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News

May 2023: the university published a news release on my MINC (Mission-Integrated Network Control) project.
Mar. 2023: the university hosted the CommanDING Tech Challenge of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (news release) in the FedEx Institute of Technology. It is truly gratifying to note that some of the contestants used the 3D mapping data from our NIST-funded Map901 project.
Feb. 2023: I was awarded a U.S. patent for my work on a decentralized public key management system. Patent No. 11582024, "Blockchain-based decentralized public key management system," is co-invented by my colleague Kan Yang and me.
May 2022: I am honored to receive the Willard R. Sparks Eminent Faculty Award, the highest distinction given to a faculty member by the University.
Jan. 2022: I received a grant from DARPA/Peraton Labs to participate in the Mission-Integrated Network Control (MINC) program. More information about MINC can be found here.
Nov. 2021: my student Muktadir Chowdhury successfully defended his PhD dissertation. He will join Intel as a Cloud Solutions Software Engineer.
Oct. 2021: I am a Co-PI of a $2.7M grant sponsored by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory. The Multi-UAS Multi-Sensor Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance project is led by Prof. Eddie Jacobs in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (EECE). Other team members include Dr. Chrysanthe Preza, professor and chair of EECE, Dr. Aaron Robinson, associate professor of EECE, Dr. Ron Driggers, professor of Optical Science at the University of Arizona, and Dr. Kyle Renshaw, professor of Optics and Photonics at the University of Central Florida.
Aug. 2021: I received the Dunavant Professorship from the College of Arts and Sciences.
June 2021: I served on a panel "Public Safety's Female Innovators" at the NIST Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) Annual Conference. I talked about my education and career experience in computer science, and my efforts to promote diversity in STEM education, as well as the challenges faced by the Map901 project and female students' contribution to the project.
Nov. 2020: Map901 was featured in NIST's article "Using Lasers to Save Lives - Mapping the indoors with lidar for public safety use cases" and TML's article "Memphis 3D mapping project charts the future of emergency response".
Oct. 2020: In January, the Map901 team was notified of selection by Smart Cities Connect as a Smart 50 Award winner in the Urban Infrastructure category. Smart 50 Awards annually recognizes global smart cities projects, honoring the most innovative and influential work. The award includes recognition at the virtual Smart Cities Connect Conference & Expo on October 27-29.
Sept. 2020: I have received an $825K NSF grant "CC* Integration-Large: mGuard: A Secure Real-time Data Distribution System with Fine-Grained Access Control for mHealth Research" with co-PIs Santosh Kumar (U. Memphis) and Lixia Zhang (UCLA). The mGuard project aims to address data access challenges encountered by the MD2K Center of Excellence. This is a two-year project to start on 10/1/2020.
Aug. 2020: I received the 2020 College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Research Award (CASDRA).
Jan. 2020: Map901 was featured in the online Geo News Week January 6 article "3D Capture's Promise to Increase Public Safety: A Progress Report".

You can find older news here.

Open positions

Research assistant positions for PhD 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;
Detailed instructions can be found here. Note that there is an application deadline for admission.

We have research projects for undergraduate students (funded positions).

Short Bio

I am a professor at the Computer Science Department, the University of Memphis, where I served as the department chair from Feb. 2016 to Aug. 2023. 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. I lead the Networking Research Lab. My research interests include:

Network Architecture and Protocol Design;
Security and Privacy;
Internet of Things;
Wireless Mobile Health;
3D Mapping;
Smart Cities;
Autonomous Systems;
Internet Measurements

