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Research Interests
Computer networks and distributed systems, with focuses on security
issues, including computer and network forensics, wireless and
sensor network security, privacy-enhancing technologies for the
Internet, and secure real-time computing and communication.
Research Background
I am an Associate Professor in
Electrical and Computer
Engineering at Iowa State
University and am affiliated with the Iowa State University's
NSA-designated
Information Assurance Center.
Meanwhile, I am an Ames Lab associate for
Midwest Forensics Resource
Center at U.S. DoE's
Ames Lab. I won the National
Science Foundation CAREER Award and was honored as the Litton Chair
Assistant Professor in 2007. Our recent research work have been
featured in Science Daily,
Technology News Daily,
NSF News,
NASA Tech Briefs,
and Channel 13 News (Who-TV).
I received a Ph.D. degree (2002) in
Computer Science from
Texas A&M University under the
advisement of
Dr. Wei Zhao,
M.S. degree in Computer Science
(advised by Prof. Baojue Chen) and B.S. degree in
Computer Science (advised by
Profs. Shiwei Tang and Dongqing Yang) from
Peking University.
Teaching
CprE 536:
Computer and Network Forensics, (2002F, 2003F, 2004F, 2005F,
2006F, 2007F, 2008F, 2009F, 2010F, 2011F, 2012F, 2013F)
CprE 450/550:
Distributed Systems and
Middleware, (2003S, 2004S, 2005S, 2006S, 2007S, 2008S, 2009S,
2010S, 2011S, 2012S, 2013S)
CprE 308:
Operating Systems, (2007F, 2008F, 2010S, 2011S, 2012S, 2013S)
Research Projects (2002 - Present)
Digital Forensics
Verifiable Computation
Biometrics Security
Accountability and Anonymity
Secure Network Coding, and Security Protocol
Analysis
Online Frauds
Wireless Security (low-cost protocols for RFID, NFC, and mobile
platforms, privacy issues in location-based services)
Research
Projects while I was at Texas A&M University:
NetCamo:
NetCamo (stands for Network Camouflaging) aims to prevent
traffic analysis in mission-critical QoS-guaranteed networks. Funded
by
DARPA ITO
Fault Tolerant Networks program.
NetEx: NetEx (stands for
Network Express) enables user applications to participate in
delay guaranteed communications. Funded by
DARPA
ITO Quorum program.
Research Support
National Science Foundation, "CAREER: Practical Scheme Design for
Supporting Secure and Resilient Resource-constrained Wireless
Networks", Yong Guan (PI), 01/2007-12/2013.
BBN/GENI, "APRA-GENI: Applying a Project-Based Approach to
Understanding Multiple GENI Resources for Networking Research and
Education",
Kaiqi
Xiong (RIT), Yin Pan (RIT), Yong Guan, and Bing Wang (University of
Connecticut), 11/2011-10/2014.
Boeing, "Mission
Assurance Modeling and Performance Impact Analysis", Yong
Guan (PI), Jennifer Davidson, Johnny Wong, and Sang Kim, 01/2012 -
05/2013.
National Science Foundation, "Detecting Click Fraud in Pay-Per-Click
Streams of Online Advertising Networks", Yong Guan (PI),
09/2008-08/2012.
National Science Foundation, "Secure Network Coding and Cooperative
Relaying", Yong Guan (PI), Ahmed Kamal and Sang Kim, 10/2006-9/2010.
Intelligence Advanced Research
Projects Activity (IARPA) (formerly, Disruptive Technology Office (DTO)
/ Advanced Research and Development Activity (ARDA)), "Advanced
Attack Attribution", Yong Guan (PI), Julie Dickerson and Tom
Daniels, 10/2003-8/2007.
National Science Foundation,
"Cyberspace Forensics: Research, Course Development, and Laboratory
Development", Yong Guan (PI), Jim Davis and Doug Jacobson,
7/2003-8/2007.
Carver Trust Foundation, "Adaptive
Reputation-based Access Control and Resource Scheduling for
Distributed Computing Systems", Yong Guan (PI), 4/2003-7/2004.
Honors and Awards
Outstanding Community Service Award,
IEEE Technical Committee on Security and Privacy, May 2008. (for the
joint work with Patrick McDaniel, Avi Rubin, David Du, David
Shambroom, and Deborah Shands in organizing the
2008
Oakland Conference. We had 3 award papers and a record high
number (292) of attendees.)
The Litton
Industries Professorship, 2007.
Iowa State University Award for Early Achievement in Research,
2007. (One at ISU per year.
Photo with Iowa
State President Gregory Geoffroy at ISU 2007 Fall Convocation)
NSF Career Award, 2007.
Second Place Graduate Winner,
10th
ACM International Student Research Contest, Northern
Kentucky/Cincinnati, OH, March 1, 2002. See
the photo of the top 3 winners.
