Jin-Hee Cho named the Stephen and Cherye Tyndall Moore Computer Science Junior Faculty Fellow
The Virginia Tech Board of Visitors named Cho the Stephen and Cherye Tyndall Moore Computer Science Junior Faculty Fellow.
Jin-Hee Cho, associate professor of computer science in the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech, has been named the Stephen and Cherye Tyndall Moore Computer Science Junior Faculty Fellow by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors.
The fellowship was established with a gift from Stephen and Cherye Tyndall Moore and enables the Department of Computer Science to recruit, reward, and retain outstanding faculty. Recipients hold the fellowship for five years.
A member of the Virginia Tech community since 2018, Cho has excelled in research, teaching, and student mentoring in the area of cybersecurity. Her work features a transformative approach to uncertainty-aware decision-making that integrates machine learning with belief/evidence theory, addresses pivotal security challenges, and significantly advances the research frontier in artificial intelligence for cybersecurity.
Cho’s research has been supported by $6.5 million in external funding. She has authored 67 journal papers and 97 peer-reviewed conference publications and has more than 6,990 citations. Six master’s degree and two Ph.D. students have graduated under her mentorship, and she continues to advise an active research group consisting of six Ph.D. students and multiple graduate and undergraduate students.
Cho regularly teaches cybersecurity and theory courses to graduate students located in the greater Washington, D.C., metro area and in Blacksburg. She is a researcher with the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative and is affiliate faculty at the Virginia Tech National Security Institute. Cho is a member of the editorial boards of three journals and has served on technical program committees for several major conferences in her field. She recently led a research workshop on AI for Social Good.
A senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and a member of the Association for Computing Machinery, Cho received her bachelor’s degree from Ewha Womans University in South Korea, a master’s degree from Washington University in St. Louis, and master’s degree and Ph.D. in computer science from Virginia Tech.
