Yunhao Liu               刘云浩

 　

　

Professor, Tsinghua University

Ph.D.   Michigan State University
M.S.    Michigan State University
M.A.   Beijing Foreign Studies University
B.S.     Tsinghua University

Yunhao Liu received his BS degree in Automation Department from Tsinghua University, and an MA degree in Beijing Foreign Studies University, China. He received an MS and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan State University, USA. Yunhao holds EMC Chair Professorship at Tsinghua University. He is also a faculty member with Computer Science and Engineering Department, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Yunhao is serving as the Associate Editors-in-Chief for IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems and Associate Editor for  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking and ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks. He is a senior member of IEEE computer society.  Yunhao is currently an ACM Distinguished Speaker, and Vice Chair for ACM China Council.

Email: yunhao AT GreenOrbs DOT com

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Research Interests
     
         Distributed Systems and Wireless Sensor Networks/RFID, Cyber Physical Systems and IoT,  Privacy and Security, Network Management and Diagnosis, Localization
Projects

  • CitySee 2011-ongoing

  • 签信通 2011-ongoing

  • GreenOrbs ( 绿野千传) 2009-ongoing

  • Trustworthy RFID (签若磐石) 2007-ongoing

  • OceanSense, Sensor Network for Sea Monitoring 2007-2009

  • SASA, Coal Mine Monitoring with Sensors 2005-2008

　
Professional Activities

　
  • Editorial Board Member
         IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (Associate Editors-in-Chief)
         IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (Associate Editor).
         ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (Associate Editor).
         JCST: Journal of Computer Science and Technology (Editorial Board Member)
         Chinese Journal of Computers (Editorial Board Member) 《计算机学报》编委
         Journal of Software (Editorial Board Member)《 软件学报》编委

         IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (Associate Editor, 2010-2012).
  • Program Committee Member for      
          IEEE INFOCOM 2006,  2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
          IEEE ICDCS 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
          ACM MobiCom 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
          ACM MobiHoc 2008, 2009
          IEEE ICNP 2007
          IEEE RTSS 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 20111,2012
          WWW 2007,  2008, 2009, 2010
          IEEE PerCom 2007, 2008, 2009
 
　
  • Conference Chair / Vice Chair      
         IEEE RTAS 2012 (General Co-Chair )
         IEEE ICDCS 2012 (Program Vice Chair; Track Chair for Sensor Networks and Mobile Computing )
         IEEE MASS 2011 (Program Committee Co-Chair)
         IEEE ICPADS 2011 (Program Committee Co-Chair)
         WASA 2010 (General Co-Chair)
      IEEE ICDCS 2010 (Program Vice Chair; Track Chair for Sensor Networks and Ubiquitous Computing )
         WWW 2008 (General Vice Chair)
         ACM MobiCom 2009 (Demo Chair)
         IEEE EUC 2010 (Program Committee Co-chair)
         ACM SenSys 2008 (Demo Chair)
         IEEE ICPADS 2008(Program Vice Chair); IEEE ICPADS 2007(Program Vice Chair)
      UIC 2009 (Program Vice Chair)
         HPCC 2007 (Program Vice Chair); HPCC 2006 (Program Vice Chair)
         GCC 2006 (Program Co-Chair)
         MSN 2006 (Program Vice Chair)
         IEEE SUTC 2006, 2008 (Program Vice Chair)
　
　

群智感知计算

万物相联万物生

从普适计算、CPS到物联网：下一代互联网的视界

绿野千传：突破自组织传感网大规模应用壁垒

 Location, Localization, and Localizability (A Survey at JCST)

Refereed Publications
   Recent Journals:

  • Yunhao Liu, Xufei Mao, Yuan He, Kebin Liu, Wei Gong, Jiliang Wang, "CitySee: Not Only a Wireless Sensor Network", (PDF), IEEE Network, Vol. 27, No. 5, September 2013, Pages 42-47.

