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Dong Chen

Assistant Professor

School of Computing and Information Sciences

Florida International University, The State University of Florida at Miami

11200 S.W. 8th Street, CASE(ECS) 212D
Miami, FL 33199

I received my second Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Univerisity of Massachusetts Amherst in 2018 under the supervision of Prof. David Irwin and Prof. Prashant Shenoy. Before that, I finished my first Ph.D. in Computer Science from Northeastern University China where I was advised by Prof. Guiran Chang in 2014. I also worked in industry for two years.

I am looking for undergraduate students, and graduate students (both MS and PhD students) to work with me. Visiting students/scholars are also welcome. If you are interested, please simply drop me an email with your CV.

What's New

01/2019 Smart Building Image Processing Project is funded by Google Cloud ($9,976)

Research Interests

• Big Data Analytics (with particular application to sustainability and security/privacy) of Internet-of-Things (IoT), and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS).

Publications

2018

• Staring at the Sun: A Physical Black-box Solar Performance Model.
  Dong Chen, David Irwin.
  In Proc. of the 2018 ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments (BuildSys'18), 2018.
  [Paper]
• Private Memoirs of IoT Devices: Safeguarding User Privacy in the IoT Era.
  Dong Chen, Phuthipong Bovornkeeratiroj, David Irwin and Prashant Shenoy
  In Proc. of the 38th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'18), July 2 – 5, 2018, Vienna, Austria.
  [Paper]
• A Dynamic Estimation of Service Level Based on Fuzzy Logic for Robustness in the Internet of Things. .
  B. Jia, L. Hao, C. Zhang, and D. Chen
  Sensors, 18(7), 2018 Jul 7.

2017

• Weatherman: Exposing Weather-based Privacy Threats in Big Energy Data.
  Dong Chen, David Irwin.
  In Proceedings of 2017 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData'17), Boston, MA, USA, Dec 11-14, 2017. Accept Rate = 87/437 = 20%.
  [Paper]-[Presentation]
• Black-box Solar Performance Modeling: Comparing Physical, Machine Learning, and Hybrid Approaches.
  Dong Chen, David Irwin.
  In Proceedings of 2017 ACM Greenmetrics (Greenmetrics'17), Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA, June 6, 2017. Re-published: Performance Evaluation Review, Vol. 45, No. 2, September 2017.
  [Paper]-[Sigmetrics17/Greenmetrics17 Travel Grant]
• SunDance: Black-box Behind-the-Meter Solar Disaggregation.
  Dong Chen, David Irwin.
  In Proceedings of the eighth ACM International Conference on Future Energy Systems (e-Energy'17), Hongkong, 2017. Acceptance ratio = 26.7%.
  [Paper]-[Data Release]-[eEnergy17 travel grant]

2016

• SunSpot: Exposing the Location of Anonymous Solar-powered Homes.
  Dong Chen, Srinivasan Iyengar, David Irwin, Prashant Shenoy.
  In Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments (BuildSys'16), Stanford, CA, USA, 2016. Accept Rate = 24.48%.
  [Paper]-[Presentation]-[Data Release]-[Sensys16/Buidlsys16 Travel Grant]
• SmartSim: A Device-Accurate Smart Home Simulator for Energy Analytics.
  Dong Chen, David Irwin, Prashant Shenoy.
  In Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm'16), Sydney, Australia, 2016.
  [Paper]-[Presentation]

2015

• Preventing Occupancy Detection from Smart Meters.
  Dong Chen, Sandeep Kalra, David Irwin, Prashant Shenoy, and Jeannie Albrecht.
  IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 6(5), pp.2426-2434, 2015.
  [Paper]

2014

• Combined Heat and Privacy: Preventing Occupancy Detection from Smart Meters.
  Dong Chen, David Irwin, Prashant Shenoy, Jeannie Albrecht.
  In Proceedings of the 12th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (Percom'14), Budapest, Hungary, 2014. Acceptance rate = 14%.
  [Paper]
• Secure and Privacy-Preserving Cyber-Physical Systems.
  PhD Dissertation. Northeastern University China.
  Advisor: Guiran Chang
  [Thesis]-[Best PhD Dissertation of Northeastern University China in 2014-2015].

2013

• Non-Intrusive Occupancy Monitoring using Smart Meters.
  Dong Chen, Sean Barker, Adarsh Subbaswamy, David Irwin, Prashant Shenoy.
  In Proceedings of the Fifth ACM Workshop On Embedded Sensing Systems For Energy-Efficiency In Buildings (BuildSys'13), Roma, Italy, November 11-15, 2013. Accept Ratio = 39%.
  [Paper]-[Data Release]
• Profiling, Quantifying, Modeling and Evaluating Green Service Level Objectives.
  Dawei Sun, Guiran Chang, Dong Chen, Xingwei Wang.
  In Proceedings of Chinese Journal of Computers, (36)7: 1509-1525, November 2013.

