Weichao Wang

Weichao Wang

Assistant Professor
Department of EECS
University of Kansas

Weichao Wang

Assistant Professor
Information and Telecommunication Technology Center (ITTC)
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of Kansas

Contact

Room 3032, Eaton Hall
Department of EECS
1520 West 15th Street
Lawrence, KS 66045

Phone: (785) 864-3328 or (785) 864-4712
Fax: (785) 864-3226
Email: weichaow at eecs.ku.edu or weichaow at ittc.ku.edu
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Research interest

My research interests are in designing protocols and mechanisms to secure pervasive systems, especially the resource-restraint wireless networks. The investigation focuses on integrating multi-disciplinary schemes ( information theory, scientific visualization, etc.) with network techniques to prevent and detect various attacks and to enforce security and privacy in such environments. Several topics that I am working on are:

  • Privacy enforcement in wireless networks and its impacts on network security and performance
  • Secure and private location based routing and services
  • Effective representation of security data and visualization of attacks
  • Key distribution and management schemes
  • Self-organized intrusion detection and intruder identification methods
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Education

Ph.D. Computer Science, Purdue University, August, 2005.
M.S. Computer Science, Purdue University, May, 2002.
M.S. Computer Science, Tsinghua University, May, 2000.
B.S. Computer Science, Tsinghua University, May, 1998.
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Research Support

An Interactive Toolkit for Information Assurance Courses The project is supported by the Center of Teaching Excellence (CTE) and Teaching Excellence Advisory Members (TEAM) of the University of Kansas. The research efforts will lead to a toolkit that can represent the security protocols and cyber-attacks in an easy-to-understand method so that the educational achievements of the courses can be improved.

Selected Publications

COPYRIGHT: The copyright of the following materials belongs to corresponding publishers. They are provided only for research and educational use that does not conflict to the interests of the publishers.

A full publication list
Stateless Key Distribution for Secure Intra and Inter-group Multicast in Mobile Wireless Networks, accepted to appear in Elsevier Computer Networks. W. Wang and T. Stransky.
Interactive Wormhole Detection and Evaluation , Information Visualization Journal (IVS), Volume 6, Issue 1, pages 3--17, Jan. 2007. W. Wang and A. Lu. [PDF]
Visualization of Wormholes in Underwater Sensor Networks: A Distributed Approach , accepted to appear in International Journal of Security and Networks (IJSN). W. Wang, J. Kong, B. Bhargava, and M. Gerla.
Wireless networking security: open issues in trust, management, interoperation, and measurement, International Journal of Security and Networks (IJSN), vol. 1, no. 1/2, pp. 84--94, 2006. J. Evans, W. Wang, and B. Ewy. [PDF]
Key Distribution and Update for Secure Inter-group Multicast Communication in Proceedings of ACM Workshop on Security of Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks (SASN), in conjunction with ACM CCS, 2005. W. Wang, and B. Bhargava. [PDF]
Low-cost Attacks against Packet Delivery, Localization and Time Synchronization Services in Under-Water Sensor Networks in Proceedings of ACM Workshop on Wireless Security (WiSe), in conjunction with MobiCom, 2005. J. Kong, Z. Ji, W. Wang, M. Gerla, R. Bagrodia, and B. Bhargava. [PDF]
Defending against Wormhole Attacks in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (WCMC), vol. 6, issue 4, pp. 483-503, June 2006. W. Wang, B. Bhargava, Y. Lu, and X. Wu. [PDF]
Integrating Heterogeneous Wireless Technologies: A Cellular-assisted Mobile Ad Hoc Network in Kluwer Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET), Special Issue on Integration of Heterogeneous Wireless Technologies, (9)393-408, 2004. B. Bhargava, X. Wu, Y. Lu, and W. Wang. [PDF]
Secure Wireless Network with Movable Base Stations in IEICE Transactions on Communications, IEICE/IEEE Joint Special Issue on Assurance Systems and Networks, Vol. E86-B, No. 10, pp. 2922-2930, 2003. Y. Lu, B. Bhargava, W. Wang, Y. Zhong, and X. Wu. [PDF]
Visualization of Wormholes in Sensor Networks in Proceedings of ACM Workshop on Wireless Security (WiSe), in conjunction with MobiCom'04, October, 2004. W. Wang, and B. Bhargava. [PDF]

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Professional Service

  • Technical Program Committee Members: IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2008, IEEE LCN Workshop on Network Security (WNS 2007), IEEE IC3N 2007, International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems(ICPADS) 2007, IEEE SAHNS Workshop 2007, International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing (ACT-2007), IEEE IPCCC 2007, IEEE IC3N 2006, IEEE LCN Workshop on Network Security (WoNS 2006), International Workshop on Information Processing over Evolving Networks (WINPEN 2006), International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks (MSN 2006).
  • Reviewer for Conferences: IEEE WiMob 2007, IEEE NTMS 2007, IEEE Sarnoff Symposium 2007, WCNC 2007, ICC 2007, ACM MobiWAC 2006, WCNC 2006, ICC 2006, NDSS 2006, IEEE IPCCC 2006, NOSSDAV 2005, IEEE Workshop on Embedded Networked Sensors 2005, WirelessCom 2005, IEEE LCN Workshop on Network Security 2005, IEEE Workshop on Wireless and Sensor Networks Security 2005, IEEE PerCom 2004, IEEE ICCCN 2004, IASTED Wireless and Optical Communications 2004, IEEE VTC 2003.
  • Reviewer for Journals: Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks; Elsevier Computers and Electrical Engineering Journal; Information Processing Letters; IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics; Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing; IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing; ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks; International Journal of Security and Networks (IJSN); Journal of Computer Security (JCS); International Journal of Communication Systems (IJCS).
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    • Last updated in June, 2007.