Sencun Zhu

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 the University of Science and Technology of China, Graduate School at Beijing, in 1999. He received the Ph.D. degree in information technology from George Mason University in 2004. His research interests include network and systems security with focuses on ad-hoc and sensor network security, P2P security, cellphone security, and software security. His research has been funded by NSF and ARO, and he was a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award in 2007. He was a technical program committee member for conferences such as ACM CCS, Infocom, ESORICS, WiSec, and ICDCS.  He was a treasurer for ACM CCS and AsiaCCS.  He served as a guest editor for the Ad Hoc Network Journal.

Research Interests:

Network and System Security, Software Security, Wireless Security, and Internet Privacy

Selected Publications:

1. Yang, Y., S. Zhu, G. Cao.  May 2008.  Improving Sensor Network Immunity under Worm Attacks:  A Software Diversity Approach.  Proceedings of the Seventh ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MOBIHOC'08).  pp. 149-158.  Hong Kong, China.
2. Yang, Y., M. Shao, S. Zhu, B. Urgaonkar, G. Cao.  March 31-April 2, 2008.  Towards Event Source Unobservability with Minimum Network Traffic in Sensor Networks.  Proceedings of the First ACM Conference on Wireless Network Security (WiSec '08).  pp. 77-88.  Washington, D.C.
   
3. Wang, X., C. Pan, P. Liu, S. Zhu. July 31-August 4, 2006. SigFree: A Signature-free Buffer Overflow Attack Blocker. Proceedings of the Fifteenth USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX 2006). pp. 225-240. Vancouver, B.C., Canada.
4. Yang, Y., X. Wang, S. Zhu, G. Cao. May 2006. SDAP: A Secure Hop-by-Hop Data Aggregation Protocol for Sensor Networks. Proceedings of the Seventh ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MOBIHOC'06). pp. 356-367. Florence, Italy.
   
5. Zhang, W., H. Song, S. Zhu, G. Cao. May 2005. Least Privilege and Privilege Deprivation: Towards Tolerating Mobile Sink Compromises in Wireless Sensor Networks. Proceedings of the Sixth ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc 2005). pp. 378-389. Urbana-Champaign, IL.