University Cooperation
- Aalto University (05.2009 – date): Cooperate with Prof. Raimo Kantola, Prof. Riku Jäntti, and Prof. Yu Xiao on unwanted traffic control, trusted networking, economic security, network security, IoT trust management, backscatter communication security, and mobile crowdsourcing, jointly published over 50 papers and 3 conference proceedings. Jointly supervised one dual PhD-degree student who achieved IEEE TCSC Outstanding Dissertation Award, jointly instructed 2 PhD students who have earned Ph.D degrees. Four master students instructed by me have graduated with the highest thesis score and each has 6-8 publications, including a few high-quality journal papers. One student Yu Chen got full scholarship to join a PhD programme in Human Computer Interaction Group, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, and has become a tenured associate professor in USA.
- University of Helsinki and University of Turku (01.2013 – date): Cooperate with Prof. Valtteri Niemi in the field of cryptography and trust management, 5G security and data privacy, achieved about 20 joint publications. Induced Prof. Niemi into Xidian University as a “111 program” member and a national high-end foreign expert. Prof. Niemi achieved China National Friendship Award (2022) and Shaanxi San Qin Friendship Award (2020).
- Nokia Bell Lab, Nokia Technology, Finland (2009 –date) Cooperate with Dr. Yoan Miche’s team in the field of virtual reality and 6G security, co-edited one special issue about 6G trust, security and privacy.
- Singapore Management University (09.2009 – 09.2010, 11.2015 – date): Cooperated with Singapore Management University based on Nokia donated project “The Use of Mobile Devices in RFID-based Supply Chain Management”, developed a mobile user data privacy preservation solution for mobile internet services, co-instructed a PhD student and worked out some joint publications. Cooperate with Prof. Robert Deng (IEEE Fellow, Fellow of Singapore Academy of Engineering) (09.2015 – date), co-published over 20 top-level journal papers, e.g., in IEEE TDSC, IEEE TII, Information Sciences, ACM TOMM, etc.
- George Mason University, USA (10.2017 – date): Cooperate with Prof. Kai Zeng on Physical Security, jointly instruct 1 post-doc, 3 PhD students and 2 master students based on CSC and an AoF funded joint project, co-published several top-level papers.
- University of Alberta, Canada (05.2016 – date): Cooperate with Prof. Witold Pedrycz (Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, IEEE Life Fellow) on data mining and machine learning in the field of reputation generation and network security measurement, jointly instruct a PhD student based on CSC, jointly published over 10 papers.
- St. Francis Xavier University, Canada/Hainan University, China (01.2014 – date): Cooperate with Prof. Laurence T. Yang (FCAE, FEIC, MAE, FIEEE, FIET, FAAIA) on data mining, machine learning and big data research in the field of Internet of Things, cloud computing, etc. Jointly published 30+ top-level journal papers and special issues.
- Xi’an Jiaotong University (07.2011 – date): Serving as an adjunct professor, cooperate with the team of Prof. Qinghua Zheng, Prof. Ting Liu, and Prof. Jun Liu to perform research on trustworthy software, cloud data security, data mining, intrusion detection and malware detection. Co-edited a few special issues and jointed published papers, e.g., in IEEE TPDC, ICSE, IEEE TSE, Information Sciences, Information Fusion, ACM TOMM, etc.
- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA (01.2018 – 2020): Cooperation with Prof. Wenjing Lou (IEEE/ACM Fellow) and Prof. Thomas Hou (IEEE Fellow) on Blockchain, jointly instructed a PhD student based on CSC.
- University of Delaware, USA (09.2017 – date): Cooperate with Prof. Rui Zhang on Verifiable Computation, jointly instruct a PhD student based on CSC.
- Shiga University, Japan (03.2020 – date): Cooperate with Prof. Xiaokang Zhou on machine learning, jointly published ver 10 papers.
- Huazhong Univ. of Science and Technology (07.2009 – 12.2012): Cooperated with Huazhong Univ. of Science and Technology, China, acted as an advisor of 2 PhD students, cooperated several paper publications. Invited to visit HUST in Oct. 2010 and gave a speech on “Building Trust in Mobile Environments”.
- Renmin University of China (01.2007 – 12.2008): Acted as a project manager and principal investigator of human-machine trust interaction and led the cooperation between Nokia Research Center (Helsinki) and Renmin University of China. Coordinated the cooperation and knowledge exchange between Nokia security and trust research and Chinese academia (e.g., Tsinghua Univ.). This project explores a user driven trust modeling and management methodology based on a psychometrical method in order to design and develop a usable trust management system, e.g., for mobile applications and services and pervasive social networking. This cooperation worked out a number of joint papers.
