[September 2024] Our book "Mobile Technologies for Smart Healthcare System Design" has been published on Springer. This book introduces various practical AI/ML solutions for mobile edge applications in real-world healthcare scenarios.

[Augest 2024] Dr. Chen is named a Top Scholar by ScholarGPS, ranking in the top 0.5% of scholars worldwide for their contributions in various fields. She achieved #19 in Mobile Computing and #59 in Smartphone based on her accomplishments in recent years 2018 - 2022.

[May 2024] Dr. Chen has received Rutgers Provost Faculty Excellence Award in Pioneering Research. This award is in recognition of a faculty member whose research contributions have transformed the field, including highly cited scholarship or practical patents.

[May 2024] Our paper has been accepted to ACM CCS 2024: "SAFARI: Speech-Associated Facial Authentication for AR/VR Settings via Robust VIbration Signatures".

[April 2024] 3+2 Program with National Sun Yat-sen University: On 3+2 program signing ceremony between Rutgers School of Engineering and National Sun Yat-sen University (NSYSU), Taiwan. Rutgers-New Brunswick Chancellor Francine Conway is the 5th and School of Engineering Dean Alberto Cuitino is the 6th in the front row. President of NSYSU Ying-Tao Cheng is the 4th in the front row.

[March 2024] Two papers have been accepted to ACM MobiCom 2024: "Inaudible Backdoor Attack via Stealthy Frequency Trigger Injection in Audio Spectrogram" and "Practical Adversarial Attack on WiFi Sensing Through Unnoticeable Communication Packet Perturbation".

[March 2024] Two papers have been accepted to ACM MobiSys 2024: "TouchTone: Smartwatch Privacy Protection via Unobtrusive Finger Touch Gestures" and "Eavesdropping on Online Conversations with Out-of-Vocabulary Words by Sensing Metal Coil Vibration of Headsets Leveraging RFID". (Acceptance rate: 16.3%)

[January 2024] Dr. Chen has been inducted into Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Fellow. ACM Fellows represent just 1% of our entire global membership. This year’s inductees include the inventor of the World Wide Web (Tim Berners-Lee), the “godfathers" of AI - Turing Award recipients (Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, Yann LeCun), and other colleagues whose contributions have all been important building blocks in forming the digital society that shapes our modern world.

[January 2024] Dr. Chen gives the keynote speech on "AI-Driven Efficiency and Security in Edge Sensing and Computing: Advancements, Vulnerabilities, and Opportunities" at BDPC 2024.

[December 2023] Dr. Chen has been selected as Top Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the Year 2023 by the International Associate of Top Professionals (IAOTP). These special honorees are distinguished based on their professional accomplishments, academic achievements, leadership abilities, and contributions to their communities. Honorees are shown on the NASDAQ Billboard and invited to attend the IAOTP's Annual Awards Gala at the iconic Plaza Hotel in NYC in December 2023 to honor their achievements. To name a few of the honorees in IAOTP 2023, Bobby Valentine (Former MLB Baseball Player and Top Legendary Baseball Management), Judge Jeanine Pirro (World Renowned Judge & TV Show Co-Host on Fox News Channel), Ronald Whittemore (Top Senior Olympic Athlete of the Decade), Gavin Maloof (Co-Owner of NHL Stanley Cup Champions and the Vegas Golden Knights) are all among the honorees for IAOTP 2023.

[December 2023] Dr. Chen is invited to present at the Colloquium: ComSoc History and Evolution of Communication.

[September 2023] NSF funded Dr. Chen's project on "Efficient and Robust Multi-model Data Analytics for Edge Computing".

[September 2023] Dr. Chen was part of a team receiving a NSF large project titled "FMRG: Cyber: Manufacturing USA: NextG-Enabled Manufacturing of the Future (NextGEM)". [NSF News, Rutgers School of Engineering News]

[August 2023] Our paper "FaceReader: Unobtrusively Mining Vital Signs and Vital Sign Embedded Sensitive Info via AR/VR Motion Sensors" has been accepted to ACM CCS 2023.

[August 2023] Our paper "Privacy Leakage via Speech-induced Vibrations on Room Objects through Remote Sensing based on Phased-MIMO" has been accepted to ACM CCS 2023.

[March 2023] Our paper "Privacy Leakage via Unrestricted Motion-Position Sensors in the Age of Virtual Reality: A Study of Snooping Typed Input on Virtual Keyboards" has been accepted to IEEE S&P 2023. [Project Website]

[March 2023] Rutgers University-New Brunswick has been ranked #28 Best Electrical Engineering Degree Programs by Best Accredited Colleges.

