceFall 2022 SPOT

Published Intellectual Contributions

    Conference Proceeding

  • Feng, Y., Meng, Z., Clemmer, C., Fan, H., Huang, Y. (2023). A Multi-granularity Decade-Long Geo-Tagged Twitter Dataset for Spatial Computing. ACM International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (SIGSPATIAL).
  • Zhang, B., Tian, J., Di, S., Yu, X., Feng, Y., Liang, X., Tao, D., Cappello, F. (2023). FZ-GPU: A Fast and High-Ratio Lossy Compressor for Scientific Computing Applications on GPUs. The 32nd ACM International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC).
  • Feng, Y., Vanam, S., Cherukupally, M., Zheng, W., Qiu, M., Chen, H. (2023). Investigating Code Generation Performance of ChatGPT with Crowdsourcing Social Data. 47th IEEE Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC).
  • Cao, Q., Feng, Y. (2023). Probabilistic Error Reasoning on IoT Edge Devices. IEEE International Conference on Edge Computing and Communications (EDGE).
  • Feng, Y., Poralla, P., Dash, S., Li, K., Desai, V., Qiu, M. (2023). The Impact of ChatGPT on Streaming Media: A Crowdsourced and Data-Driven Analysis using Twitter and Reddit. International Conference on Intelligent Data and Security (IDS).
  • Wang, Z., Yang, H., Feng, Y., Sun, P., Guo, H., Zhang, Z., Ren, K. (2023). Towards Transferable Targeted Adversarial Examples. Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern (CVPR).
  • Wen, B., Feng, Y., Zhang, Y., Shah, C. (2022). ExpScore: Learning Metrics for Recommendation Explanation. Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference (WWW).
  • Feng, Y., Shah, C. (2022). Has CEO Gender Bias Really Been Fixed? Adversarial Attacking and Improving Gender Fairness in Image Search. Proceedings of the AAAI conference on artificial intelligence (AAAI).
  • Feng, Y., Zhong, D., Sun, P., Zheng, W., Cao, Q., Luo, X., Lu, Z. (2021). Micromobility in Smart Cities: A Closer Look at Shared Dockless E-Scooters via Big Social Data. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC).
  • Tian, J., Di, S., Yu, X., Rivera, C., Zhao, K., Jin, S., Feng, Y., Liang, X., Tao, D., Cappello, F. (2021). Optimizing Error-Bounded Lossy Compression for Scientific Data on GPUs. IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (CLUSTER).
  • Feng, Y., Saelid, D., Li, K., Gao, R., Shah, C. (2021). Towards Fairness-Aware Ranking by Defining Latent Groups Using Inferred Features. International Workshop on Algorithmic Bias in Search and Recommendation (BIAS).
  • Feng, Y., Cao, Q., Qi, H., Ruoti, S. (2020). SenCAPTCHA: A Mobile-First CAPTCHA Using Orientation Sensors. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (UbiComp).
  • Sun, P., Wang, Z., Feng, Y., Wu, L., Li, Y., Qi, H., Wang, Z. (2020). Towards Personalized Privacy-Preserving Incentive for Truth Discovery in Crowdsourced Binary-Choice Question Answering. International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM).
  • Feng, Y., Lu, Z., Zheng, Z., Sun, P., , Zhou, W., Huang, R., Cao, Q. (2019). Chasing Total Solar Eclipses on Twitter: Big Social Data Analytics in Once-in-a-lifetime Events. IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM).
  • Feng, Y., Zhou, W., Lu, Z., Wang, Z., Cao, Q. (2019). The World Wants Mangoes and Kangaroos: A Study of New Emoji Requests Based on Thirty Million Tweets. The World Wide Web Conference (WWW).
  • Feng, Y., Lu, Z., Cao, Q. (2018). Secure Sharing of Private Locations through Homomorphic Bloom Filters. IEEE 4th International Conference on Big Data Security on Cloud (BigDataSecurity).
  • Lu, Z., Feng, Y., Zhou, W., Li, X., Cao, Q. (2018). Inferring Correlation between User Mobility and App Usage in Massive Coarse-grained Data Traces. Other. 1 (4) 1-21. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (UbiComp).
  • Journal Article

