Yidan Hu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Cybersecurity at Rochester Institute of Technology. She received her Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Delaware in 2021, supervised by Dr. Rui Zhang. She received the B.E. degree and M.E. degree both in Computer Science from Hangzhou Dianzi University in 2013 and 2016, respectively.

Her primary research interests are data privacy and cybersecurity, with the current focus on security and privacy in network and distributed systems, including wireless networks, cognitive radio networks, mobile crowdsourcing, mobile edge computing, and cloud computing systems.