[February 2023] Our website for NSF funded project "Nation-wide Community-based Mobile Edge Sensing and Computing Testbeds" has been launched at: https://data-website.github.io/.

[January, 2023] Yingying has become the Associate Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (TNSE). [IEEE TNSE News]

[December 2022] Dr. Chen has been elected as an outstanding researcher in N2Women: Stars in Networking and Communications.

[October 2022] Our Poster "A Non-intrusive and Adaptive Speaker De-Identification Scheme Using Adversarial Examples" has received the Best Poster Runner-up Award of The 28th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing And Networking (MobiCom 2022).

[August 2022] Congratulations to Cong Shi on joining New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) Computer Science Department as a tenure track Assistant Professor.

[August 2022] Congratulations to Xiaonan Guo on moving to George Mason University (GMU) as a tenure track Assistant Professor.

[July 2022] NIH awarded Dr. Chen's project on "Smartphone App to Examine Effects of Cannabis Use on Driving Behavior". This is a collaborative project with Robert Wood Johnson Medical School at Rutgers University.

[July 2022] NSF awarded Dr. Chen's research project on "A General Framework for Accelerating AI on Resource-Constrained Edge Devices".

[June 2022] Dr. Chen attended the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Fellow Induction Ceremony at the NAI Annual Meeting.

[June 2022] We have two papers aceepted by ACM MobiCom 2022: "Audio-domain Position-independent Backdoor Attack via Subsecond Triggers" and "MoiréPose: Ultra High Precision Camera-to-Screen Pose Estimation based on Moiré Pattern" (Acceptance rate: 17.8%).

[May 2022] Dr. Chen has been selected as an honoree for the 2021-2022 Chancellor-Provost’s Celebration of Faculty Excellence.

[April 2022] Dr. Chen has been appointed as the chair of the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department at Rutgers. See the the announcement from Rutgers ECE Department.

[April 2022] Dr. Chen has been recognized as the 2022 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Honorable Mention in Computer Networking for her outstanding and vibrant contributions to this field between 2012 and 2021.

[February 2022] Rutgers Office for Research has showcased our work on "Inferring Live Speech and Speaker Identity via Subtle Facial Dynamics Captured by AR/VR Motion Sensors" as the top story on the Rutgers Research News. .

[January 2022] Dr. Chen gives the keynote speech on "Exploring the Power of Mobile Sensing and Computing for IoT Security and Smart Healthcare" at IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference 2022 (IEEE CCNC 2022).

[December 2021] Dr. Chen has been inducted into the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). See the announcement from Rutgers School of Engineering.

[December 2021] Dr. Chen has been recognized as ACM 2021 Distinguished Members.

[October 2021] Dr. Chen gives the keynote speech on "Towards Intelligent Mobile Sensing: From Smart Access Systems Empowered by Vibration to Smart Health via WiFi" at IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Smart Systems 2021 (IEEE MASS 2021).

[October 2021] Dr. Chen delivers a keynote on "Towards Intelligent Mobile Security" at International Conference on Network and System Security 2021 (NSS 2021).

[October 2021] Dr. Chen has been elected as a Fellow of Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA).

[October 2021] NSF awarded Dr. Chen's research project on "Nation-wide Community-based Mobile Edge Sensing and Computing Testbeds."

[September 2021] Dr. Chen is leading a team at WINLAB to build the Mobile Edge Computing Community Testbed.

[September 2021] Our paper "Robust Detection of Machine-induced Audio Attacks in Intelligent Audio Systems with Microphone Array" has been accepted to ACM CCS 2021.

[August 2021] Dr. Chen gives the keynote speech on "Exploring the Power of SmartIoT: IoT Security and WiFi-enabled Healthcare" at IEEE International Conference on Smart Internet of Things 2021 (IEEE SmartIoT 2021) .

[August 2021] Our paper "Face-Mic: Inferring Live Speech and Speaker Identity via Subtle Facial Dynamics Captured by AR/VR Motion Sensors" has been accepted to ACM MobiCom 2021 (Acceptance rate: 17.4%).

[July 2021] Dr. Chen serves as the TPC Co-chair of IEEE INFOCOM 2022. Please submit your work and join us at INFOCOM 2022!

[June 2021] Dr. Chen serves as a panelist of "Edge is the New Cloud" panel at IEEE WoWMoM 2021.

