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Yan Chen

Associate Professor

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
Northwestern University
Tech Inst. Room L459
2145 Sheridan Road
Evanston, IL 60208-3118

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 340 - Introduction to Networking (Winter 2004, Winter 2006, Winter 2008, Spring 2010, Winter 2012)
Developed EECS 350 - Introduction to Computer Security (Winter 2005, Winter 2007)
Developed EECS 354 - Network Penetration and Security (Fall 2007, Fall 2008, Fall 2009, Fall 2010, Fall 2011, Fall 2012).
Developed EECS 450 - Internet Security (Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2007, Winter 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2012, Winter 2013)
Developed EECS 395/495 - Programming Languages and Analysis for Security (Spring 2013)
Developed MSIT 458 Information Security and Assurance (Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Winter 2010, Fall 2010, Fall 2011, Fall 2012)

My research interests are in computer networking and large-scale distributed systems, network security, measurement, and diagnosis. I lead the Northwestern LIST (Lab for Internet and Security Technology). I won the DOE Early CAREER Award in 2005, the DOD (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. Based on Google Scholar, my papers have been cited over 5,000 times, and the h-index of my publications is 27 as of Jan. 2013.

Current Graduate Students and Research Staff

Bin Liu (Visiting professor from Tsinghua University, China)
Yinzhi Cao (Ph.D. student)
Hongyu Gao (Ph.D. student)
Boyuan He (Ph.D. student at Zhejiang University, China)
Xiang Pan (Ph.D. student)
Zhenyang Qu (Ph.D. student)
Vaibhav Rastogi (Ph.D. student)
Chao Shi (M.S. student)
Hao Tu (Visiting scholar from Huazhong Univ. of Science and Technology, China)
Xitao Wen (Ph.D. student)
Peng Xu (M.S. student)

Graduated Ph.D. Students

Kai Chen (Ph.D. 2012. First job and now: Assistant Professor at Hongkong University of Science and Technology)
Zhichun Li (Ph.D. 2009. First job and now: Researcher at NEC Labs America.)
Yao Zhao (Ph.D. 2009. First job and now: Researcher at Bell Labs.) Won the 2009 EECS Best Dissertation Award of Northwestern.
Guohan Lv (Ph. D. of Tsinghua University China, 2008, co-advised with Prof. Xing Li at Tsinghua. First job: Researcher at Microsoft Research Asia.)

Selected Professional Services

Area TPC Chair, the first IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS), 2013.
TPC Co-Chair, the first International Workshop on the Security of Embedded Systems and Smartphones (co-located with ASIACCS), 2013.
Vice Chair, World Wide Web conference, in charge of the "Security, Privacy, Trust, and Abuse" track, 2012.
General Chair, the 18th ACM Conference on Computer and Communication Security (CCS), 2011.
Steering Committee Member, IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS) 2010, 2009 , 2008 .
TPC co-chair, IEEE Globecom Next-Generation Networking Symposium, 2010.
TPC co-chair, the 5th International Conference on Security and Privacy on Communication Networks (SecureComm) 2009.
Organization and TPC co-chair, the Fifteenth IEEE IWQoS 2007.
TPC member, IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland), 2013.
TPC member, IEEE INFOCOM 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007
TPC member, Network & Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2012, 2011, 2010.
TPC member, IEEE ICNP, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2007
TPC member, IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN) 2010.
TPC member, ACM MobiCom 2007

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