Best Student Paper Award, IEEE
National Aerospace and Electronics Conference, Dayton, OH, 1998.
Professional Activities and
Services
-
ARO Workshop on Fingerprinting has
been held in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, November 30 - December 2,
2011. As a follow-up of ARO Digital Forensics 2009 Workshop, the
workshop focused on fingerprinting solutions and issues thereof, and
its applications to authentication, forensics, and a variety of
other domains.
-
The
ARO
Workshop on Digital Forensics has been held in
Arlington, Virginia, USA on September 10-11, 2009.
The workshop focused on
challenges, approaches, and research roadmaps in the area of
digital forensics. We had two keynote speakers - Steven D.
Shirley (Director of the DoD Cyber Crime Center) and Thomas G.
Motta (Section Chief of Digital Evidence, FBI) and 75 attendees
from DHS, DoD, DOE, FBI, NIJ, NIST, NSA, academia, and industry.
Thanks to all who have contributed and actively participated in
the workshop!
-
Digital Forensics Working Group,
initiated at the 2009 NSA/DHS CAE Principals Meeting, aims at
defining and standardizing the educational efforts in digital
forensics at various levels. We have had three WG meetings in
2009 (Tempa, FL), 2010 (St. Louis, MO), and 2011 (San Diego,
CA), and a DF panel at the 2010 CAE IA Principals Meeting in St.
Louis, MO in November 2010. The WG has created a wikispace to WG
members to share and exchange DF materials and project
assignments as well as physical/virtual DF labs. If you are
interested in joining the group or suggesting the WG efforts,
please email Dr.
Roy
Campbell (UIUC) and me.
Member of IFIP TC-11 WG 11.9: Digital
Forensics.
Cipher Associate Editor,
IEEE Computer Society's
Technical Committee on Security and Privacy (TCSP).
Treasurer,
IEEE Computer Society's
Technical Committee on Security and Privacy (TCSP), January 1, 2013 -
present.
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and
Security, 2009 - present.
Editor, IEEE
Transactions on Wireless Communication, 2010-present.
Editorial Board Member,
International Journal of Security and Networks (IJSN), 2008 -
present.
Security and Privacy Chair Emeritus,
IEEE Computer Society's
Technical Committee on Security and Privacy, 2008-2009.
General Chair, 29th IEEE Symposium on
Security and Privacy (SP
2008, a.k.a., the Oakland Conference), Berkeley,
California, May 18-22, 2008.
Vice Chair and Registration Chair, 28th
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP
2007), Berkeley, California, May 20-23, 2007.
Co-organizer (with Drs. Sneha Kumar
kasera and Cliff Wang), ARO Workshop on Fingerprinting, Salt Lake City, Utah,
USA, November 30 - December 2,
2011.
Co-coordinator (with Dr.
Roy
Campbell), Digital Forensics Working Group, NSA/DHS CAE
Principals Meetings, 2009, 2010, 2011.
Co-organizer (with Dr. Cliff Wang),
ARO Workshop on Digital Forensics,
Arlington, VA, USA, September 10-11, 2009.
Sponsorship Co-Chair, 18th ACM
Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Chicago, IL,
USA, October 17-21, 2011.
General Chair, 7th IEEE International Workshop on Systematic Approaches
to Digital Forensic Engineering (SADFE 2012),
Vancouver, Canada, September 28, 2012.
Program Co-Chair (with Dr. Roy
Campbell), 6th IEEE International Workshop on Systematic Approaches
to Digital Forensic Engineering (SADFE 2011), Held in conjunction
with the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP 2011), Berkeley,
California, USA, May 26, 2011.
Co-chair (with Dr.
Clay Shield),
2nd annual ACM Northeast
Digital Forensics Exchange (NeFX 2010), Georgetown University,
Washington DC, USA, September 13-14, 2010
Program Vice Chair for the area of
Security and
Trustworthy Computing, 15th IEEE International Conference on
Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2009), December 9-11, 2009.
Program co-Vice Chair for the area of
Security and Privacy, 28th IEEE International Conference on
Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS
2008), Beijing, China, June 17-20, 2008.
Program Committee Member, IEEE INFOCOM 2014, Toronto, Canada, April
27-May 2, 2014.
Program Committee Member, 1st IEEE International Conference on
Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS 2013),
Washington DC, USA, October 14-16, 2013.
Program Committee Member, 10th IEEE International
Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS 2013),
Hangzhou, China, October 14-16, 2013.
Program Committee Member, 11th International Conference
on Privacy, Security and Trust (PST 2013), Tarragona, Spain, July
10-12, 2013.
Program Committee Member, IEEE INFOCOM 2013, Turin, Italy, April
14-19, 2013.
Program Committee Member,
17th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge
Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2013), Gold Coast, Australia, April
14-17, 2013.
