Yunfei Hou
Professor
School of Computer Science and Engineering, California State University, San Bernardino
Office: JB 336
Email: hou@csusb.edu
Phone: (909) 537-3608
Address: 5500 University Pkwy,
San Bernardino, CA 92407
Biography
Dr. Yunfei Hou is a professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at California State University San Bernardino, and also serves as the associate director at Leonard Transportation Center. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from University at Buffalo, SUNY, and B.S. in Computer Science from Xi'an Jiaotong University. His current research interests include applications in transportation cyber-physical systems, data and information analysis for transportation engineering, and STEM education. His recent projects span areas such as vehicular sensing in smart cities, traffic management with connected vehicle technologies, transportation cybersecurity, and data science education. These projects have been funded by NSF, DOT and NREL.
I am recruiting research assistants in the areas of Applications of AI and Data Science, Transportation Systems, and Computer Science Education. If interested, feel free to email me or stop by my office.
News
Two of my students, Sai Kalyan Ayyagari and Bhavik Pankaj Khatri received the Outstanding Graduate Student Award, 5/2024.
Our ExCELS scholarship award the first cohort of 31 students, 2/2024.
Service: steering committee member, CRB-SEED Symposium, 12/2023.
Our ExCELS scholarship is now open, which offers up to $10k per year for 30 Computer Science students at CSUSB, 10/2023.
Paper: A journal paper is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Computers, 8/2023.
Talk: SIGKDD 2023, Empowering Future Data Scientists: Building New Data Science Programs at CSUSB. 8/2023.
Grant: Received a NSF S-STEM grant, $2.5M for five years, PI. 7/2023.
Paper: A journal paper is accepted by the Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 6/2023.
Grant: Received a California Learning Lab grant, $1.275M for 4 years, PI for CSUSB, CSUSB's share is $165k. 5/2023.
Award: Received the Outstanding Faculty Award for Research, CNS, CSUSB, 4/2023.
We are offering Data Science summer fellowships for the second year running! As a fellow, you'll receive $5,000 and gain valuable experience in the field. Applications are open until March 31, 2023.
Talk: STEM-NET webcast, Data Science, Traffic Engineering and Many Other Summer Opportunities. 1/2023
Grant: Received a SB1 California State University Transportation Consortium grant, $150k for one year, Co-PI. 1/2023
Service: Web co-chair, ACM SIGKDD 2023 Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining , Long Beach, CA, USA, 11/2022
Paper: A journal paper is accepted by the American Journal of Distance Education, 9/2022.
Grant: Received a NSF HSI grant, $200k for two years, Co-PI. 8/2022.
Paper: A conference paper is accepted by the ASCE International Conference on Transportation and Development, 8/2022.
Grant: Received a NSF IUSE grant, $0.6M for three years, PI for CSUSB, my share is about $100k. 6/2022.
We are offering 10 fellowships on Data Science this summer, application is open till March 31, 2022.
Paper: A conference paper is accepted by IEEE EDUCON 2022, 1/2022
Book chapter in: Smart Mobility - Recent Advances, New Perspectives and Applications, 12/ 2021
Grant: Received a NSF HDR grant, $1.5M for three years, PI for CSUSB, CSUSB's share is $250k. 8/2021
Paper: A conference paper is accepted by IEEE CLOUD 2021, 7/2021
Paper: A conference paper is accepted by International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning 2021, 6/2021
TEDx talk: How students help to improve campus parking, 6/2021
Award: Our IEEE EDUCON paper received the Best Paper Award!
Paper: A conference paper is accepted by IEEE EDUCON 2021, 4/2021