  • Feng, Y., Shah, C. (2022). Unifying telescope and microscope: A multi-lens framework with open data for modeling emerging events. Information Processing & Management.
  • Feng, Y., Zhou, W. (2022). Work from home during the COVID-19 pandemic: An observational study based on a large geo-tagged COVID-19 Twitter dataset (UsaGeoCov19). Information Processing & Management. 59 (2)
  • Feng, Y., Niu, H., Wang, F., Ivey, S.J., Wu, J.J., Qi, H., Almeida, R.A., Eda, S., Cao, Q. (2022). SocialCattle: IoT-Based Mastitis Detection and Control Through Social Cattle Behavior Sensing in Smart Farms. Other. 9 (12) 10130-10138. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/jiot.2021.3122341
  • Sun, P., Wang, Z., Wu, L., Feng, Y., Pang, X., Qi, H., Wang, Z. (2022). Towards Personalized Privacy-Preserving Incentive for Truth Discovery in Mobile Crowdsensing Systems. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. 21 (1) 352-365. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/tmc.2020.3003673
  • Feng, Y., Lu, Z., Zhou, W., Wang, Z., Cao, Q. (2020). New Emoji Requests from Twitter Users: When, Where, Why, and What We Can Do About Them. Other. 3 (2) 1-25. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3370750
  • Feng, Y., Chen, Z., Wang, D., Chen, J., Feng, Z. (2020). DeepWelding: A Deep Learning Enhanced Approach to GTAW Using Multisource Sensing Images. Other. 16 (1) 465-474. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/tii.2019.2937563
  • Wang, Z., Li, Y., Jin, B., Wang, Q., Feng, Y., Li, Y., Shao, H. (2019). AirMouse: Turning a Pair of Glasses Into a Mouse in the Air. IEEE Internet of Things Journal.
  • Sun, P., Wu, L., Wang, Z., Feng, Y., Wang, Z. (2019). SCRA: Structured Compressive Random Access for Efficient Information Collection in IoT. IEEE Internet of Things Journal.
  • Feng, Y., Lu, Z., Zhou, W., Cao, Q., Li, X. (2018). A multi-granularity perspective for spatial profiling of mobile apps. Information Sciences.
  • Wan, L., Wang, Z., Lu, Z., Feng, Y., Qi, H., Zhou, W., Cao, Q. (2018). Approximate and Sublinear Spatial Queries for Large-Scale Vehicle Networks. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.
  • Reprinted Article

  • Kandula, A., Phamornratanakun, T., , A., Bhoi, R., El-Mokahal, M., Feng, Y., Li, X. (2024). Generative AI for Cardiac Organoid Florescence Generation.

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

    Grant - Research

  • Feng, Y. (Principal), "Machine Learning for Autonomous Weld Quality Monitoring," sponsored by Oak Ridge National Lab - DOE, University of North Texas, $15000 Funded. (2024).
  • Feng, Y. (Principal), Compson, Z.G. (Co-Principal), "MINE: Models for Improved Natural-language Exploration—applications for rapid expansion of trait databases for food web modeling," sponsored by UNT CENG-COS, University of North Texas, $10000 Funded. (2023).
  • Feng, Y. (Principal), "PreciseDebias: An Automatic Prompt Engineering Approach for Generative AI to Mitigate Image Demographic Biases," sponsored by Microsoft, University of North Texas, $20000 Funded. (2023).
  • Feng, Y. (Principal), "RAG-PreciseDebias: Mitigating Demographic Bias in Image Generation through Automatic Retrieval Augmented Prompt Engineering," sponsored by Microsoft, University of North Texas, $20000 Funded. (2023).
  • Ding, J. (Principal), Kinshuk, X. (Co-Principal), Fu, S. (Co-Principal), Ludi, S.A. (Co-Principal), Chen, H. (Co-Principal), Hossain, T. (Co-Principal), Xiao, T. (Co-Principal), Feng, Y. (Co-Principal), Cleveland, A.D. (Co-Principal), Smith, D.L. (Co-Principal), Mankins, N. (Co-Principal), Booker, D.D. (Co-Principal), Carrillo, D. (Co-Principal), "NSF Includes ARISE Alliance Membership," sponsored by Arizona State University, Other, $64800 Funded. (2024 - 2027).
  • Sponsored Research

  • Feng, Y. (Principal), "Accessing Social Impacts of Emerging Deep Generative Models through Public Big Data," sponsored by HPC AI and Big Data Group at Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Local, $3000 Funded. (2022 - 2023).
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