Contact

Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
The Pennsylvania State University

344 IST Building
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: (814)865-3441
Email:yy5@cse.psu.edu
Webpage:www.cse.psu.edu/~yy5

Biography

I am currently a Ph.D. student in Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University. I am also a member of the Networking and Security Research Center (NSRC). My advisor is Dr. Sencun Zhu.

Courses

CSE 598E: Security and Privacy in Emergent Networks
CSE 598D: Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks
CSE 565: Algorithm Design and Analysis
CSE 428: Programming Language Concepts

Teaching

Teaching Assistant, CSE 565 (Fall 2009): Algorithm Analysis
Teaching Assistant, IST 220 (Fall 2007): Networking and Telecommunications
Teaching Assistant, CSE 565 (Fall 2006): Algorithm Analysis
Teaching Assistant, CSE 428 (Spring 2006): Programming Language Concepts

Research

I am interested in network security, system security, Internet security, and network managment. My current research focuses on security and privacy issues in ad hoc and wireless sensor networks.

Publications:

Y.Yang, S.Zhu, G.Cao, and T.LaPorta, An Active Global Attack Model for Sensor Source Location Privacy: Analysis and Countermeasures. SecureComm 2009. (Acceptance ratio: 26.3%)[Full paper] [Bibtex]

M.Shao, S.Zhu, W.Zhang, G.Cao, Y.Yang, pDCS: Security and Privacy Support for Data-Centric Sensor Networks, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.[Full paper] [Bibtex]

Y.Yang, X.Wang, S.Zhu, and G.Cao, SDAP: A Secure Hop-by-Hop Data Aggregation Protocol for Sensor Networks, In ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC), Volume 11, Issue 4, July 2008.[Full paper] [Bibtex]

Yi Yang, Sencun Zhu and Guohong Cao, Improving Sensor Network Immunity under Worm Attacks: a Software Diversity Approach, ACM Mobihoc 2008. (Acceptance ratio: 14.7%) [Full paper] [Bibtex]

Yi Yang, Min Shao, Sencun Zhu, Bhuvan Urgaonkar, and Guohong Cao, Towards Event Source Unobservability with Minimum Network Traffic in Sensor Networks, ACM WiSec 2008. (Acceptance ratio: 16.7%) [Full paper] [Bibtex][Slides]

Min Shao, Yi Yang, Sencun Zhu, and Guohong Cao, Towards Statistically Strong Source Anonymity for Sensor Networks, IEEE Infocom 2008. (Acceptance ratio: 20.5%) [Full paper] [Bibtex]

Yi Yang, Xinran Wang, Sencun Zhu, and Guohong Cao, Distributed Software-based Attestation for Node Compromise Detection in Sensor Networks, IEEE SRDS, October 2007. (Acceptance ratio: 15%) [Full paper] [Bibtex][Slides]

Yi Yang, Xinran Wang, Sencun Zhu, and Guohong Cao, SDAP: A Secure Hop-by-Hop Data Aggregation Protocol for Sensor Networks, ACM Mobihoc'06, May 2006. (Acceptance ratio: 9.8%) [Full paper] [Bibtex]

Talks and Demonstrations:

"Improving Sensor Network Immunity under Worm Attacks: a Software Diversity Approach", The Fourth Annual Industry Day in the Pennsylvania State University, October 2008. [Poster]

"Distributed Software-based Attestation for Node Compromise Detection in Sensor Networks", The Third Annual Industry Day in the Pennsylvania State University, October 2007. [Poster]

"SDAP: A Secure Hop-by-Hop Data Aggregation Protocol for Sensor Networks", The Second Annual Industry Day in the Pennsylvania State University, October 2006. [Poster]

"A Framework for Secure Data Aggregation in Sensor Networks", The Second Network Security Workshop in Lehigh University, May 2006. [Slides]

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