[May 2021] Dr. Chen becomes the Editor of the new column, “Women in Networks”, in IEEE Network magazine. This new column, “Women in Networks”, aims to introduce distinguished female researchers, engineers, and educators who have been actively working and dedicating themselves in the research and development of computer communications and networking domains.

[May 2021] Our paper "MultiAuth: Enable Multi-User Authentication with Single Commodity WiFi Device" has been accepted to ACM MobiHoc 2021 (Acceptance rate: 20.1%).

[May 2021] Dr. Chen serves as a panelist of "Challenges and Opportunities in Designing and Developing Cyber-Physical-Human Systems" panel at Cyber-Physical-Human System Design and Implementation (CPHS) Workshop co-located with Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet-of-Things (CPS-IoT) Week 2021.

[April 2021] Dr. Chen is recognized as the Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention for outstanding and vibrant contributions to the field of Computer Networking in the past ten years (between 2010 and 2020). My research profile can be found here. The full list in Computer Networking can be found here.

[November 2020] Our paper "Enabling Fast and Universal Audio Adversarial Attack Using Generative Model" has been accepted to AAAI 2020 (Acceptance rate: 21.3%).

[2020] Department of Energy (DOE) awarded Dr. Chen's research project on "Cybersecurity Manufacturing Innovation Institute (CyManII)".

[October 2020] Our paper "EchoVib: Exploring Voice Authentication via Unique Non-Linear Vibrations of Short Replayed Speech" has been accepted to ACM AsiaCCS 2021 (Acceptance rate: 18.5%).

[October 2020] Our paper "HVAC: Evading Classifier-based Defenses in Hidden Voice Attacks" has been accepted to ACM AsiaCCS 2021 (Acceptance rate: 18.5%).

[2020] NSF awarded Dr. Chen's research project on "MIMO Radar With Sparse Linear Arrays – Theory, Implementation and Applications".

[September 2020] Our paper "BatComm: Enabling Inaudible Acoustic Communication with High-throughput for Mobile Devices" has been accepted to ACM SenSys 2020 (Acceptance rate: 20.6%).

[September 2020] Our paper "WearID: Low-Effort Wearable-Assisted Authentication of Voice Commands via Cross-Domain Comparison without Training" has been accepted to ACSAC 2020 (Acceptance rate: 23.2%).

[September 2020] Our paper "AdvPulse: Universal, Synchronization-free, and Targeted Audio Adversarial Attacks via Subsecond Perturbations" has been accepted to ACM CCS 2020 (Acceptance rate: 16.9%).

[2020] NSF awarded Dr. Chen's research project on "Hardware-accelerated Trustworthy Deep Neural Network".

[2020] Cisco Systems awarded Dr. Chen's research project on "System Characterization and Sensitivity Investigation of Channel State Information Through Sensing Human Dynamics".

[February 2020] Our paper "EchoLock: Towards Low-effort Mobile User Identification Leveraging Structure-borne Echos" has been accepted to ACM CCS 2020 (Acceptance rate: 21.8%).

[2019] Our paper "TouchPass: Towards Behavior-irrelevant on-touch User Authentication on Smartphones Leveraging Vibrations" has been accepted to ACM MobiCom 2020 (Acceptance rate: 17.3%).

[2019] BullRun Capital awarded Dr. Chen's research project on "In-luggage Dangerous Objects Detection Leveraging WiFi".

[2019] NSF awarded Dr. Chen's research project on "Software Hardware Architecture Co-design for] Low-power Heterogeneous Edge Devices".

[December 2019] Our paper "WiFi-enabled Automatic Eating Moment Monitoring Using Smartphones" has received the Best Paper Award in the 6th EAI International Conference on IoT Technologies for HealthCare (HealthyIoT 2019).

[August 2019] Dr. Chen provides comments on "Build a Do It Yourself Identity Theft Protection System" for Wallethacks.com, which is one of the leading outlets covering the personal finance industry.

[July 2019] Congratulations to Jian Liu, who will join the EECS department at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, as a tenure-track Assistant Professor.

[July 2019] Our work on "Speech Privacy Exploit via Accelerometer-Sensed Reverberations from Smartphone Loudspeakers" has been reported in The Hacker News: "New Attack Lets Android Apps Capture Loudspeaker Data Without Any Permission ".

[June 2019] Congratulations to Chen Wang, who has been selected as the recipient of IEEE COMSOC Phoenix ISS Scholarship 2019. [Rutgers News]

[October 2018] Dr. Chen provides comments on "2018's States Most Vulnerable to Identity Theft & Fraud" for WalletHub.com, which is one of the leading outlets covering the personal finance industry.

