Funded Research Projects in Cybersecurity and Privacy

  • Co-Principal Investigator, An Interdisciplinary Approach to Integratable, Composable and Evolvable Cybersecurity in Energy Delivery Systems, a subaward from the University of Arkansas supported by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), 2015-2020
  • Principal Investigator, Data Mining And Disaggregation Utilizing “Green Button” Data For Consumer Energy-Use Response, supported by PPL Corp. and Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development via Pennsylvania Infrastructure Technology Alliance, 2013-2014
  • Principal Investigator, Network Management for Heterogeneous Networks, supported by Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development via Pennsylvania Infrastructure Technology Alliance, 2008-2009

Peer-reviewed Research Publications in Cybersecurity and Privacy

  • Huan Yang, Liang Cheng, and Mooi Choo Chuah, Deep-learning-based network intrusion detection for SCADA systems, 2019 IEEE International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems Security (CPS-Sec’19) at IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS’19), Washington, D.C., June 10-12, 2019.
  • Huan Yang, Liang Cheng, and Mooi Choo Chuah, Detecting payload attacks on programmable logic controllers (PLCs), IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS), Beijing, China, May 2018. [PDF]
  • Denis Gračanin, Adam D’Amico, Mark Manuel, Walter Carson, Mohamed Eltoweissy, Liang Cheng, Biologically inspired safety and security for smart built environments, The 3rd International Workshop on Bio-inspired Security, Trust, Assurance and Resilience at the 39th IEEE S&P, May 2018.
  • Huan Yang, Liang Cheng, and Mooi Choo Chuah, Evaluation of Utility-Privacy Trade-Offs of Data Manipulation Techniques for Smart Metering, 2016 IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS): International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems Security (CPS-Sec), Philadelphia, PA, October 19, 2016. [PDF]
  • Huan Yang, Liang Cheng, and Mooi Choo Chuah, Detecting Peer-to-Peer Botnets in SCADA Systems, 2016 IEEE Global Communications Conference: Workshops: Cyber-Physical Smart Grid Security and Resilience, Washington DC, December 4, 2016. [PDF]
  • Lisa Frye, Liang Cheng, and Jeff Heflin, Traffic-based Reasoning Intrusion Detection System using Ontology, Special collection on ontologies and semantics in communication systems and networks, Journal of Research and Practice in Information Technology, accepted for publication, 2013.
  • Lisa Frye, Liang Cheng, and Jeff Heflin, An Ontology-Based System to Identify Complex Network Attacks, The First IEEE International Workshop on Security and Forensics in Communication Systems, in the Proceedings of 2012 IEEE International Conference on Communications, pp. 6683-6688, Ottawa, Canada, June 10-15, 2012.
  • Lisa Frye, Liang Cheng, and Jeff Heflin, An Ontology-Based System to Identify Complex Network Attacks, The First IEEE International Workshop on Security and Forensics in Communication Systems, in the Proceedings of 2012 IEEE International Conference on Communications, pp. 6683-6688, Ottawa, Canada, June 10-15, 2012. [PDF]
  • Qing Ye and Liang Cheng, Secure wireless sensor networks with network processors, 2005 Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, The Johns Hopkins University, March 16-18, 2005.
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