Yingying Chen

Professor and Department Chair

ECE

Phone:(848) 445-9151 (Core 506) or (848) 445-1494 (EE 128)
Email:yingying.chen@rutgers.edu
Office:CoRE 516 and EE 128
Website: http://www.winlab.rutgers.edu/~yychen/

Biography:

Yingying (Jennifer) Chen is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rutgers University and a member of the Wireless Information Network Laboratory (WINLAB). Her background is a combination of Physics, Computer Science and Computer Engineering. Her research interests include Mobile Healthcare, Internet of Things (IoT), Cyber Security and Privacy, Connected Vehicles, Mobile Computing and Sensing. She has co-authored two books Securing Emerging Wireless Systems (Springer 2009) and Pervasive Wireless Environments: Detecting and Localizing User Spoofing (Springer 2014), and published over 100 journal articles and referred conference papers.

Previously, she was a tenured professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Stevens Institute of Technology. She received early promotion twice at Stevens: from Assistant to Associate Professor, and from Associate to Full Professor. She led the Data Analysis and Information Security (DAISY) Lab, an inter-disciplinary research group working on a diverse set of projects using machine learning and data mining techniques. She was also the Graduate Program Directors of Information and Data Engineering (IDE) and Networked Information Systems (NIS) in ECE Department at Stevens. She was a visiting professor at Princeton University. Prior to joining Stevens, she was with Alcatel – Lucent (now Nokia) working on research, design, and development in network and security systems, network management standards, and system performance modeling and analysis.

She served for many conference organizations. She was the General Co-chair of ACM MobiCom 2016 – a prestigious conference in mobile computing, and the Technical Program Co-chair of IEEE CNS 2016 – a top tier computer and network security conference. She also serves as an Area Chair of IEEE INFOCOM. She has served on the technical program committees of numerous ACM and IEEE conferences and on the editorial boards of the journals IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, and IEEE Network Magazine. Her research has been reported in numerous media outlets including the Wall Street Journal, MIT Technology Review, CNN, Fox News Channel, IEEE Spectrum, Fortune, Inside Science, NPR, Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Voice of America TV.

Education

Ph.D., Computer Science, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, 2007

 

Honors

Selected Awards:

  • ACM Fellow
  • IEEE Fellow
  • Best Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication and Networking (SECON), 2017.
  • Henry Morton Distinguished Teaching Professor Award, Stevens Institute of Technology, 2017.
  • Best Paper Award, ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS), 2016.
  • Best Paper Award, IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (IEEE CNS), 2014.
  • Best Paper Runner-Up, IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (IEEE CNS), 2013.
  • Jess Davis Memorial Award for Research Excellence from Stevens, 2013
  • Spotlight Paper of the September 2012 issue of the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2012.
  • New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame Innovator Award, 2012
  • Best Paper Award, ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom), 2011
  • Stevens Board of Trustees Award for Scholarly Excellence, 2010
  • National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2010
  • Google Faculty Research Award, 2010
  • Best Paper Award, Sixth International Conference on Wireless On-demand Network Systems and Services (WONS), 2009
  • Best Technological Innovation Award, Third International TinyOS Technology Exchange, 2006
  • IEEE Outstanding Contribution Award from IEEE NJ Coast Section, 2005 - 2009
  • Best Paper Award, International Conference on Wireless On-demand Network Systems and Services (WONS), 2009.
  • Best Technological Innovation Award, Third International TinyOS Technology Exchange, 2006.
  • Bell Labs Software Excellence Award, Lucent Technologies, 2004.

Research Interests

Research Interests:

  • Smart Healthcare
  • Internet of Things (IoT)
  • Cyber Security and Privacy
  • Large-scale Sensing Data Analysis
  • Connected Vehicles
  • Mobile Computing and Sensing

Selected Publications

Selected Publications:

Book: Yingying Chen, Wenyuan Xu, Wade Trappe, Yanyong Zhang, “Securing Emerging Wireless Systems”, ISBN:978-0-387-88490-5, Springer, 2009.

Book: Jie Yang, Yingying Chen, Wade Trappe, and Jerry Cheng, “Pervasive Wireless Environments: Detecting and Localizing User Spoofing”, ISBN: 978-3-319-07355-2, Springer, 2014.

Hongbo Liu, Yingying Chen, Mooi Choo Chuah, Jie Yang, H. Vincent Poor, “Enabling Self-healing Smart Grid Through Jamming Resilient Local Controller Switching”, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (IEEE TDSC), Volume 14, Issue 4, Pages 377-391, 2017.

Jiadi Yu, Zhongyang Chen, Yanmin Zhu, Yingying Chen, Linghe Kong, Minglu Li, “Fine-grained Abnormal Driving Behaviors Detection and Identification with Smartphones”, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (IEEE TMC), Volume 15, Issue 8, Pages 2198-2212, 2017.

Jian Liu, Chen Wang, Yingying Chen, Nitesh Saxena, “VibWrite: Towards Finger-input Authentication on Ubiquitous Surfaces via Physical Vibration”, in Proceedings of the 24th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2017), Dallas, USA, October-November 2017. (Acceptance rate: 151/843 = 17.9%)

Cong Shi, Jian Liu, Hongbo Liu, Yingying Chen, “Smart User Authentication through Actuation of Daily Activities Leveraging WiFi-enabled IoT”, in Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc 2017), Chennai, India, July 2017. (Acceptance rate: 30/179 = 16.8%)

Jian Liu, Yingying Chen, Marco Gruteser, Yan Wang, “VibSense: Sensing Touches on Ubiquitous Surfaces through Vibration”, in Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication and Networking (SECON 2017), San Diego, CA, USA, June 2017. (Acceptance rate: 45/170 = 26.5%) - Best Paper Award.

