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
I strongly prefer to receive emails via
SoEmail (Social Emails)
using my UCDavis/CS address wu@cs.ucdavis.edu. You are encouraged to use the Thunderbird plug-in we provide there.
"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, NSF/BBN/GENI, Army/ARO/MURI, Air Force/AFOSR/MURI, and most recently ARL/CTA Network Science. 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, you HAVE TO contact me via SoEmail. If you are not interested in using the system we built (and helping us to make it much better), then our group is not for you.
After leading the DSL project for three years, I realized that
teamwork is the key to be successful for our type of research.
That's why I would like to emphasize more than enough about strong teamworking in both research and development. This is a MUST requirement for our team.
If you are not willing to humbly collaborate with others on our team,
I am not your advisor. And, I consider, as an example, that willing to use the systems built by our team is an important step to show your support to your colleagues.
Past Research Projects:
Here are some links to my past projects:
Course I am/will be teaching in 2009/2010:
- Winter 2009:
ECS 150 :
Operating Systems (Undergraduate -- FreeBSD 5.x kernel)
- Fall 2009:
ECS 289m :
Online Social Networking Systems (Graduate -- video files available)
PhD Students working with me currently (and possibly..... for the next N years):
- Seung-Sun Gary Hong (PhD, UCDavis, currently at Watchguard)
-
Wen-Fu Kao (PhD, UCDavis, currently Intel)
- Lerone Banks (PhD, UCDavis)
- Juan Lang (PhD, UCDavis)
- Will Kallander (PhD. UCDavis)
- Prantik Bhattacharyya (MS, UCDavis)
- Kevin Hifeng Zhao (PhD, UCDavis)
- Mina Doroud (PhD, UCDavis, co-advised with Prof. Diane Felmlee from Socialogy)
Graduated PhD's:
- 0000 0000 Tsung-Li Tony Wu (NCSU, 1999, Shih-Chien University, Taiwan)
- 0000 0001 Feiyi Wang (NCSU, 2000, Oakridge National Lab.)
- 0000 0010 Ho-Yen Chang (NCSU, 2001, Ericsson)
- 0000 0011 Zhi Judy Fu (NCSU, 2001, Motorola Lab.)
- 0000 0100 Xiao-Liang Leon Zhao (NCSU, 2002, Tsinghua University, Beijing)
- 0000 0101 Chien-Long Peter Wu (NCSU, 2003, Delta Networks)
- 0000 0110 He Huang (NCSU, 2005, Nortel Networks)
- 0000 0111
Henric Johnson (BTH, 2005, co-advised with Prof. Arne Nilsson, BTH)
- 0000 1000
Yanyan Yang (UCDavis, 2006, Proofpoint)
- 0000 1001
Jed Crandall (UCDavis, 2007, co-advised with Prof. Fred Chong and
Zhendong Su, University of New Mexico)
- 0000 1010
Ke Zhang (UCDavis, 2007, Proofpoint)
- 0000 1011
Fan Zhao (UCDavis, 2007, Google)
- 0000 1100 Xiaoming Lu (UCDavis, 2008, co-advising with Prof. Karl Levitt)
- 0000 1101
Dimitri do B. DeFigueiredo (UCDavis, 2008, co-advised with Prof. Karl
Levitt, Adobe)
- 0000 1110 Matthew Spear (UCDavis, 2010, co-advised with Prof. Norm Matloff, Google)
- 0000 1111
Shaozhi Shawn Ye (UCDavis, 2010, Google)
- 0001 0000
Daniela Alvim Seabra de Oliveira (UCDavis, 2010, Bowdoin College)
- 0001 0001 Lerone Banks (UCDavis, 2011)
- 0001 0010 Juan Lang (UCDavis, 2011, Google)
- 0001 0011 Wen-Fu Kao (UCDavis, 2011, Intel)
- 0001 0100 Prantik Bhattacharyya (UCDavis, 2011)
- 0001 0101 Hai-feng Kevin Zhao (UCDavis, 2011)
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:
- Jason Coit (MS, UCDavis, currently FirstLogic)
- Thomas Tran (MS, UCDavis)
- Ray Lee (MS, UCDavis)
Graduated MS Students (being updated, still in progress) :
- Kelcey Chan (MS, UCDavis)
- Ankush Garg (MS, UCDavis, co-advised with Prof. Chip Martel)
- David Domyancic (MS, UCDavis)
- Greg Wittel (MS, UCDavis, Proofpoint)
- Ryan (MS, 2007, UCDavis)
- Fiona Wong (MS, UCDavis)
Call for Papers or Participations (that I am an TPC member)
-
Please do NOT ask me to serve on your TPC or journals unless you really know me (i.e., you know how bad my reputation is in reviewing papers or writing letters). I am currently swamped for next 36 months for the DSL project. I will do more for the community after I can manage whatever I have already over-committed. I apologize.
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