Jing Dong

Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Computer Science
Purdue University
305 North University Street
West Lafayette, Indiana 47906-2066
Email: dongj [at] cs [dot] purdue [dot] edu

* I am actively looking for a job in wireless networking, distributed systems, and network security related areas.

I am a PhD candidate in Department of Computer Science in Purdue University. I am a member of Dependable and Secure Distributed Systems Laboratory (DS^2) within The Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS) . My advisor is Professor Cristina Nita-Rotaru.

Brief Biography

I was born and grew up in a southeastern city in China. I attended my high school in my hometown. In 1999, I started my undergraduate study in Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. I stayed in Tsinghua University for only one year, then in 2000 I moved to the beautiful city of Boston with my parents and continued my undergraduate study in the University of Massachusetts in Boston, where I obtained both my BS and MS degree. In August 2004, I came to Purdue University to pursue my PhD degree.

Research

My main areas of research are wireless ad hoc and mesh networks, especially security over such networks. I am mainly interested in practical and system-oriented research in this area. In the past, I have investigated the following issues

Application layer security on wireless networks, such as secure key management protocols on wireless networks
Efficient and resilient unicast and multicast protocols on wireless networks
Network coding, secure network coding, and its application on wireless networks

Most of my research are in the context of the following NSF funded projects

Curriculum Vitae

Please contact me if you would like a copy of my CV.

Education

Master of Science, August 2004
Department of Computer Science,
University of Massachusetts, Boston
Area: Software Engineering

Bachelor of Science, June 2003
Department of Computer Science and Mathematics,
University of Massachusetts, Boston

Publications

Journal

Secure Group Communication in Wireless Mesh Networks
Jing Dong, Kurt Erik Ackermann, Cristina Nita-Rotaru.
In Ad Hoc Networks (Elsevier), Special Issue: Privacy and Security in Wireless Sensor and Ad Hoc Networks, June 2009
[Bibtex]
Secure Network Coding for Wireless Mesh Networks: Threats, Challenges, and Directions
Jing Dong, Reza Curtmola,Cristina Nita-Rotaru.
In Computer Communications (Elsevier), July 2009
[Bibtex]
Secure and Robust Virtual Coordinate System in Wireless Sensor Networks
Jing Dong, Kurt Erik Ackermann, Cristina Nita-Rotaru.
To appear in ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks

Conference and Workshops

Practical Defenses Against Pollution Attacks in Intra-Flow Network Coding for Wireless Mesh Networks
Jing Dong, Reza Curtmola, Cristina Nita-Rotaru.
In the Second ACM Conference on Wireless Network Security (WiSec), Zurich, Switzerland, March 2009. (Acceptance rate: 13.1%)
[Extended Tech Report][Bibtex][Slides]
Toward Secure Network Coding in Wireless Networks: Threats and Challenges
Jing Dong, Reza Curtmola, Ruben Sethi, Cristina Nita-Rotaru.
In Proceedings of 4th Workshop on Secure Network Protocols (NPSEC) in conjunction with IEEE ICNP, Orlando, Florida, Oct 2008.
[Bibtex][Slides]
Mitigating Coordinate Attacks against Virtual Coordinate Based Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks
Jing Dong, Kurt Erik Ackermann, Brett Bavar, Cristina Nita-Rotaru.
In the First ACM Conference on Wireless Network Security (WiSec), Alexandria, Virginia, USA, March 2008. (Acceptance rate: 16.7%)
[Bibtex][Slides][Code]
On the Pitfalls of Using High-Throughput Multicast Metrics in Adversarial Wireless Mesh Networks
Jing Dong, Reza Curtmola, Cristina Nita-Rotaru.
In the Fifth Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad hoc Communications and Networks (SECON), San Francisco, CA, June 2008. (Acceptance rate: 21%)
[Extended Tech Report][Bibtex][Slides][Code]
Secure Group Communication in Wireless Mesh Networks
Jing Dong, Kurt Erik Ackermann, Cristina Nita-Rotaru.
In the Ninth IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM), Newport Beach, CA, June 2008. (Acceptance rate: 24.8%)
[Bibtex][Slides]
POSTER: Attacks Against Virtual Coordinate System Based Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks
Jing Dong, Cristina Nita-Rotaru.
In IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (Infocom), Anchorage, AK, May 2007.

Awards and Honors

GAANN Doctoral Fellowship, 2004 – 2007
IEEE Security and Privacy Travel Award, 2009
ACM WiSec Student Travel Award, 2009
IEEE SECON Student Travel Award, 2008
Distinction Award in Computer Science, 2003
Robert J. McMahon, Jr. Memorial Award, 2003
Randall Gates Malbone Fellowship, 2002 - 2003
Computer Science, Mathematics and Engineering (CSEMS) Scholarship, 2002-2003
UMass Boston Merit Based Scholarship, 2002
Dean's List, 2001-2003

Coursework

The following are selected courses related to my research that I have taken in Purdue University.

CS603 Distributed Systems
CS536 Data Communication and Computer Networks
CS526 Information Security
CS503 Operating Systems
CS541 Database Systems
CS555 Cryptography
CS565 Programming Languages
CS580 Algorithm Design, Analysis, and Implementation
CS590R Randomized Algorithm
CS590S Access Control: Theory and Practice

Personal

In my leisure time, I like to sit in front of my computer and hack my Linux box. I also like traveling, but unfortunately, up until now I have not had the time and money to travel as much as I want. Here are some of my traveling pictures.

Last updated on 6/2/2009