Dr. Xinwen Fu


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Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science

University of Massachusetts Lowell

Lowell, MA 01854

Office: Olsen Hall 203, 198 Riverside Street, North Campus
Voice:  (978) 934-3623 (o); 605-270-9427 (c)
Fax:      (978) 934-3551
E-mail : xinwenfu@cs.uml.edu


Research Interests

Mobile and Wireless Networks, Distributed Systems, Network Security and Privacy

Summary

Dr. Xinwen Fu is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Lowell. He received B.S. (1995) and M.S. (1998) in Electrical Engineering from Xi'an Jiaotong University, China and University of Science and Technology of China respectively. He obtained Ph.D. (2005) in Computer Engineering from Texas A&M University.

      Dr. Fu won the 2nd place in the graduate category of the International ACM student research contest in 2002, the Graduate Student Research Excellence Award of the Department of Computer Science at Texas A&M University in 2004, the Merrill Hunter Award for Excellence in Research at Dakota State University in 2008 and the best paper award at International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2008.

      Dr. Fu's current research interests are in network security and privacy, information assurance, computer forensics, system reliability and networking QoS. Dr. Fu has been publishing papers in conferences such as IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), ACM CCS, IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) and IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), journals such as IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), and book chapters. His research is supported by NSF.

Recent Professional Activities

·         Dr. Xinwen Fu presented an ACM CCS paper at Chicago on Nov. 12, 2009

·         Dr. Xinwen Fu gave a talk at ARO Digital Forensics Workshop on tracing anonymous  cyber criminals (network forensics), Washington DC, Sep. 10, 2009

·         Dr. Xinwen Fu gave a talk at Hacker Halted USA 2009 on wireless network forensics, Miami, Sep. 24, 2009, Slides in PDF

·         TPC member, Infocom, 2009, 2010

·         Dr. Xinwen Fu gave a Presentation at Black Hat DC 2009, Slides ppt

Membership

·         Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) member

·         Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) member

·         International High Technology Crime Investigation Association (HTCIA) member

Students with Research on Security and Privacy

·         Junwei Huang, Ph.D, in progress

·         Zhongli Liu, Ph.D, in progress

·         Xian Pan, Ph.D, in progress