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

Funding

DARPA/Peraton Labs, Mission-Integrated Network Control (MINC), PI (2022-2025)
Army Research Office, Multi-UAS Multi-Sensor Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance, Co-PI (2021-2025)
NSF, CC* Integration-Large: mGuard: A Secure Real-time Data Distribution System with Fine-Grained Access Control for mHealth Research, PI (2020-2024)
NSF, REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) supplement to the above grant.
Intel Labs, Growing Future Workforce Diversity in Collaboration with Intel, PI (2021-2022)
NIST, Map901: Building Rich Interior Hazard Maps for First Responders, PI (2018-2022)
DARPA, SHARE, PI (2017-2021)
Air Force Institute of Technology, Testing & Evaluation for Autonomous Cyber-Physical Systems: Research and Industry Best Practices, Co-PI (2019-2020)
NSF, CRI-New: Collaborative: Building the Core NDN Infrastructure, PI (2016 - 2021)
NSF, REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) supplement to the above grant.
NSF, Future Internet Architecture Next Phase (FIA-NP), PI (2014 - 2018)
NSF, Named Data Networking Supp I FY 14, PI (2013 - 2014)
NSF, REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) supplement to the above grant.
Cisco Systems, PI (2013 - 2014)
NSF, Future Internet Architecture (FIA), PI (2010 - 2014)
NSF, REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) supplement to the above grant.
NSF, NeTS Future Internet Network Design, PI (2007-2012)
NSF, CISE Computing Research Infrastructure, PI (8/2006 - 7/2011)
NSF, REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) supplement to the above grant.
University of Memphis, FIT Technology Development Grant (2019-2020)
University of Memphis, FIT Agriculture & Food Tech Grant (2019-2020)
University of Memphis, FIT Smart City Grant (2018-2019)
University of Memphis, Research Investment Fund (2017-2019)
University of Memphis, FIT CAST Grant (2015-2019)
University of Memphis, FIT DRONES Grant (2016-2019)
University of Memphis, FedEx Institute of Technology Research Grant (2013)
University of Memphis, FedEx Institute of Technology Research Grant (2008 - 2011)
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

Editorial board: MDPI Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks, 2020-Present, PeerJ Computer Science Journal, 2015-2020, KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems, 2013-2019
NSF proposal review panel: 2007, 2009, 2012, 2016, 2018, 2020
TPC Co-Chair: ACM Conference on Information-Centric Networking, 2021
PC Co-Chair: NDN Community Meeting (NDNcomm), 2017
TPC Co-Chair: IEEE Workshop on Secure Network Protocols (NPSec), 2008
Workshop and Tutorial Co-Chair: ACM MobiCom, 2020
Publication Chair: ACM Conference on Information-Centric Networking, 2020
Steering Committee Member: International Conference on Hot Information-Centric Networking (HotICN), 2020
N2Women Co-Chair: ACM SIGCOMM, 2019
Sponsorship Chair: ACM Conference on Information-Centric Networking, 2019
Publicity Chair: ACM Conference on Information-Centric Networking, 2018
Travel Grant Co-Chair: ACM SIGCOMM, 2017
Travel Grant Co-Chair: ACM Conference on Information-Centric Networking, 2015, 2016
Publicity Co-Chair: IEEE LANMAN, 2016
Publication Chair: IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, 2014
Program Committee: IEEE INFOCOM 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
Program Committee: The Web Conference (formerly WWW), 2021
Program Committee: IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication and Networking (SECON), 2021
Program Committee: IEEE HotICN, 2018
Program Committee: NDN-CCE (Workshop on Named Data Networks for Challenged Communication Environments) Workshop at IEEE GlOBECOM, 2016
Program Committee: Multimedia Streaming in Information-/Content-Centric Networks (MuSIC) at IEEE INFOCOM, 2016
Program Committee: NDN Community Meeting (NDNcomm), 2015
Program Committee: IEEE MASS CCN Workshop, 2015
Program Committee: ACM Conference on Information-Centric Networking, 2014
Program Committee: IFIP Networking, 2014
Program Committee: IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, 2013
Program Committee: International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks - Network Architectures and Clean-Slate Designs Track (NACSD), 2013
Program Committee: IEEE INFOCOM Workshop on Emerging Design Choices in Name-Oriented Networking (NOMEN), 2012, 2013
Program Committee: ACM MobiHoc Workshop On Emerging Name-Oriented Mobile Networking Design (NOM), 2012
Program Committee: ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Information Centric Networking (ICN), 2011, 2012, 2013
Program Committee: IEEE ICC NGNI Symposium, 2011
Program Committee: IEEE GLOBECOM Next Generation Networking Symposium, 2010, 2013
Program Committee: International Conference on Networked Sensing Systems (INSS), 2009, 2010
Program Committee: IEEE Workshop on Secure Network Protocols (NPSec), 2009, 2010, 2014
Program Committee: The 12th ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM), 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, Wireless Communications, Networks and Systems Symposium, 2007, 2008, 2009
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
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: Center for Research on Women, University of Memphis
Faculty Affiliate: Bioinformatics Program, College of Arts and Science at University of Memphis

Current NetLab Members

Saurab Dulal (PhD student)
Dylan Hensley (Undergraduate Student)
Mazharul Hossain (PhD student)
Tianxing Ma (PhD student)
Suravi Regmi (PhD student)
Bidhya Shrestha (PhD student)
Adam Robert Thieme (Undergraduate Student)

