Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Syracuse University

Wenliang (Kevin) Du

Professor (CV)
Ph.D. Purdue University, 2001
Research: Computer Security

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Syracuse University
4-206 Center for Science and Technology
Syracuse, NY 13244-4100
   Purdue | CERIAS | USTC | 8800
Email: wedu@syr.edu
Phone: (315) 443-9180,   Fax: (315) 443-1122
Office: 4-285 Sci-Tech Building



  • Grants

    • Security-Enhanced WebView for Android System (Google Research Award, $49,387, 01/2012 - 12/2012, PI). This project is primarily based on my Ph.D. student Tongbo Luo's work.
    • To Configure or to Implement, that is the Access Control Question for Web Applications (NSF Trustworthy Computing, $471,970, 09/2010 - 08/2013, PI).
    • SEED: Developing Instructional Laboratories for Computer SEcurity EDucation (NSF-CCLI, Type 2, $451,682, 01/2007-12/2011, PI).
    • Applied Research - Identity Management (JPMorgan Chase, $96,084, 1/08 - 8/08).
    • 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, Type 1, $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

    • Enhancing the Security of Mobile Devices. Invited Talk at the Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering at University of Florida, February 18, 2013.
    • Enhancing the Security of Mobile Devices. Invited Talk at the 25th School of Computing & Information Sciences Anniversary at the Florida Internation University, November 9, 2012.
    • Re-designing the Web's Access Control System. Invited Talk at Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA. July 28, 2011 (Slides).
    • Re-designing the Web's Access Control System. Invited Talk at the 25th Annual WG 11.3 Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy (DBSec), July 13, 2011.
    • Re-designing the Web's Security Infrastructure. Computer Science Colloquia Talk at University of Massachusetts Lowell, December 1, 2010.
    • The SEED project. Invited panelist at the NICE (National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education) Track 2 Coalition organizational meeting, November 5, 2010.
    • Learning by Doing: How to Make this Happen in Computer Security Education? Invited talk at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), May 12, 2010.
    • So Many Attacks on the Web: Whom should we blame? Invited talk at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), May 11, 2010.
    • So Many Attacks on the Web: Whom should we blame? Invited talk at the Beijing Institute of Technology, May 10, 2010.
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 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.


Last modified: January 25, 2008