Program Committee Member, 1st Workshop on Adversarial Cryptography,
Communications and Control (WACCC), co-located with FC 2013,
Okinawa, April 1, 2013.
Program Committee Member, 1st IEEE International
Symposium on Mobile Cloud Computing and Service Engineering
(MobileCloud 2013), San Francisco, USA, March 26-28, 2013.
Program Committee Member,
28th ACM Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC 2013),
Computer Forensics Track, Coimbra, Portugal, March 18 - 22, 2013.
Program Committee Member, 9th
Annual IFIP WG 11.9 International
Conference
on Digital Forensics,
National Center for Forensic Science, Orlando,
Florida, USA, January 28 - 30, 2013.
Program Committee Member, 55th IEEE
GLOBECOM,
Communication & System Security
Symposium, Anaheim, CA, USA, December 3-7, 2012.
Program Committee Member, IEEE International Conference on Cyber,
Physical and Social Computing (CPSCom 2012), Besançon, France,
November 20-23, 2012.
Program Committee Member, 1st
International Conference on Digital Forensics and Investigation
(ICDFI 2012), Beijing, China, September 21 – 23, 2012.
Program Committee Member, 4th International Workshop on
Security in Cloud Computing (CloudSec 2012), Held in conjunction
with 41st International Conference on Parallel Processing
(ICPP 2012), Pittsburgh, PA, September 12, 2012.
Program Committee Member, 6th International Symposium on Digital
Forensics and Information Security (DFIS 2012), Vancouver, Canada,
June 26-28, 2012.
Program Committee
Member, IEEE ICDCS 2012, Macau, China, June 18-21,
2012.
Program
Committee Member, IEEE INFOCOM 2012, Orlando, Florida, March 25-30,
2012.
Program Committee Member, 3rd
International Workshop on Security in Cloud Computing (CloudSec
2011), held in conjunction with the 40th IEEE
International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP 2011), Taipei,
Taiwan, September 13 - 16, 2011.
Program Committee Member, 11th Annual
Digital Forensic Research Conference (DFRWS
2011), New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, August 1-3, 2011.
Program Committee
Member,
IEEE INFOCOM 2011,
Shanghai, China, April 10-15, 2011.
Program Committee
Member, IEEE ICDCS 2011, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, June 21-24,
2011.
Program Committee
Member, IEEE Globecom 2010, Communication & Information System
Security Symposium, Miami, Florida, USA, December 6-10, 2010.
Program Committee Member, 10th Annual
Digital Forensic Research Conference (DFRWS
2010), Portland, Oregon, USA, August 2-4, 2010.
Program Committee
Member,
30th IEEE International Conference on Distributed
Computing Systems (ICDCS 2010),
Genova (Genoa),
Italy, June 21-25, 2010.
Program Committee
Member, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2010),
Communication and Information System Security Symposium, Cape Town,
South Africa, May 23-27, 2010.
Program Committee
Member, 5th IEEE International Workshop on Systematic Approaches to
Digital Forensic Engineering (SADFE
2010), Held in
conjunction with the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland
2010), The Claremont Resort, Oakland, CA, USA, May 20, 2010.
Program Committee
Member, 4th Workshop on Information Security Theory and Practice (WISTP
2010), Passau, Germany, April 12-14, 2010.
Program Committee
Member, 25th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2010),
Computer Forensics Track, Sierre, Switzerland, March 22 – 26, 2010.
Program Committee
Member, IEEE INFOCOM 2010, San Diego, CA, USA, March 15-19, 2010.
Program Committee
Member, 11th International Conference on Information and
Communications Security (ICICS 2009), Beijing, China, December
14-17, 2009.
Program committee
member, 5th IEEE International Conference on Security and Privacy in
Communication Networks (SecureComm
2009),
Athens, Greece,
September 14-18, 2009.
Program Committee
member, 12th Information Security Conference (ISC
2009), Pisa, Italy, September 7-9, 2009.
Program Committee Member, 9th Annual
Digital Forensic Research Workshop (DFRWS
2009), Montreal, Canada, August 17-19, 2009.
Program Committee Member, 29th IEEE
International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS
2009),
Montreal, Canada, June 22-26, 2009.
Program Committee Member, IEEE
INFOCOM 2009,
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 19-25, 2009.
Program Committee Member, 24th Annual
ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC
2009), Computer Forensics Track,
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA,
March 8-12, 2009.
Program Committee Member, 4th IEEE
International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication
Networks (SecureComm 2008),
Istanbul, Turkey, September 22-25, 2008.
Program Committee Member, 23rd IFIP
International Information Security Conference (SEC
2008), Milan, Italy, September 8 - 10, 2008.
Program Committee member, 5th IEEE
International Conference on Broadband Communications, Networks, and
Systems (BROADNETS 2008),
London, UK, September 8-11, 2008.
