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Biography

Wei-Shinn Ku received his Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Southern California (USC) in 2007. He also obtained both the M.S. degree in computer science and the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from USC in 2003 and 2006, respectively. He is a professor with the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Auburn University. He was a program director of the CISE/IIS Division at the National Science Foundation between 2019 and 2022. His research interests include data management systems, data science, cybersecurity, and mobile computing. He has published more than 140 research papers in refereed international journals and conference proceedings. He is the director of the Auburn Data Science and Engineering Lab. He is a senior member of the IEEE and a member of the ACM.

 

Education
University of Southern California
Ph.D. Computer Science, May 2007
Advisor: Dr. Roger Zimmermann

University of Southern California
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Dec 2006
M.S. in Computer Science, Dec 2003

National Taiwan Normal University
B.C.S. in Information & Computer Education, June 1999


Academic Work Experience

Professor

August 2018 – Present

Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering

Auburn University

 

Program Director

February 2019 – February 2022

Division of Information and Intelligent Systems

Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering

National Science Foundation

 

Associate Professor

August 2012 – July 2018

Graduate Program Director

January 2013 – January 2017

Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering
Auburn University

 

Assistant Professor
August 2007 – July 2012

Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering
Auburn University

 

Research Assistant

Aug. 2002 – May 2007  

National Science Foundation Sponsored ITR Project

University of Southern California          

 

Professional Services

Co-Organizer:

International Workshop on Privacy-Aware Location-based Mobile Services (PALMS), 2008

PC Co-Chair:

IEEE International Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing (CIC), 2020

International Conference on Web Services (ICWS), 2020

International Workshop on Advanced Technologies of Cloud Computing, 2013

International Workshop on Security in Cloud Computing (SCC), 2009

International Workshop on Privacy-Aware Location-based Mobile Services (PALMS), 2008, 2009

PC Vice Co-Chair:

IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData), 2020

Posters Co-Chair:

ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS), 2012, 2013, 2014

Demonstration Co-Chair:

International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD), 2017

Treasurer Co-Chair:

ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS), 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018

Registration Chair:

International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD), 2011

Publication Co-Chair:

International Workshop on Security in Cloud Computing (CloudSec) 2010, 2011

PC Member:

ACM International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), 2020

International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), 2021

IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2010, 2011, 2020

International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), 2018

ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL) 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020

ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2018

IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM), 2010, 2011, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021

IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 2020

IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2011, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020

IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020

AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2019, 2020

IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) Demonstration Program, 2008

IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), 2012, 2013

Editorship:

Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2020 – Present

Associate Editor, IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoT-J), 2021 – Present

Associate Editor, Journal of Information Science and Engineering (JISE), 2016 – Present

Guest editor of the special issue on Information Assurance and System Security in Cloud Computing, International Journal of Cloud Computing, 2013

Journal Reviewer:

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2019

ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data, 2012, 2013

ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS), 2016

The VLDB Journal, 2010, 2015

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013

IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2008, 2009

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2012

IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, 2015

IEEE Communications Magazine, 2011

IEEE Intelligent Systems, 2009, 2015

GeoInformatica, Springer, 2016, 2017, 2018.

Information Systems, Elsevier, 2008

Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS), Springer, 2006, 2013

Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, Wiley, 2008

Wireless Networks, Springer, 2011

Wireless Personal Communications, Springer, 2007

Proposal Panelist/Reviewer:

National Science Foundation, 2010, 2017, 2018

Qatar National Research Fund, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

Hong Kong Research Grants Council, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014


Awards & Honors

2018 – Auburn Alumni Engineering Council Research Award for Excellence

2016 – U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Summer Research Associate

2012 – Auburn Alumni Engineering Council Research Award for Excellence

2010 – Outstanding Reviewer Award, IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering

2007 – Academic Achievement Award, Office of International Services, University of Southern California

2006 – Certificate for Outstanding Service to the USC Viterbi School of Engineering

2005 – Certificate for Outstanding Service to the USC Viterbi School of Engineering

2004 – Leadership Award, Office of International Services, University of Southern California

2004 – Academic Achievement Award, Office of International Services, University of Southern California

2003 – Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, Computer Science Department, University of Southern California

1996 – Recipient of the Ministry of Education Scholarship, Taiwan

 

Grants

PI, National Science Foundation, IIS-1618669, Information Integration and Informatics Program, Indoor Spatial Query Evaluation and Trajectory Tracking with Bayesian Filtering Techniques, 9/2016 – 8/2021

 

PI, National Science Foundation, ACI-1642133, Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure Program, Data Integrity Assurance and Privacy Protection Solutions for Secure Interoperability of Cloud Resources, 10/2016 – 9/2021

 

PI, National Science Foundation, CNS-0855251, Computer Research Infrastructure Program, An Infrastructure for Scalable Data Dissemination and Query Evaluation in Mobile Environments, 10/2009 – 9/2012

 

PI, National Science Foundation, CNS-0831502, Cyber Trust Program, SPEAR: Space Encryption based Query Processing for Privacy-Aware Location-based Services, 9/2008 – 8/2012

 

PI, Auburn University Intramural Grants Program, Indoor Spatial Query Evaluation and Trajectory Tracking, 4/2015 – 4/2017

 

PI, Auburn University Competitive Research Grant, Data Management Techniques for an Elderly Assistive Device, 5/2008 – 4/2009

 

Co-PI, National Science Foundation, CNS-0917137, CSR Program, FastStor: Data-Mining-Based Multilayer Prefetching for Hybrid Storage Systems, 9/2009 – 8/2012

 

Co-PI, National Science Foundation, DUE-0837341, CCLI Program, QoSec: A Novel Middleware-Based Approach to Teaching Computer Security Courses, 6/2009 – 5/2012

 

Co-PI, National Science Foundation, CNS-0851906, REU Program, REU Site for Pervasive and Mobile Computing, 5/2009 – 4/2012

 

Co-PI, National Science Foundation, DUE-0830831, SFS Program, Building Information Assurance Education Capacity, 9/2008 – 8/2010

 

Co-PI, National Science Foundation, OCI-0753305, CI-TEAM Program, A Digital Forensics Cyberinfrastructure Workforce Training Initiative for America's Veterans, 8/2008 – 7/2011

 

Co-PI, National Science Foundation, DUE-0621307, SFS Program, Scholarship Partnership with Alabama State University and Tuskegee University, 8/2006 – 7/2012

 

Professional Affiliations

IEEE Senior Member, ACM SIGSPATIAL Member

Version: 9/1/2020