| Title: | Professor |
| Dept: | Electrical and Computer Engineering |
| Office: | FH 317 |
| Phone: | 216-523-7480 |
| Email: | W.ZHAO1@csuohio.edu |
| Web: | http://academic.csuohio.edu/zhao_w/ |
| Address: | 2121 Euclid Ave. FH 317, Cleveland, OH 44115 |
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| Education: | ||||||||
| Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2002 | ||||||||
| Brief Bio: | ||
| I am a Full Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cleveland State University. I got my PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering in June 2002 from the ECE Department, University of California, Santa Barabara. My research is in the areas of secure and dependable computing. I am particularly interested in the following topics:
* Secure and Dependable Web Services * Secure and Dependable Database Clusters * Secure and Dependable Collaborative Applications * Application Aware Byzantine Fault Tolerance * Extended transaction models for Web Services * Computer Vision for Motion Analysis For details, please visit my research lab Web site. | ||
| Honors and Awards: | ||
| * Fenn College Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award, Cleveland State University, May 2007.
* Most Promising Research Award of the 2007 Middleware for Web Services Workshop. Paper Title: BFT-WS: A Byzantine Fault Tolerance Framework for Web Services * Best Paper Award on Computer Systems of the 2002 International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems Paper Title: "End-to-end latency analysis and evaluation of a fault-tolerant CORBA infrastructure", with L. E. Moser and P. M. Melliar-Smith * National Chi-Sun Yeh Thesis/Dissertation Award on Experimental Physics, for my M.S. thesis, P. R. China, 1993 | ||
| Research Interests: | ||
| Secure and Dependable Web Services
Secure and Dependable Database Clusters Secure and Dependable Collaborative Applications Application Aware Byzantine Fault Tolerance Extended transaction models for Web Services Computer Vision for Motion Analysis | ||
| Teaching Areas: | ||
| Computer networks
Secure and dependable computing Distributed computing systems Computer systems modeling and performance evaluation | ||
| Professional Affiliations: | ||
| IEEE | ||
| Professional Experience: | ||
| 08/2010-present Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cleveland State University
08/2004-05/2010 Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cleveland State University 01/2003-08/2004 Post-Doctoral Researcher, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara 12/2000-07/2004 Chief Architect/Senior Research Engineer and Co-founder, Eternal Systems, Inc. (no long exist) 08/1996-12/2000 Graduate Student Researcher, ECE Department, University of California, Santa Barbara 09/1989-06/1995 Research Assistant, Department of Physics, Peking University, P. R. China | ||
| University Service: | ||
| Member, UCC, 2011-present
Member, Graduate Council, 2011-2012 Chair, Undergraduate Program Committee, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2005-2006 Committee member, Graduate Program Committee, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2006-2011 Committee member, Ad hoc Committee on Student Code of Conduct, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2006. Committee member, Faculty Search Committee, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2005-2006 Committee member, Staff Search Committee for Computer Systems Manager, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2006 | ||
| Professional Service: | ||
| Panelist
¿ Panelist for National Science Foundation CSR program, 2008, 2009. ¿ Panelist for National Science Foundation CyberTrust program, 2010. Editorial Board Member ¿ International Journal of Web Science, Inderscience Publishers ¿ International Journal of Performability Engineering, Rams Consultants ¿ International Journal On Advances in Networks and Services, International Academy, Research, and Industry Association ¿ International Journal On Advances in Security, International Academy, Research, and Industry Association ¿ International Journal On Advances in Software, International Academy, Research, and Industry Association ¿ The Open Software Engineering Journal, Bentham Open ¿ The Open Information Systems Journal, Bentham Open Session Chair for Conferences/Workshops ¿ The International Conference on Cloud Computing, Miami, FL, July 2010. ¿ The International Conference on Services Computing, Honolulu, Hawaii, July 2008. ¿ The Middleware for Web Services Workshop, Annapolis, MD, October 2007. Program Committee Member for Conferences/Workshops [1] The 19th IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2012), 2012. [2] The 4th International Conference on Intensive Applications and Services (INTENSIVE 2012), 2012. [3] The 6th International Conference on Emerging Security Information, Systems and Technologies (Secureware), 2012 [4] The International Conference on Advanced Geographic Information Systems, Applications, and Services (GEOProcessing), 2010, 2011, 2012 [5] The 9th IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2011), 2011. [6] The 9th IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing (DASC 2011), 2011. [7] The 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Cyberspace Safety and Security (CSS 2011), 2011. [8] The International Conferences on Advanced Service Computing (SERVICE COMPUTATION), 2011, 2012 Reviewer for Technical Journals, Books, and Conferences/Workshops ¿ IEEE Transactions on Computers ¿ IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing ¿ IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems ¿ IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering ¿ IEEE Transactions on Services Computing ¿ IEEE Internet Computing ¿ ACM Transactions on the Web ¿ IET Software ¿ IBM Systems Journal ¿ Journal of Systems and Software ¿ The Computers and Electrical Engineering Journal ¿ Journal of Computer Science ¿ International Journal of Simulation and Process Modelling ¿ International Journal of Communication Systems ¿ International Journal of Performability Engineering ¿ Short Communications ¿ International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science | ||
| Research Grants: | ||
| MRI: Acquisition of Equipment to Establish a Secure and Dependable Computing Infrastructure for Research and Education at Cleveland State University. As lead PI (with Dr. Nigamanth Sridhar, Chansu Yu and Yongjian Fu). National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation Program, 2008. Award amount $150,000 (with cost-sharing from CSU of the amount of $93,914).
Byzantine Fault Tolerance as a Service, REU Supplement Grant to MRI: Acquisition of Equipment to Establish a Secure and Dependable Computing Infrastructure for Research and Education at Cleveland State University. As lead PI (with Dr. Nigamanth Sridhar, Chansu Yu and Yongjian Fu). National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation Program, 2012. Award amount $16,000. Byzantine Fault Tolerant Event Stream Processing, REU Supplement Grant to MRI: Acquisition of Equipment to Establish a Secure and Dependable Computing Infrastructure for Research and Education at Cleveland State University. As lead PI (with Dr. Nigamanth Sridhar, Chansu Yu and Yongjian Fu). National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation Program, 2010. Award amount $16,000. Towards a Lightweight Highly Dependable Storage System for Home Networks, REU Supplement Grant to MRI: Acquisition of Equipment to Establish a Secure and Dependable Computing Infrastructure for Research and Education at Cleveland State University. As lead PI (with Dr. Nigamanth Sridhar, Chansu Yu and Yongjian Fu). National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation Program, 2009. Award amount $16,000. Building Highly Dependable Distributed Systems, As PI. CSU Scholarship Initiate Research Program, 2010. Award amount $5,000. Towards Secure and Dependable Computing. As PI. CSU Faculty Research Development (FRD) Program, 2006. Award amount $12,314 (with cost-sharing from Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the amount of $13,230). Development of the Technology for the Exercise Tutor: a System for Proxy Exercise Guidance, As Co-PI (with D. Espy, A. Reinthal, and N. Sridhar), CSU Faculty Research Development (FRD) Program, 2012, Award amount: $18,236.00. | ||