Program Committee Member, 8th Annual
Digital Forensic Research Workshop (DFRWS
2008), Baltimore, Maryland, USA, August 11-13, 2008.
Program Committee Member, 3rd IEEE
International Workshop on Systematic Approaches to Digital Forensic
Engineering (SADFE 2008), held in conjunction with the 2008 IEEE
Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP 2008), Oakland, California,
USA, May 22, 2008.
Program Committee Member, IEEE
INFOCOM 2008,
Phoenix, Arizona, USA, April 13-19, 2008.
Program Committee Member, 14th ACM
Computer and Communication Security (CCS
2007), Industry Track, Alexandria, VA, October 29 - November 2,
2007.
Program Committee Member, IEEE
INFOCOM 2007,
Anchorage, Alaska, USA, May 6-12, 2007.
Program Committee Member, 50th annual
IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM
2007), General Symposium, Washington, D.C., November 26-30,
2007.
Program Committee Member, 2nd
Computer Network Forensics Research Workshop (CNFR 2007), held in
conjunction with the 3rd International Conference on Security and
Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm
2007), Nice, France, September 17-21, 2007.
Program Committee Member, 7th Annual
Digital Forensic Research Workshop (DFRWS
2007), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, August 13-15, 2007.
Symposium co-Chair, Computer and
Network Security Symposium, International Wireless
Communications & Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC
2007), Turtle Bay Resort, Honolulu, Hawaii, August 12-16, 2007.
Program committee member, 1st
IEEE International Workshop on Security in Software Engineering
(IWSSE 2007), held in conjunction with 31st Annual IEEE
International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC
2007), Beijing, China, July 24-27, 2007.
Submission Chair and Program Committee
Member, 2nd International Workshop on Systematic Approaches to
Digital Forensic Engineering (SADFE
2007), Seattle, Washington, April 10-13, 2007.
Program Committee Member, 22nd Annual
ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC
2007), Computer Forensics Track, Seoul, Korea, March 11-15,
2007.
Posters and Demos Chair and Program
Committee Member, 8th International Conference on Information and
Communications Security (ICICS
2006), Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, December 4-7, 2006.
Program co-Chair, 2nd IEEE
International Workshop on Wireless and Sensor Networks Security (WSNS
2006), held in conjunction with the 3rd IEEE International
Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS
2006), Vancouver, Canada, October 9-12, 2006.
Program Committee Member, 6th Annual
Digital Forensic Research Workshop (DFRWS
2006), Lafayette, Indiana, USA, August 14-16, 2006.
Program Committee Member, 3rd ACM
Workshop on Security of Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networks (SASN
2005), held in conjunction with the 12th ACM Conference on
Computer and Communications Security (CCS
2005), Alexandria, Virginia, USA, November 7-11, 2005.
Program Committee Member, 1st
International Workshop on Systematic Approaches to Digital Forensic
Engineering (SADFE 2005),
Taipei, Taiwan, November 7-10, 2005.
Program co-Chair, Computer Network
Forensics Research Workshop (CNFR
2005), held in conjunction with the 1st International Conference
on Security and Privacy for Emerging Areas in Communication Networks
(SecureComm 2005),
Athens, Greece, September 5-9, 2005.
Program Chair, 2nd International
Workshop on Security in Distributed Computing Systems (SDCS-2005),
held in conjunction with the 25th International Conference on
Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS
2005), Columbus, Ohio, USA, June 6-10, 2005.
Students
Current Students: Wenji
Chen,
Christopher Daly, Shelby Kobes, Jeff Kramer, Yanlin Peng,
Andrew Schmitz, Jin-Ning Tioh, Pengqing Xie, Gang Xu
Former Students:
Yang Liu,
Ph.D., September 2007-May 2013, Dissertation: "Data Streaming
Algorithms for Rapid Cyber Attack Detection", degree granted May
2013.
Received ISU Graduate Student Research
Excellence Award.
First job at Microsoft (Online
Forensics Team), Seattle, Washington.
Ramzi
Saifan (Ahmed
Kamal, co-major professor), PhD, January 2009-December 2012,
Dissertation: "Sensing Strategies in Cognitive Radio Networks:
Optimization and Ramifications on Routing", degree granted December
2012. First job Assistant Professor at University of Jordan, Jordan.
Bibudh Lahiri
(Srikanta
Tirthapura, co-major professor), Ph.D., April 2009-May 2012,
Dissertation: "Detecting
exploit patterns from network packet streams", degree granted May 2012. First job at Siemens Corporate Research,
Princeton, New Jersey.
Yawen Wei, Ph.D., September 2004 - May
2011, Dissertation: "Secure Location-aware Communications in
Resource-constrained Wireless Networks",
degree granted May 2011.
First job at
LinkedIn,
Mountain View,
California.
