Dr. Zhengrui 'Jerry' Qin

Associate Professor

CAE-CD: Point of Contact, Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense

Education

• Ph.D. Computer Science; The College of William and Mary, USA
• M.S. Physics; Dartmouth College, USA
• M.S Space Physics; Beijing University, China
• B.S. Geophysics; Beijing University, China

Courses Taught

• Network Fundamentals
• Network Security
• Database Systems
• Graduate Direct Project I & II
• IT Management
• Web Application and Services
• Object-Oriented Programming
• Advanced Topics in Database Systems

Academic Interests

• Cybersecurity
• Cyber-Physical Systems
• Mobile Computing

Scholarly Activity

Selected Publications (Full List)

• Yutao Tang, Zhengrui Qin, Zhiqiang Lin, Yue Li, Shanhe Yi, Fengyuan Xu, Qun Li, “vTrust: Remotely Executing Mobile Apps Transparently With Local Untrusted OS”, IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2022.
• Yutao Tang, Yue Li, Qun Li, Kun Sun, Haining Wang, Zhengrui Qin, "User input enrichment via sensing devices", Computer Networks, Volume 196, 2021.
• Yutao Tang, Zhengrui Qin, Shanhe Yi, Qun Li, "Virtual machine migration for IoT applications", Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing, 2019.
• Zhengrui Qin and Qun Li, “High Rate BCI with Portable Devices based on EEG”, 3^rd IEEE/ACM Conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems and Engineering Technologies (CHASE, published by Smart Health), 2018.
• Zhengrui Qin and Qun Li, “Household Electrical Load Scheduling Algorithms with Renewable Energy”, 13^th International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems and Applications (WASA), 2018
• Cheng Li, Zhengrui Qin, Ed Novak, and Qun Li, "Defending against Man-in-the-Middle Attacks in Fog Networks for IoT Applications", IEEE Internet of Things, 2017.
• Shanhe Yi, Zhengrui Qin, Nancy Carter, and Qun Li,  "WearLock: Unlocking Your Phone via Acoustics using Smartwatch'',  The 37th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems} (ICDCS), Atlanta, GA, Jun 6-8, 2017.
• Zhengrui Qin, Yutao Tang, Ed Novak, and Qun Li, "MobiPlay: A Remote Execution Based Record-and-Replay Tool for Mobile Applications", to appear at the 38th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), Austin, Texas, May 14-22, 2016.
• Shanhe Yi, Zhengrui Qin, Ed Novak, Yafeng Yin, and Qun Li, "GlassGesture: Exploring Head Gesture Interface of Smart Glasses'', The 35th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), San Francisco, CA, April 10-15, 2016.

Selected Presentations

• High Rate BCI with Portable Devices based on EEG, The 3rd IEEE/ACM Conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems and Engineering Technologies,  Washington DC, USA, September, 2018.
• Household Electrical Load Scheduling Algorithms with Renewable Energy, 13th International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems and Applications, Tianjin, China, June, 2018
• Preserving Secondary Users’ Privacy in Cognitive Radio Networks, The 33rd IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications, Toronto, Canada, April, 2014.
• Unidentifiable Attacks in Electric Power Systems, The ACM/IEEE 3rd International Conference on Cyber-Physical System, Beijing, China, April, 2012. 

Honors/Awards

• Faculty Excellence Award for Scholarship, 2018
• Agility and Innovation Award (as a member of the cybersecurity team), 2017

Other Professional Experience

• CAE-CD: Point of Contact; Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense
• Program Committee Member
  • FiCloud’15, ICPADS’16, ICDIP’17, ICDIP’19, SOFTENG ’18-’20, HotWoT ’19
• Session Chair
  • ICDCS’17
• Conference/Workshop Reviewer
  • ICC’11, IEEE FRID’11, CPNS’11, IEEE GLOBECOM’11, MilCom’11, IFIP/TC6 Networking’12, WASA’12, IEEE MASS’12, IEEE CNS’14, EEE CNS’15, GLOBECOM’15
• Journal Reviewer
  • IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Networking, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, International Journal of Computer Networks, International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, Wireless Spectrum Journal, Information, Symmetry, Journal of Computer Science, IEEE Access, KSII Transaction, International Journal of Communication Systems, IEEE Internet Computing, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Expert Systems With Applications, Ad Hoc Networks