Mingyan Li is a senior cybersecurity researcher at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (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.