Zhen Yu, Ph.D., September 2003 - May
2009, Dissertation: "Practical Security Scheme Design for
Resource-constrained Wireless Networks",
degree granted May 2009.
Received ISU Graduate Student Research
Excellence Award. First job at
Ericsson R&D, Boulder, Colorado.
Linfeng Zhang, Ph.D., January 2004 -
December 2008, Dissertation: "Techniques
for Monitoring and Attributing Complicated Attacks in Real-world
Networks", degree granted December 2008.
Received ISU Graduate Student Research
Excellence Award. First job (Senior Algorithm Engineer) at Vidyo, Inc. Hackensack, New Jersey.
Kenneth Johnson, MS, September 2011-August 2013, Thesis: "Windows 8
Forensics: Journey through the Impact of the Recovery Artifacts in
Windows 8", degree granted August 2013. Now at KPMG (Forensics
and Incident Response Team) in Chicago, Illinois.
Ellen Hartstack, MS, January 2012 - May 2013, Thesis: "VMIFF -
Visualization Metrics for the Identification of File Fragments",
degree granted May 2013.
First job at DoD.
Jingzhou Luo,
MS,
January 2012 - December 2012,
Creative Component: "A Location Privacy Protocol for Mobile Applications",
degree granted December 2012.
First job at Amazon
(Web Service Team).
Ben
Holland, MS, September 2010 - May 2012, Thesis: "Enabling Open
Source Intelligence (OSINT) in private social networks",
degree granted May 2012.
First job at
EnSoft.
Ben
Kallal, MS, September 2008 - May 2012, Thesis: "First
Responder Assistance Tool for Mobile Device Forensics",
degree granted May
2012.
First job at DoD.
Teja Myneedu, MS, August 2010 -
December 2011, Thesis: "Evidence Collection for Forensic
Investigation in Peer to Peer Systems", granted December 2011. First
job at Union Pacific.
Leonardo Aguilera, MS, September 2010 - December 2011, Thesis: "An
Implementation of Accountable Anonymity", degree granted December
2011. First job at Rockwell
Collins
Timothy Meyer, MS, December 2010 -
August 2011, Thesis: "A Study on Trading Scams in Massively
Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games and Risk Mitigation
Techniques", granted August 2011. First job at
Lockheed Martin.
Oliverio Covarrubias, MS, September
2008 - December 2009, Creative Component: "A Cursor Movement-based
Embedded Tag Tracking Method for Online Click Fraud Detection",
granted December 2009. First job at
Rockwell Collins.
Chunwang Gao, MS, (Steven Russell,
co-major professor),September
2006 - December 2009, Thesis: "A
Statistical Indoor Localization Method for Supporting Location-based
Access Control", granted
December 2009. First job at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Mike Blasi, MS, January 2008 - August
2009, Thesis: "Techniques for
detecting zero day phishing websites", granted August 2009.
First job at Ames Engineering.
Lars Kulseng, MS, September 2007 - May
2009, Thesis: "Lightweight Mutual Authentication, Ownership Transfer
and Secure Search for Low-cost RFID Systems", granted May 2009.
First job at Wireless Trondheim, Trondheim, Norway.
Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar, MS, September
2006 - August 2008, Thesis: "Encrypted Malware Detection", granted
August 2008. First job at Cisco.
Paul Miller, MS, (Johnny Wong,
co-major professor), September 2007 - May 2008, Thesis: "Visualization for
Network Forensic Analyses: Extending the Forensic Log Investigator
(FLI)", granted May 2008. First job at FBI.
Thieu Pham, MS, September 2005 -
December 2007, Thesis: "Forensic Log Investigator (FLI) - A Log
Analysis and Visualization Tool", granted December 2007. First
job at Cisco.
Anthony
Persaud, MS, September 2004 - May 2006, Thesis: "The Use of Wavelet
Watermarking and Statistical Classification Techniques for Collusion
Detection and Identification in Multimedia Forensics", granted May
2006. Continued as a PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University.
Douglas
Houghton, MS, (Doug Jacobson,
co-major professor), September 2004 - December
2005, Thesis: "Design and Development of Network Traffic Simulator",
granted December 2005. First job at Mitre.
William Sears,
MS, (Tom Daniels,
co-major professor), May 2003 - August 2005, Thesis:
"PeerCredential: A Support Reputation-based Trust Framework for
Peer-to-Peer Applications", granted Augutst 2005, now at U.S. DoE's
Ames Lab. Recently received the 2010 DOE Cyber Security Award for
Innovative Achievement in Collaboration.
Wale Martins, MS, (Tom Daniels,
co-major professor), September 2003 - August 2005, Thesis: "Affecting IP
Traceback with Recent Internet Topology Maps", granted August 2005.
First job at Microsoft.