  • Yunhao Liu, Yuan He, Mo Li, Jiliang Wang, Kebin Liu, Xiang-Yang Li, "Does Wireless Sensor Network Scale? A Measurement Study on GreenOrbs", (PDF), IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Vol. 24, No. 10, October 2013, Pages 1983-1993.

  • Rui Chu, Lin Gu, Yunhao Liu, Mo Li, Xicheng Lu, "SenSmart: Adaptive Stack Management for Multitasking Sensor Networks", (PDF), IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), Vol. 62, No. 1, January 2013, Pages 137-150.

  • Deke Guo, Tao Chen, Dan Li, Mo Li, Yunhao Liu, Guihai Chen, "Expandable and Cost-Effective Network Structures for Data Centers Using Dual-Port Servers", (PDF), IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), Vol. 62, No. 7, July 2013, Pages 1303-1317.

  • Wei Dong, Yunhao Liu, Chun Chen, Jiajun Bu, Chao Huang, Zhiwei Zhao, "R2: Incremental Reprogramming Using Relocatable Code in Networked Embedded Systems", (PDF), IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), Vol. 62, No. 9, September 2013, Pages 1837-1849.

  • Mo Li, Zheng Yang, Yunhao Liu, "Sea Depth Measurement with Restricted Floating Sensors", (PDF), ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS), Vol. 13, No. 1, August 2013, Pages 1:1-1:21.

  • Yuan He, Yunhao Liu, Xingfa Shen, Lufeng Mo, Guojun Dai, "Noninteractive Localization of Wireless Camera Sensors with Mobile Beacon", (PDF), IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), Vol. 12, No. 2, February 2013, Pages 333-345.

  • Dezun Dong, Xiangke Liao, Yunhao Liu, Xiang-Yang Li, Zhengbin Pang, "Fine-Grained Location-Free Planarization in Wireless Sensor Networks", (PDF), IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), Vol. 12, No. 5, May 2013, Pages 971-983.

  • Zheng Yang, Lirong Jian, Chenshu Wu, Yunhao Liu, "Beyond Triangle Inequality: Sifting Noisy and Outlier Distance Measurements for Localization", (PDF), ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN), Vol. 9, No. 2, March 2013, Pages 26:1-26:20.

  • Chenshu Wu, Zheng Yang, Yunhao Liu, Wei Xi, "WILL: Wireless Indoor Localization without Site Survey", (PDF), IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Vol. 24, No. 4, April 2013, Pages 839-848.

  • Jiliang Wang, Zhenjiang Li, Mo Li, Yunhao Liu, Zheng Yang, "Sensor Network Navigation without Locations", (PDF), IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Vol. 24, No. 7, July 2013, Pages 1436-1446.

  • Zhenhua Li, Yan Huang, Gang Liu, Fuchen Wang, Yunhao Liu, Zhi-Li Zhang, Yafei Dai, "Challenges, Designs, and Performances of Large-Scale Open-P2SP Content Distribution", (PDF), IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Vol. 24, No. 11, November 2013, Pages 2181-2191.

  • Xufei Mao, Yunhao Liu, ShaoJie Tang, Huafu Liu, Jiankang Han, Xiang-Yang Li, "Finding Best and Worst k-Coverage Paths in Multihop Wireless Sensor Networks", (PDF), IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Vol. 24, No. 12, December 2013, Pages 2396-2406.

  • Yunhao Liu, Yiyang Zhao, Lei Chen, Jian Pei, Jinsong Han,  "Mining Frequent Trajectory Patterns for Activity Monitoring Using Radio Frequency Tag Arrays", (PDF), IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Vol 23, No. 11, November 2012, Pages 2138-2149.

  • Zheng Yang, Yunhao Liu, "Understanding Node Localizability of Wireless Ad-hoc Networks",  (PDF), IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), Vol. 11, No. 8, August 2012, Pages 1240-1260.

  • Cheng Wang, XiangYang Li, Changjun Jiang, Shao-Jie Tang, Yunhao Liu, "Scaling Laws on Multicast Capacity for Power-Constrained Wireless Networks under Gaussian Channel Model", (PDF), IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), Vol 61, No 5, May 2012, Pages 713-715.

