Advised 93 PhD students and worked with many students, postdocs, visitors, and faculty colleagues. Involved in multiple major research projects.
Research Experience
Led several major research projects, including:
- Mobile wireless networking and computing, including cognitive-radio or software-defined wireless networks, 5G wireless LANs, mobile sensing and apps.
- Computation and network security and privacy, including location privacy protection, self-securing mobile handsets, botnets, malware classification, and application protection in untrusted environments.
- Cyber-physical systems by integrating real-time embedded applications and system SW with real-life physical systems like large-scale energy storage systems, ground and space/air vehicles; low-power embedded real-time OS, scheduling theory, middleware, and networks.
- Resilient and efficient cloud computing service and operation via virtualization-based server consolidation, replication and resource management.
Background
Kevin and Nancy O'Connor Professor of Computer Science, and the Founding Director of the Real-Time Computing Laboratory (RTCL) in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at The University of Michigan. Research interests include mobile networks, systems and applications, security and privacy, as well as cyber-physical systems, especially semi-autonomous (human-in-the-loop) systems.
Miscellany
These research issues are often motivated by, and hence their results are applicable to, real-life systems such as autonomous cars & robots, smart phones and homes, smart connected communities, and human health & wellness.