Teaching

• Foundations of Computing (ecourse)
• Computer Networks (ecourse)

Services

• Member of the ICOMSW Committee, 2005 ~
• Member of the COMMSIG Committee, 2005 ~
  • Coordinator, Feb. 2011 ~ Dec. 2012
• Member of the CISE Committee, 2013 ~
• Member of the ICOM Steering Committee, 2010 ~ Dec. 2012
• Member of the Graduate Committee, 2006 ~ 2010
  • Representative of the Graduate Committee in the CISE Committee, 2007 ~ 2010
  • Representative of the CISE Committee in the Curricula Revision Committee, 2007 ~ 2010

Education

• Ph.D. Electrical Engineering (major in Telecommunications), The University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, Texas, USA, 2003
• M.S. Communications and Electronic Systems, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China, 1997
• B.S. Telecommunications Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China, 1994

Experience

• Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, Jul. 2016 ~
• Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, Jul. 2012 ~Jun. 2016
• Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, Jul. 2005 ~ Jun. 2012
• Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Florida, 2004-2005
• Research Assistant, The University of Texas at Dallas, 2001-2003
• Senior Software Engineer, Beijing Research Institute, Huawei Technologies, Beijing, China, 1998-2000
• Software Engineer, Gaohong Telecommunications, Beijing, China, 1997-1998
• Research Assistant, China Academy of Telecommunications Technology (CATT), Beijing, China, 1995-1997

Research Interests

• Computer and communications networks: architecture and protocol design, performance evaluation, network coding, network security
• Cyber-physical system: Internet-of-things, smart grid, intelligent transportation system, unmanned aerial system
• Computing: virtualization, compressive sensing, artificial intelligence, network computing

External Research Grants

• Primary Investigator: NSF-EPSCOR Start-Up Grant: $200,000, August 2005 - May 2007, Project title: "A Novel Medium Access Framework for Emerging Wireless Mesh Networks: Protocol Design, Theoretical Analysis, and Prototype Development".
• Primary Investigator: NSF CCLI Grant DUE-0736868: $149,999, June 2008 - May 2012, project title: "Improving the Curriculum of Electrical and Computer Engineering through Projects on Wireless Networks".
• Primary Investigator: NSF MRI Grant CNS-0922996: $589,970, September 2009 - August 2012, project title: "MRI: Development of a Versatile Service-Oriented Wireless Mesh Network for Disaster Relief and Environmental Monitoring in Puerto Rico".
• Primary Investigator: NSF CRI Grant CNS-1730325: $242,451, September 2017 - August 2020, project title: "CI-New: Collaborative Research: Developing an Open Networked Airborne Computing Platform".

Publications

• Link to all publications
• The following paper is the most accessed paper in July 2007 (rank #1), among all papers published in IEEE Communications Magazine . (Ranked #3 in all IEEE ComSoc papers and ranked #23 among all IEEE papers, in July 2007)
  • Kejie Lu, Yi Qian, and Hsiao-Hwa Chen, "A Secure and Service-Oriented Network Control Framework for WiMAX Networks," IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 45, No. 5, pp. 124-130, May 2007.
• The following paper is one of the most accessed papers in July 2007 (rank #6), among all papers published in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.
  • Bo Rong, Yi Qian, and Kejie Lu, "Integrated Downlink Resource Management for Multiservice WiMAX Networks," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol. 6, No. 6, pp. 621-632, Jun. 2007.
• The following paper is one of the most accessed papers in August 2008 (rank #1), among all papers published in IEEE Network.
  • Kejie Lu, Yi Qian, Hsiao-Hwa Chen, and Shengli Fu, "WiMAX networks: from access to service platform," IEEE Network, Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 38-45, May 2008.
• The following paper is one of the most accessed papers in August 2008 (rank #1), among all papers published in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. (Ranked #69 among all IEEE papers, in August 2008)
  • Bo Rong, Yi Qian, and Kejie Lu, Hsiao-Hwa Chen, and M. Guizani, "Call Admission Control Optimization in WiMAX Networks," IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 57, No. 4, pp. 2509-2522, Jul. 2008.
• The following paper receives the Best Paper Award in IEEE ICCCN2016
  • Wen Qi, Jin Wang, Hermine Hovhannisyan, Kejie Lu, Jianping Wang, Junda Zhu, "A Generic Mitigation Framework against Cross - VM Covert Channels," in Proc. IEEE ICCCN 2016, Aug. 2016.