2012

• AC4E: An Access Control Model for Emergencies of Mission-Critical Cyber-Physical Systems.
  Dong Chen, Guiran Chang, Jie Jia.
  KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems, 6(9):2052-2072, Sept 2012.
• Modeling Access Control for Cyber-Physical Systems Using Reputation.
  Dong Chen, Guiran Chang, Dawei Sun, Jie Jia, Xingwei Wang.
  Journal of Computers Science and Electrical Engineering, 38(5):1088-1101, Sept 2012.
• A Survey on Security Issues of M2M Communications in Cyber-Physical Systems.
  Dong Chen, Guiran Chang.
  KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems, 6(1):24-45, 2012.
• Lightweight Key Management Scheme to Enhance the Security of Internet of Things.
  Dong Chen, Guiran Chang, Dawei Sun, Jie Jia and Xingwei Wang.
  International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing, 5(2):191-198, 2012.
• Modelling, evaluating, designing and maximising resource allocation revenue by an auction mechanism in cloud computing environments.
  Dawei Sun, Guiran Chang, Dong Chen and Xingwei Wang.
  International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology, (2012): 385-392.
• A Lightweight Group-Key Management Protocol for Ad Hoc Networks.
  Changsheng Miao, Fengling Cao, Dong Chen, Guiran Chang.
  In Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computing, pp. 288-291, 2012.

2011

• TRM-IoT: A Trust Management Model Based on Fuzzy Reputation for Internet of Things.
  Dong Chen, Guiran Chang, Dawei Sun, Jie Jia and Xingwei Wang.
  Journal of Computer Science and Information Systems, 8(4):1207-1228, 2011.
• A Novel P2P Based Grid Resource Discovery Model.
  Dong Chen, Guiran Chang, Xiuying Zheng, Dawei Sun and Xingwei Wang.
  Journal of Computers, 6(10):1390-1397, 2011.
• Study on the Interconnection Architecture and Access Technology for Internet of Things.
  Dong Chen, Guiran Chang, Jie Jia.
  In Proceedings of International Conference on Computer Science and Service System, pp. 1744-1748, Sept 2011.
• A Novel Secure Architecture for the Internet of Things.
  Dong Chen, Guiran Chang, Lizhong Jin, Xiaodong Ren.
  In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computing, pp. 311-314, 2011.
• Research on Architecture, Cross-Layer MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks.
  Lizhong Jin, Jie Jia, Dong Chen, Fengyun Li, Zhicao Dong, Xue Feng.
  In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computing, pp. 291-294, 2011.

2010

• Design and Implementation of a Portable ACE-Based IPC Platform..
  Dong Chen, Guiran Chang, Xingwei Wang.
  In Proceedings of International Conference on Intelligent System Design and Engineering Application (ISDEA), pages 502- 505, Oct 2010.

2009

• An improvement to the Chord- based P2P routing algorithm
  Dong Chen, Guiran Chang, Xingwei Wang.
  In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Semantics, Knowledge and Grid (SKG), pages 266-269, 2009.

Full Publication List and Technical Reports

Teaching

Spring 2019: COP 5614: Operating Systems
Fall 2018: COP 4610: Operating Systems.

Students (Incomplete List):

Ph.D. Students

Qi Li (since Spring 2019), Image Processing-based Big Data Analytics, from Northeastern University

M.S. student

Xu Li (first employment: Facebook)

Undergraduate student

Anwar Numa

Services

Reviewer

• ACM Computing Surveys
• ACM Transactions on Internet Technology
• Ad Hoc Network
• IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid
• IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernerics: Systems
• IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
• IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics


• Journal of Intelligent Systems
• Journal of Computers and Electrical Engineering
• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems
• Journal of Computer Science and Information Systems
• International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing
• Jorabian Journal for Science and Engineering
• IET Control Theory and Applications

PC member

• 2018 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE Big Data 2018), Seattle, WA.
• International Symposium on Next Generation Computing and Internet, Dubai (NextGenCIT 2015)
• IC Engineering and Computational Innovative Sciences, Morocco (ENCINS 2015)

External Reviewer

• 19th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS 2019), Stockholm, Sweden
• 15th IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT'15)
• Workshop on Hot Topics in Cyber-Physical Systems, China (HotCPS 2011)
• Second International Symposium on Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications (ISTA'16)
• International Symposium on Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications (ISTA'15)
• 2012 IEEE Symposium on Industrial Electronics and Applications

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