  • Hanhua Chen, Hai Jin, Xucheng Luo, Yunhao Liu, Tao Gu, Kaiji Chen, Lionel M Ni, "BloomCast: Efficient and Effective Full-Text Retrieval in Unstructured P2P Networks", (PDF), IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS),   Vol. 23, No. 2, February 2012, Pages 232-241.

  • Dezun Dong, Mo Li, Yunhao Liu, XiangYang Li, and X. Liao, "Topological Detection on Wormholes in Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks,"  (PDF), IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), Vol. 19, No. 6, December 2011, Pages 1787-1796.

  • Wei Dong, Chun Chen, Xue Liu, Yunhao Liu, Jiajun Bu, Kougen Zheng, "SenSpire OS, A Predictable, Flexible, and Efficient Operating System for Wireless Sensor Networks",  IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), Vol. 60, Issue12, December 2011, Pages 1788-1801.

  • Chen Qian, Hoilun Ngan, Yunhao Liu, Lionel M. Ni, "Cardinality Estimation for Large-scale RFID Systems,"  (PDF), IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS),  Vol. 22, No. 9, September 2011, Pages 1441-1454. (Spotlight Paper of the issue)

  • Cheng Wang, XiangYang Li, Changjun Jiang, Shaojie Tang, Yunhao Liu, "Multicast Throughput for Hybrid Wireless Networks under Gaussian Channel Model", (PDF), IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), Vol. 10, No. 6, June 2011, Pages 839-852.

  • Deke Guo, Jie Wu, Yunhao Liu, Hai Jin, Hanhua Chen, Tao Chen, "Quasi-Kautz Digraphs for Peer-to-Peer Networks", (PDF), IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Vol 22, No. 6, June 2011, Pages 1042-1055.

  • Xiaoping Wang, Jun Luo, Yunhao Liu, Shanshan Li, Dezun Dong, "Component Based Localization in Sparse Wireless Networks",  (PDF), IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), Vol. 19, No. 2, April 2011, Pages 540-548.

  • Yunhao Liu,  Jinsong Han, and Jilong Wang, "Rumor Riding: Anonymizing Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Systems", (PDF), IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Vol. 22, No. 3, March 2011, Pages 464-475.

  • Dezun Dong, Yunhao Liu, and Xiangke Liao, Changxiang Shen and Xinbing Wang, "Edge Self-Monitoring for Wireless Sensor Networks", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Vol. 22, No. 3, March 2011, Pages 514-527.

  • Zheng Yang, Yunhao Liu, XiangYang Li, “Beyond Trilateration: On the Localizability of Wireless Ad-hoc Networks”, (PDF), IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), Vol. 18, No. 6, December 2010, Pages 1806-1814.

  • Yunhao Liu, Kebin Liu, Mo Li, "Passive Diagnosis for Wireless Sensor Networks", (PDF), IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), Vol. 18, No. 4, August 2010, Pages 1132-1144.

  • XiangYang Li, Yunhao Liu, Shi Li, and Shaojie Tang, "Multicast Capacity of Wireless Ad Hoc Networks Under Gaussian Channel Model", (PDF), IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), Vol. 18, No. 4, August 2010, Pages 1145-1157.

  • Mo Li, and Yunhao Liu, "Rendered Path: Range-Free Localization in Anisotropic Sensor Networks with Holes", (PDF), IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), Vol. 18, No. 1, February 2010, Pages 320-332.

  • Hanhua Chen, Jun Yan, Hai Jin, Yunhao Liu, Lionel M Ni, “TSS: Efficient Term-Set Search in Large Peer-to-Peer Textual Collections”, (PDF), IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 59, No. 7, July 2010.

  • Zheng Yang, and Yunhao Liu,  "Quality of Trilateration: Confidence based Iterative Localization", (PDF), IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Vol. 21, No. 5,  May 2010,Pages 631-640.

  • Mo Li, and Yunhao Liu, "Iso-Map: Energy-Efficient Contour Mapping in Wireless Sensor Networks", (PDF), IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), Vol 22, No. 5, May 2010, Pages 699-710.

