Leiwen Deng (Karl Deng)
Ph.D. Candidate
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department
Northwestern University
Cisco Certified Internetworking Expert (CCIE) # 7987

Office: Room 2-211, Ford Engineering Design Center,
2133 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208
Phone: (847)467-6455
Email: l-deng at northwestern dot edu
 
Bio

I am a finishing Ph.D. student in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at Northwestern University and a member of the Northwestern Network Group. My advisor is Prof. Aleksandar Kuzmanovic. I received my BE degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 1998. After that, I worked in the Broadband Network Department in Alcatel Shanghai Bell (now Alcatel-Lucent) for nearly five years. I was conferred Cisco Certified Internetworking Expert certificate in 2001. I joined Northwestern University and continued my study in the computer networking area in 2005.
 
My latest research focuses on the sustainable development of the Internet with an emphasis on the user identity solution for the Internet. The title of my dissertation is "IDnet Mesh: Towards user accountability for the Internet". I'm currently collaborating with the Kellogg Venture Community in an effort to commercialize the central technology proposed in my dissertation.

Research Interests
  • Sustainable Development of the Internet
    (An interdisciplinary research between the Internet technology and sociology.)
  • Network Security and Online Privacy
  • Network System Design
  • Internet Measurement
Education and Work Experience
  • PhD candidate, Computer Science, Northwestern University, Current
    (Dissertation defense was done in November, 2009. Will graduate in June, 2010.)
  • CEO and Cofounder, Blooboom Technologies Inc., April, 2009
  • MS, Computer Science, Northwestern University, 2007
  • Chief project manager, Alcatel Shanghai Bell Co., Ltd., 2001
  • Project manager, Alcatel Shanghai Bell Co., Ltd., 1999
  • Project / software engineer, Alcatel Shanghai Bell Co., Ltd., 1998
  • BE, Communication Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 1998
  • BE, Applied Mathematics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 1998

Publications

  1. IDnet Mesh: Towards User Accountability For the Internet [ .pdf ]
    Leiwen Deng
    Ph.D. dissertation, Northwestern University, Nov. 2009
    How we can deploy an Internet-wide user identity solution that enables two types of user accountability.
  2. Towards Tussle-based Rules in Cyberspace [ .pdf ]
    Leiwen Deng and Aleksandar Kuzmanovic
    Technical Report NWU-EECS-09-11, Apr. 2009
    How we can make the Internet's technical architecture accommodate tussles among people's conflicted interests.
  3. A Feeder-Carrier-Based Internet User Accountability Service [ .pdf ]
    Leiwen Deng and Aleksandar Kuzmanovic
    Technical Report NWU-EECS-09-12, Jan. 2009
    IDnet Mesh — a scalable Internet-wide authentication infrastructure that can validate user accountability.
  4. Monitoring Persistently Congested Internet Links [ .pdf | .ppt ]
    Leiwen Deng and Aleksandar Kuzmanovic
    In Proceedings of IEEE ICNP 2008, Orlando, FL, October 2008
    How we can locate and monitor persistently congested Internet links efficiently.
  5. Internet Politics: Resist, Die, or Exploit? [ .pdf ]
    Leiwen Deng and Aleksandar Kuzmanovic
    Technical Report NWU-EECS-08-15, July 2008
    What "Internet politics" is. How the "politics graphs" tool can help the decision-making and the Internet research.
  6. Pollution Attacks and Defenses for Internet Caching Systems [ .pdf ]
    Leiwen Deng, Yan Gao, Yan Chen, and Aleksandar Kuzmanovic
    In Journal of Computer Networks, 52(5): 935-956, April 2008
    An extended version of the ICNP 2006 paper.
  7. Sustainable Development of the Internet [ .pdf ]
    Leiwen Deng and Aleksandar Kuzmanovic
    Technical Report NWU-EECS-08-14, Jan. 2008
    How we can add sustainability to the Internet development by leveraging four critical points: identity, standards, incentives, and auditing.
  8. What Lies Beneath: Understanding Internet Congestion [ .pdf | .ppt ]
    Leiwen Deng, Aleksandar Kuzmanovic, and Bruce Davie
    Presented by Aleksandar Kuzmanovic at DIMACS/DyDAn Workshop on Internet Tomography, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, May 2008
    Technical Report NWU-EECS-07-12, October 2007
    How we can develop a large scale monitoring system for hot spots (congested links) in the Internet core.
  9. Pong: Diagnosing Spatio-Temporal Internet Congestion Properties [ .pdf | .ppt ]
    Leiwen Deng and Aleksandar Kuzmanovic
    In Proceedings of ACM SIGMETRICS 2007 (poster paper), San Diego, CA, June 2007
    How we can develop a light weight delay-based measurement and montoring tool for congested Internet links.
  10. Internet Cache Pollution Attacks and Countermeasures [ .pdf | .ppt ]
    Yan Gao, Leiwen Deng, Aleksandar Kuzmanovic, and Yan Chen
    In Proceedings of IEEE ICNP 2006, Santa Barbara, CA, November 2006
    How we can detect and protect against cache-targeted pollution attacks.

Teaching
EECS 495: Internet Architectures, Teaching Assistant, Spring 2008
EECS 339: Introduction to Databases, Teaching Assistant, Fall 2007
EECS 211: Fundamentals of Computer Programming II, Teaching Assistant, Spring 2007
EECS 203: Introduction to Computer Engineering, Teaching Assistant, Winter 2007
GEN_ENG 205-1: Engineering Analysis I, Teaching Assistant, Fall 2006

Links
Northwestern Network Group
Sustainable Development of the Internet
Measuring Congestion in the Internet
Resilience to Pollution and Poisoning DoS Attacks

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