Kui (Quinn) Ren Assistant Professor Ubiquitous Security & PrivaCy Research Laboratory (UbiSeC Lab)                Phone: (312) 567-3481 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering                                      Fax: (312) 567-8976 Illinois Institute of Technology                                                                       Email: kren (-^-) ece-*-iit-*-edu 3301 Dearborn St, Siegel Hall 319 Chicago, Illinois 60616

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Bio Sketch

I am an assistant professor at the ECE Department of Illinois Institute of Technology, where I lead Ubiquitous Security & Privacy Research Laboratory (UbiSeC Lab). Prior to this, I have been with Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (IT Covergence Campus), Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore, and Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. I obtained my B.E. and M.E. degrees from Zhejiang University and Ph.D. degree from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Research

My research interests include Security & Privacy in Cloud Computing, Lower-layer Attack & Defense Mechanisms for Wireless Networks, Wireless Ad Hoc, Mesh, & Sensor Network Security, Smart Grid Security, and Access Control with Attribute-based Cryptographic Techniques. For more details, please visit UbiSeC lab.

My research is currently supported by

• National Science Foundation
• Department of Energy
• Amazon Web Service
  

Selected Publications in 2010 (a more complete list):

• Delay-Bounded Adaptive UFH-based Anti-jamming Wireless Communication, Under Submission
• Fast and Scalable Secret Key Generation Exploiting Channel Phase Randomness in Wireless Networks, Under Submission

• Secure and Practical Outsourcing of Linear Programming in Cloud Computing, Under Submission
  

• Privacy-Preserving Multi-keyword Ranked Search over Encrypted Cloud Data, Under Submission

• Towards Optimal Electric Demand Management for Internet Data Centers, Under Submission

• Securing Persoanl Health Records in Cloud Computing: Patient-centric and Fine-grained Data Access Control in Multi-owner Settings, SecureComm'10, with M. Li, S. Yu, and W. Lou.
• Towards Publicly Auditable Secure Cloud Data Storage Services, IEEE Nework Magazine, with C. Wang, W. Lou, and J. Li
  
• Secure Ranked Keyword Search over Encrypted Cloud Data, IEEE ICDCS'10, with C. Wang, N. Cao, J. Li, and W. Lou.
  
• Attribute Based Data Sharing with Attribute Revocation (pdf), ASIACCS'10, with S. Yu, C. Wang, and W. Lou.
• Privacy-preserving Public Auditing for Storage Security in Cloud Computing (updated ePrint verion), IEEE INFOCOM'10, with C. Wang, Q. Wang, and W. Lou.
  
• Achieving Secure, Scalable, and Fine-grained Access Control in Cloud Computing (pdf), IEEE INFOCOM'10, with S. Yu, C. Wang, and W. Lou.
• Fuzzy Keyword Search over Encrypted Data in Cloud Computing (pdf), IEEE INFOCOM'10, Mini-Conference, with J. Li, Q. Wang, C. Wang, N. Cao, and W. Lou.
• Group Device Pairing based Secure Sensor Association and Key Management for Body Area Networks (pdf), IEEE INFOCOM'10, with M. Li, S. Yu, and W. Lou.

Teaching

• ECE 543 Computer Network Security
• ECE 546 Wireless Network Security

Current PhD Students

• Qian Wang, PhD Student  
• Cong Wang, PhD Student
• Hai Su, PhD Student
• Ning Cao, PhD Student (co-advised with Prof. Wenjing Lou)

Recent Professional Activities

• Co-Guest Editor, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, Special Issue on Cyber, Physical and System Security for Smart Grid, 2010
  
• Publicity co-Chair, IEEE INFOCOM 2011
• Regional Arrangements Committee, ACM CCS 2010
• Publicity Chair, The First International Workshop on Security and Privacy in Cloud Computing (ICDCS-SPCC), Held in conjunction with ICDCS 2010
  
• TPC co-Chair, Network Security and Privacy Track, ICCCN 2010
• TPC co-Chair, Ad-hoc and Sensor Network Track, IEEE VTC 2010 Fall
• TPC member for ICDCS'11, INFOCOM'11, ASIACCS'11, ICDCS'10, INFOCOM'10, WISEC'10, MASS'10

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