  • Deke Guo, Yunhao Liu, XiangYang Li, and Panlong Yang, "False Negative Problem of Counting Bloom Filter", (PDF), IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), Vol 22, No. 5, May 2010, Pages 651-664.

  • Yuan He and Yunhao Liu, "VOVO: VCR-Oriented Video-On-Demand in Large-Scale Peer-to-Peer Networks",  (PDF), IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Vol. 20, No. 4, April 2009, Pages 528-539.

  • Mo Li, and Yunhao Liu, "Underground Coal Mine Monitoring with Wireless Sensor Networks", (PDF), ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN), Volume 5, Issue 2, March 2009.

  • Jie Lian, Yunhao Liu, K. Naik,  and Lei Chen, "Virtual Surrounding Face Geocasting with Guaranteed Message Delivery for Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks", (PDF), IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), Vol. 17, No. 1, February 2009, Pages 200-211.

  • Mo Li, Yunhao Liu, and Lei Chen, "Non-Threshold based Event Detection for 3D Environment Monitoring in Sensor Networks", (PDF), IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), Vol. 20, Issue 12, December 2008, Pages 1699-1711.

  • Yunhao Liu, "A Two-hop Solution to Solving Topology Mismatch",  (PDF), IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Vol. 19, No. 11, November 2008, Pages 1591-1600.

  • Jinsong Han and Yunhao Liu, "Mutual Anonymity for Mobile Peer-to-Peer Systems", (PDF), IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Vol. 19, No. 8, August 2008, Pages 1009-1019.

  • Xiaofei Liao, Hai Jin, Yunhao Liu, and Lionel M Ni, "Scalable Live Streaming Service Based on Inter-Overlay Optimization", (PDF), IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Vol. 18, NO. 12, December 2007, Pages 1663-1674.

  • Jie Lian, K. Naik, Lei Chen, Yunhao Liu, and G. Agnew, "Gradient Boundary Detection for Time Series Snapshot Construction in Sensor Networks", (PDF), IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Vol . 18, No. 10, October 2007, Pages 1462-1475.

  • Yunhao Liu,  Li Xiao, and  Lionel M Ni, "Building a Scalable Bipartite P2P Overlay Network", (PDF), IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Vol . 18, No. 9, September 2007, Pages 1296-1306.

  • Xiaomei Liu, Yunhao Liu, and Li Xiao, "Improving Query Response Delivery Quality in Peer-to-Peer Systems", (PDF), IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Vol. 17, No. 11, November, 2006, Pages 1335-1347.

  • Chen Wang, Li Xiao, Yunhao Liu, and Pei Zheng, "DiCAS: an Efficient Distributed Caching Mechanism for P2P Systems", (PDF), IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Vol. 17, No. 10, October 2006, Pages 1097-1109.

  • John O.,  Li Xiao, and Yunhao Liu,  "Effectively Utilizing Global Cluster Memory for Large Data-Intensive Parallel Programs",  (PDF), IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Vol. 17, No. 1, January 2006, Pages 66-77.

  • Li Xiao, Yunhao Liu, and  Lionel M Ni ,"Improving Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Systems by Adaptive Connection Establishment", (PDF), IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), Vol. 54, No. 9, September 2005, Pages 1091-1103.

  • Li Xiao, Zhenyun Zhuang, and Yunhao Liu, "Dynamic Layer Management in Superpeer Architectures", (PDF), IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Vol. 16, No. 11, November 2005, Pages 1078-1091.

  • Yunhao Liu,  Li Xiao , Xiaomei Liu, Lionel M Ni, and Xiaodong Zhang, "Location Awareness in Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Systems", (PDF) , IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Vol. 16, No. 2, February 2005, Pages 163-174.

  • Lionel M Ni, Yunhao Liu, Yiu Cho Lau, and Abhishek Patil, "LANDMARC: Indoor Location Sensing Using Active RFID", (PDF), ACM Wireless Networks, (WINET), Volume 10, Issue 6, November 2004, Pages 701-710. PPT is available HERE. (April 10, 2005- Feb 1, 2006, this paper was listed as the MOST viewed articles by ACM Wireless Networks.)

