About me

I am an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Miami University. Prior to joining Miami University, I was an Assistant Professor of Cybersecurity program at UTRGV. I obtained my Ph.D.in the Department of Computer Science under supervision of Professor Xiuzhen Cheng at the George Washington University (GWU). Here is my current CV.

Research Interests

  • Privacy Preservation and Data Security

  • IoT Privacy and Security

  • Federated Learning and Edge Computing

  • Social Networkd and Big Data

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News

  • November 2023: I was invited to serve as a Panelist at NSF.

  • October 2023: Our paper entitled “Reducing Latency in MEC Networks with Short-Packet Communications” has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.

  • August 2023: Our paper entitled “Adaptive Edge-Level Personalization on Hierarchical Federated Learning” has been accepted by IEEE IPCCC 2023.

  • July 2023: Our paper entitled “Alliance Makes Difference? Maximizing Social Welfare in Cross-Silo Federated Learning” has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.

  • April 2023: I’m honored to get the award of RSA Grant: Privacy-Preserving and Robust Federated Learning for IoT Systems at Miami University as PI.

  • April 2023: Our paper entitled “DP2-Pub: Differentially Private High-Dimensional Data Publication with Invariant Post Randomization” has been accepted by IEEE transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering.

  • December 2022: I am so go glad that I was elevated to IEEE Senior Member grade.

  • December 2022: I am honored to be invited to give a research talk at Saint Joseph’s University (SJU).

  • October 2022: I was invited to serve as a Panelist at NSF.

  • August 2022: Started working as an assistant professor at Miami University.

  • June 2022: I served as as a co-Guest Editor of “Sensors: Special Issue \Advances in Sensing, Imaging and Computing for Autonomous Driving”.

  • June 2022: I was invited to be a PC member of KDD Time-series Workshop (MILETS 2022).

  • May 2022: Our paper entitled “Differentially Private Data Publication with Multi-level Data Utility” has been accepted by ELSEVIER High-Confidence Computing.

  • May 2022: Our paper entitled “Strategic Signaling for Utility Control in Audit Games” has been accepted by ELSEVIER Computers & Security.

  • Jan 2022: Our paper entitled “Social Welfare Maximization in Cross-Siso Federated Learning” has been accepted by IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2022.

  • September 2021: I will serve as the committee member of “Cyber Security Advisor Committee” at UTRGV.

  • May 2021: Our paper accepted into IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems “Structure-Attribute Based Social Network De-Anonymization with Spectral Graph Partitioning”.

  • April 2021: Our paper accepted into IEEE transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering “Differential Privacy and Its Applications in Social Network Analysis: A Survey”.