Si Chen
Associate Professor
Graduate Coordinator
Department of Computer Science
25 University Ave. | Room 131
West Chester, PA 19383
tel: 610-436-6998 | fax: 610-436-3530
About Me
As an Associate Professor in the Computer Science department at West Chester University of Pennsylvania, I focus my research on exploring solutions to practical problems and security issues for mobile sensing and cyber-physical systems. My work is guided by the belief that smartphone-enabled crowdsourcing approaches can help build large-scale information infrastructures at a low cost. In addition, I study cyber-physical system security from the physical layer, aiming to enable inherently secure and dependable wireless communications.
Over the past five years, my research has focused on cyber-physical system security and security and privacy on smart wearable devices. My papers have been published in top-tier research venues and have made significant contributions to the cyber-physical security and mobile sensing research community, such as ACM SenSys (2015, Rank A++), IEEE ICDCS (2017, 2015 Rank A+), IEEE MASS (2018, Rank A), IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), and IEEE IoT Journal. In 2017, one of my papers on human voice security and privacy won the Best Student Paper award at the ICDCS conference.
I am a Senior Member of IEEE and a member of ACM.
My research on voice hacking has been featured in:
Selected publications and pre-prints
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Extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF)
The New Swiss Knife for Cybersecurity Education
Si Chen, Liu Cui.
37th Annual Conference of The Pennsylvania Association of Computer and Information Science Educators
, Clarion University- Virtual.
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2022
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User-level parallel file system: Case studies and performance optimizations
Yanliang Zou, Chen Chen, Tongliang Deng, Jian Zhang, Xiaomin Zhu, Si Chen, Shu Yin.
Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience
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2022
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A Privacy-preserving Medical Data Sharing Scheme Based on Blockchain
Guangquan Xu, Chen Qi, Wenyu Dong, Lixiao Gong, Shaoying Liu, Si Chen, Jian Liu, Xi Zheng.
IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
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2022
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ADA: An Application-Conscious Data Acquirer for Visual Molecular Dynamics
Tongliang Deng, Hanpei Wu, Yanliang Zou, Si Chen, Tao Xie, Shu Yin.
The 50th International Conference on Parallel Processing(ICPP-2021)
, Chicago, IL.
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2021
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TTSVD: an Efficient Sparse Decision Making Model with Two-way Trust Recommendation in the AI Enabled IoT Systems
Yuyang Zhao, Guangquan Xu, Yuyang Zhao, Litao Jiao, Meiqi Feng, Zhong Ji, Emmanouil Panaousis, Si Chen, Xi Zheng.
IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoT)
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2020
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ARSpy: Breaking Location-based Multi-player Augmented Reality Application for User Location Tracking
Jiacheng Shang, Si Chen, Shu Yin, Jie Wu.
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC)
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2020
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BORA: a bag optimizer for robotic analysis
Jian Zhang, Tao Xie, Yuzhuo Jing, Yanjie Song, Guanzhou Hu, Si Chen, Shu Yin
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SC '20: the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis
, Virtual, USA.
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2020
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Containerizing CS learning environments
Linh Ngo, Richard Burns, Si Chen.
Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges
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2020
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Computing Infrastructures to Support Cybersecurity Education
Linh B Ngo, Liu Cui, Si Chen.
34th Annual Conference of The Pennsylvania Association of Computer and Information Science Educators
, Millersville, PA.
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2019
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SHC: A method for stackable parallel file systems in userspace
Yanliang Zou , Chen Chen, Tongliang Deng, Jian Zhang, Si Chen, Xiaomin Zhu, Shu Yin.
21st IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications, 17th IEEE International Conference on Smart City and 5th IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Systems (HPCC/SmartCity/DSS 2019)
, Zhangjiajie, China.
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2019
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PriWhisper+: An Enhanced Acoustic Short-range Communication System for Smartphones
Xiao Zhang, Jiqiang Liu, Si Chen, Kui Ren.
IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoT)
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2018
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Defending Against Voice Spoofing: A Robust Software-based Liveness Detection System
Jiacheng Shang, Si Chen, Jie Wu.
The 15th International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (IEEE MASS 2018)
, Chengdu, China.
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2018
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DuoFS: A Hybrid Storage System Balancing Energy-Efficiency, Reliability, and Performance
Shu Yin, Bing Jiao, Xiaomin Zhu, Xiaojun Ruan, Si Chen, Zhuo Tang.
