Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Syracuse University

Wenliang (Kevin) Du

Professor, ACM Fellow and IEEE Fellow (CV)
Ph.D. Purdue University, 2001
Research: Computer and Network Security

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Syracuse University
4-206 Center for Science and Technology
Syracuse, NY 13244-4100

Email: wedu@syr.edu
Phone: (315) 443-9180
Office: 4-285 Sci-Tech Building

  • Grants and Awards

    • (New) Elevated to ACM Fellow (Class of 2023).
    • (New) Elevated to IEEE Fellow (Class of 2023).
    • 2022 IEEE Region 1 Technological Innovation (Academic) Award.
    • Building an Internet Emulator for Cybersecurity Education. (NSF-SaTC, $399,197, 10/2022 - 09/2025, PI. Award No. 2214916).
    • Our paper Privacy-Preserving Cooperative Statistical Analysis, published in ACSAC 2001, won the prestigious Test-of-Time Award in December 2021.
    • Awarded the Meredith Professorship for Teaching Excellence, Syracuse University, 2019
    • Expanding TrustZone: Enabling Mobile Apps to Transparently Leverage TrustZone for Attestation and Data Protection (NSF, $497,296, 08/2017 - 08/2020, PI. Award No. 1718086).
    • Our Cybersecurity MS students Sirisha Prakash and Priyank Thavai won the 1st Place in the 2018 National Cyber Analyst Challenge Competition (News, pic1, pic2)
    • Due to the impact of my SEED labs, I was awarded the "2017 Academic Leadership" award from The 21st Colloquium for Information System Security Education.
    • Our paper, published in CCS'03, won the prestigious ACM CCS Test-of-Time Award in October 2013.
    • Spreading SEEDs: Large-Scale Dissemination of Hands-on Labs for Security Education. (NSF, $845,385, 09/2014 - 08/2018, PI. Award No. 1303306).
    • Develop Fine-Grained Access Control for Third-Party Components in Mobile Systems. (NSF-SaTC, $521,562, 08/2013 - 07/2017, PI. Award No. 1318814).
    • Collaborative: Bolstering Security Education through Transiting Research on Browser Security. (NSF-SaTC, $89,878, 09/2013 - 09/2016, PI. Award No. 1318883).
    • 2014 Deans's Award for Excellence in Engineering Education, May 2014.
    • 2013 Faculty Excellence Award from L.C.Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science (including a $20,000 research fund).
    • Security-Enhanced WebView for Android System (Google Research Award, $49,387, 01/2012 - 12/2012, PI). This project is primarily based on my Ph.D. student Tongbo Luo's work.
    • To Configure or to Implement, that is the Access Control Question for Web Applications (NSF Trustworthy Computing, $506,470, 09/2010 - 08/2013, PI. Award No. 1017771).
    • SEED: Developing Instructional Laboratories for Computer SEcurity EDucation (NSF-CCLI, Type 2, $451,682, 01/2007-12/2011, PI. Award No. 0618680).
    • Applied Research - Identity Management (JPMorgan Chase, $96,084, 1/08 - 8/08).
    • Efficient and Resilient Key Management for Wireless Sensor Networks (ARO, $360,000, 5/05-4/08, PI).
    • Collaborative Research: Trustworthy and Resilient Location Discovery in Wireless Sensor Networks (NSF CyberTrust, $150,000, 9/04-8/07, PI. Award No. 0430223).
    • Collaborative Research: ITR: Distributed Data Mining to Protect Information Privacy (NSF-ITR, $140,418, 8/03-7/06, PI. Award No. 0312366).
    • Private Prediction using Selective Models (NSF-ITR, $220,000, 9/02-8/05, PI. Award No. 0219560).
    • Designing Laboratory Materials for Computer System Security Courses Using Minix Instructional Operating System (NSF-CCLI, Type 1, $74,984, 01/03-12/04, PI. Award No. 0231122).
    • VINE: Using VIrtual Network Environment for Computer and Network Security Courses (University Vision Fund, $5000, 01/03-12/03, PI).

  • Recent Invited Talks on Internet and Blockchain Emulator

    • 03/27/2023: Purdue University
    • 02/17/2023: University of Louisiana at Lafayette
    • 02/10/2023: Indiana University Bloomington
    • 01/18/2023: Illinois Institute of Technology
    • 11/15/2022: Texas A&M University
    • 09/22/2022: University of Guelph