Fengjun Li @ PSU


	Fengjun Li
	Ph.D. Candidate
	Address: 328 IST Building, Penn State University, University Park, PA 16802
	Phone: 814-765-6175 (O), 814-777-7568(C)
	Email: fli 'at' ist.psu.edu

I am currently a PhD candidate in the College of Information Sciences and Technology at Pennsylvania State University, co-advised by Dr. Peng Liu and Dr. Chao Hsien-Chu. My research concentrates on enabling and enhancing security and privacy in distributed systems, information-centric systems, and communication systems. I am expecting to complete my PhD degree by May 2010. My doctoral dissertation topic is Secure and Privacy-Preserving XML Information Brokering.

I joined the Cyber Security Lab at Penn State in 2005. After that, I have actively conducted several research projects. My research focus in secure information sharing was to build large-scale distributed information brokering systems, where data servers in multiple organizations were loosely-federated to provide on-demand data access to authorized users through information brokers. Extending my research scope to information sharing over general Web applications, I started to work on anonymous communication protocols, which protected the privacy of Internet communication participants. Recently, I turned my focus to privacy-preserving group linkage problems, motivated by sovereign information sharing among autonomous entities. The research findings of these projects have been published in prestigigious security conferences and journals.

Before coming to PSU, I earned my M.Phil degree in Information Engineering from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in 2004, and my B.S. degree in Automation from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 2001.

My master's research at CUHK focused on dynamic load-balancing problems in wireless Ad Hoc networks. I defined a novel measurement to access node selfishness, unwillingness to transmit packets for others, and proved the existence and uniqueness of a fair state in networks with special topologies. I also designed recursive algorithms, with or without price incentive, to regulate the selfish behavior of peering nodes to attain equilibrium or fair states.

During my bachelor's study at USTC, I explored protocols and standards in Controller Area Networks, and designed an interface for supporting high-speed communications through Enhanced Parallel Port and Controller Area Network.