Kui Ren, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Office: Siegel Hall 319
3301 South Dearborn Chicago, IL 60616
Phone: 312.567.3481
Fax: 312.567.8976
Email: kren@ece.iit.edu
Web: Personal Webpage

Expertise

network and system security, wireless networks, ubiquitous computing, Internet security, information assurance, and applied cryptography.

Education

B.E., CHE, Zhejiang University, 1998
M.E., MSE, Zhejiang University, 2001
Ph.D., ECE, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 2007

Research

Dr. Kui Ren joined the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at IIT in Fall 2007. Dr. Ren’s research interests include Network Security & Privacy and Applied Cryptography with current focus on Security & Privacy in Cloud Computing, Lower-layer Attack & Defense Mechanisms for Wireless Networks, Access Control, and Sensor & Mesh Network Security. Dr. Ren leads Ubiquitous Security & Privacy Research Laboratory, and his research is supported by US National Science Foundation. For more information, please visit his homepage and UbiSeC lab.

Current Projects

Awards/Honors

Patents

Books

Selected Publications

Qian Wang, Kui Ren, Wenjing Lou, and Yanchao Zhang, “Dependable and Secure Sensor Data Storage with Dynamic Integrity Assurance,” IEEE INFOCOM’09, 19-25 April 2009, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2009

Shucheng Yu, Kui Ren, and Wenjing Lou, “FDAC: Toward Fine-grained Distributed Data Access Control in Wireless Sensor Networks,” IEEE INFOCOM’09, 19-25 April 2009, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2009

Rui Zhang, Yanchao Zhang, and Kui Ren, “DP2AC: Distributed Privacy-Preserving Access Control in Sensor Networks,” IEEE INFOCOM’09, 19-25 April 2009, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2009

Zhiguo Wan, Kui Ren, Bo Zhu, Bart Preneel, and Min Gu, “Anonymous User Communication for Privacy Protection in Wireless Metropolitan Mesh Networks,” AsiaCCS’09, 10-12 March 2009, Sydney, Australia, 2009

Kai Zeng, Kui Ren, Wenjing Lou, and Patrick J. Moran, “Energy-Aware Geographic Routing in Lossy Wireless Sensor Networks with Environmental Energy Supply,” ACM Wireless Networks (WINET), Vol. 15, No. 1, Jan. 2009.

Kui Ren, Wenjing Lou, Bo Zhu, and Sushil Jajodia, “Secure and Efficient Multicast in Wireless Sensor Networks Allowing Ad hoc Group Formations,” To Appear, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT), 2009

Yanchao Zhang and Kui Ren, “Towards Address Privacy in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks,” To Appear, ACM Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET), 2009

Kui Ren and Wenjing Lou, “Communication Security in Wireless Sensor Networks,” VDM Verlag Dr. Muller, Germany, ISBN 978-3-8364-3668-7, 2008

Zhiguo Wan, Kui Ren, and Bart Preneel, “A Secure Privacy-Preserving Roaming Protocol Based on Hierarchical Identity-Based Encryption for Mobile Networks," ACM WISEC’08, Mar. 31-Apr. 2, VA, 2008

Kui Ren and Wenjing Lou, “A Sophisticated Privacy-enhanced Yet Accountable Security Framework for Wireless Mesh Networks,” IEEE ICDCS’08, Beijing, China, June 17-20, 2008

Shucheng Yu, Kui Ren, and Wenjing Lou, “Attribute-Based On-Demand Multicast Group Setup with Membership Anonymity,” Securecomm’08, Sep. 22-25, Istanbul, Turkey, 2008

Kui Ren, Wenjing Lou, and Yanchao Zhang, “LEDS: Providing Location-aware End-to-end Data Security in Wireless Sensor Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 7, no. 5, pp. 585-598, May 2008 (The conference version appears in IEEE INFOCOM’06, Apr. 23-29, Barcelona, Spain, 2006)

Kui Ren, Kai Zeng, and Wenjing Lou, “Secure and Fault-tolerant Event Boundary Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC), Vol. 7, No. 1, Jan., 2008

Kui Ren, Wenjing Lou, and Yanchao Zhang, “Multi-user Broadcast Authentication in Wireless Sensor Networks,” IEEE SECON’07, Jun. 18-21, San Diego, 2007

Kui Ren, Wenjing Lou, Kai Zeng, and Patrick J. Moran, “On Broadcast Authentication in Wireless Sensor Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC), Vol. 6, No. 11, pp. 4136-4144, Nov., 2007 (The conference version appears in WASA 2006 and receives Best Paper Award.)

Kui Ren and Wenjing Lou, “Privacy-enhanced, Attack-resilient Access Control in Pervasive Computing Environments with Optional Context Authentication Capability,” ACM Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET), Vol. 12, pp. 79-92, 2007

Kui Ren, Kai Zeng, and Wenjing Lou, “A New Approach for Random Key Pre-distribution in Large Scale Wireless Sensor Networks,” Wiley Journal of Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing (WCMC), Vol. 6, Issue 3, pp.307-318, 2006

Kui Ren, Wenjing Lou, Kai Zeng, Feng Bao, Jianying Zhou, and Robert H. Deng, “Routing Optimization Security in Mobile IPv6,” Computer Networks (COMNET), Vol. 50, Issue 13, pp.2401-2419, Elsevier, 2006

Kui Ren, Wenjing Lou, Robert H. Deng, and Kwangjo Kim, “A Novel Privacy Preserving Authentication and Access Control Scheme in Pervasive Computing Environments,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT), Vol. 55, No. 4, pp.1373-1384, July 2006

Kui Ren, Tieyan Li, Zhiguo Wan, Feng Bao, Robert H. Deng, and Kwangjo Kim, “Highly Reliable Trust Establishment Scheme in Ad-hoc Networks,” Computer Networks (COMNET), Vol. 45, Issue 6, pp.687-699, Elsevier, 2004