S. (SHYHTSUN) Felix Wu

My student, Prantik, has recently created a website for our focus project, DSL (Davis Social Links) . -Felix on November 12, 2009 @ UCDavis

BTW, I have been very slowly updating my personal website here. You should really visit me via Facebook these days if you are interested in knowing more about me and my works. -- Felix on October 27, 2009 @ UCDavis ( my Facebook link )

Professor of Computer Science

Office: 2109 Watershed Building
Telephone: (530) 754-7070
Fax: (530) 752-4767
Office Hours: 2~3 on Mon/Fri
serious emails (i.e., you seriously do want a response from me): please send me a message via Facebook (you don't have to be my direct friends)
other not so important emails (i.e., either my filter or I myself might drop your emails, intentionally or unintentionally, more of the latter):
wu@cs.ucdavis.edu or sfelixwu@gmail.com
(BTW, I checked my gmail mailbox about three times per year!)

"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, which is currently sponsored by NSF/FIND + GENI and Army/ARO. I put my lectures, power point slides, and the papers under this link as well.

Click here for my official academic CV and publication list (I need to update this but please visit the DSL folder to retrieve the most recent papers.). 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:

If you want to work with me, please try to find a social path (either via LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, or anything else). A regular email to me without any social context is considered a spam to me. I want to encourage you to leverage any social context in communication (I firmly believe that social relationship has its key value in human communication), if available. I will also look at the application pool. The STRONGER the social link path you can find, the BETTER the chance I will consider your case! If you don't understand what I am talking about here, you haven't probably done enough of your homework in knowing me and my works (i.e., I believe that under this case you should work with someone else as your advisor).

In general, I will NOT take any new students purely based on resume, GPA, or GRE scores. In most cases, I recruit students via social channels, one way or the other, on top of your standard profile. Another piece of information: I am recruiting students in the system area such as cloud computing and web-based system. Students working with me are expected to do certain amount of development.

Past Research Projects:

Here are some links to my past projects:

Course I am/will be teaching in 2009/2010:

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

Graduated PhD's:

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.

MS Students working with me currently:

Graduated MS Students (being updated, still in progress) :

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