Wenliang (Kevin) Du

Associate Professor (CV)

Ph.D. Purdue University, 2001

Research: Computer Security

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Syracuse University

3-114 Sci-Tech Building, Syracuse, NY 13244

• Research Interests

  • SEED: Developing Instructional Laboratories for Computer SEcurity EDucation.
  • Privacy-Preserving Data Mining, Data Publishing, and Data Sharing
  • Security in Wireless Ad hoc and Sensor Networks
  • Security in Distributed Computing and Grid Computing

• Most Recent Papers (Full List)

  • Zutao Zhu, Guan Wang, and Wenliang Du. Deriving Private Information from Association Rule Mining Results. To appear in the 25th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Shanghai, China, March 29 - April 4, 2009.
  • Guan Wang, Zutao Zhu, Wenliang Du, and Zhouxuan Teng. Inference Analysis in Privacy-Preserving Data Re-publishing. To appear in the 8th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, Pisa, Italy, Dec. 15-19, 2008 (short paper).
  • Wenliang Du, Zhouxuan Teng, and Zutao Zhu. Privacy-MaxEnt: Integrating Background Knowledge in Privacy Quantification. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, June 9-12, 2008, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Pages 459-472. (Slides) (Bib).

• Grants

  • Applied Research - Identity Management (JPMorgan Chase, $96,084, 1/08 - 8/08).
  • SEED: Developing Instructional Laboratories for Computer SEcurity EDucation (NSF-CCLI, Phase-II, $451,682, 01/2007-12/2010, PI).
  • Efficient and Resilient Key Management for Wireless Sensor Networks (ARO, $360,000, 5/05-4/08, PI).
  • Collaborative Research: Trustworthy and Resilient Location Discovery in Wireless Sensor Networks (NSF CyberTrust, $150,000, 9/04-8/07, PI).
  • Collaborative Research: ITR: Distributed Data Mining to Protect Information Privacy (NSF-ITR, $140,418, 8/03-7/06, PI).
  • Private Prediction using Selective Models (NSF-ITR, $220,000, 9/02-8/05, PI).
  • Designing Laboratory Materials for Computer System Security Courses Using Minix Instructional Operating System (NSF-CCLI, Phase-I, $74,984, 01/03-12/04, PI).
  • VINE: Using VIrtual Network Environment for Computer and Network Security Courses (University Vision Fund, $5000, 01/03-12/03, PI).

• Invited Talks, Panels, and Tutorials

  • Tutorial: Using Instructional Operating System to Teach Computer Security Courses. A tutorial at the 11th ACM Conference On Computer And Communication Security (CCS). Alexandria, VA, November 10, 2005. More details can be found in our paper A Novel Approach for Computer Security Education using Minix Instructional Operating System, published by the Computer & Security, Volume 25, Issue 3, 2006. Pages 190-200.
  • Open Source/Closed Source Software in Security Education, Invited panelist at the Annual Conference on Education in Information Security, Ames, Iowa. September 17-18, 2006.
  • Securing Wireless Sensor Networks. Invited talk at the IEEE Joint Chapter for Communications and Aerospace at Rochester, June 6, 2006.
  • Privacy-Preserving Data Mining. University of Pittsburgh. April 18, 2006.
  • Securing Wirless Sensor Networks. Computer Science Graduate Seminar, Wayne State University. December 13, 2005.
  • Privacy-Preserving Data Mining. Computer Science Seminar, Stevens Institute of Technology. April 18, 2005.
  • SACMAT'04 Panel: "Security for Grid-based computing systems - the challenges", June 3, 2004.
  • Securing Wirless Sensor Networks, ECE Department, Clarkson University. April 16, 2004.
  • Securing Wirless Sensor Networks (Slides). CERIAS Seminar, Purdue University. March 31, 2004.
  • Privacy-Preserving Data Mining, CS Department, University of Maryland College Park. October 27, 2003.

• Activities

  • Editorial Board Members, International Journal of Security and Networks (IJSN), 2008 - present.
  • Tutorials Chair, ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS'06 and '07).
  • Guest Co-Editor, Journal of Computer Security, Special Issue on Security of Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks, 2006.
  • Program Co-Chair
    • SASN'05: The Third ACM Workshop on Security of Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks.
    • The 2nd Workshop on Privacy Preserving Data Mining (PPDM'03). In conjunction with IEEE ICDM'03.
  • Program Committee
    • CCS: The ACM Conference on Computer and Communication Security (2007 - 2009).
    • ICDCS: The 29th Internationl Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (2009).
    • WiSec: The ACM Conference on Wireless Network Security (2007 - 2008).
    • ICICS: The Eighth International Conference on Information and Communications Security (2006).
    • SDM: SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (2004, 2005).
    • ASIACCS: ACM Symposium on InformAtion, Computer and Communications Security (2006).
    • SASN: ACM Workshop on Security of Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks (2004 - 2006),
    • WiSe: ACM Workshop on Wireless Security (2005, 2006).
    • ICPADS: The 11th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (2005).
    • WPES: ACM Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (2004).
  • Reviewer for Journals: ACM TISSEC, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine, IEEE Internet Computing, IEEE Communications Letters, Journal of Computer Security, Ad Hoc Networks journal, Wireless Networks, Journal of Database Management, Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, and Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.