Yih-Chun Hu
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Education
- Ph.D. in Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. May 2003. Advisor: David B. Johnson. Dissertation: Enabling Secure High-Performance Wireless Ad Hoc Networking.
Research Statement
My general research interests are in security and systems, with emphasis on the areas of secure systems and mobile communications. I have published papers in the areas of secure Internet routing, secure routing in wireless ad hoc networks, security and anonymity in peer-to-peer networks, efficient cryptographic mechanisms for routing security, and design and evaluation of ad hoc network routing protocols. In my future research, I will continue to build new systems with lightweight and minimally intrusive security. I will build systems that preserve privacy and anonymity in wireless networks to overcome attackers that can correlate individual wireless transmissions. In environments where user cooperation can be a public good, I will design techniques that incentivize user cooperation while minimizing the impact of malicious players. I will design and use evaluation frameworks that objectively, quantifiably, and rigorously measure the performance of secure systems under attack. I will also build backwards-compatible, incrementally-deployable lightweight security mechanisms for widely-deployed protocols with insufficient security.
Research Interests
- Vehicular Networks
- Wireless Networks
- Privacy in Wireless Networks
- Network Security
Research Areas
- Communication networks
- Communications
- Computer networking
- Computer security, privacy, and information trust
- Cryptographic systems and protocols
- Networking and distributed computing
- Operating systems
- System modeling and measurement
- Wireless communication systems
Research Topics
- Autonomous Systems and Artificial Intelligence
- Autonomous vehicular technology, UAVs
- Bioelectronics and Bioinformatics
- Cyberinfrastructures
- Cyberphysical systems and internet of things
- Cybersecurity and privacy
- Data/Information Science and Systems
- Distributed computing and storage systems
- Electric transportation
- Energy
- Game theory
- Healthcare and medical technologies
- Point-of-care diagnostics
- Policy and economics
- Smart grid and energy delivery
- Smart infrastructures
- Socio-technical systems and networking
- Wearable and mobile computing
Recent Courses Taught
- ECE 198 YH - Comp Apps-Discrete Mathematics
- ECE 220 - Computer Systems & Programming
- ECE 391 - Computer Systems Engineering
- ECE 428 - Distributed Systems