Joel Cardo,
BS, Undergraduate RA, September 2003 - December 2004, Lightweight
Statistical Authentication Protocol for Access Control in Wireless
LANs. First job at Rockwell Collins.
Alan Johnson,
BS, Undergraduate RA, Stepping Stone Attack Attribution, September
2003 - May 2006. Continued as a PhD student at Princeton University.
Selected Recent
Publications
Gang Xu, George Amariucai, and Yong Guan, "Delegation of Computation with Verification
Outsourcing: Curious Verifiers,"
ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing
(PODC 2013),
Montreal, Quebec,
Canada, July 22-24, 2013.
Wenji Chen, Yang Liu,
and Yong Guan, "Cardinality
Change-based Early Detection of Large-scale Cyber-Attacks," in Proceedings of the 32nd Annual IEEE
International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2013),
Turin, Italy, April 14-19, 2013.
Yang Liu, Wenji Chen,
and Yong Guan, "Near-optimal
Approximate Membership Query over Time-decaying Windows," in Proceedings of the 32nd Annual IEEE
International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2013),
Turin, Italy, April 14-19, 2013.
Gang Xu, Leonardo Aguilera, and Yong Guan, "Accountable Anonymity: A Proxy Re-Encryption Based
Anonymous Communication System," in Proceedings of the 18th
IEEE International Conference on Parallel
and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2012), Singapore, December 17-19,
2012.
Gang Xu, Leonardo Aguilera, and Yong Guan, "Pecan: A Circuit-less P2P Design for Anonymity," in Proceedings of the
IEEE 2012 Global Communications Conference
(GLOBECOM 2012),
Communication and
Information System Security Symposium, Anaheim, California, USA,
December 3-7, 2012.
Yang Liu, Wenji Chen, and Yong Guan, "Monitoring
Traffic Activity Graphs with Low-rank Matrix Approximation,"
in
Proceedings of the
37th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN 2012),
Clearwater, Florida, USA,
October 22-25, 2012.
Ramzi Saifan, Ahmed Kamal, and Yong Guan, "Spectrum Decision for Efficient
Routing in Cognitive Radio Network,"
in Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International
Conference on Mobile Ad hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS 2012), Las
Vegas, Nevada, USA, October 8-11, 2012.
Yang Liu, Wenji Chen,
and Yong Guan, "A Fast Sketch for Aggregate Queries over High-Speed
Network Traffic," in Proceedings of the 31st Annual IEEE
International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2012),
Mini-Conference, Orlando, Florida, USA, March 25-30, 2012.
Kai Zhu, Yong Guan,
and Lei Ying, "Detecting Hidden Communities in Online Auction
Networks," in Proceedings of the 46th Annual Conference
on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS 2012), Princeton, NJ, USA,
March 21-23, 2012.
Teja Myneedu and Yong Guan, "Evidence
Collection for Forensic Investigation in Peer to Peer Systems,"
8th Annual IFIP WG 11.9
International Conference on Digital Forensics, University
of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, January 3-5, 2012.
Ramzi Saifan, Ahmed Kamal, and Yong
Guan, "Efficient Spectrum Searching and Monitoring in Cognitive
Radio Network", in the Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International
Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (IEEE MASS 2011),
Valencia, Spain, October 17-22, 2011.
George Amariucai, Clifford Bergman,
and Yong Guan,
"Adopted-Pet (AP): An Automatic, Time-Based, Secure Pairing Protocol
for Passive RFID", in Proceedings of RFIDSec 2011,
Northampton, Massachusetts, June 26-28, 2011.
Yawen Wei, Zhen Yu, and Yong Guan, "Efficient
Weakly-Secure Network Coding Schemes against Wiretapping Attacks,"
in
Proceedings of the
IEEE International Symposium on
Network Coding (NetCod 2010), Toronto, Canada, June 9-11,
2010.
Yang Liu, Linfeng
Zhang and Yong Guan, "Sketch-based Streaming PCA Algorithm for
Network-wide Traffic Anomaly Detection," in Proceedings of the
30th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
(ICDCS 2010), Genoa, Italy, June 21-25, 2010.
Lars Kulseng, Zhen
Yu, Yawen Wei, and Yong Guan, "Lightweight Mutual Authentication and
Ownership Transfer for RFID Systems," in
Proceedings of the
30th
IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM
2010),
mini-conference, San Diego, CA, USA, March 15-19, 2010.
Yanlin Peng,
Linfeng Zhang, Morris Chang, and Yong Guan, "An
Effective Method for Combating Malicious Scripts Clickbots," in
Proceedings of the
14th European Symposium on Research
in Computer Security (ESORICS 2009), Saint Malo, France,
September 21-23, 2009.
Yawen Wei, Zhen Yu, and Yong Guan, "A
Novel Architecture for Secure and Scalable Multicast over IP
Network," in
Proceedings of the
5th International ICST
Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks
(SecureComm 2009), Athens, Greece, September 14-18, 2009.