[August 2018] CBS TV has interviewed Dr. Chen and her team on their work on "In-baggage Suspicious Object Detection Using Commodity WiFi". . The CBS news is here.

[August 2018] Our work on "In-baggage Suspicious Object Detection Using Commodity WiFi" has been reported in Rutgers News: "Common WiFi Can Detect Weapons, Bombs and Chemicals in Bags" and over 50 media outlets, e.g., BBC News, NBC New York, Philadelphia Inquirer, and Yahoo News.

[July 2018] NSF awarded Dr. Chen's research project on "Security Assurance in Short Range Communication with Wireless Channel Obfuscation".

[July 2018] NSF awarded Salim and Dr. Chen's research project on "Medium: Secure Distributed Coded Computations for IoT: An Information Theoretic and Network Approach".

[May 2018] Our paper "Towards In-baggage Suspicious Object Detection Using Commodity WiFi" has received the Best Paper Award in the IEEE International Communications and Network Security (CNS 2018). .

[April 2018] ARO awarded Dr. Chen's research project on "Enhanced Learning of Sensor Fusion for Human Authentication".

[December 2017] Our work on Abnormal Driving Behaviors Detection and Identification with Smartphones has been featured in IEEE Xplore Innovation Spotlight.

[November 2017] National Science Foundation has showcased our work on "Finger-input Authentication via Physical Vibration" as top story on NSF Science News. .

[October 2017] Our work on "Finger-input Authentication via Physical Vibration" has been reported in Rutgers News: "Good Vibrations: Smart Access to Homes and Cars Using Fingers" and over 30 media outlets, e.g., IEEE Spectrum, Yahoo Finance News, NSF Science 360 News, and Futurity.

[August 2017] NSF awarded Dr. Chen's research project on "Exploiting Physical Properties in Wireless Networks for Implicit Authentication".

[August 2017] Dr. Chen received 2017 IEEE Region 1 Technological Innovation in Academic Award.

[August 2017] DAISY lab got one paper accepted by ACM CCS'17.

[June 2017] Our paper "VibSense: Sensing Touches on Ubiquitous Surfaces through Vibration" has received the Best Paper Award in the IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication and Networking (SECON 2017) [pdf]. .

[May 2017] Dr. Chen received Henry Morton Distinguished Teaching Professor Award (Stevens President Dr. Nariman Farvardin presented the award to Dr. Chen at the Ph.D. Hooding Ceremony). .

[May 2017] Congratulations to Dr. Xiaonan Guo, who has joined Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, as a tenure-track Assistant Professor.

[April 2017] Dr. Chen gives a tutorial on IoT security at IEEE 5G Learning Series - New Jersey Edition.

[March 2017] Dr. Chen received a DURIP award 2017 on "Infrastructure for Securing Dynamic Tactical MANETs Research and Education" from ARO .

[January 2017] Guest Editor on IEEE Communications Magazine Special Issue: Behavior Recognition Based on Wi-Fi Channel State Information (CSI).

[November 2016] San Francisco Chronicle interviewed Dr. Chen about possible security vulnerabilities through home devices with microphones.

[October 2016] ACM MobiCom 2016 has been successfully held in NYC, and Dr. Chen is the General Co-chair. .

[October 2016] IEEE CNS 2016 has been successfully held in Philadelphia, and Dr. Chen is the TPC Co-chair. .

[September 2016] National Science Foundation has showcased our work on "Cracking the PIN Number Using Wearables" on NSF facebook and podcast NSF Science 360 Radio. .

[September 2016] CNN has interviewed Dr. Chen and her team on their work on "Your Wearable Devices Reveal Your Personal PIN". .

[July 2016] Our work on wearable devices revealing your personal PIN has been reported in Stevens News: "Did Your Smart Watch & Fitness Tracker Just Give Away Your PIN?" and over 60 media outlets, e.g., FORTUNE, PHYS, IEEE Spectrum and live interview with Top of Mind with Julie Rose on BYU Radio.

[July 2016] Dr. Chen has led "IoT: Internet of Things or Internet of Dreams?" panel at ACM MobiHoc 2016 in Paderborn, Germany. .

[June 2016] Our paper of "Friend or Foe? Your Wearable Devices Reveal Your Personal PIN" has received the Best Paper Award in the ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS 2016) [pdf], [Presentation Slides]. .

