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Our papers will appear in UbiComp 2008 and Hotnets 2008.
Nurcan Tezcan (NCSU) and Dr. Lan Wang organized an N^2 Women panel at ACM SIGCOMM 2008. Our panelists include Dr. Karen Sollins (MIT), Dr. Jennifer Rexford (Princeton), Dr. Ellen Zagura (Georgia Tech) and Dr. Xiaowei Yang (Duke). We had a record turnout of 48 female participants. Here is the flyer for this event.
Dr. Lan Wang is on a team of five U. Memphis faculty members who recently received a grant from the U. Memphis FedEx Institute of Technology to study and build Complex Warfare Systems. The team includes Dr. Robert Kozma and Dr. Lan Wang from the Department of Computer Science, Dr. Khan M. Iftekharuddin, Dr. Mohammed Yeasin and Dr. Chrysanthe Preza from the Department of Electric and Computer Engineering.
Dr. Lan Wang and Dr. Daniel Massey (Colorado State University) are co-chairing the TPC of the Fourth Workshop on Secure Network Protocols (NPSec 2008) to be held in Orlando, FL on Oct. 19, 2008. Our workshop program is up.
Our undergraduate research assitant Ernest A. McCracken won the first prize in the undergraduate Math/CS category at the University's Student Research Forum on April 1st, 2008. His project is entitled "Netviews: Real-Time Visualization of Internet Topology through Peered Vantage Points".
Dr. Dan Pei from AT&T Research visited our lab on March 14, 2008. He gave a talk at our department colloquium on "Scalable VPN Routing via Relaying".

Open positions

Postdoctoral research fellow position available: see here for details.
Research assistant positions for graduate students are available (NSF project): Please send your resume and an electronic copy of your transcript to me if you satisfy the following requirements:
- Strong Math and Statistics skills;
- Good programming skills in C, perl and Java (as demonstrated by previous projects);
- Experience with programming on Unix systems;
- MS students must have taken a regular course or independent study with me and earned an A grade (no exception);

We have research projects for undergraduate students (funded positions).
International Exchange Scholars (J-1) are welcome to join our research group.

Short Bio

I am an assistant professor at the Computer Science Department of University of Memphis. I received my BS degree in Computer Science from Peking University in 1997 and Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from University of California, Los Angeles in 2004. During my graduate studies, I worked as a research assistant at the Internet Research Lab led by my advisor Dr. Lixia Zhang.

I lead the Networking Research Lab. My research interests include:

fault-tolerance and security in network protocol design;
network measurement techniques;
scalable network simulator design;
routing protocol design;
sensor network protocols;

For more details about my research, please click here and here is a list of publications.

Funding

NSF, NeTS Future Internet Network Design, PI (2007-2010)
NSF, CISE Computing Research Infrastructure, PI (8/2006 - 7/2009)
NSF, REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) supplement to the above grant.
University of Memphis, FedEx Institute of Technology Research Grant (8/2008 - 6/2009)
University of Memphis, Faculty Research Grant, PI (8/2006 - 7/2007)
University of Memphis, Systems Testing Excellence Program, PI (11/2006 - 6/2007)
University of Memphis, TAF Innovation Grant, Co-PI (2007 - 2008)

Professional Activities

TPC Co-Chair: IEEE Workshop on Secure Network Protocols (NPSec) 2008
Program Committee: IEEE INFOCOM 2008, 2009
Program Committee: International Conference on Networked Sensing Systems (INSS), 2009
Program Committee: 4th International Symposium on Innovations and Real-time Applications of Distributed Sensor Networks, 2009
Program Committee: International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT), 2008
Program Committee: IEEE/Create-Net Broadnets 2008, Wireless Communications, Networks and Systems Symposium
Program Committee: IEEE/Create-Net Broadnets 2007, Wireless Communications, Networks and Systems Symposium
Program Committee: IEEE GLOBECOM 2006, Symposium on Internet Services and Enabling Technologies;
Program Committee: IEEE GLOBECOM 2006, Symposium on Control and Management of High Performance Networks;
Program Committee: International Symposium on Wireless LANs and PANs (Wireless Networking) in IWCMC 2006;
Program Committee: International Symposium on Wireless Local and Personal Area Networks in WirelessCom 2005;
Program Committee: International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications 2005
Member: ACM, SIGCOMM, ACM N2Women, IEEE, IEEE Women in Engineering
Member: Center for Information Assurance at University of Memphis, Designated by NSA as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Systems Security Education
Faculty Affiliate: Bioinformatics Program, College of Arts and Science at University of Memphis
Faculty Affiliate: Center for Community Health (CCH), University of Memphis

Current NetLab Members

Yaoqing Liu (PhD student)
Jake Qualls (PhD student)
Ernest A. McCracken (BS student)

Graduated Students

Kriangsiri Malasri (MS, graduated in 2007)
Malleswari Saranu (MS, graduated in 2006)
David DeBaecke (BS, graduated in 2007)

Contact

Address: 318 Dunn Hall, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN 38152
Phone: (901) 678 2727
Email: lanwang at memphis dot edu
Homepage: http://www.cs.memphis.edu/~lanwang/

Resources for Students

Graduate School Survival and Job Search Process

"So long, and thanks for the Ph.D.!" by Ronald T. Azuma (http://www.cs.unc.edu/~azuma/hitch4.html)
"Getting an academic job" by Michael Ernst (http://pag.lcs.mit.edu/~mernst/advice/academic-job.html)

Advice on Research

"How to Have a Bad Career in Research/Academia" by David A Patterson (http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~pattrsn/talks/BadCareer3.ppt)
"Time Management" by Randy Pausch (http://wonderland.hcii.cs.cmu.edu/Randy/timetalk.htm)

Advice on Writing

"A Computer Scientist's Guide to Writing and Publishing Technical Articles" by Paul Martin (http://www.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/comp/Publications/CS-TR-95-4.abs.html)
"Miscellaneous Tips for Writing and Formatting" by Jeffrey Scott Vitter (http://www.cs.duke.edu/~jsv/Papers/catalog/node8.html)
"How To Write A Dissertation or Bedtime Reading For People Who Do Not Have Time To Sleep" by Douglas E. Comer (http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/dec/essay.dissertation.html)

Advice on Presentation

"How to give a good research talk" by Simon Peyton Jones, John Launchbury, John Hughes (http://research.microsoft.com/Users/simonpj/papers/giving-a-talk/giving-a-talk.htm)
"It's the story, stupid: don't let presentation software keep you from getting your story across" by Doc Searls (http://www.searls.com/present.html)

Job Listing

Job Interview

"Tips on the Interview Process" by Jeannette M. Wing (http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~wing/interview.html)
"Questions one should be prepared to answer for job interviews" by Mary Corbin Sies (http://www.otal.umd.edu/~sies/jobquess.html)

Books and articles that I wish I had read earlier ...

"The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen R. Covey
"Networking on the Network: A Guide to Professional Skills for PhD Students" by Phil Agre (http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/pagre/network.html)
"A Ph.D. Is Not Enough: A Guide to Survival in Science" by Peter J. Feibelman
"Elements of Style" by Strunk and White
"The Visual Display of Quantitative Information" by Edward R. Tufte
"Tomorrow's Professor" a book by Richard M. Reis (listserv: http://cis.stanford.edu/structure/tomprof/listserver.html)

When you want to take a break ...

Books by Richard Feynman

"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out and the Meaning of It All
The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen Scientist

"A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash" by Sylvia Nasar (much better than the movie)
"John Von Neumann" by Norman Macrae

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