International Exchange
- Personal Research Mobility: Singapore Management University (01-02.2016); University of Technology Sydney (07.2017); Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (07-09.2018);
- Research Visits: Virginia Tech, US (10.2013); NUTU, Norway (10.2012); Fujian Normal University, China (6.2016); GuangZhou University, China (12.2017, 11.2019); JiNan University, China (12.2017); HUST (10.2010); Renmin University, China (09.2008), etc;
- Invited Prof. Yan Wang (Macquarie University, Australia) to visit Xidian University (12.2011);
- Invited IEEE Life Fellow Prof. Stephen S. Yau (Arizona State University, US) to visit Xidian University (05.2012);
- Invited Nokia IR directors Mr. Harri Hongasalo (Finland) and Mr. Gordon Huang (US) to visit Xidian (12.2011);
- Invited Prof. Valtteri Niemi (Nokia Fellow) (University of Turku, Finland) to visit Xidian University (11.2011, 09.2013, 1-3 times per year during 2014 – 2019);
- Invited Prof. Raimo Kantola (Aalto University), Prof. Laurence T. Yang (St. Francis Xavier University, Canada), IEEE Fellow Prof. Wenjing Lou (Virginia Tech, US), Prof. Valtteri Niemi to visit Xidian, based on ‘111’ program sponsored by the Ministry of Education of China and the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs of China (Grant No. B08038) and High-end Foreign Experts Recruitment Program of China (2013);
- Invited IEEE Fellow/IET Fellow Prof. Hsiao-Hwa Chen (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan), IEEE Fellow/SCS Fellow Prof. Mohammad S. Obaidat (Monmouth University, USA), IEICE fellow/IPSJ Fellow Prof. Hideko S. Kunii (Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan), Prof. Mohammed Atiquzzaman (University of Oklahoma, USA), Prof. Zhiyong Liu (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Prof. Jinjun Chen (University of Technology Sydney, Australia), Dr. Alvin Chin (Microsoft, China), IEEE Fellow Dr. Chonggang Wang (IntelDigital, USA), Prof. Daming Wei (University of Aizu and Tohoku University, Japan), Prof. Christian Prehofer (fortiss, Germany) to visit the State Key Lab of ISN, Xidian University (09.2014);
- Invited IEEE Fellow, Prof. Robert Deng (Singapore Management University, Singapore), Fellow of AAMBE Prof. Yi Pan (Georgia State University, USA), IEEE Fellow, Prof. Witold Pedrycz (University of Alberta, Canada), IEEE Fellow/IEEE Vice President, Prof. Vincenzo Piuri (University of Milan, Italy) to offer keynotes at IEEE TrustCom/ISPA/BigDataSE2015 held in Finland in August 2015;
- Invited IEEE Fellow Prof. Witold Pedrycz (Univ. of Alberta, Canada), IEEE Fellow Prof. Thomas Hou (VirginiaTech, US), Prof. Honggang Wang (UMass Dartmouth, US), Prof. Jian Ren (Michigan State Univ., US), Dr. (Anand Prasad) to visit the State Key Lab of ISN, Xidian University (06.2016);
- Invited A. Prof. Kai Zeng (George Mason Univ. US) and A. Prof. Rui Zhang (Univ. of Delaware) to visit Xidian (12.2016);
- Invited Prof. Valtteri Niemi (University of Helsinki, Finland), Prof. Xiangjian He (University of Technology Sydney), Prof. Mohammed Atiquzaaman (University of Oklahoma) to visit Xidian (06.2017);
- Invited IEEE/ACM Fellow, Prof. Elisa Bertino (Purdue University, USA), Prof. Francisco Herrera (University of Granada, Spain), Prof. Shiwen Mao (Auburn University, USA), Prof. Jinjun Chen (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia), Dr. Anand Prasad (NEC, Japan) to offer keynotes at NSS/ICA3PP/IEEE CIT2017;
- Invited IEEE Fellow Prof. Robert Deng (Singapore Management University, Singapore), and Prof. Valtteri Niemi (Univ. of Helsinki) to visit Xidian University (12.2017);
- Invited IEEE Fellow Prof. Wenjing Lou (Virginia Tech), Yaochao Zhang (ASU), Ming Li (Univ. of Arizona), Yan Wang (UNY), Prof. Raimo Kantola (Aalto University), Prof. Valtteri Niemi (University of Helsinki), Prof. Riku Jäntti (Aalto University) to visit Xidian and give a talk in workshops on Cyber Security (06.2018, 12.2018);
- Invited Prof. Valtteri Niemi, Prof. Mohammed Atiquzaaman (University of Oklahoma), and Prof. Robert H. Deng to visit Xidian and give talks (05-06.2019); Prof. Mohammed Atiquzaaman’s second visit (University of Oklahoma) in 11.2019;
- Invited IEEE Fellow Prof. Witold Pedrycz (Univ. of Alberta, Canada), Prof. Weizhi Meng (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark), Dr. Yulei Wu (University of Exeter, UK) to offer talks in Xidian University, 2021;
- Invited Prof. Kai Zeng (George Mason University, USA) and Prof. Xiaokang Zhou (Shiga University, Japan) to offer talks in Xidian University in 06.2022. Invited Prof. Xinwen Fu (University of Massachusetts Lowell) in 28.10.2022 to offer talk in Xidian University;
- Invited IEEE/ACM/AAAS Fellow Prof. Elisa Bertino (Purdue University, USA), IEEE Fellow Prof. Wenjing Lou (Virginia Tech), IEEE Fellow Chonggang Wang (InterDigital, USA), IEEE Fellow Honggang Wang (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA), Hua Fang (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, USA), and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada IEEE Life Fellow Prof. Witold Pedrycz (Univ. of Alberta, Canada) to offer talks in Aalto University in 22-25.08.2022;
- Invited IEEE/IET/AAIA Fellow Prof. Laurence T. Yang, Fellow of Japanese Academy of Engineering Prof. Mianxiong Dong, A. Prof. Xiaokang Zhou to visit Xidian University and give talks (22-23.10.2023).