[October 2015] Dr. Chen is the TPC Co-chair of IEEE CNS 2016. Please join us in Philadelphia!

[October 2015] Dr. Chen delivers a keynote on "Tracking Vital Signs During Sleep Leveraging Mobile Devices" at IEEE International Conference on E-health Networking Application & Services 2015 (IEEE Healthcom 2015) .

[September 2015] NSF awarded Dr. Chen's research project on "Exploiting Fine-grained WiFi Signals for Wellbeing Monitoring".

[July 2015] Our work on fine-grained sleep monitoring using smartphones has been reported by several Chinese famous technical sites: 网易科技, MIT科技评论, and 电子工程世界.

[June 2015] New papers appear at ACM MobiSys, MobiCom, MobiHoc and SenSys.

[June 2015] Congratulations to Dr. Yan Wang, who has joined the Computer Science Department at Binghamton University, the State University of New York, as a tenure-track Assistant Professor.

[May 2015] Dr. Chen is invited to serve as an Area TPC Chair of IEEE INFOCOM 2016.

[January 2015] Our work on fine-grained sleep monitoring using smartphones has been reported by the "Engineering Innovation" on WTOP Radio (Washington's Top News).

[September - December 2014] Visiting professor at Princeton University, sabbatical leave at Stevens.

[December 2014] Our work on fine-grained sleep monitoring using smartphones has been reported by the MIT Technology Review , Yahoo News and Zeenews.

[October 2014] Dr. Chen presented the Sensing Driver Phone Use work in the Voice of America (VoA-TV).

[October 2014] Our collaborative project with Rutgers University on "Enabling Pedestrian Safety Services via Shoe Sensing" has received the Award of Solutions for Pedestrians & Cyclists - Large Organization Recognition in the Connected Intersections challenge sponsored by AT&T.

[October 2014] Our paper of "Accurate Rogue Access Point Localization Leveraging Fine-grained Channel Information" has received the Best Paper Award in the IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (IEEE CNS 2014).

[September 2014] NSF awarded Dr. Chen's research project on "Guardian Angel-Enabling Mobile Safety Systems".

[September 2014] NSF awarded Dr. Chen's research project on "Towards Understanding Smartphone User Privacy: Implication, Derivation".

[August 2014] Congratulations to Dr. Jie Yang (previous Ph.D. student in our group) on joining the Computer Science Department at Florida State University as a tenure-track Assistant Professor.

[July 2014] IMPACT (the newletter showcases the remarkable diversity, breadth and successes of research and scholarship at Stevens) reported our vision on seeing smartphones more than communication and email devices: we sees vast potential to transform both the ways we monitor our health and the safety of the nation’s highways.

[April 2014] Dr. Chen and Marco presented the Driver Phone Use Detection work in the National News Channel: Fox News Channel. [Fox News, Stevens News]

[April 2014] Dr. Chen and Marco presented the Sensing Driver Phone Use work in the New Jersey News Channel My9. [My9 News, Stevens News]

[March 2014] Our paper "Tracking Human Queues Using Single-Point Signal Monitoring" has been accepted to ACM MobiSys 2014.

[January 2014] Our work on mobile healthcare has been reported in Fierce Mobile Healthcare and Digital Journal.

[January 2014] Our work on mobile healthcare has been reported in Stevens News: "Mobile Mini Clinic: Stevens Professor to Develop a Smartphone App that Reports a Patient’s Vitals".

[October 2013] Our paper on "Towards Self-Healing Smart Grid via Intelligent Local Controller Switching under Jamming," has received the Best Paper Runner Up in the IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (IEEE CNS 2013). [News]

[October 2013] Our project on "Measuring Human Queues Using WiFi Signals" has received the Student Research Competition (SRC) Award at ACM MobiCom 2013. Congratulations to Yan Wang!

[September 2013] Dr. Chen received the Jess Davis Memorial Award for Research Excellence from Stevens.

[August 2013] NSF awarded Dr. Chen's research project on "Distributed Robust Spectrum Sensing and Sharing in Cognitive Radio Networks". [News]

[July 2013] Army Research Office (ARO) awarded Dr. Chen's research project on "Making Physical Inferences to Enhance Wireless Security". [News]

[July 2013] Our paper "E3: Energy-Efficient Engine for Frame Rate Adaptation on Smartphones" has been accepted to ACM SenSys 2013.

[May 2013] Congratulations to Dr. Hongbo Liu, who will join Indiana University and Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI) as a tenure-track Assistant Professor.

