Dr. Shengli Yuan
Dr. Shengli Yuan
ProfessorComputer Science and Engineering TechnologyBiography
Dr. Shengli Yuan holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Texas - Dallas. He started working at UHD as an assistant professor in 2004, was promoted to associate professor in 2010, then to full professor in 2016. His main research interests include computer network reliability and security, communication algorithms, optical and wireless networks. He has published many papers in referred journals and conference proceedings, as well as a book chapter. He is the PI and CO-PI of numerous NSF grants and grants from the state of Texas. Dr. Yuan has been teaching at UHD since 2004. He teaches a wide range course in Computer Sciences, including programming languages, data structures, algorithms, software engineering, computer networks, computer security, database system, and more. He supervises students on senior projects and field experience. He also served as the faculty mentor of the ACM chapter at UHD. He has served as the chair of the Computer Science Program Committee, and the chair of the Rank and Tenure Committee of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering Technology. He is a senior member of IEEE.
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Degrees Earned
- Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Texas-Dallas
- MS in Computer Science, University of Texas-Dallas
- MS in Electrical Engineering, University of Missouri-Columbia
- BS in Engineering, Fudan University Electrical
Courses Taught
- CS1305 Introduction to Computer Technology
- CS1408 Introduction to Computer Science in Visual Basic
- CS1410 Introduction to Computer Science in C++
- CS2401 Introduction to Computer Organization
- CS2410 Introduction to Data Structure and Algorithms
- CS3304 Data and Information Structure
- CS3306 Introduction to Theory of Computation
- CS3318 Introduction to Computer Security
- CS3325 Introduction to Wireless Networks
- CS3326 Introduction to Network Security
- CS3420 Software Engineering
- CS4318 Introduction to Database Systems
- CS4325 Computer Network Architecture
- CS4380 Field Experience
- CS4390 Introduction to Optical and Wireless Networks
CS4399 Direct study advisor
CS5318 Database Systems
CS6399 Graduate Capstone Project
Experience Qualifications
Work Experience
Dr. Yuan started working at UHD as an assistant professor in 2004, was promoted to associate professor in 2010, then to full professor in 2016.
Scholarly Services
Editor:
International Journal of Network Protocols and Algorithms
Committee Services:
Member of IEEE Optical Networking Technical Committee (ONTC), 2001 - present.
Session chair, IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage, Hunan, China, July 2009
Session chair, WSEAS Internationals Conference on Computational and Information Science 2009. Houston, TX. April 30-May2, 2009.
Member of Technical Program Committee for
IEEE GLOBECOM, 2011, 2012, 2013
International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC 2014), February 2014, Hawaii.
International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC 2012), January 2012, Hawaii.
8th International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations ITNG 2011. 2011. 2012, 2013, 2014
2nd International Workshop on Optical Networking Technologies and Data Security (OPNTDS2010), International Conference on Ultramodern Telecommunications (ICUMT2010). Moscow, October 18-20th, 2010.
Workshop on Interconnection of Wireless Sensor Networks (IWSN 2010), Santa Barbara, CA. June 23, 2010
IEEE GLOBECOM 2010, Miami, FL, December 6-10, 2010.
IEEE/ACM DCOSS 2010, Santa Barbara, CA, June 21-23, 2010.
IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, Sao Paulo, Brazil, July 16-18, 2008.
IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, Beijing, China, July 2007.
IEEE GLOBECOM, Dallas, TX, November 29 - December 3, 2004.
SPIE OptiComm, Denver, CO, August 2001.
