Feb. 14, 2008, I passed Preliminary Exam (Thesis Proposal Defense). My thesis topic is Secure Internetworked Control Systems.
	Jan. 10 - Jan. 11,  2008, I attended Ameren Cyber Security Workshop in St. Louis, MO.
	Oct. 6, 2007, I participated in poster session of the 4th Midwest Security Workshop (MSW) in Chicago, IL.
	July 31, 2007, I'm reunited with my wife in Urbana, IL.
	May 16 - May 18, 2007, I attended PSERC Industry-University Members Meeting in Urbana, IL

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Short Bio

I received my B.S. degree and the first M.S. degree in computer science from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics.  Being a software engineer, I worked at IBM China Software Development Laboratory for a year. Since Aug. 2003, I have been pursuing my Ph.D. degree at Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania. After earning my second M.S. degree in Aug. 2004, I transferred to the Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, working with Professor Carl A. Gunter. You can get more details from my C.V.
 
Research Interests

My research interests mainly focus on information security, including control network security, application security,  access control and trust management etc. Currently, I'm focusing on power grid system security, especially the security for substation automation.

I'm also interested in security relevant area in networks, distributed systems and programming language.

Contact

Phone:     (217)265-6758
Fax:          (217)265-6738
E-Mail:      jzhang24 at cs dot uiuc dot edu
Address:
    4309 Siebel Center for Computer Science
    201 N. Goodwin Ave
    Urbana, IL 61801

Last updated: Mar.16, 2008