Bio
Mingyan Li is a senior cybersecurity researcher at 91做厙 (ORNL). She joined ORNL in 2021 after working at Boeing Research and Technology for 15 years. She received a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Washington. Her research interests include cyber security data analytics, the internet of things (IoT)/cloud system security/privacy, and key management within and beyond distributed computing and transportation system domains.
Her recent work includes design of resilient IoT/Edge with federated tinyML, secure sensor networks for nuclear/radioactive material transportation security, IoT group key management framework, secure timing protocols, and differential privacy for data privacy. Mingyan recently led a team to win an ORNL Laboratory-Directed Research and Development award for a proposal to enhance IoT security posture using TinyML (tiny machine learning for IoT) and federated learning. She is a recipient of the 2017 Boeing Engineering Excellence Team Award for technical contribution to a secure cloud-based airplane data sharing platform. Mingyan has published more than 40 journal and conference papers, and received a total of nine US patents with three more currently under evaluation.
Trademarks and Patents
US patent pending, Secure IoT Publish/Subscribe Channel Access, Oct 2024
US patent 20230385405, System, Method, and Program for Analyzing Vehicle System Logs, Nov 2023
US patent 11374744, Threshold Scheme Enabled Symmetric Key Group Member Deletion, June 2022
US patent pending, An Identity-Based Cryptographic Method for e-Enabled Aircraft
US patent 10659477, Method and System for Vehicle Cyber-Attack Event Detection, May 2020
US patent 9336248, Anomaly Detection in Chain-Of-Custody Information, May 2016
US patent 9436730, Methods and Systems for Validating Input Data, Sep 2016
US patent 8973101, Method and Apparatus for Authenticating Information Received at An Airport Surface Wireless Node, Jan 2015
US patent 8769608, Airport Security System, Jul 2014
US patent 8391493, Probabilistic Mitigation of Control Channel Jamming via Random key Distribution in Wireless Communications Networks, Mar 2013
US patent 8607351, Modelling Cyberspace Attacks, Dec 2013