Lars Kulseng, Zhen
Yu, Yawen Wei, and Yong Guan, "Lightweight Secure Search Protocols
for Low-cost RFID Systems," in Proceedings of the 29th IEEE
International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
(ICDCS 2009), Montreal, Quebec, Canada, June 22-26, 2009.
Zhen Yu, Yawen
Wei,
Bhuvaneswari Ramkumar,
and Yong Guan, "An
Efficient Signature Scheme for Securing XOR Network Coding against
Pollution Attacks," in Proceedings of the
28th IEEE International Conference on Computer
Communications (INFOCOM 2009),
Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil, April 19-25, 2009.
Yanlin Peng,
Linfeng Zhang, and Yong Guan, "Detecting Fraud in Internet Auction
Systems," in 5th Annual IFIP WG 11.9 International Conference on
Digital Forensics, Orlando, Florida, January 25 - 28, 2009.
Chunwang Gao, Zhen
Yu, Yawen Wei, Steve Russell, and Yong Guan, "A Statistical Indoor
Localization Method for Supporting Location-based Access Control,"
ACM/Springer Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET), Vol. 14,
Issue 2, pp. 253-263, 2009.
Xinwen Fu, Steve
Graham, Shu Jiang, and Yong Guan, "On TCP Performance in Flow Based
Anonymous Communication Networks,"
IEEE
Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems,
to appear.
Linfeng Zhang and Yong Guan,
"Detecting Click Fraud in Pay-Per-Click Streams of Online
Advertising Networks," in Proceedings of the 28th IEEE
International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
(ICDCS 2008),
Beijing, China, June 17-20, 2008.
Linfeng Zhang and Yong Guan,
"Frequency Estimation over Sliding Windows," in
Proceedings of the 24th IEEE International Conference on Data
Engineering (ICDE 2008), poster paper, Cancun, Mexico, April
7-12, 2008.
Yawen Wei, Zhen Yu, and Yong Guan,
"Location Verification Algorithms for Wireless Sensor Networks," in
Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Conference on Distributed
Computing Systems (ICDCS 2007), Toronto, Canada, June
25-29, 2007.
Linfeng Zhang and Yong Guan, "Variance
Estimation over Sliding Windows," in Proceedings of the 26th ACM
Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS 2007),
Beijing, China, June 11-14, 2007.
Zhen Yu, Yawen Wei, and Yong Guan,
"Key Management for Wireless Sensor Networks,"
Handbook of Wireless Mesh & Sensor Networking, G. Aggelou (ed.),
McGraw-Hill International, Accepted in February 2007.
Linfeng Zhang and Yong Guan, "TOPO: A
Topology-aware Single Packet Attack Traceback Scheme," in
Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Security and
Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm 2006), Baltimore,
Maryland, USA, August 28-September 1, 2006.
Yawen Wei, Zhen Yu, and Yong Guan,
"COTA: A Robust Multi-hop Localization Scheme in Wireless Sensor
Networks," in
Proceedings of
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor
Systems (DCOSS 2006), San Francisco, California, USA, June
18-20, 2006.
Zhen Yu and Yong Guan, "A
Dynamic En-route Scheme for Filtering False Data in Wireless Sensor
Networks," in
Proceedings of
the
25th IEEE International Conference on
Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2006),
Barcelona, Spain, April 23-27, 2006.
Linfeng Zhang, Anthony Persaud, Alan
Johnson, and Yong Guan, "Stepping Stone Attack Attribution in
Non-cooperative IP Networks," in
Proceedings of the 25th IEEE International Performance Computing and
Communications Conference (IPCCC 2006), Phoenix, Arizona, USA,
April 10-12, 2006.
Jianqiang Xin, Linfeng Zhang, Brad
Aswegan, Julie Dickerson, Tom Daniels, and Yong Guan, "A Testbed for
Evaluation and Analysis of Stepping Stone Attack Attribution
Techniques," in
Proceedings of the 2nd International IEEE/Create-Net Conference on
Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of
Networks and Communities (TridentCom 2006), Barcelona, Spain,
March 1-3, 2006.
Anthony Persaud and Yong Guan,
"Collusion Detection and Identification for Multimedia Forensics,"
in the second Annual IFIP WG 11.9 International Conference on
Digital Forensics, Orlando, Florida, USA, January 29 - February
1, 2006.
An extended version in
Research
Advances in Digital Forensics (Springer).
Haoli Wang, Joel Cardo, and Yong Guan,
"Shepherd: A Lightweight Statistical Authentication Protocol for
Access Control in Wireless LANs,"
Elsevier Computer Communications Journal, Special Issue on
Applications and Services in Wireless Networks, Vol. 28, No. 14,
pp. 1618-1630, September 2005.