Parallel, Distributed and Network-based Processing (PDP), 2018 26th Euromicro International Conference on
, Cambridge, UK.
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2018
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SRVoice: A Robust Sparse Representation-based Liveness Detection System
Jiacheng Shang, Si Chen, Jie Wu.
IEEE 24th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (IEEE ICPADS 2018)
, Singapore.
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2018
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Quality of Experience Aware Collaborative Augment Reality system (Q-CARs)
Liu Cui, Si Chen, Zhen Jiang.
the 2nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Internet-of-Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI '17)
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2017
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You Can Hear But You Cannot Steal: Defending against Voice Impersonation Attacks on Smartphones
Si Chen, Kui Ren, Sixu Piao, Cong Wang, Qian Wang, Jian Weng, Lu Su, Aziz Mohaisen.
The 37th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS’17)
, Atlanta, GA.
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2017
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Securing Acoustics-Based Short-Range Communication Systems: An Overview
Si Chen, Zhan Qin, Guoliang Xing, Kui Ren.
Journal of Communications and Information Networks (JCIN)
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2016
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Rise of the Indoor Crowd: Reconstruction of Building Interior View via Mobile Crowdsourcing
Si Chen, Muyuan Li, Kui Ren, Xinwen Fu, Chunming Qiao.
The 13th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys’15)
, Seoul, South Korea.
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2015
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CrowdMap: Accurate Reconstruction of Indoor Floor Plan from Crowdsourced Sensor-Rich Videos
Si Chen, Muyuan Li, Kui Ren, Chunming Qiao.
The 35th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS’15)
, Columbus, Ohio.
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2015
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IndoorCrowd2D: Building Interior View Reconstruction via Mobile Crowdsourcing
Si Chen, Muyuan Li, Zhan Qin, Kui Ren.
The IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS)
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2015
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All your location are belong to us: Breaking mobile social networks for automated user location tracking
Muyuan Li, Haojin Zhu, Zhaoyu Gao, Si Chen, Le Yu, Shangqian Hu, Kui Ren.
The 15th ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking and computing (Mobihoc’14)
, Philadelphia, PA.
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2014
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PriWhisper: Enabling Keyless Secure Acoustic Communication for Smartphones
Bingsheng Zhang, Qin Zhan, Si Chen, Muyuan Li, Kui Ren, Cong Wang, Di Ma.
IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoT)
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2014
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The power of indoor crowd: Indoor 3D maps from the crowd
Si Chen, Muyuan Li, Kui Ren.
the IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS)
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2014
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AcousAuth: An acoustic-based mobile Application for user authentication
Si Chen, Muyuan Li, Zhan Qin, Bingsheng Zhang, Kui Ren.
the IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS)
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2014
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Enabling private and non-intrusive smartphone calls with LipTalk
Muyuan Li, Si Chen, Kui Ren.
the IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS)
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2014
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Network simulation for advanced HF communications engineering
Eric Koski, Si Chen, Scott Pudlewski, Tommaso Melodia.
The 12th International Conference on Ionospheric Radio Systems and Techniques (IRST’12)
, York, UK.
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2012
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Classification Model of Seed Cotton Grade Based on Least Square Support Vector Machine Regression Method
Si Chen, Lina Ling, Yuan Rongchang, Longqing Sun.
The 6th IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation for Sustainability (ICIAfS’12)
, Beijing, China.
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2012
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Movement and deformation of virtual object based on argument passing method
Rongchang Yuan, Zhengjiang Li, Si Chen.
The IEEE International Conference on Virtual Environments, Human-Computer Interfaces and Measurement Systems (VECIMS’12)
, Tianjin, China.
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2012
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Simulation and Models on Control of Pests with Ozone in Greenhouses Plant
Rongchang Yuan, Si Chen, Zhengjiang Li, Shengrong Lu, Li Wang, Haigan Yuan.
The IASTED International Conference on Modeling, Simulation, and Identification (MSI’11)
, Pittsburgh, PA.
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2011
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Research on the k-coverage local wireless network and its communication coordination mechanism design
Rongchang Yuan, HaiganYuan, Si Chen, Longqing Sun, Feng Qin, Han Zhang, Yukun Zhu, Daokun Ma.
The 5th International Conference on Computer and Computing Technologies in Agriculture (CCTA ’11)
, Beijing, China.
