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Yan Chen

Assistant Professor

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
Northwestern University
Tech Inst. Room L359
2145 Sheridan Road
Evanston, IL 60208-3118

(847) 491-4946 (Office)
(847) 467-4144 (Fax)
E-mail : ychen AT northwestern.edu

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I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of California at Berkeley in Dec. 2003 under the supervision of Prof. Randy H. Katz and joined the faculty at Northwestern University in Jan. 2004.

Teaching

EECS 213 - Introduction to Computer Systems (Fall 2006)
EECS 317 - Data Management and Information Processing (Spring 2005)
EECS 340 - Introduction to Networking (Winter 2004, Winter 2006, Winter 2008)
Developed CS 350 - Introduction to Computer Security (Winter 2005, Winter 2007)
Developed CS 450 - Internet Security (Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2007)
Developed CS 395/495 - Basic Information Security: Technology, Business and Law (Fall 2005) (with Andrea M. Matwyshyn of U. Florida)
Developed CS 395/495 - Internet Measurement and its Reverse Engineering (Spring 2006)
Developed MSIT 458 Information Security and Assurance (Spring 2007, Spring 2008)
Developed EECS 395/495 RTFM: Network Penetration and Security (Fall 2007).

Research

My research interests are in computer networking and large-scale distributed systems, network measurement, diagnosis, and security, as well as overlay and wireless networks. I lead the Northwestern LIST (Lab for Internet and Security Technology), which is part of the Northwestern System Research Group. I am affiliated with the Center for Ultra-scale Computing and Information Security (CUCIS) at Northwestern. I won the DOE Early CAREER Award in 2005, the AFOSR (Air Force of Scientific Research) Young Investigator Award in 2007, and the Microsoft Trustworthy Computing Awards in 2004 and 2005 with my colleagues. My research is also sponsored by NSF and Motorola. The h-index of my publications based on Google Scholar is 14 as of Feb. 2008.

Current Graduate Students and Research Staff

Prof. Bin Liu from Tsinghua Univ., partially supported as an Eshbach Scholar of Northwestern University.
Jiazhen Chen (M.S. student)
Kai Chen (Ph.D. student)
Anup Goyal (Ph.D. student)
Zhichun Li (Ph. D. student)
Ying He (visiting Ph.D. student from the Beihang University China)
Guohan Lu (Ph.D. student at Tsinghua University China, co-advised with Prof. Xing Li at Tsinghua)
Rahul Potharaju (M.S. student)
Sagar Vemuri (M.S. student)
Yao Zhao (Ph.D. student)
Zhaosheng Zhu (Ph.D. student)

Graduated Students

Prasad Narayana (M. S. 2007, now at Nextwave Broadband Inc.)
Yan Gao (M. S. 2007, now as a continuing Ph.D. student in NU)
Leon Zhao (M. S. 2006, now at Vibes Inc.)

Selected Professional Services

Steering Committee Member, the 16th IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS), 2008.
Organization and TPC co-chair, the Fifteenth IEEE IWQoS 2007.
TPC member, IEEE INFOCOM 2008, 2007
TPC member, IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) 2008, 2007
TPC member, IEEE International Conference on Broadband Communications, Networks, and Systems (BroadNets), 2008.
TPC member, International Conference on Security and Privacy on Communication Networks (SecureComm) 2008
TPC member, IEEE International Conference on Sensors and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON) 2008
TPC member, the IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS) 2008, 2006.
TPC member, IEEE ICNP 2007
TPC member, ACM MobiCom 2007
TPC member, ACM SIGCOMM 2007 Posters
TPC member, IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Management (IM) 2007
TPC member, the 2nd International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks (MSN 2006)
TPC member, IEEE Globecom 2006
TPC member, ACM SIGCOMM 2005 Posters

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