More Information
Publication
Beatrice M. Cerda, Ester Martinez-Belmares, and Shengli Yuan, "Protection from Black Hole Attacks in Communication Networks," Proceedings, 15th International Conference on Security and Management (SAM'17), in conjunction with 2017 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, & Applied Computing. July 17-20, 2017, Las Vegas, USA
Beatrice M. Cerda, Ester Martinez-Belmares, and Shengli Yuan, "Detection and Protection against Black Hole Attacks in Wired Networks," 28th HENAAC Conference. October 2016, Anaheim, CA. First place award in posters
Lila Ghemri and Shengli Yuan, "Teaching Mobile Security Using Modules," Proceedings, 12th International Conference on Frontiers in Education: Compute Science and Computer Engineering (FECS'16), in conjunction with 2016 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, & Applied Computing. July 25-28, 2016, Las Vegas, USA
Joseph Flinn, Hen Su Choi-Ortiz, and Shengli Yuan, "A Secure Routing Scheme for Networks with Unknown or Dynamic Topology using A-star Algorithm," Proceedings, 14th International Conference on Security and Management (SAM'16), in conjunction with 2016 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, & Applied Computing. July 25-28, 2016, Las Vegas, USA
Lila Ghemri and Shengli Yuan, "Security in Mobile Environments (A teaching module)," Proceedings, 23rd Annual Southwestern Business Administration Teaching Conference. Houston, TX. October 29 - 30, 2015
Joseph Flinn, Hen Su Choi-Ortiz, and Shengli Yuan, "A Secure Routing Scheme in Unknown Networks Using A-star Algorithm". Proceedings, Computing Alliance of Hispanic-Serving Institutions (CAHSI) Summit 2015. September 10-12, 2015.
Mario Pagan, Audrey Hession, Shengli Yuan, "A Security-Enhanced Routing Algorithm with Path Randomization," IEEE International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICN
Shengli Yuan and Daniel Stewart, "Protection of Optical Networks against Interchannel Eavesdropping and Jamming Attacks", IEEE 2014 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence (CSCI'14), March 10-13, 2014, Las Vegas, USA
Shengli Yuan, L. Chen and M. Yang, "Minimizing Interchannel Attacks in WDM Optical Networks," 4th International Conference on Future Computer and Communication (ICFCC 2012), Hong Kong, China, August 3 - 5, 2012.
Shengli Yuan and B. Wang, "Highly Available Path Routing in Mesh Networks Under Multiple Link Failures," IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Vol. 60, Issue 4, pp 823-832, Dec. 2011.
M. Yang, L. Chen, Shengli Yuan, and W. Hu, "Secure Processing and Delivery of Medical Images for Patient Information Protection", Proceedings, 2011 International Conference on Security and Management (SAM'11) under the 2011 World Congress in Computer Science, computer Engineering and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP 2011), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, July 18-21, 2011
Shengli Yuan, B. Raghavachari and L. Chen, "A threat-aware routing algorithm for maximum physical-layer path survivability," IEEEGlobecom2010, December 5-10, Miami, FL
Articles Published
- S. Yuan, W. Waller and E. Delavina, "Heuristic algorithms for finding reliable lightpath under multiple failures,"Proceedings, IEEE International Conference on Ultra Modern Telecommunications, October 2009
- S. Yuan, "Reliable lightpath routing in optical mesh networks under multiple link failures," Proceedings, IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage, pp. 114-120, July 2009
- S. Yuan, "Maximum reliable path under multiple failures",Proceedings, the Internationals Conference on Computational and Information Science 2009, vol. 2, pp. 333-337, April 30 - May 2, 2009.
- S. Yuan, S. Varma and J. P. Jue, "Lightpath Routing for Maximum Reliability in Optical Mesh Networks," Journal of Optical Networking (OSA), vol. 7, no. 5, pp. 449-466, May 2008.
- S. Yuan, "Minimum-Multiplicity Routing Problems of Multimedia Communications," Proceeding, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, pp. 919-922, July 2007.
- S. Yuan and J. P. Jue, "Dynamic Lightpath Protection in WDM Mesh Networks under Wavelength-Continuity and Risk-Disjoint Constraints," Computer Networks Journal (Elsevier), vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 91-112, June 2005.
- S. Yuan, S. Varma and J. P. Jue, "Minimum Color Problem for Reliability in Mesh Networks," Proceedings, IEEE INFOCOM, vol. 4, pp. 2658- 2669, March 2005.
- S. Yuan and J. P. Jue, "Dynamic Path Protection in WDM Mesh Networks under Wavelength Continuity Constraint,"Proceedings, IEEE Globecom, vol. 3, pp. 2019-2023, November 2004.
- S. Yuan and J. P. Jue, "Dynamic Path Protection in WDM Mesh Networks under Risk-Disjoint Constraint,"Proceedings, IEEE Globecom, vol. 3, pp. 1770-1774, November 2004.
