Immigration Status: I-140 (EB1A) approved, EAD expected in June, and green card expected in July 2010
Research Interests
Wireless Networking, Network Security, Computer Networks, Communication, Network Science, Video Streaming, Cross-layer Design, Routing
Education
Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering Oct. 2008
Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), Worcester, MA; GPA: 4.0/4.0
• Courses: Network Security, Cryptography and Data Security, Analysis of Probabilistic/Deterministic Signals and Systems, Algorithm Design and Analysis, Discrete Mathematics, Real Analysis.
• Thesis: Opportunistic Routing in Multihop Wireless Networks: Capacity, Energy Efficiency, and Security
M.E., Communication and Information Systems Jun. 2004
Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Tech. (HUST), P.R.China
• Courses: Computer Networks, Modern Wireless Communication, Advanced DSP, Digital Communication, Stochastic Process, Numerical Analysis, Queuing Theory, Matrix Theory.
• Thesis: Admission Control in Wireless Cellular Networks with Retry Phenomenon
B.E., Communication Engineering Jun. 2001
HUST, P.R.China
Research Experience
Postdoctoral Scholar, Oct. 2008 - present
University of California, Davis, CA
• Resilient and Secure Wireless Networks
− Exploiting multiple-antenna diversity for enhancing security in wireless networks
Proposed and implemented a protocol that generates shared secret key from wireless fading channel using off-the-shelf 802.11n devices
− Jamming resistant communication
Designed a novel secure channel surfing scheme without negotiation based on channel reciprocity
− Authentication in mobile networks using physical layer information
Proposed a novel authentication scheme in mobile networks making use of channel autocorrelation and reciprocity
− Proximity-based authentication in wireless networks
Proposed a novel authentication scheme in wireless networks taking advantage of node’s proximity and multiple antenna diversity
• Video Streaming over Wireless Networks
− Proposed new metrics for evaluating video streaming quality over wireless networks
• Reliability in Wireless Networks
− Proposed a measurement based short-term reliability prediction methodology in wireless mesh networks
Internship, May 2007 - Aug. 2007
Computing Science Laboratory, Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), CA
• Routing in Ad Hoc Networks
− Studied and implemented a throughput-efficient routing protocol for wireless networks based on OLSR.
Graduate Research Assistant, Aug. 2004 - Oct. 2008
Wireless Networking and Security Laboratory (WiNSec), WPI
• Security in Wireless Networks
− Secure Link Quality Measurement in Wireless Networks
Proposed a secure link quality measurement mechanism preventing malicious nodes from reporting false measurement results.
− Broadcast authentication in Wireless Sensor Networks
Developed an effective public key cryptography based broadcast authentication scheme.
− Fault-tolerant Event Boundary Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks
Co-designed a distributed secure event boundary detection scheme for wireless sensor networks.
− Random Key Pre-distribution in Wireless Sensor Networks
Co-designed a random key pre-distribution protocol in wireless sensor networks.
• Capacity and Throughput in Wireless Networks
− Cross-layer Protocol Design for Multirate Opportunistic Routing
Proposed and implemented a PHY-MAC-Network cross-layer protocol in GloMoSim.
− Theoretical Analysis on Opportunistic Routing
Proposed a framework to compute the end-to-end throughput/capacity of opportunistic routing in multi-radio multi-channel multi-rate wireless networks.
Analyzed principles of geographic opportunistic routing.
− Multipath Routing Protocols in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
Designed and implemented multipath geographic routing protocols in wireless ad hoc networks.
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