Students and Alumni

• Edwin Florez: Current PhD student
• Jorge Perea: Previous M.S. student (graduated in 2015), first employment: Goldman Sachs
• Marines Chaparro-Acevedo: Previous M.S. student (graduated in 2012), first employment: Harris
• Julio Castillo-Tito: Previous M.S. student (graduated in 2010), first employment: American Airline
• Hector M. Lugo-Cordero: Previous M.S. student (graduated in 2008), continuing PhD study at University of Central Florida (UCF)
• Omar Villavicencio: Previous M.S. student (graduated in 2008), first employment: Microsoft
• Dr. Bo Rong: Previous Postdoc scholar (2006-2007)
  • First employment after leaving: Research Scientist, IITelecom, Quebec, Canada
  • Current employment: Research Scientist, Communications Research Centre (CRC) Canada, (since 2009)
• Dr. Tao Jiang: Previous Postdoc scholar (2006)
  • First employment after leaving: Postdoc of Dr. W. Xiang at University of Michigan at Dearborn
  • Current employment: Professor, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China (since 2008)

Professional Activities And Honors

• Senior Member of the IEEE (S'02, M'04, SM'07)
  • Member of IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc)
    • Technical Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC)
    • Optical Networking Technical Committee (ONTC)
    • Technical Committee on Communications Switching and Routing
    • Communications and Information Security Technical Committee (CIS TC)
      • Secretary (Jan. 2010 ~ Dec. 2011)
      • Vice Chair for Publication (Jan. 2012 ~ Dec. 2013)
      • Vice Chair for Conference (Jan. 2014 ~ Dec. 2015)
    • Radio Communications Committee (RCC)
    • Wireless Communications Techinical Committee (WTC)
• Panelist
  • NSF Proposal Review Panel
  • IEEE A&A Review Panel (reviewing applications for IEEE Senior Member Grade)
• Editor
  • IEEE Communications Society Survey & Tutorial [Link]
    • Outstanding Editor Award (2014)
  • IEEE Internet of Things Journal [Link]
  • Wiley International Journal of Communication Systems (IJCS) [Link]
  • Elsevier Digital Communications and Networks [Link]
  • Wiley Security and Communication Networks (SCN) [2008~2016]
• Guest Editor
  • IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, Special issue on "Service-Oriented Broadband Wireless Network Architecture," published in August, 2009.
  • IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, Special issue on "Next Generation Cognitive Cellular Networks: Spectrum Sharing and Trading," published in April, 2013.
  • IEEE Network Magazine, Special issue on "Network Function Virtualization: Opportunities and Challenges," published in May, 2015.
  • IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Special issue on "Internet of Things over LTE/LTE-A Network: Theory, Methods, and Case Studies," published in October, 2015.
  • IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, Special issue on "Device-to-Device (D2D) Communications with Social Awareness," published in August, 2016.
  • IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, Special issue on "Architecture for Next Generation Wireless Networks: Scalability, Flexibility, and Interoperability," published in February, 2017.
  • Hindawi Wireless Communications and Computing, Special issue on "Advanced Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Technologies for the Internet of Things," to be published in 2018.
• Conference Chairing
  • TPC chair
    • TPC co-chair of ISWPC 2007
    • TPC co-chair of 2017 IEEE Cyber Science and Technology Congress (CyberSciTech 2017)
  • Track chair
    • Track chair of Information Assurance and Security (IAS) track at IEEE MILCOM 2007
    • Track co-chair of Mobile / Wireless Applications and Services track at IEEE VTC2008-Spring
    • Track chair of Information Assurance and Security (IAS) track at IEEE MILCOM 2008
    • Track chair of Pervasive Computing and Communications Track at IEEE/IFIP EUC 2013
  • Sympoium chair
    • Symposium co-chair of the Wireless Communications Symposium in ICCCAS 2009
    • Symposium co-chair of the Communication and Information System Security (CISS) symposium in IEEE Globecom 2010
    • Symposium co-chair of the Communication and Information System Security (CISS) symposium in IEEE ICC 2013
    • Symposium co-chair of the Wireless Communication symposium in IEEE ICNC 2014
    • Symposium co-chair of the Internet Services and Applications Symposium in IEEE ICNC 2015
    • Symposium co-chair of the Symposium of Optical Communication Systems and Networks in ICCC 2015
    • Symposium co-chair of the Communication and Information System Security (CISS) symposium in IEEE ICC 2016
  • Publicity chair
    • Publicity chair of BroadWISE 2004
    • Publicity chair of GridNets 2004
    • Publicity vice chair of SPECTS 2005
    • Publicity co-chair of Valuetools 2006
    • Publicity co-chair of NSS 2013
    • Publicity co-chair of IEEE Trustcom 2013
    • Publicity co-chair of IEEE TSP 2013
  • Other chair
    • Special session chair of IASTED PDCS 2007
    • Workshop chair of SIMUTools 2008
    • Local chair of IEEE ICCCN 2008
• Honors
  • Outstanding Researcher of UPRM (2014)
  • Outstanding Researcher of UPRM (2013)
  • Outstanding Professor of UPRM (2008~2009)
  • NSF Student Travel Grant for SPIE Opticomm 2003
  • Doctoral Scholarship, The University of Texas at Dallas (2001-2003)
  • Texas Public Education Grant Scholarship, The University of Texas at Dallas (2001-2003)