- K. Lu, J. P. Jue, T. Zhang, S. Yuan, I. Chlamtac, G. Xiao, "Blocking Analysis of Multi-fiber Wavelength-Routed Networks," Proceedings, IEEE Globecom, vol. 3, pp. 1958-1962, November 2004.
- S. Yuan and J. P. Jue, "Shared Protection Routing Algorithm for Optical Networks,"SPIE Optical Network Magazine, vol. 3, May/June Issue, 2002.
- S. Yuan and J. P. Jue, "A Heuristic Routing Algorithm for Shared Protection in Connection-oriented Networks,"Proceedings, SPIE OptiComm, August, 2001
Book Chapter
Lei Chen, Narasimha Shashidhar, Shengli Yuan, and Ming Yang, "Chapter 4 - Security in Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks", Wireless Network Security: Theories and Applications, Higher Education Press (HEP) & Springer. 2013.
External Grants
· NSF CNS 1262928: REU Site: Research Experiences in Algorithm Design and Analysis for Students in Undergraduate Institutions, PI (previous PI: P. Chen), 9/2012 - 8/2015. Award amount: $ 358,734
· NSF DUE 1241661: Enriching Security Curricula and Enhancing Awareness of Security in Computer Science and Beyond, co-PI (PI: P. Chen), 9/2012 - 8/2015. Total joint award amount with UH, TSU: $ 770,454
· NSF CNS 0851984: Research Experiences in Algorithm Design and Analysis for Students in Undergraduate Institutions. Co-PI (PI: P. Chen), 6/1/2009 - 5/31/2012. Award amount: $ 308,288
· NSF MRI 0619312: Acquisition of a Computational Cluster Grid for Research and Education in Science and Mathematics. Co-PI (PI: H. Lin), 9/1/2006 - 8/31/2010. Award amount: $ 57,173
Internal Grants
Faculty Development Grant, 2015, University of Houston-Downtown
Faculty Development Grant, 2012, University of Houston-Downtown
Faculty Development Grant, 2009, University of Houston-Downtown
Faculty Development Grant, 2008, University of Houston-Downtown
Faculty Development Grant 2007, University of Houston-Downtown
Faculty Development Grant, 2005, University of Houston-Downtown
Organized Research Grant, 2013, University of Houston-Downtown
Organized Research Grant, 2011, University of Houston-Downtown
Organized Research Grant, 2009, University of Houston-Downtown
Organized Research Grant 2007, University of Houston-Downtown
Organized Research Grant 2005, University of Houston-Downtown
Awards
Excellence in Research Fellowship: Erik Johnson School of Engineering and Computer Science, the University of Texas at Dallas. ($24,000 annual stipend + full tuition)
Texas Public Education Grant Scholarship: the University of Texas at Dallas.
Doctoral Scholarship: the University of Texas at Dallas.
Truman Scholarship: Department of Electrical Engineering, the University of Missouri at Columbia.
Academic Interest
His main research interests include computer network reliability and security, communication algorithms, optical and wireless networks.
Book reviews:
Geoffrey Steinberg, Information Technology, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co., 2007.
K. Kazi, et al, Comprehensive Guide to Optical Networking Standards, Springer, 2004.
Hui Zang, WDM Networks, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002.
Journal reviews:
IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 2011 & 2012
International Journal of Network Protocols and Algorithms, 2009
Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, 2009 & 2012
Computer Communications, 2005, 2006 & 2008
Journal of Communications and Networks, 2007
IEEE Multimedia, 2007
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2006
Computer Networks Journal (Elsevier), 2005 & 2006
IEEE Communication Letters, 2006.
IEEE Journal of Systems and Software, 2006
IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2005
Conference reviews:
IEEE INFOCOM, 2009 & 2011
IEEE Global Communication Conference (GLOBECOM), 2003 - 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011
9th International Conference on Cybernetics and Information Technologies, Systems and Applications (CITSA) 2012
IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, 2008.
The 12th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, 2008.
IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, 2007.
IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2003 - 2006
IEEE Broadband Optical Networking Symposium (BroadNets), 2004 & 2005
International Conference on Intelligent Technologies (InTech), 2004.
SPIE OptiComm, 2001-2003.
Professional Memberships
IEEE Senior Member.
Faculty Mentor, Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) since 2004.