Professional Activities

Founder and Director of UofM CyberCorps SFS Program
Associate Director of Center for Information Assurance
Program Coordinator of Graduate Certificate in Cybersecurity and Information Assurance
Program Coordinator of B.S. degree with a Cybersecurity Concentration (17-present, successfully increased the enrollment from 4 in 2017 to 192 in 2024)

Associate Editor for IEEE Internet of Things Journal (2024 - present)
Travel Grant Chair for the 43rd IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'23)
Leading Guest Editor on IEEE Internet of Things Journal Special Issue on “Recent Advances of Security, Privacy, and Trust in Mobile Crowdsourcing”, 2023
Organized the Annual Mid-South Cybersecurity Summit at the University of Memphis (2017, 2018, 2022)
Co-organized the Annual Cybersecurity Summer Camp (2019, 2021, 2022)
Chair of Special Session on Computing and Applications for Cyber Internet of Things (Cyber-IoT) in IEEE Cyber Science and Technology Congress (CyberSciTech 2017, 2022)
Serve on an NSF panel (2021, 2023)
Participated the Greater Memphis IT Council Cybersecurity Roundtable as a guest speaker (2022)
ABC24 Interview on “security and privacy issues of digital driver’s license in Mississippi” (2021)

ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS'24-25)
IEEE International Conference on Blockchain (Blockchain'18-24)
IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'17-24)
IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM'16-24)
IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS’18-21)
The 15th International Conference on Green, Pervasive and Cloud Computing (GPC'20)
International Symposium on Privacy Computing (PriCom'19)
IEEE International Conference on Wireless Communications and Signal Processing (WCSP'17-18)
IEEE International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC'16-17)
IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN'15-17, 24)
IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC’16-Spring, VTC’16-Fall)
IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC'15-16, 21)
International Workshop on Security in Cloud Computing (Asiaccs'14-SCC)
IEEE Wireless and Optical Communication Conference (WOCC'13)

UofM CyberCorps: Scholarship for Service Program at the University of Memphis, Greater Memphis IT Council Cybersecurity Roundtable, Dec 2022
Secure and Efficient Task Matching with Multi-keyword in Multi-requester and Multi-worker Crowdsourcing, IEEE/ACM IWQoS'21, Virtual Conference, June 2021
Blockchain-based Decentralized Public Key Management for Named Data Networking, Named Data Networking Community Meeting at NIST, Sept 2018
Secure and Scalable Data Outsourcing in the Public Cloud, Guest Speaker for CityU-CS Research Student Workshop, Hong Kong, June 2017
Attribute-based Fine-Grained Access Control with Efficient Revocation in Cloud Storage Systems, IEEE/ACM ASIACCS'13, Hangzhou, China, May 2013
DAC-MACS: Effective Data Access Control for Multi-Authority Cloud Storage Systems, IEEE INFOCOM'13, Turin, Italy, April 2013
Attributed-based Access Control for Multi-authority Systems in Cloud Storage, IEEE ICDCS'12, Macau, June 2012
Threshold Key Redistribution for Dynamic Change of Authentication Group in Wireless Mesh Networks, IEEE GlobalCom'10, Miami, USA, December 2010