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2011
Honors and Awards
- IEEE Senior Member, 2020
- Google Cloud Research Grant, 2019
- WCU Outstanding Faculty Recipients, 2016-2017, 2017-2018
- Best Student Paper Award, IEEE ICDCS, 2017
- WCU Research in Mathematics and the Sciences (RIMS) Award, 2016-2017
- Microsoft Research Azure Research Grant for "CrowdMap++: Reconstruction of Context-Rich Building Floorplan via Mobile Crowdsourcing", 2016-2017
- The 19th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (ACM Mobicom'13) App Competition Finalists (Video), 2013
- Student Travel Grant Awards, IEEE ICDCS, 2015
- National University Student Innovation Program Award, 2009-2010
Services
- Professional Service:
- Technical Program Committee (TPC) for Milcom 2022, 2021, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016
- Program Committee (PC) for International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Security (CIS 2021)
- Program Committee (PC) for the 2020 International Conference on Frontiers in Cyber Security (FCS2020)
- Program Committee (PC) for the 1st IEEE International Workshop on Advances in Fog/Edge Computing (AFEC 2020).
- Technical Program Committee (TPC) for Workshop on Edge, Fog, and Cloud Computing for the Internet of Things in conjunction with MobiQuitous 2019
- Technical Program Committee (TPC) for IEEE CPSCom 2019
- Technical Program Committee (TPC) for ACM/IEEE IoTDI 2019 (Poster and Demo)
- "Cyber Security and Trusted Computing: Network Security Technology" Session Chair for Milcom 2018
- Session Chair for special session on Data Intensive Service-based Application (DISA), Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE 2019)
- Author (Contributor) of book "Encyclopedia of Wireless Networks" (Section: Security, Privacy and Trust)
- "Data Intensive Service-based Application (DISA)" Session Chair for SEKE 2018
- Technical Program Committee (TPC) for Milcom 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016
- "Wireless Network Security" Session Chair for Milcom 2017
- "IoT Device Security" Session Chair for Milcom 2016
- Conference Reviewer for Milcom'16,17,18,19,21,22 INFOCOM 2019, MobiCom'18 (External), MobiHoc'18 (External), IMWUT'17 (Ubicomp), ICNC'17 CIS, AsiaCCS'16, ICCCN'16, ACM CCS'15, ICDCS'15, ESORICS'15, AsiaCCS'15, Cloud'15, ICCCN'15, DBSec'15, CoudCom'15, ACM CHI'15, CloudNet'15, ISC'15, Securecomm'15, IEEE MSN'15, IPCCC'15, INFOCOM'14, ACM CCS'14, ICDCS'14, ESORICS'14, ICNP'14, AisaCCS'14, MobiHoc'14, CNS'14, CloudNet'14,DBSec'14, SecureComm'14.
- Journal Reviewer for Computer Networks, Mobile Networks and Applications, MDPI Sensor, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing' (TDSC), IEEE JSAC Special Issue on 'Human-In-The-Loop Mobile Networks' (JSAC-HMN), IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Special Issue of Vehicular Communications on 'Vehicular Cloud Networking' (VEHCOM 2016), IEEE Trans. on Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE Trans. on Services Computing, IEEE Trans. on Smart Grid, IEEE Trans. on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications, IEEE Security & Privacy magazine, IEEE Network Magazine, Journal of Computer Security, Journal of Mobile Communication, Computation and Information, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing.
- Web chair for the 27th IEEE Annual Computer Communications Workshop (CCW'13).
- University Service:
- Member of the Committee for Advising Excellence (CAE) , 2021 - present
- CSC Graduate Coordinator, 2020 - present
- CSC Computing Coordinator / Sys Admin, 2019 - present
- Advisor for WCU Cybersecurity Club, 2021 - 2022 [link]
- Advisor for WCU Computer Science Club, 2017 - 2021 [link]
- Co-Advisor for Bin Lu Women in Computer Science Club, 2017 - 2021 [link]
- Coach for ACM ICPC Programming Competition, 2016 - 2018 [link]
Teaching
- Spring 2023:
I teach Modern Malware Analysis and Graduate Security Topic course in Spring 2023
- Previous Courses
- Software Security [Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017]
- Modern Malware Analysis [Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018]
- Cloud-assisted Mobile Sensing System [Fall 2016]