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Yang Nominated for 2025 CSU Faculty Service Award

TSYS School professor of computer science Jianhua Yang has been nominated by the Turner College's Awards & Scholarships Committee for the 2025 CSU Excellence in Online Award. This award recognizes those members of our faculty who have contributed outstanding professional service to the University and/or community. Service is defined as the contribution of the faculty member's expertise in his or her discipline to worthwhile efforts of the university, community, educational, environmental, business and economic life of the community. In terms of service to CSU, Yang is currently a member of the Faculty Affairs Committee. At the Turner College level, he is a member of both the Curriculum and Faculty Resource and Development Committees. At the beginning of this semester, the Turner College Dean's Office announced that Yang would be assuming the CAE Coordinator, making him responsible for managing the TSYS School's cybersecurity accreditation efforts. At the TSYS School level, Yang is a member of the Tenure and Promotion, Faculty Search, and Undergraduate Programs Committees, all in addition to serving as Coordinator of the TSYS School's Cybersecurity Program. Next, under the support of an NSA Gencyber grant, Yang and his team held four Gencyber camps on cybersecurity in the summers of 2017, 2020, 2022 and 2023. The Gencyber program supported more than 100 middle school girls in four years to study cybersecurity basic skills and concept via playing cyber games, outreach activities, and storytelling. Lastly, Yang served as guest editor on special issues for the Journal of Electronics and Frontiers in Energy Research, in addition to serving as ad hoc reviewer for Senors, Journal of Computers & Security and Journal of Internet Service and Information Security, among others. Turner Business wishes Yang the best of luck in April 2025, when the winner of the award will be named.
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