Zhu, Sencun  Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science and Engineering & College of Information Sciences and Technology The Pennsylvania State University 338F Information Sciences and Technology Building University Park, PA 16802 Phone: (814)-865-0995 FAX:   (814)-865-3176 Email:  szhu  (AT)  cse.psu.edu

Biography & Research
Sencun Zhu received the B.S. degree in Precision Instruments from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 1996 and the M.S. degree in Signal Processing from University of Science and Technology of China, Graduate School at Beijing,  in 1999. He received the PhD degree in Information Technology from George Mason University in 2004.

His research interests include network and systems security, ad-hoc and sensor networks, performance evaluation, peer-to-peer computing. Currently he is working on issues related to ad hoc and sensor network security, DDoS attack prevention, and Worm detection. His research is funded by NSF and ARO. He is a member of the Networking and Security Research Center.

Teaching

• CSE 598G: Security and Privacy in Emergent Networks, Fall 2008

Recent Professional Activities

• Program Co-Chair:   2006 ACM Workshop on Security of Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks (SASN '06)
• Treasurer:               ACM Conference on Computer and Communication Security (CCS) 2007, 2008, 2009.
• TPC Member:          Infocom 2007, CCS'07, Securecomm 2008, ESORICS'08, WiSec'09, ICDCS'09, ICC'09.

Selected Publications (a complete list)

• Y. Yang, S. Zhu, and G. Cao. Improving Sensor Network Immunity under Worm Attacks: A Software Diversity Approach. ACM Mobihoc 2008.
   
• Y. Yang, M. Shao, S. Zhu, B. Urgaonkar, and G. Cao. Towards Event Source Unobservability with Minimum Network Traffic in Sensor Networks, ACM WiSec 2008.
   
• M. Shao, Y. Yang, S. Zhu, and G. Cao. Towards Statistically Strong Source Anonymity for Sensor Networks. IEEE INFOCOM 2008.
   
• W. Zhang, M. Tran, S. Zhu, and G. Cao. A Random Perturbation-Based Scheme for Pairwise Key Establishment in Sensor Networks. ACM Mobihoc 2007.
   
• M. Shao, S. Zhu, W. Zhang, and G. Cao.  pDCS: Security and Privacy Support for Data-Centric Sensor Networks, IEEE INFOCOM 2007.
   
• X. Wang, C. Pan, P. Liu, and S. Zhu. SigFree: A Signature-free Buffer Overflow Attack Blocker. Proceedings of USENIX Security'06, July 2006.
   
• Y. Yang, X. Wang, S. Zhu, and G. Cao.  SDAP: A Secure Hop-by-Hop Data Aggregation Protocol for Sensor Networks. Proceedings of  ACM MOBIHOC'06, May 2006.
   
• W. Zhang, H. Song, S. Zhu, and G. Cao. Least Privilege and Privilege Deprivation: Towards Tolerating Mobile Sink Compromises in Wireless Sensor Networks. Proceedings of  ACM MOBIHOC'05, May 2005.
   
• S. Zhu,  S. Setia, S. Jajodia, P. Ning.  An Interleaved Hop-by-Hop Authentication Scheme for Filtering of Injected False Data in Sensor Networks. Proceedings of  IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P'04), Oakland, California, May 2004.
   
• S. Zhu, S. Setia, S. Jajodia.  LEAP: Efficient Security Mechanisms for Large-Scale Distributed Sensor Networks. Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS '03), Washington D.C. October, 2003.

Students:

    Current: Xinran Wang (PhD),  Yi Yang (PhD), Zhi Xu (PhD), Wei Xu (PhD), Fangfang Zhang (PhD), Ying Chen (PhD, co-advise with Heng Xu), Ashwin Chaugule (MS), Lei Zhang (MS).
    Graduated:  Liang Xie (PhD, Broadcom), Hung-yuan Hsu (PhD, co-advise with Ali Hurson, Samsung Mobile), Leonel Bueno (MS, Deloitte), Oh Young-Hyun (MS, now PhD@NCSU), Nazneen Irani(MS, co-advise, Deloitte)

Academic Lineage

My view of several common doubts on Christianity (in Chinese)

Some personal and family photos

Last Updated: March, 2006.