Talk by Daphne yao

Title: Research Style Diversity, Impostor Syndrome, and Know Your Strengths

Abstract:

Impostor syndrome is an under-discussed issue in the research community. How do researchers with impostor syndrome feel? How does the condition impact research activities? How to overcome the problem and help others who are struggling with it? I will share my intimate personal experiences and use them to illustrate impostor syndrome’s complexity and its devastating effect on research persistence, as well as the need for the computing community to collectively understand the issue -- beyond simple self-help tips.

Bio:

Dr. Daphne Yao is a Professor of Computer Science at Virginia Tech. She is an Elizabeth and James E. Turner Jr. ’56 Faculty Fellow and CACI Faculty Fellow. Her research interests are on building deployable and proactive cyber defenses, focusing on detection accuracy and scalability. She creates new models, algorithms, techniques, and deployment quality tools for securing large-scale software and systems. Her tool CryptoGuard helps large software companies and Apache projects harden their cryptographic code. She systematized program anomaly detection in the book Anomaly Detection as a Service. She has multiple US patents for her inventions on network causal analysis for forensics. Her enterprise data-loss prevention papers are among the top downloaded articles in IEEE SPS and Wiley WIREs. Daphne received her Ph.D. degree from Brown University.