Faculty

• Prof. Jian Ren

Current Students

• Zixiao Yu
• Zhongren Xu

Alumni

• Yun Li, Ph.D., Dissertation Title: Providing Source Privacy in Wireless Sensor Networks. Graduated in May 2010, now with Microsoft, CA.
• Leron Lightfoot, Ph.D., Dissertation title: Cost-Aware Routing Protocols for Location-Privacy and Efficiency in Wireless Sensor Networks, graduated in May 2014, General Motor.
• Di Tang, Ph.D., Dissertation title: Cost-Aware Security Protocol Design and Analysis, graduated in December 2014, Senior Research Scientist at The third Research Institute of the Ministry of Public Security, Shanghai, China.
• Jian Li, Ph.D., Dissertation title: Capacity Assurance in Hostile Networks, graduated in December 2015, Associate Professor at Beijing Jiaotong University, China.
• Kai Zhou, Ph.D., Dissertation title: Trade-Offs Among Data Security, Usability and Complexity in Mobile Cloud Computing, graduated in December 2017, Assistant Professor at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
• Ehab Zaghloul, Ph.D., Dissertation title: Privilege-Based Decentralized Data Sharing, graduated in May 2020, Chief Research Scientist, Tribe Inc.
• Mohamed Ibrahim, Ph.D., Dissertation title: Privacy-preserving Information Disclosure and Characterization, graduated in May 2021, Senior Research Scientist, Barracuda Inc.
• Tianxiao Liu, MS., graduated in December 2005.
• Markus Janiak, MS., graduated in December 2007, International exchange student from Germany.
• Leron Lightfoot, MS., graduted in May 2010.
• Ting Sun, MS., graduated in December 2010.
• Wenbo Qiao, MS., graduated in May 2011.
• Xiaochen Tang, MS. Thesis: Secure Communication Gateway Design for Smart Grid, graduated in May 2012, Co-advised with Dr. T. Li.

Postdoc/Visiting Scholar/Students

• Prof. Mumtaz M. Ali Al-Mukhtar, Information Engineering Faculty/Al-Nahrain University, Baghdad, Iraq. 7/26/2010-10/01/2010.
• Somayeh Taheri, visting student, George-August University of Goettingen-Germany, 8/5/2010-10/31/2010.
• Prof. Chao Yang, School of Computer Science, Xidian University, Xi'an, China, 1/1/2013-12/31/2013.
• Lei Wang, visiting student, Nanjing Institute of Technology, Nanjing, China. 1/1/2013-12/31/2013.
• Prof. Daru Pan, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China, 4/29/2014-5/12/2015.
• Prof. Yueyu Zhang, Xidian University, Xi'an, China, 9/1/2014-8/31/2015.
• Prof. Nan Zhao, Xidian University, Xi'an, China, 8/15/2014-8/14/2015.
• Prof. Shichong Tan, Xidian University, Xi'an, China, 4/26/2016-4/25/2017.

Some Finished Projects

Smart Home/Grid and Smart Vehicular Network Project

Authentication Scheme

Version 2 - Developed by Zixiao Yu

Network Architecture

Project Pictures

Smartphone Configuration Interface	Smartphone Home Screen	Temperature/Humidity History	Privacy-preserving Tracking

Privacy-Preserving Movement Tracking -- Project Demo Video

Version 1

Network Architecture

Project Demo Video

Publication

1. Secure Access Monitoring and Control System for Smart Grid and Smart Home.
2. Secure Vehicular Access Gateway.

Supported by

Selected Federal Funded Projects

1. Tongtong Li and Jian Ren
   CT-ER: Secure Communication System Design for Wireless Network,
   National Science Foundation, $250,000, 08/01/2007-07/31/2010.
2. Jian Ren
   SGER: Privacy-Preserving Communication in Wireless Networks,
   National Science Foundation, $150,000, 01/15/2009-12/31/2011.
3. Jian Ren
   CAREER: Towards Cognitive Communications in Wireless Networks,
   National Science Foundation, $400,000, 02/15/2009-01/31/2014.
4. Jian Ren
   RAPID: Collaborative Research: Gulf of Mexio Oil Spill Impact on Beach Soil: Radar and Radar Sensor Network-Based Approaches,
   National Science Foundatmion, $80,000, 08/01/2010-07/31/2013.
5. Jian Ren and Tongtong Li
   NeTS: Small: Adaptive Network Coding for Wireless Relay Networks,
   National Science Foundation, $416,603, 08/01/2011-07/31/2014.
6. Tongtong Li and Jian Ren
   NeTS: Small: Anti-Jamming Techniques for Secure Communications in Wireless Networks,
   National Science Foundation, $380,000, 08/01/2012-07/31/2015.
7. Tongtong Li and Jian Ren
   Collaborative Research: CCSS: Cyber-Enabled Smart Systems for Seamless Secure Monitoring and Communications,
   National Science Foundation, $250,000, 09/01/2012-08/31/2015.
8. Jian Ren
   STRASS: Small: Collaborative: Zero-Power Dynamic Signature for Trust Verification of Passive Sensors and Tags
   National Science Foundation and SRC, $220,000 ($146,667 from NSF, $73,333 from SRC), 09/01/2015-08/31/2018.
9. Jian Ren, Tongtong Li and Yunhao Liu
   SPX: Toward Network Level Parallel Computing: Security, Efficiency and Scalability
   National Science Foundation, $1,062,693, 10/1/2019-9/30/2023.
10. Jian Ren
    RUI: SpedEES: Collaborative Research: Enabling Secure, Energy-Efficient, and Smart In-Band Full Duplex Wireless
    National Science Foundation, $250,000, 9/1/2019-8/31/2022.