[March 2013] Our paper "Sensing Vehicle Dynamics for Determining Driver Phone Use" has been accepted to ACM MobiSys 2013.

[January 2013] Program Vice Chair for Systems and Protocols, the 10th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (IEEE MASS 2013). Call For Papers.

[November 2012] News on our research in mobile healthcare.

[November 2012] Publicity Chair for the First IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (IEEE CNS 2013). Call For Papers.

[November 2012] Co-Chair for the First International Workshop on Resource Management of Cloud Computing (CCRM 2013), in conjunction with ICDCS. Call For Papers.

[October 2012] Dr. Chen together with her collaborators Dr. Marco Gruteser and Dr. Richard P. Martin have received the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame Innovator Award. (Dr. Chen is in the front row second to the right. Dr. Steven Chu, the Secretary of Dept. Energy, in the middle of the second row, received the Trustees Award in NJ Inventors HoF.)

[September 2012] NSF awarded Dr. Chen's research project on "Smartphone Enabled Social and Physical Compass System (SENSCOPS)".

[August 2012] Congratulations to Dr. Jie Yang, who has joined the Computer Science and Engineering Department at Oakland University as a tenure-track Assistant Professor.

[July 2012] Our paper "Sensing Driver Phone Use with Acoustic Ranging through Car Speakers" has been selected as the Spotlight Paper for the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.

[June 2012] Our paper "Push the Limit of WiFi based Localization for Smartphones" has been accepted in ACM Mobicom 2012.

[March 2012] Dr. Chen has been early promoted to Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering with tenure at Stevens Institute of Technology.

[March 2012] Co-chairing the IEEE Workshop on Enabling Technologies for Smartphone and Internet of Things (ETSIoT) 2012, held in conjunction with 9th Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON), 2012.

[February 2012] Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) awarded Dr. Chen's research on "Attribute-based Algorithms for Assured Information Sharing (A3IS) in Clouds". 

[February 2012] Our research on detecting driver phone use leveraging car speakers has been featured on Inside Science TV (ISTV). (ISTV is an organization supported by the American Institute of Physics, which produces news vignette about cutting-edge research and development in science and engineering for local television newscasts.)

[February 2012] National Public Radio (NPR) has two featured news discussing our research on sensing driver phone to address the driver distraction problem. [News1],[News2]

[September 2011] Our paper on "Detecting Driver Phone Use Leveraging Car Speakers" has received the Best Paper Award at the ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom) 2011. Here are the presentation slides. This work has received wide press coverage in many U.S. media outlets, e.g., The Wall Stree Journal, MIT Technology Review, CNet News, WCBS, Yahoo News, and the Tonight Show with Jay Leno (video). It also draws attention of many international media outlets, e.g., Sohu, Sina and CSDN [more] .

[2011] Highlights of our research from President of Stevens Institute of Technology. [video]

[June 2011] Dr. Chen gave a talk on "Performing Joint Learning for Passive Intrusion Detection in Pervasive Wireless Environments" at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center.

[January 2011] Dr. Chen received Google Research Award in mobility.

[September 2010] Dr. Chen received Stevens Board of Trustees Award for Scholarly Excellence.

[August 2010] NSF awarded Dr. Chen's research project on "MILAN: Multi-Modal Passive Intrusion Learning in Pervasive Wireless Environments". [News]

[July 2010] NSF awarded Dr. Chen's research project on "SEMOIS: Secure Mobile Information Sharing System".

[February 2010] Dr. Chen received NSF CAREER Award on "Enhancing the Security of Pervasive Wireless Networks by Exploiting Location".

[2010] I co-chaired the student travel grant application in ACM MobiCom 2010.

[February 2009] Our paper on "Non-interactive Localization of Cognitive Radios Based on Dynamic Signal Strength Mapping" has received the Best Paper Award at the Sixth International Conference on Wireless On-demand Network Systems and Services (WONS).

[February 2009] I am co-chairing the Second IEEE Workshop on Security, Privacy and Authentication in Wireless Networks (SPAWN 2009) (held together with WoWMoM 2009). You are welcome to submit papers in this workshop.

[August 2008] NSF awarded Dr. Chen's research project on "Securing Spectrum Usage in Future Radio Systems".

[March 2008] I am co-chairing the First IEEE Workshop on Security, Privacy and Authentication in Wireless Networks (SPAWN 2008) (held together with WoWMoM 2008). You are welcome to submit papers in this workshop.