Luyang Liu, Hongyu Li, Jian Liu, Cagdas Karatas, Yan Wang, Marco Gruteser, Yingying Chen, Richard Martin, “BigRoad: Scaling Massive Road Data Acquisition for Dependable Self-Driving”, in Proceedings of the 15th ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys 2017), Niagara Falls, NY, USA, June 2017. (Acceptance rate: 34/191 = 17.8%)

Yan Wang, Yingying Chen, Jie Yang, Luyang Liu, Marco Gruteser, Richard P. Martin, Hongbo Liu, “Determining Driver Phone Use by Exploiting Smartphone Integrated Sensors”, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (IEEE TMC), Volume 15, Issue 8, Pages 1965-1981, 2016.

Chen Wang, Xiaonan Guo, Yan Wang, Yingying Chen, Bo Liu, “Friend or Foe? Your Wearable Devices Reveal Your Personal PIN”, in Proceedings of the 11th ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS 2016), Xi'an, China, May 2016. (Acceptance rate: 20.9%) - Best Paper Award.

Tao Shu, Yingying Chen, Jie Yang, “Protecting Multi-Lateral Localization Privacy in Pervasive Environments”, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (IEEE/ACM ToN), Volume 23, Issue 24, Pages 1688-1701, 2015.

Jian Liu, Yan Wang, Gorkem Kar, Yingying Chen, Jie Yang, Marco Gruteser, “Snooping Keystrokes with mmlevel Audio Ranging on a Single Phone”, in Proceedings of the 21st Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom 2015), Paris, France, September 2015. (Acceptance rate: 38/207 = 18.4%)

Shubham Jain, Carlo Borgiattino, Yanzhi Ren, Marco Gruteser, Yingying Chen, Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini, “LookUp: Enabling Pedestrian Safety Services via Shoe Sensing”, in Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys 2015), Florence, Italy, May 2015. (Acceptance rate: 29/219 = 12%)

Jian Liu, Yan Wang, Yingying Chen, Jie Yang, Xu Chen, Jerry Cheng, “Tracking Vital Signs During Sleep Leveraging Off-the-shelf WiFi”, in Proceedings of the 16th ACM Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc 2015), Hangzhou, China, June 2015. (Acceptance rate: 14.8%)

Yanzhi Ren, Chen Wang, Jie Yang, Yingying Chen, “Fine-grained Sleep Monitoring: Hearing Your Breathing with Smartphones”, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2015), Hong Kong, China, April 2015. (Acceptance rate: 316/1640 = 19.3%)

Jiadi Yu, Jiaming Zhao, Yingying Chen, Jie Yang, “Sensing Ambient Light for User Experience-Oriented Color Scheme Adaptation on Smartphone Displays”, in Proceedings of the the 13th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor (SenSys 2015), Seoul, South Korea, November 2015. (Acceptance rate: 27/132 = 20.5%)

Yan Wang, Jian Liu, Yingying Chen, Marco Gruteser, Jie Yang, Hongbo Liu, “E-eyes: Device-free Location-oriented Activity Identification Using Fine-grained WiFi Signatures”, in Proceedings of the 20th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom 2014), Maui, Hawii, Sept. 2014. (Acceptance rate: 36/220 = 16.4%)

Gorkem Kar, Hossen Mustafa, Yan Wang, Yingying Chen, Wenyuan Xu, Marco Gruteser, Tam Vu, “Detection of On-Road Vehicles Emanating GPS Interference”, in Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2014), Scottsdale, Arizona, Nov. 2014. (Acceptance rate: 114/585 = 19.5%)

Xiuyuan Zheng, Chen Wang, Yingying Chen, Jie Yang, “Accurate Rogue Access Point Localization Leveraging Fine-grained Channel Information”, in Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (IEEE CNS 2014), San Fransisco, CA, Oct. 2014. - Best Paper Award.

Hongbo Liu, Yingying Chen, Mooi Choo Chuah, Jie Yang, “Towards Self-Healing Smart Grid via Intelligent Local Controller Switching under Jamming”, in Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (IEEE CNS 2013), Washington, D.C., USA, October 2013. - Best Paper Runner-Up

Hongbo Liu, Yu Gan, Jie Yang, Simon Sidhom, Yan Wang, Yingying Chen, Fan Ye, “Push the Limit of WiFi based Localization for Smartphones”, in Proceedings of the 18th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (ACM MobiCom 2012), Istanbul, Turkey, August 2012. (Acceptance rate: 32/212 = 15%)

Jie Yang, Simon Sidhom, Gayathri Chandrasekaran, Tam Vu, Hongbo Liu, Nicolae Cecan, Yingying Chen, Marco Gruteser, Richard P. Martin, “Detecting Driver Phone Use Leveraging Car Speakers”, in Proceedings of the 17th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (ACM MobiCom 2011), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, September 2011. (Acceptance rate: 13.5%) - Best Paper Award

Yingying Chen, Wade Trappe, Richard P. Martin, “Detecting and Localizing Wireless Spoofing Attacks”, in Proceedings of the Fourth Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON 2007), San Diego, CA, USA, May 2007. (Acceptance rate: 20%)

Yingying Chen, John-Austin Francisco, Wade Trappe, Richard P. Martin, “A Practical Approach to Landmark Deployment for Indoor Localization”, in Proceedings of the Third Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON 2006), Reston, VA, USA, September 2006. (Acceptance rate: 26%)