Previous NetLab Members and Visitors

Dung Ding Luong (Postdoctoral Fellow, 2006-2007), Chief Software Architect, Northforge Innovations
Syed Obaid Amin (Postdoctoral Fellow, 2012-2014), Senior Principal Engineer, Dell EMC
Junaid Ahmed Khan (Postdoctoral Fellow, 2018-2019), Assistant Professor, West Washington University
Yaoqing (Joey) Liu (PhD, 2013), Associate Professor, Fairleigh Dickinson University
Muktadir Chowdhury (PhD, 2021), Cloud Solution SDE, Intel Corp.
Malleswari Saranu (MS, 2006), Wells Fargo Bank
Kriangsiri Malasri (MS, 2007), Assistant Professor of Teaching, Computer Science Department, University of Memphis
Ernest A. McCracken (BS, 2009, MS, 2012), Frontdoor Inc., Adjunct Faculty, University of Memphis
Minsheng Zhang (MS, 2016), Google
Marc Badrian (MS, 2016), The Walt Disney Company
Pi Lei (MS, 2017), Amazon
Ashlesh Gawande (MS, 2019), Intel
Laqin Fan (MS, 2020), Tiktok
David DeBaecke (BS, 2007)
Stephen G. Smith (BS, 2010)
Oksana Koziaryk (BS, 2012), SAS
Roman Birg (BS, 2012), Microsoft
Gus Sanders (BS, 2012), FedEx Services
Adam Allyan (BS, 2013), Facebook
Nic Smith (BS, 2014), FedEx Services
A K M Mahmudul Hoque (MS, 2014)
Vince Lehman (BS, 2014), Amazon
Andrew Hood (BS, 2015), Sea Aye
Nicholas Gordon (BS, 2016), PhD program, University of Pittsburgh
Benjamin Murphy (BS, 2017)
Damian Coomes (BS, 2018), International Paper
Ryan Wickman (BS, 2019), PhD student, University of Memphis
Alex Lane (BS, 2020), software developer, University of Memphis
Madeline Cychowski (BS, 2020), Autozone
Jeremy Clark (BS, 2021), Asurion
Zhuhua Liao (visiting professor, 2016-2017), Associate Professor, Hunan University of Science and Technology
Xian Guo (visiting professor, 2017-2018), Associate Professor, Lanzhou University of Technology

Contact

Address: 133 Dunn Hall, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN 38152
Phone: (901) 678 1643
Email: lanwang at memphis dot edu
Homepage: http://www.cs.memphis.edu/~lanwang/

Useful Software

NLSR (Named-data Link State Routing): http://named-data.net/doc/NLSR
Mini-NDN (NDN Emulator): https://github.com/named-data/mini-ndn and http://minindn.memphis.edu
PSync (data synchronization protocol for NDN): https://github.com/named-data/PSync
ndnSIM (NDN Simulator): http://ndnsim.net
NFD (NDN Forwarding Daemon): http://named-data.net/doc/NFD/current/

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/BadCareer.pdf)
"Time Management" by Randy Pausch (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTugjssqOT0)

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-personal.umd.umich.edu/~brahim/Vitwritingnotes.pdf)
"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)
"How to write a great research paper" by Simon Peyton Jones (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/academic-program/write-great-research-paper/)

Advice on Presentation

"How to give a good research talk" by Simon Peyton Jones, (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT_-owjKIbA)
"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)

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://vlsicad.ucsd.edu/Research/Advice/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