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   Recent Conferences: 

      Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks
      P2P, Cloud, Web, and Search
      Pervasive Computing

　
Awards and Honors
Student Achievements

　
Teaching
　
         Fall     2004:    COMP 362   Advanced Computer Communication Networks
         Fall     2005:    COMP 561   Computer Networks
         Fall     2005:    COMP 680F Wireless Sensor Networks
         Spring 2006:    COMP 680I  Peer-to-Peer Computing
         Fall     2006:    COMP 362   Advanced Computer Communication Networks
         Fall     2006:    COMP 680J  Self-Organizing Networks and Systems
         Fall     2007:    COMP 362  Advanced Computer Communication Networks
         Fall     2008:    COMP 362  Advanced Computer Communication Networks
         Spring 2009:    COMP 361 Computer Communication Networks
         Spring 2010:    COMP 361 Computer Communication Networks
         Fall 2011:        Computer Communication Networks
         Fall 2012:        Computer Communication Networks
Group Members
　

  • Dr. Yuan He, Post-Doctor Fellow (HKUST,  Graduated 2010)

  • Dr. Zheng Yang, Post-Doctor Fellow (HKUST,  Graduated 2010)

  • Dr. Kebin Liu, Post-Doctor Fellow (Shanghai Jiaotong,  Graduated 2010)

  • Dr. Panlong Yang, Visiting Scholar, Associate Professor at PLA University of Science and Technology

  • Dr. Jiliang Wang, Post-Doctor Fellow (HKUST,  Graduated 2011)

  • Dr. Xufei Mao, Post-Doctor Fellow (IIT USA,  Graduated 2010)

  • Dr. Yiyang Zhao, Post-Doctor Fellow (HKUST,  Graduated 2011)

  • Dr. Wei Gong, Post-Doctor Fellow (Tsinghua,  Graduated 2012)

  • Tong Zhu, PhD Student, 2008-Present (co-supervised with Dr. Gu Lin)

  • Xin Miao, PhD Student, 2009-Present (co-supervised with Dr. Dimitris Papadias)

  • Junliang Liu, PhD Student, 2009-Present

  • Qiang Ma, PhD Student, 2009-Present

  • Saiyu Qi, PhD Student, 2008-Present

  • Zhichao Cao, PhD Student, 2009-Present

  • Xiaoxu Li, PhD Student, 2010-Present

  • Lei Yang, Joint PhD Student (Xi'An Jiaotong), 2008-Present

  • Qingsong Yao, Joint PhD Student (Xi'An Jiaotong), 2008-Present

  • Zhuo Liu, Research Associate (Master, HKUST, Graduated 2011)

  • Wei Xi, Joint PhD Student (Xi'An Jiaotong), 2008-Present

  • Xuan Ding, PhD Student, 2011-Present

  • Lan Zhang, PhD Student, 2011-Present

  • Chenshu Wu, PhD Student, 2011-Present

  • Tianci Liu, PhD Student, 2012-Present

  • Qiongzheng Liu, PhD Student, 2012-Present

  • Yin Wang, PhD Student, 2011-Present

  • Zimu Zhou, PhD Student, 2011-Present

  • Xiaoyu Ji, PhD Student, 2011-Present

  • Wei Sun, PhD Student, 2011-Present

  • Xiaolong Zheng, PhD Student, 2011-Present

  • Haoxiang Liu, PhD Student, 2011-Present

  • Xinglin Zhang, PhD Student, 2012-Present

  • Yanrong Kang, PhD Student, 2012-Present

  • Longfei Shangguan, Master Student, 2011-Present

  • Chenkan Yu, Master Student, 2011-Present

  • Yi Guo, Master Student, 2011-Present
Former Members
　

  • Dr. Jinsong Han,  Former PhD Student, Graduated 2007 (Now Associate Professor at XiAn Jiaotong University)

