Kevin Jin
 Dong (Kevin) Jin

Associate Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS)
University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, AR 72701

Email: dongjin@uark.edu

I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at the University of Arkansas. I received my Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).

Research Interests
Cyber-security, networking, cyber-physical system security and resilience, and modeling and simulation of large-scale systems. More details are available at our Research Group website.

We continually seek strong students to join us for Honors Thesis, Master's Thesis, and Ph.D. Dissertation research, with numerous Research Assistant positions available (click here for details).
News (Past News)
2023 Aug Our paper "Parallel Simulation of Quantum Networks with Distributed Quantum State Management" was accepted by ACM TOMACS. Congrats, Xiaoliang!


Our paper "Industrial Network Protocol Security Enhancement Using Programmable Switches" was accepted by IEEE SmartGridComm. Congrats, Zheng, Luke, Yanfeng, and Gong!

Jul Kevin will serve on the Steering Committee of ACM SIGSIM-PADS.

Jun Our paper "Virtual-time-enabled Mininet for Scalable and Accurate Programmable Network Emulation" was accepted by ACM SIGSIM-PADS. Congrats, Gong and Zheng!

Jan NSF grant awarded to explore programmable network and applications for smart grid security and resilience --- Thanks, NSF!
2022 Oct Our paper "A Framework to Evaluate PMU Networks for Resiliency Under Network Failure Conditions" was accepted by IEEE SmartGridComm. Congrats, Reuben!


Kevin will serve as an Associate Editor of ACM TOMACS.


Kevin will serve as the Program Co-Chair for ACM SIGSIM-PADS 2023.

Aug Neil successfully defended his Ph.D. Thesis and will join Argonne National Lab. Congrats, Dr. Getty!


Yanfeng successfully defended his Ph.D. Thesis and will join the University of Arkansas as a postdoc. Congrats, Dr. Qu!

Jun Our paper "Integrating I/O Time to Virtual Time System for High Fidelity Container-based Network Emulation" was in the Finalist for the Best Paper Award in ACM SIGSIM-PADS. Congrats, Gong and Zheng!

Apr Our paper "A Scalable Quantum Key Distribution Network Testbed Using Parallel Discrete-Event Simulation" was accepted by ACM TOMACS. Congrats, Xiaoliang, Bo, and Gong!

Feb Our paper "Towards Optimal and Executable Distribution Grid Restoration Planning with a Fine-Grained Power-Communication Interdependency Model" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid. Congrats, Xin and Bo!


Jiaqi Yan, Microsoft
Christopher Hannon, Ford
Xin Liu, Meta (Facebook)
Xiaoliang Wu, Meta (Facebook)
Yanfeng Qu, Postdoc at University of Arkansas 
Neil Getty (co-advised with Dr. Fangfang Xia), Argonne National Lab
Gong Chen, Lenovo Research

Teaching
CSCE 4753 - Computer Networks
CSCE 5323 - Computer Security
CSCE 5653 - Network Security
CSCE 5013 - Special Topic: Advanced Network Security
Awards and Honors
  • CSCE Outstanding Service to Students Award, University of Arkansas, 2023
  • Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award, 2017
  • CoS Junior Faculty Research Award, Illinois Institute of Technology, 2016
  • Teacher of the Year Award, Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology, 2015
  • Best Paper Award
    • IEEE SmartGridComm 2020
    • IET Cyber-Physical Systems: Theory & Applications, 2018
    • ACM SIGSIM-PADS, 2012, 2015, and 2019
  • Best Poster Award
    • Workshop on Science of Security through Software-Defined Networking (SoSSDN), 2016
    • IIT Research Day, 2016
    • ACM SIGSIM PADS, 2015
Services
ACM SIGSIM PADS (Steering Committee 2023 - 2027, General Chair 2019)
Associate Editor, ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS) 2022 - present
Associate Editor, Journal of the Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy (MPCE) 2018 - 2019
Last Updated: August 2023