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, artificial intelligence, 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).
Teaching
- CSCE 47503 — Computer Networks
- CSCE 53203 — Computer Security
- CSCE 56503 — Network Security
- CSCE 57903 — Advanced Network Security
Ph.D. Alumni
- 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
- Zheng Hu — Assistant Professor, Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University
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, 2019)
- 2nd Best Paper Award, International Conference on InfoSymbiotics/DDDAS (2024)
- 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)
- ACM SIGSIM PADS — General Chair (2019, 2027)
- ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS) — Associate Editor (2022–present)
- Arkansas High School Programming Contest — Chair (2022–present)
