Jiankun Hu, PhD Position: Associate Professor Discipline of Distributed Systems & Networking, School of Computer Science and IT, RMIT University, Melbourne 3001, Australia. Office: 10.9.11 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: Mondays 4:30--5:30pm and Fridays 10:00--11:00am)

• Awarded 2007 RMIT University Teaching Awards (Certificate of Achievement in Postgraduate Education)
• COSC1233/1235  Broadcast Networks & Applications (S2, 2007) (Assignment 1 released on 23 July. Turnin instruction of the submission of assignment 1 has been posted in the course newsgroup and here as well: turnin -c cosc1233 -p assignment1 youryallaraaccountname.pdf )(Assignment 2 final version released. Please go to the course website)
• COSC2303/2304 Mobile and Wireless Computing (S1, 2008).  Assignment 1 has been released!
• COSC1111/2061 Data Com & Net-Centric Comp (S2, 2008)
• Double Degree Coordinator & Double Degree Program Transition Plan (reference for your graduation checkup).  Double Degree Program Summary (Please note the program transition link here is broken. You need to use "transition" to replace "transtition").

International Professional Activities

• Editor,  Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Elsevier. (ISI impact factor 1.071)
• Editor, Journal of Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing, John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. (ISI impact factor 0.5)
• Associate Editor, Journal of Security and Communication Networks, John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. ISSN 1939-0114. www.interscience.wiley.com/journal/security.
• Symposium Co-Chair for Computer and Communications Network Security Symposium, IEEE Globecom Conference 2008. http://www.comsoc.org/confs/globecom/2008/symposium/compcom.html
• Symposium Co-Chair for Communication and Information Systems Security Symposium, IEEE ICC Conference 2009. http://www.comsoc.org/confs/icc/2009/index.html.
• Member: (i) IEEE ComSoc Communications & Information Security Committee, (ii) IEEE ComSoc Radio Communications Committee
• Session Chair/TPC member for major conferences: IEEE ICC (flagship conference), IEEE Globecom, & IEEE WirelessCom.