Assistant Professor Director, Center for Cyber Forensics Department of Computer Science University of Massachusetts Lowell Lowell, MA 01854 Office: Olsen Hall 203 Voice:  (978) 934-3623 (o); 605-270-9427 (c) Fax:      (978) 934-3551 E-mail : xinwenfu@cs.uml.edu

Research Interests

Network Security and Privacy, Network Forensics, Computer Forensics, Distributed Systems

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, network forensics, computer forensics, information assurance, system reliability and networking QoS. Dr. Fu has been publishing papers in conferences such as IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc), 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), IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), IEEE Transaction on Mobile Computing (TMC) and IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT), book and book chapters. He spoke at various technical security conferences including Black Hat. His research is supported by NSF.

Dr. Fu is active in academic service. He has been serving as TPC members for various prestigious conferences including IEEE Infocom, IEEE ICDCS, and SecureComm. He was a Program Co-chair of Communications & System Security Symposium, IEEE Globecom 2011 and the program co-chair of TrustCom 2010.

Recent Professional Activities

• Dr. Xinwen Fu won the 2010-2011 teaching award, Department of Computer Science, UMass Lowell, what an honor!
• Dr. Xinwen Fu is Program Co-chair of Communications & System Security Symposium, Globecom 2011
• Dr. Xinwen Fu is Publication Chair, The Second Annual ACM Northeast Digital Forensics Exchange (NeFX), 2010
• Dr. Xinwen Fu is the program co-chair of TrustCom 2010
• 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 PDF
• TPC member, Infocom, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
• NSF Panelist, 2006, 2010
• Dr. Xinwen Fu gave a talk at Black Hat DC 2009, Slides ppt
• Dr. Xinwen Fu presented an IEEE S&P paper at Berkeley/Oakland, CA on May 21, 2007

Membership

• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) member
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) member
• International High Technology Crime Investigation Association (HTCIA) member