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

News from 2008 to 2019

Aug. 2019: Our Map901 project was featured in GCN "Researchers tap LiDAR-enabled indoor mapping for responders", and RouteFifty "How 3-D Mapping Technology Could Improve Firefighter Safety".
April 2019: I received the Alumni Association Distinguished Research Award in Science, Engineering, and Mathematics from the University.
Jan. 2019: We are pleased to announce the release of PSync 0.1.0, a data synchronization library for NDN that supports partial sync and full sync. The code is available at https://github.com/named-data/PSync.
Oct. 2018: I was awarded a NIST grant to map building interior for first responders. This project "Map901: Building Rich Interior Hazard Maps for First Responders" is a collaboration with Prof. Eddie Jacobs in EECE and the City of Memphis. More information is available here.
Oct. 2018: I was awarded a U.S. patent for my work on a new Forwarding Information Base (FIB) caching algorithm. Patent No. 10091105, "Efficient forwarding information base caching system and method," is co-invented by me and Yaoqing Liu, a former PhD student of mine, now an assistant professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University.
Aug. 2017: I am a co-inventor of the newly issued US Patent No. 9733351,"Surveillance and tracking system and method," by Robert Kozma, Khan M. Iftekharuddin, L. Wang, Ross Deming.
Mar. 2017: we hosted the 8th NDN Project Retreat, 3rd NDN Community Meeting (NDNcomm 2017), and 4th NDN Hackathon at the University of Memphis from March 22 to 26, 2017.
Jan. 2017: I am a co-inventor of the newly issued US Patent No. 9557413, "Surveillance and tracking system and method," by Robert Kozma, Lan Wang, Khan M. Iftekharuddin, Ross Deming, Orges Furxhi, Sergi Consul.
Nov. 2016: I was awarded a U.S. patent for my work on a new Forwarding Information Base (FIB) aggregation algorithm. Patent No. 9491087, "Devices and Methods for Forwarding Information Base Aggregation," is co-invented by me and three of my collaborators including Yaoqing Liu, a former PhD student of mine, now an assistant professor at larkson University, Beichuan Zhang of the University of Arizona, and Xin Zhao, previously a graduate student under Zhang, now employed at Google.
Sept. 2016: I am part of a team that received a $2.5M NSF CRI grant CRI-New: Collaborative: Building the Core NDN Infrastructure (with U. Arizona, UCLA, and Washington University at St. Louis) to support the evaluation, experimentation, and further development of the NDN architecture. This project is from Sept. 2016 to Aug. 2019.
Aug 18, 2016: we are pleased to announce the release of Mini-NDN v0.2.0. Mini-NDN is a lightweight networking emulation tool that enables testing, experimentation, and research on the NDN platform. Based on Mininet, Mini-NDN uses the NDN libraries, NFD, NLSR, and tools released by the NDN project to emulate an NDN network on a single system. Mailing list for Mini-NDN is at http://www.lists.cs.ucla.edu/mailman/listinfo/mini-ndn.
Aug 1, 2016: version 0.3.0 of our routing protocol NLSR (Named Link State Routing Protocol) has been released: http://named-data.net/doc/NLSR/0.3.0/
May 2016: I received $200K supplemental funding from NSF to continue our research on NDN-NP.

Oct. 2014: another article about our project on High Ground News: U of M partners to improve Internet security
Sept. 2014: U of Memphis press release on NDN consortium
August 2014: our routing protocol NLSR (Named Link State Routing Protocol) has been released: http://named-data.net/doc/NLSR/0.1.0/
August 2014: an article on Daily Helsman about our project: http://www.dailyhelmsman.com/news/view.php/844932/University-Students-working-to-build-Nex
July 2014: here is a press release from the university on my new NDN-NP grant and a Q and A with me on memphisflyer.com.
May 2014: the NDN project received $5M funding from the NSF FIA-NP (Future Internet Architecture Next Phase) program. Here's the NSF press release.
Yaoqing Liu graduated in Summer 2013 and joined the Computer Science Department of Clarkson University as an assistant professor.
Our papers appeared in INFOCOM 2013 and the Jan 2013 issue of ACM SIGCOMM CCR. Another paper appeared in the ACM SIGCOMM ICN 2013 Workshop.
2010: I am on a team of ten institutions that received a $7.9 million grant (2010 - 2013) from the NSF Future Internet Architecture (FIA) program. Here is the press release from NSF. Our project is "Named Data Networking" (NDN). The ten collaborating institutions are UCLA, PARC, Colorado State University, University of Arizona, University of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign, UC Irvine, University of Memphis, UC San Diego, Washington University, and Yale University. Read more ...
I have received an Early Career Research Award (ECRA) from the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Memphis (April 2010).
Our paper "On the Aggregatability of Router Forwarding Tables" appeared in INFOCOM 2010.
Ernest A. McCracken presented at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) in April 2009 and Tennessee Collegiate Honors Council (TCHC) in Feb. 2009. He 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".
Our papers appeared in UbiComp 2008 and Hotnets 2008.
Nurcan Tezcan (NCSU) and I organized an N^2 Women panel at ACM SIGCOMM 2008. Our panelists include Dr. Karen Sollins (MIT), Dr. Jennifer Rexford (Princeton), Dr. Ellen Zegura (Georgia Tech) and Dr. Xiaowei Yang (Duke). We had a record turnout of 48 female participants. Here is the flyer for this event.
I am 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. Daniel Massey (Colorado State University) and I co-chaired the TPC of the Fourth Workshop on Secure Network Protocols (NPSec 2008) held in Orlando, FL on Oct. 19, 2008.

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