MAJOR HONORS AND AWARDS

• Best paper award, International Conference on Communications (ICC): Information and Network Security Symposium, 2008
• The Merrill Hunter Award for Excellence in Research, Dakota State University, 2008
• 1st place, Oral Competition in the Student Research Week, Texas A&M University, 2005
• Graduate Student Research Excellence Award, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University, 2004
• 2nd Place GraduateWinner, ACM International Student Research Contest, 2002
• Elite Scholarship, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1996
• Excellent Student Scholarship, Xi’an Jiaotong University, 1991 - 1995.

External Grants

• Title: Collaborative Research: WN: Proper Location Identification inWireless Networks (PI), Source: NSF, Duration: 9/2007 - 8/2010
• Title: MRI: Acquisition of Equipment to Establish an Information Assurance Infrastructure for Research and Education at Dakota State University (PI), Source: NSF, Duration: 8/2007 - 7/2010
• Title: Effectively and Efficiently Tracking Malicious Use of Anonymous Communication (PI), Source: South Dakota Governor Individual Research Seed Grant Program, Duration: 9/2006 - 9/2007
• Title: South Dakota Health Information Security and Privacy Study, Source: South Dakota Department of Health, Duration: 6/2006 - 9/2007

Internal Grants

• Title: A New Replay Attack Against Anonymous Communication Networks, Source: Faculty Research Initiative Grant at Dakota State University, Duration: 10/2007 - 5/2008
• Title: Traffice Analysis Attacks and Countermeasures, Source: Proposal Initiative Award at Dakota State University, Duration: 3/2007 - 6/2007
• Title: Improving TCP Performance in Flow Based Anonymous Communication Networks, Source: Faculty Research Initiative Grant at Dakota State University, Duration: 3/2007 - 6/2007
• Title: Measuring and Improving Anonymous Network Performance, Source: Student Research InitiativeAwards at Dakota State University, Duration: 10/2006 - 5/2007, Supervised Student: Jie Yu
• Title: Faculty Research Initiative Grants - Camouflaging Virtual Honeypots (PI), Source: Dakota State University, Duration: 10/2005 - 5/2006
• Title: Political Data Mining and Voter Decision Support Systems: Implementation and Security Research, Source: Student Research Initiative Awards at Dakota State University, Duration: 10/2005 - 5/2006, Supervised Student: Ivan Ven Osdel