Areas of Research

  • Security and Privacy
  • Data Management and Analytics
  • Blockchain
  • Internet of Things
  • Healthcare Systems
  • Cyber-Physical Systems
  • Networked Systems
  • Edge Computing

Funding (Total amount awarded: $5,400,176)

  • NSF CISE-MSI, An Edge-Based Approach to Robust Multi-Robot Systems in Dynamic Environments, Award # 2240513, 10/2022-09/2025, $234,982, PI, awarded
  • CyBR-MSI 2022 Mini Grant, An Edge-Based Approach to Robust Multi-Robot Systems in Dynamic Environment, 05/2022-09/2022, $10,000, PI, awarded
  • UH ACPV Grant, 06/2022-09/2022, $100,000, Senior Personnel (UHCL PI: Dr. Kwok-Bun Yue), awarded
  • NSF Noyce Scholarship Program: Recruiting and Supporting a Diverse Pool of Highly-Qualified STEM Teachers through Communities of Practice and Informal Science Internships, Award # 2151067, 04/01/2022-03/31/2026, $1,199,969, co-PI (PI: Dr. Jana Willis), awarded
  • NASA STTR: Blockchain for Model Based System Engineering, 2021-2023, senior personnel (PI: Dr. Kwok-Bun Yue), $750,000.00, awarded
  • UHCL: Anthony & Barbara Lekkos Endowment Faculty Fellowship, 2021-2022, $10,000.00, awarded
  • NSF IIP: Creation of an Augmented-Reality Platform for Treatment of Autism Children, 2020-2021, UHCL PI (Baylor College of Medicine PI: Dr. Zhandong Liu), $43,800.00, awarded
  • NSF HSI: Building Capacity: Improving STEM Graduation Rates through Engaged Learning, 10/2019-09/2024, co-PI (PI: Dr. Said Bettayeb, other Co-PI: Dr. Hakduran Koc, and Dr. Richard Puzdrowski), Award # 1928622, $2,499,930.00, awarded
  • NSF DGE: Revamping a Traditional Computer Science Program to Meet Modern-day Cybersecurity Education Challenges, Award # 1723596, 09/2017-08/2020, co-PI (PI: Dr. Andrew Yang, other Co-PI: Dr. Wei Wei), $499,995.00, awarded
  • NSF Travel Grant, 2017, PI $10,000, awarded
  • NSF Travel Grant, 2017, PI $15,000, awarded
  • UHCL Faculty Research Support Funding (FRSF), 2019-2020, PI $5,900, awarded
  • UHCL Faculty Development Funding (FDF), 2018-2019, PI $2,000, awarded
  • UHCL Faculty Development Funding (FDF), 2017-2018, PI $2,000, awarded
  • UHCL Faculty Development Funding (FDF), 2016-2017, PI $2,000, awarded
  • UHCL Faculty Research Support Funding (FRSF), 2016-2017, PI $3,900, awarded
  • UHCL Faculty Development Funding (FDF), 2015-2016, PI $1,800, awarded
  • NSF Travel Grant, 2015, PI $10,000, awarded
  • NSF EPSCoR Oklahoma ROA+, 2015, PI $12,500 awarded
  • OCU Summer Undergraduate Research Grant, 2014, PI $5000 awarded
  • OCU Student Professional Fund, 2014-2015 PI $1600, awarded
  • SC'13 HPC Educator Travel Award, 2013, about $2000, awarded

Recent Talk

  • Edge Computing Designs for IoT Security, talk at EdgeRobot Summer Camp, July 15, 2022
  • How to write research papers, invited virtual talk at Anhui University, November, 2021
  • Cybersecurity Research at UHCL, invited talk at UHCL, October, 2021
  • ActID: An Efficient Framework for Activity Sensor Based User Identification, Invited virtual talk at Nanjing University of Posts and Communications, May 2021
  • Data Quality Management in IoT, invited virtual talk at Anhui University, November 1, 2020
  • Edge Computing Security Designs for Security and Data Analytics, invited talk at North Carolina Central University, April 28, 2020
  • Edge Computing Security Designs for Security, Performance Optimization, and Data Analytics, invited talk at Oakland University, January 23, 2020
  • Edge Computing based Security Designs, invited talk at SIG of InfraGard Defense Industrial Base, Jan 14, 2020
  • An Introduction to NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework, talk at Cybersecurity Education Workshop, April 5, 2019
  • The Design of Network Forensics Course, talk at Cybersecurity Education Workshop, April 5, 2019
  • Studies on Edge Computing for IoT Security, invited seminar talk at Wayne State University, March 27, 2019
  • Security in Edge Computing, Invited talk at Anhui University, August 6, 2018
  • Security Issues in Edge Computing, Colloquium talk at University of Houston-Clear Lake, April 23, 2018
  • Quality-Assured Adaptive Data Compression for Sensor Data, Invited talk at Nanjing University of Posts and Communications, June 2017
  • Emerging Cyber Threat: Challenges and Opportunities, University of Houston System Cybersecurity Cyber-Resilience Workshop, March 2017
  • IoT Security: challenges and solutions, invited talk at Zhejiang Wanli University, January 2017
  • Security Issues in Internet of Things: opportunities and challenges, invited talk at Ningbo University, January 2017
  • IoT Security: opportunities and solutions, invited talk at Shanghai University of International Business and Economics, January 2017
  • Security in Internet of Things: vision and challenges, Invited talk at Anhui University, December 2016
  • Edge Supported Security Services for Internet of Things, Invited talk at Nanjing University of Posts and Communications, December 2016
  • IoT Security: vision, challenges, and solutions, Keynote at International Conference on Wireless Communication and Sensor Network (WCSN 2016), December 2016
  • The World of IoT, invited talk at The Chinese Entrepreneur Association, April 2016
  • Security in IoT: Round Table: IoT Security: Perspectives, Challenges, and Cases , invited talk at University of Nebraska at Omaha, April 2016
  • Energy Efficient Data Quality Management in Wireless Sensor Systems, invited talk at University of Houston - Clear Lake, May 2015
  • A Secure Framework to Read Isolated Devices in Smart Grid, invited talk at Howard University, Apr 2015
  • Data Quality Management in WSN, invited talk at Eastern Washington University, Apr 2015
  • Role-based Deceptive Data Detection in VANET, invited talk at University of Indianapolis, Feb 2015
  • A Cloud-aided Framework for Securely Reading Isolated Devices in Smart Grid, invited talk at Nanjing University of Posts and Communications, July 2014
  • An Efficient Framework for Data Quality Management, invited talk at Nanjing University of Posts and Communications, July 2014
  • Data Quality in Wireless Sensor Networks, invited talk at Oklahoma City University, Oct 2013