Jiankun Hu, PhD Position: Associate Professor Discipline of Distributed Systems & Networking, School of Computer Science and IT, RMIT University, Melbourne 3001, Australia. Office: 14.11.25 Tel. +61 3 99259793 Fax: +61 3 96621617 Email: Jiankun.Hu@rmit.edu.au

Personal Profile

Research Interest & Projects for Prospective PhD/Masters and Honors Students

Note for prospective research students: You can find more info through each topic link below. However, they are limited sample projects ONLY. You need to contact me for more details/new topics or discussion of your own ideas.

• Biometric Security: fingerprint, and face authentication, Biometric template protection, Fingerprint database indexing
• Network Security: cryptographic key distribution, intrusion detection, wireless and sensor network security
• Networking: TCP congestion control, wireless MAC protocol design, P2P, energy efficient sensor network design

Research Students

Grants and Selected Publications

Teaching (Consultation including BNA course: Mondays 10:30--11:30pm and Wed. 4:00--5:00am).

Awarded 2007 RMIT University Teaching Awards (Certificate of Achievement in Postgraduate Education)

COSC1233/1235 Broadcast Network and Applications (BNA) (S2, 2010)

(COSC2303/2304 Mobile and Wireless Computing (S1, 2010).

Sessional Lecturer Dr. Xiang Li, ).

• COSC2456/2457 Advanced Topics in Computer Networks (S1, 2010)
• Double Degree Coordinator & Double Degree Program Transition Plan ().  Double Degree Program Summary (Please note the program transition link here is broken. You need to use "transition" to replace "transition").
• Double Degree Graduation Checklist.

International Professional Activities

• Guest Editor 2010, The Computer Journal, Oxford (ERA tier-A*)
• Editor 2009--,  Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Elsevier. (ERA tier-A, ISI impact factor 1.267)
• > John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. (ERA tier-A, ISI impact factor 1.225)
• Associate Editor, Journal of Security and Communication Networks, John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. ISSN 1939-0114 (ISI indexed). www.interscience.wiley.com/journal/security.
• Guest Editor, Telecommunication Systems Journal (Springer). (ISI indexed).
• Editor, KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (ISI indexed).
• Program Chair, The 4^th International Conference on Network and System Security, Melbourne, Australia, Sep. 1-3, 2010 (ERA tier-B)
• Symposium Co-Chair for Computer and Communications Network Security Symposium, IEEE Globecom Conference 2008.
• Symposium Co-Chair for Communication and Information Systems Security Symposium, IEEE ICC Conference 2009.
• Member: (i) IEEE ComSoc Communications & Information Security Committee, (ii) IEEE ComSoc Radio Communications Committee

Call for Paper, "Special Issue on Advances in Network and System Security", The Computer Journal Oxford (ERA A*), Deadline 31 January 2011.

PhD Scholarship and Research Fellowship Available!!