  • Dr. Zhenjiang Li, Former PhD Student, Graduated 2012 (Now Post-Doc Fellow at School of Engineering, Nanyang Technological University)

  • Dr. Rui Chu, Former Co-supervised PhD Student, Graduated 2008 (Now Assistant Professor at NUDT)

  • Dr. Shanshan Li, Former Co-supervised PhD Student, Graduated 2008 (Now Assistant Professor at NUDT)

  • Dr. Dezun Dong, Former Co-supervised PhD Student, Graduated 2010(Now Assistant Professor at NUDT)

  • Dr. Chunming Hu, Former Co-supervised PhD Student and Post-Doctor Fellow at HKUST, Graduated 2006 (Now Associate Professor/ Associate Dean at Beihang University)

  • Dr. Deke Guo, Former Co-supervised PhD Student, Graduated 2008 (Now Associate Professor at NUDT)

  • Dr. Xiaoping Wang, Former Co-supervised PhD Student, Graduated 2010 (Now Assistant Professor at NUDT)

  • Dr. Wei Dong, Former Co-supervised PhD Student, Graduated 2010, former Post-Doctor Fellow (Now Assistant Professor at Zhejiang University)

  • Dr. Li Lu, Former Co-supervised PhD Student, Graduated 2007, and my Post-Doctor Fellow (PhD of Chinese Academy of Sciences), 2007-2008 (Now Associate Professor at UESTC)

  • Dr. Mo Li, Former PhD Student, Graduated 2009 (Research Assistant Professor at FYT Graduate School, HKUST; Assistant Professor at CS, School of Engineering, Nanyang Technological University )

  • Lirong Jian, Former Mphil Student, Graduated 2010 (Now working with IBM China)

  • Dr. Cheng Wang, Joint PhD Student, Graduated 2011, (Now Assistant Professor at TongJi University, Shanghai )
Recent Talks

  • Carbon Monitoring with Extremely Large Scale Sensor Networks, Invited Talk, EECS Department, University Michigan at Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, June 5, 2012.

  • CitySee, Invited Talk, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC), Chicago, USA, Sep 16, 2011.

  • GreenOrbs, Keynote Speech, The 7th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems, Barcelona, Spain, June 28, 2011.

  • GreenOrbs: Lessons Learned from Extremely Large Scale Sensor Network Deployment, Keynote Speech, The IEEE International Conference on Network Computing and Information Security (NCIS’11), Guilin, China, May 15, 2011.

  • Pervasive Computing and Body Networks, Keynote Speech, The 9th Sports Information Technology Conference, China, Dec. 15, 2010.

  • GreenOrbs Project, Keynote Speech, International Workshop on IoT, Tokyo, Japan, Dec 2, 2010.

  • From WSN to IoT, Keynote Speech, The Fourth China Wireless Sensor Network Conference (CWSN 2010), ChangSha, China, Oct 29, 2010.

  • GreenOrbs: A Large Scale Sensor Network at the Forest, Invited Talk, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, USA, June 15, 2010.

  • GreenOrbs, Keynote Speech, The 8th Annual China International Software Conference (Chinasoft 2010), Chengdu, China, April 19, 2010.

  • GreenOrbs, Keynote Speech, The Third China Wireless Sensor Network Conference (CWSN 2009), Su Zhou, China, Oct 21, 2009.

  • On The Applicability of Ad Hoc Networks: Security and Localizability, Keynote Speech, The 2nd IEEE International Conference on Broadband Network and Multimedia Technology, Beijing, China, Oct 18, 2009.

  • IOT, Internet of the Things, Keynote Speech, The 6th Web Information Systems and Applications Conference, Xu Zhou, Jiangsu, China, September 19, 2009.

  • Breaking the Privacy Barrier for Pervasive Computing, Keynote Speech, The 8th Conference on Information Hiding (CIHW 2009), Chang Sha, China - March 28, 2009

  • Mobile and Pervasive Computing: Localization and Modeling, Keynote Speech, The 9th International Conference for Young Computer Scientists, Zhang Jia Jie, Hunan, China - November 20, 2008.

