NEST - Network Security and Trust Group at the University of Rhode Island

Faculty

Office: Kelley Annex A101
Phone: (401)874-5803
Fax: (401)782-6422

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Dr. Yan (Lindsay) Sun
Bio: Yan (Lindsay) Sun received her B.S. degree with the highest honor from Peking University, Beijing, China, in 1998, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Maryland in 2004. She is currently an assistant professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Rhode Island. Her research interests include network security and wireless communications and networking. Dr. Sun received the Graduate School Fellowship at the University of Maryland from 1998 to 1999, and the Excellent Graduate Award of Peking University in 1998. She received NSF Career Award in 2007. She is a member of the IEEE Communication and Computer Societies.

Graduate students

Office: Kelley Annex A4

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Yuhong Liu
Bio: Yuhong Liu received her B.S. and M.S. degrees in Information Engineering from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), China, in 2004 and 2007. She is currently a Ph.D candidate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in University of Rhode Island. Her research interests include security and trust issues in distributed network.

Office: Kelley Annex A4

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Xuan Li
Bio: Xuan Li received her B.S. degree in Electrical and Information Engineering Department from Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China, 2006. She is currently a graduate student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Rhode Island. Her research interests are in the field of Reputation and Trust Systems.

Office: Kelley Annex A4

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Wenkai Wang
Bio: Wenkai Wang received his B.S. and M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (NUPT) and University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 2003 and 2006 respectively. From Mar 2006 to Jul 2007 he was with Motorola Nanjing Software Center. His research interest includes secure cognitive radio networks, trust and privacy in distributed systems.

Alumni

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Yafei Yang
Bio: Yafei Yang received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), China, in 2002 and 2005. He is currently a Ph.D candidate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Rhode Island. His research interests include Security and Trust issues of Embedded System and Distributed networks (such as Wireless Sensor Networks, Peer-to-Peer Networks, and online rating system). He uses NS2/ TinyOS/ Symbian/ PalmOS/ J2ME/ BREW to simulate and implement his proposed schemes. He has been a student member of IEEE and ACM since 2003.