Professors and leading researchers

XiangYang Li, Department of Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology. Prof. Xiang-Yang Li received two BS degrees from Tsinghua University, China, in 1995 and the MS and PhD degrees in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000 and 2001, respectively. His research interests span wireless sensor networks, game theory, computational geometry, and cryptography and network security. He has published approximately 80 conference papers in top-quality conferences. He has more than 50 journal papers published or accepted for publication. In 2008, he published a monograph "Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks: Theory and Applications". He is an editor of several journals and served in various positions at a number of international conferences. He is a senior member of the IEEE.

Group members and Students (being supervised)

ShaoJie Tang Mr Tang is a Ph.D candidate from Department of Computer Science at Illinois Institute of Technology since 2006. He received B.S. in Radio Engineering from Southeast University, P.R. China in 2006. He is a student member of IEEE. His main research interests focus on wireless networks (including sensor networks and cognitive radio networks), social networks, pervasive computing and algorithm analysis and design. He has published more than 40 papers in international journals and conference proceedings (including top journals IEEE ToN, TC, TMC, TPDS, WINET and top conferences MobiCom, MobiHoc, SenSys, ICDCS, INFOCOM, ICNP, RTSS, PerCom). He has recently served as guest editor of Journal of Tsinghua Science and Technology. He also served as TPC member of a number of conferences such as IEEE ICPP, IEEE IPCCC, MSN.
Junze Han Department of Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology. Mr. Han is a Ph.D candidate since 2011. He received his Bachelor of Engineering degree in Nankai university. His research insterest is Mobile Computing, Social Networks, Cyber Physical System.
Taeho Jung
Mr. Jung was born in Seoul, Republic of Korea, on 1989. He then moved to Shanghai in China due to his father's business when he was 11 years old. After graduated from the high school, he was enrolled in Tsinghua University, the best university in China. He has long been interested in computers, so he chose computer as his undergraduate major. During his undergraduate study, his interest in networking securities was aroused, so he decided to study about this field more deeply by pursuing his Ph.D degree in IIT, a research-oriented university. His current research interests cover applied cryptography, networking securities and social network analysis.
Cheng Bo Department of Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology. Mr. Bo is a Ph.D candidate since 2011. He received both the B.S and M.S. degree in Hangzhou Dianzi University in 2007 and 2011 respectively. His major research interests include Wireless Sensor Network, Wireless Network, Embedded System, Localization, Location-Based Service.
Yue Tao Department of Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology. Mr. Tao is a Ph.D candidate since 2012. Currently he is focusing on solving the issues in wireless communication, including interference cancellation and coexistence of multi communication standards, with signal processing techniques.
Jing Zhao Department of Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology. Mr. Zhao is a Ph.D candidate since 2012. He received his Master of Sicence (M.S.) degree in Dalian University of Technology, Dalian,China, 2009. He received his Bachelor of Sience (B.S.) Software School, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian,China, 2005.

Alumni (previous group members who graduated, congratulations to all, ☺)

Ashraf Nusairat
(2004-2011).
Motorola
XiaoHua Xu
(2007-2012).
Department of Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology
ShiGuang Wang
(2008-2011).
Department of Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology
Yu Wang
(2000-2004).
Associate Professor,
Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
WenZhan Song
(2001-2005).
Assistant Professor,
Department of Computer Science, Washington State University, Vancouver.
Yusuf Hasan
(2001-2005).
co-advised with Prof. Morris Chang from ECE department of Iowa State Univ.
Kousha Moaveninejad
(2002-2008).
Game Designer, AbuSlider
WeiZhao Wang
(2002-2006).
Google, working on spectrum auction. His patents.
YanWei Wu
(2005-2009).
Assistant Professor,
Department of Computer Science, Minnesota State University
XuFei Mao
(2006-2010).
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, BUPT, BeiJing, China
Ping Xu
(2006-2010).
Department of Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology, now a financial trader in Chicago

Visiting scholars (current and left, thanks to all, ☺)

DongSong Chen, (2006-2007). Department of Computer Science, NorthEastern University, China
XiaoBing Wu, (2007-2008). Department of Computer Science, NanJing University
Lan Shen, (2008-2009). HangZhou City, Zhejiang province, China

YuanFang Chen, (2009-2010).

Department of Computer Science, Dalian University of Technology
Lan Yao, (2011-2012). Northeastern University, China
Zhibin Zhao, (2012-2013). Northeastern University, China

MS students (current and left, ☺)

  1. Ovidiu Gabriel Cristea (CS, IIT, 2004),
  2. Mihai Moldovan (CS, IIT, 2005),
  3. QiZhong Hu (CS, IIT, 2006),
  4. Chang-Ling Huang (CS, IIT, 2006),
  5. Sebastian Vas (CS, IIT, 2006),
  6. Xuesi Jian (CS, IIT, 2011),
  7. Guobiao Yang (CS, IIT, 2011),
  8. Ruihan Zou (CS, IIT, 2011),
  9. Shukun Xie (CS, IIT, 2012).

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