Ming Li

Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
Utah State University

4205 Old Main Hill, Logan, UT 84322
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Phone: (435) 797-2336
Office: Old Main 435

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  • [Mar. 2013] Our paper "Surviving the RF Smog: Making Body Area Networks Robust to Cross-Technology Interference'' is accepted by IEEE SECON 2013!
  • [Feb. 2013] Our paper "Storing Shared Data on the Cloud via Security-Mediator" is accepted by ICDCS 2013!
  • [Jan. 2013] The SPICY lab got two full papers accepted by ACM WiSec 2013!
  • [Dec. 2012] Our paper on securing PHRs in the cloud using ABE is selected as the Spotlight Paper for the January 2013 issue of the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems! 
  • [Oct. 2012] Dr. Li is invited to participate in the NSF Workshop for Aspiring PIs in Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC)!
  • [May 2012] Dr. Li is invited to give three talks on Security for Wireless Body Area Networks at University of Massachusetts Lowell, Boston and Dartmouth!

Short Biography

Ming Li is an assistant professor at the Department of Computer Science at Utah State University (USU). He currently leads the Cyber Security and Privacy (SPICY) lab at USU. He received Ph.D. in 2011 from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and earned his B.E. and M.E. degrees from Beihang University China in 2005 and 2008, respectively. Dr. Li's research work has appeared in premier journals and conferences including IEEE JSAC, TWC, TPDS, ACM TOSN, IEEE INFOCOM, SECON, ICDCS, ICNP, ACM ASIACCS, WiSec, ESORICS, etc.  

Research Interests

His main research interests are in the areas of Cyber Security and Privacy, with current emphases on the following topics:

  • Security and privacy in cloud computing and big data;
  • Wireless networks and security, e.g., cognitive radio networks and mobile social networks.
  • Security in cyber-physical systems, e.g., E-healthcare system and smart grid;
  • Applied Cryptography.
In the past, he has also done research in wireless networking and mobile computing, with emphases on network coding, opportunistic routing and broadcast.

Recent Publications [Full List] [Google Scholar Citations]

  • B. Wang, S. S.M. Chow, M. Li and H. Li, "Storing Shared Data on the Cloud via Security-Mediator'', ICDCS 2013, Philadelphia, PA, Jul. 8-11, 2013.
  • W. Sun et. al.,"Privacy-Preserving Multi-keyword Text Search in the Cloud Supporting Similarity-based Ranking'', ACM ASIACCS 2013, Hangzhou, China, May 7-10, 2013. (Best paper award)
  • Y. Hou, M. Li, and J. D. Guttman, "Chorus: Scalable In-band Trust Establishment for Multiple Constrained Devices over the Insecure Wireless Channel'',ACM WiSec 2013, Budapest, Hungary, April 17-19, 2013.
  • Q. Yan et. al., “Non-parametric Passive Traffic Monitoring in Cognitive Radio Networks”, IEEE INFOCOM 2013, Turin, Italy, Apr. 2013.
  • Y. Zheng, M. Li, W. Lou and T. Hou, "SHARP: Private Proximity Test and Secure Handshake with Cheat-Proof Location Tags'', ESORICS 2012, Pisa, Italy, Sept. 10-14, 2012, accepted. (Acceptance ratio: 20%)

Awards

  • Best Paper Award (co-recipient), ACM ASIACCS 2013.
  • USU CS Faculty Research Award, 2013.
  • Nomination for best paper award by the IEEE COMSOC MMTC, 2012.
  • IEEE ICDCS Travel Award, NSF, 2011.
  • IEEE INFOCOM Travel Award, NSF, 2010.
  • WPI Institute Fellowship, WPI, 2008-2009.

Professional Activities

Membership

  • Member of the IEEE (since 2008)
  • Member of the ACM (since 2009)

Conference Organizing Committee

  • Web Chair, The First IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (IEEE CNS 2013)
  • Co-Chair of the Cyber Security, Privacy and Trust Track, Seventh International Conference on Broadband, Wireless Computing, Communication and Applications (BWCCA 2012)
  • Session Chair, IEEE INFOCOM 2013, ACM WiSec 2013, ACM WiSec 2012

Conference Program Committee

Editor & Reviewer

  • Editor, KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems
  • Reviewer of Journals: IEEE JSAC, TKDE, TSP, TSG, TWC, TMC, TPDS, TVT, TITS, WCM, International Journal of Security and Networks, Security and Communication Networks, Information Sciences, etc.
  • Reviewer of Conferences: CSFW, ASIACCS, ESORICS, WiSec, SecureComm, SECRYPT, SECON, ICDCS, MOBIHOC, INFOCOM, ICNP, MASS, IWQoS, WoWMoM, ICDCN, MILCOM, ICCCN, ICC
  • NSF Panelist, 2012

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