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 Security and Privacy, Cloud Computing Security, Wireless Security, and Power System Security.

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, Cloud Computing, Security, Lower-layer Attack & Defense Mechanisms for Wireless Networks, Smart Grid Cyber and System Security, 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 and Department of Energy. For more information, please visit his homepage and UbiSeC lab.

Current Projects

Awards/Honors

Patents

Books

Selected Publications

C. Wang, N. Cao, J. Li, K. Ren, and W. Lou, “Secure Ranked Keyword Search over Encrypted Cloud Data,” In Proc. of IEEE ICDCS’10, Genoa, Italy, June 21-25, 2010

C. Wang, Q. Wang, K. Ren, and W. Lou, “Privacy-preserving public auditing for storage security in cloud computing,” In Proc. of INFOCOM 2010, San Diego, CA, Mar. 19-25, 2010

S. Yu, C. Wang, K. Ren, and W. Lou, “Achieving secure, scalable, and fine-grained access control in cloud computing,” In Proc. of INFOCOM 2010, San Diego, CA, Mar. 19-25, 2010

M. Li, S. Yu, K. Ren, and W. Lou, “Group device pairing based secure sensor association and key management for body area networks,” In Proc. of INFOCOM 2010, San Diego, CA, Mar. 19-25, 2010

K. Ren, S. Yu, W. Lou and Y. Zhang, “PEACE: A Novel Privacy-enhanced Yet Accountable Security Framework for Wireless Mesh Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 203-215, February, 2010

W. Lou and K. Ren, “Security, Privacy, and Accountability in Wireless Access Networks,” IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, Vol. 16, No. 4, August 2009

Q. Wang, C. Wang, J. Li, K. Ren, and W. Lou, “Enabling Public Verifiability and Data Dynamics for Storage Security in Cloud Computing,” In Proc. of ESORICS 2009, Saint Malo, France, Sept. 21-25, 2009

K. Ren, S. Yu, W. Lou, and Y. Zhang, “Efficient Multi-user Broadcast Authentication In Wireless Sensor Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT), Vol. 58, No. 8, pp. 4554-4564, April 2009

K. Ren, W. Lou, and Y. Zhang, “LEDS: Providing Location-aware End-to-end Data Security in Wireless Sensor Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), Vol. 7, No. 5, pp. 585-598, May, 2008

K. Ren, K. Zeng and W. Lou, “Secure and Fault-tolerant Event Boundary Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC), Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 354-363, Jan., 2008