  • Breaking the Privacy Barrier, Keynote Speech, The 5th IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering (IEEE ICEBE 2008), Xi'an, China, Oct 23, 2008.

  • P2P and Pervasive Computing, Keynote Speech, The Second International Conference on Management of E-Commerce and E-Government, Nanchang, China, October 19, 2008.

  • Mobile and P2P, Invited Talk, Shanghai Tongji University, April 2008.

  • Random Apple, Invited Talk, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, March 2008.

  • Mobile and Pervasive Computing, Invited Talk, Peking University, Beijing, China, March 2008.

  • Pervasive Computing and Smart Space: Modeling and Applications, Keynote Speech, the 5th Hu Nan Dean's forum, Lou Di, China, Dec. 31, 2007

  • Coal Mine Surveillance and Sea Monitoring with Sensors, Invited Talk, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA, Dec 3, 2007

  • Free Pervasive Computing, Keynote Speech, the 24th National Database Conference (NDBC 2007), Hai Nan, China, Oct 20-22, 2007.

  • Wireless Sensor Network and Smart Space, Keynote Speech, China National Conference on Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems (DPCS 2007), Nan Ning, Guangxi, China, Oct 12-14, 2007.

  • Peer-to-Peer and Sensor Networks, Keynote Speech, National Annual Conference on Software and Application (NASAC 2007), Xi An, China, Sep 20-22, 2007.

  • Range-Free Localization in Anisotropic Sensor Networks, Conference Presentation, ACM MobiCom 2007, Canada, Sep 10-15, 2007.

  • Tag-free Object Tracking, Best Papers Presentation, IEEE PerCom 2007, USA, March 19-22, 2007.

  • Anonymizing Peer-to-Peer Networks, Invited Talk, University of California at Riverside, USA, March, 2007.

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Recent Grants

  • Principal Investigator, "Carbon Monitoring with Extremely Large Scale Sensor Networks ", NSF China Major Program 61190110, RMB 20 Million (US$ 3M), NSF China, Jan 2012- Dec 2015,

  • Principal Investigator, "Trustworthy Network Management", NSF China Distinguished Young Scholars Program 61125202, RMB 2 Million (US$ 300K), Dec. 2011 - Nov. 2014

  • Principal Investigator, "Trust Solution for RFID Enabled Interoperable E-logistics", HK$ 4.6 Million (US$ 600K), Hong Kong Innovation and Technology Fund ITP/037/09LP, Apr. 1, 2010 - Mar. 31, 2012

  • Principal Investigator, "Uncertain Data Processing over Sensor Network", HK$ 656,900 (US$ 90K) and RMB 390,000 (US$ 60K), NSFC/RGC Joint Research Scheme N_HKUST602/08, Dec 1, 2009 - Nov 30, 2011

  • Principal Investigator, "Trustworthy RFID Technologies: Methodology and Practice", HK$ 4,456,525 (US$ 600K), Hong Kong Innovation and Technology Fund GHP/044/07LP, Apr. 1, 2008 - Mar. 31, 2010

  • Principal Investigator, "Pervasive Computing and Smart Space: Modeling and Applications", RMB 2.9 Million (US$ 400K), National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (863 Program) No.2007AA01Z180,  July 2007 - June, 2010

  • Principal Investigator, "Effective and Efficient Environment Monitoring in Wireless Sensor Networks", HK$ 489,445 (US$ 70K), Hong Kong RGC CERG HKUST6169/07E, Sep. 1, 2007 - Aug. 31, 2009

  • Principal Investigator, "Defending Against Flooding-based Overlay DDoS in Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Systems", HK$ 256,000 (US$ 30K), Hong Kong RGC CERG HKUST6152/06E, Sep. 1, 2006 - Aug. 31, 2008

  • Principal Investigator, "Trustworthy Distributed Computing", HK$ 470,000 (US$ 60K), Microsoft MRA05/06. EG01, July1, 2005 - June 30, 2010