William Sears, Zhen Yu, and Yong Guan,
"An Adaptive Reputation-based Trust Framework for Peer-to-Peer
Applications," in
Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Symposium
on Network Computing and Applications (NCA 2005),
Boston, Massachusetts, USA, July 27-29, 2005.
Zhen Yu and Yong Guan, "A Key
Pre-Distribution Scheme Using Deployment Knowledge for Wireless
Sensor Networks," in Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE
International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor
Networks (IPSN 2005), Los Angeles, California, USA, April 25-27,
2005. An extended version will appear in IEEE Transactions on
Parallel and Distributed Systems.
Anthony Persaud and Yong Guan, "A
Framework for Email Investigations: Automated Information Extraction
and Linkage Discovery,"
First Annual IFIP WG 11.9 International Conference on Digital
Forensics, Orlando, Florida, USA, February 13-16, 2005. An
extended version in Research
Advances in Digital Forensics (Springer).
Yong Guan, Xinwen Fu, Riccardo
Bettati, and Wei Zhao, "A Quantitative Analysis of Anonymous
Communications," IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Vol. 53,
No. 1, pp. 103-116, March 2004.
Dan Berleant, M.-P. Cheong, Chris Chu,
Yong Guan, Ahmed Kamal, Gerald Sheble, S. Ferson, and J.F. Peters,
"Dependable Handling of Uncertainty", Reliable Computing, Special
Issue on Dependable Reasoning about Uncertainty, Vol. 9, No. 6,
pp. 407-418, 2003.
Yong Guan, Xinwen Fu, Riccardo
Bettati, and Wei Zhao, "An Optimal Strategy for Anonymous
Communication Protocols," in
Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE International Conference on Distributed
Computing Systems (ICDCS 2002), Vienna, Austria, July 2-5, 2002.
Yong Guan, Xinwen Fu, Dong Xuan,
Prashanth Shenoy, Riccardo Bettati, and Wei Zhao, "NetCamo:
Camouflaging Network Traffic for QoS-Guaranteed Mission Critical
Applications," IEEE Transactions on System, Man, and Cybernetics,
Special Issue on Information Assurance, Vol. 31, No. 4, pp.
253-265, July 2001.
Selected Talks
Tutorial, "Digital Forensics: Research Challenges and Open
Problems", 13th
ACM Conference on Computer and Communication Security (CCS 2006),
Alexandria, VA, October 31, 2006.
"Techniques
for Large-scale
Network-wide Attack Monitoring and Attribution",
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of
Iowa, Iowa City, IA, March 4, 2010.
"Lightweight Secure Search for
Low-cost RFID Systems", City University of Hong Kong, August 6,
2009.
"Detecting
Click Fraud in Pay-Per-Click Streams of Online Advertising
Networks", Department of Computer Science, University of Hong Kong,
July 31, 2008.
"False Data Filtering", Hong Kong
Polytechnic University, July 29, 2008.
"Fraud Detection in the Internet
Auction Systems", eBay, San Jose, CA, May 23, 2008.
"Cyber Crime: The Transformation of
Crime in the Information Age", ISU Alumni @ Hamilton Co., Webster
City, IA, March 30, 2008. (The title was the same as David S. Wall's
book) (Photo
with ISU Alumni).
"Digital Forensics: Research Challenges and Open Problems",
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, December 4, 2007.
"Stepping Stone Attack Attribution in
Non-Cooperative IP Networks", John Jay College of Criminal Justice,
City University of New York, New York, NY, October 17, 2006.
"Practical Security Scheme Design for
Sensor Networks", Telcordia Research, Piscataway, NJ, October 16,
2006.
"Open Source/Closed Source Software in
Security Education", Invited panelist at the Annual Conference on
Education in Information Security, Ames, IA. September 17-18, 2006.
"Key Pre-distribution Scheme Using
Deployment Knowledge for Wireless Sensor Networks", Department of
Computer Science and Engineering, Ohio State University, Columbus,
OH, June 8, 2005.
"Topology-aware Single Packet Attack Traceback", Northrop Grumman,
Omaha, NE, March 16, 2005.
Keynote Speech, "Cyber Crime Scene
Reconstruction", Symposium on Computer Forensics 2004: Research,
Education, and Practice, St. Paul, MN, October 15, 2004.
"Stepping Stone Attack Attribution in
Non-Cooperative IP Networks", Computer Forensics Working Group
Meeting (CFWG), Baltimore, MD, August 9, 2004.
"Keep Kids Safe On-Line", Annual
meetings of Iowa Mother of Multiples, Boone, IA, May 1, 2004.
Patents
Yong Guan and Linfeng Zhang,
"Detecting Click Fraud in Pay-Per-Click Streams of Online
Advertising Networks", US Patent Application, No. 12/187,055, August
6, 2008.
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