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Faculty

Department of Computer Science

 

Research Interests

  • Computer and Network Security
  • Network Modeling and Performance Evaluation

Professional Activities

  • Program Co-chair: WNS(2006), Malware(2010), CSS(2011)
  • Session Chair: WORM (2006), SecureComm (2008), Malware (2008), AsiaCCS(2010), CCNC (2013), Globecom (2017)
  • Local Chair: ANCS (2007), ICNP (2008), Ubicomp (2009), Multimedia (2014), IoTDI (2018), IC2E (2018), Securecomm (2019)
  • Program Committee Member for dozens of conferences
  • NSF panelist (2011,2016); NIH panelist (2014)
  • Senior Member: IEEE

Honors & Awards

  • Publications have more than 6100 citations according to Google Scholar Citation.
  • Best Student Paper Award in conference ACSAC 2007.
  • Received UCF Teaching Incentive Program (TIP) award, 2013.
  • Undergraduate research project “Personal Medication Monitor” won the first price in the first annual UCF Inventing Entrepreneurs Innovation Competition (reported by UCF News).
  • Paper “Honeypot detection in advanced botnet attacks” published in IJICS (2010) was reported by EurekAlert! News Service and The Register, respectively.
  • Rootkit work (paper published in Securecomm’08) was reported by PCWorld (05/09/2008).
  • Research published in NDSS’06 reported by “New Scientist Magazine”, Mar. 4, 2006 189(2541), pg. 32.
  • Best Paper Award runner-up in PADS 2005.
  • Best Paper Award runner-up in ICCCN 2004.
  • Interviewed by National Public Radio (NPR) on our Internet worm research, September 2003