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

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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 his 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 his Ph.D. (2005) in Computer Engineering from Texas A&M University. From 2005 to 2008, he was an assistant professor with the College of Business and Information Systems at Dakota State University. In summer 2008, he joined University of Massachusetts Lowell as a faculty member.

      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 has been publishing papers in conferences such as IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 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. Dr. Fu’s current research interests are in network security and privacy, information assurance, computer forensics, system reliability and networking QoS. His research is supported by NSF.

Recent Professional Activities

§ Presentation at Black Hat DC 2009

§ TPC member, The 28th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (Infocom), 2009

§ TPC member, The 28th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2008

§ TPC member, the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2008

§ External Reviewer, Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC), 2007, 2008

§ Program Vice-Chair, the IEEE International Symposium on Ubiquitous Computing and Intelligence, 2007

§ NSF panelist, 2006

Students with Research on Security and Privacy

§ Jie Yu, M.S., in progress

§ Ryan Pries, M.S., graduated in 2007