Yunfei Hou | Professor of Computer Science | CSUSB

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 executive 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

• Award: Received AFSSA Outstanding Service Award, CSUSB. 4/2026.
• Our ExCELS scholarship awards the third cohort of 34 students, 4/2026.
• Student’s Award: My student Lusine Hayrapetyan earned third place at the ACM Student Research Competition. 3/2026.
• Student’s Award: Three teams of my students are winners of the 40th Annual CSUSB Student Research Competition! They are: Ashley Camacho; Tara O’Neill De Lafosse, Christopher Pooche, Omar Flores, Kevin Evans, and Jonathan Aguirre; Brynn Knowlton, Liz Jimenez, Nathalie Duran, Nicholas Munoz, and Yadhira Mejia 3/2026
• Paper: Four papers from our research team have been accepted to the IEEE ICSC Conference, 2/2026.
• Award: Received the 2024-25 Outstanding Service Award, Graduate Studies, CSUSB. 10/2025.
• Six of our ExCELS scholars received travel grant to attend the national S-STEM meeting, 10/2025.
• Grant: Received a NSF HSI grant, $1M for five years, PI. 9/2025.
• Talk: Our AI for Social Good project finished its third year, and two of our student projects were featured at the CSU Undergraduate Innovation Symposium, 5/2025.
• Our ExCELS Scholarship awards the second cohort of 38 students, 3/2025.
• Award: Received the 2025 Faculty Achievement Innovative Research (FAIR) Award, CSUSB, 3/2025.
• Award: My students Vicky Lopez, Connor Lahm, Mathew Eskola, and Katlyn Koski are winners of the 39th Annual CSUSB Student Research Competition! 2/2025.
• Paper: A journal paper is accepted by The Internet and Higher Education. Elsevier, 1/2025.
• Paper: A book chapter is published in Artificial Intelligence for Design and Process Science. Springer, 1/2025.
• Paper: A journal paper is accepted by Education Sciences, 12/2024.
• Two of our ExCELS scholars Jerry Cervantes-Fernandez and Alexis Luevanos received the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities scholarship, 11/2024.
• Award: My student Nathan Kelly win the Best Student Poster Presentation Award, 10/2024.
• Award: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, Co-PI, 4/2023.
• 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