S. (SHYHTSUN) Felix Wu

Professor of Computer Science

Office: 3057 Engineering II
Telephone: (530) 754-7070
Fax: (530) 752-4767
Office Hours: 10-11 on Tue/Thu
ECS150/ECS236 related Emails (ONLY please):
All Other Emails (yes, including your favorite Spam/Virus/Trojan Mails):
Davis Social Link: ecs150_fall_2006 [0xFE527804D204BA67]
Davis Social Link: SecLab [TBA]
Davis Social Link: DSL [TBA]
Davis Social Link: Descartes [TBA]

"He will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit."

About S. Felix Wu:

Hi, I am part of the Computer Security group at UCDavis .

In research, I am interested in security issues related to both networking and networked (if you can tell the difference) systems. Currently, I have been working on the following research areas: Unknown vulnerability analysis, IPSec/VPN Policy Management, Routing protocol security, Internet architecture, Mobility, Secure computer architecture, Email Antispam, Information Visualization for Security, Anomaly Analysis and Explanation. Very soon, I realized that I was probably interested in too many things though. Therefore, my latest focus has been on the DSL (Davis Social Links) project. Here are some information about the DSL project:

Thankfully, my research projects are currently supported by NSF, DoD (Army and Air Force via MURI), ETRI, and Intel.

Click here for my official academic CV and publication list . Most of my publications can be found using google, but if you fail to find some of the papers, you are always welcome to send me emails.

For prospective graduate students:

Please do not send me your resume! I have not taken any new students directly OUTSIDE of UC Davis in the past six years, but I might this year as I will have 4 students graduating!!

In general, I will NOT take any new students based on resume, GPA, or GRE scores. You must apply and be accepted by our graduate admission committe first, and then we can talk after you come to UC Davis. I normally need at least three to six months to determine whether we can work together or not. In most cases, I recruit students from my own classes as I can observe them via course requirements. (Well, this statement "was" true for the past six years, but I might need to adjust a little bit this year.)

Past Research Projects:

Here are some links to my past projects:

Course I am/will be teaching in 2007/2008:

PhD Students working with me currently (and possibly..... for the next N years):

Graduated PhD's:

Well, I think I have most major network equipement venders covered well... If you believe that your company's name has not been listed (and you also feel strongly that it should be listed), then please try to hire my graduating PhD students -- a few of them will be on the market soon.

Graduated Postdoc:

Academic Genealogy:

FYI, Prof. Tao Xie at NC State University nicely and generously maintains the Software Engineering Academic Genealogy web page, which shows how I came from academically.

Call for Papers or Participations (that I am an TPC member)

Retrieving All SecLab Publications

More information about me:

Although I have personal belief in many different perspectives, I strongly support UCDavis diversity commitment. Most of my current and past PhD/MS students do not actually share the same belief with me, while we (I hope at least) had/have a very good time working together and built up our friendship. If you would like to learn more about my background and belief (plus some photos about my family and students), you might click here .

Jeremiah 17:8