Yunsheng Wang

 Associate Professor

Department of Computer Science

Kettering University, Flint, MI

Email: ywang AT kettering DOT edu

Phone: (810) 762-9500 x 5979

 

I am an Associate Professor in Department of Computer Science at Kettering University. I received my Ph.D. in Computer and Information Sciences from Temple University in 2013, my master degree from University College London, UK in 2008, and my bachelor degree from Dalian University of Technology, China in 2007.

 

My research focuses on the design, analysis, measurement and implementation of mobile computing and wireless networks. My research areas mainly include the following:

·         Connected and Autonomous Vehicle

·         Mobile computing and Wireless Networks

·         Edge Computing

·         Cybersecurity

·         Social Networks

Sponsored Research

  • Secure and Trustworthy Connected Vehicles

 (Co-PI)                                                                                                           11/2019 - 11/2020

Sponsor: Kettering University Faculty Research Fellowship Award            ($6,000)

  • Integration of Wireless Sensor Networks and Mobile Social Networks – Crowdsensing

(PI)                                                                                                                  11/2018 - 11/2019

Sponsor: Kettering University Faculty Research Fellowship Award            ($6,000)

  • SAE AutoDrive Challenge

(Co-PI)                                                                                                            3/2017 - 3/2020

Sponsor: Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) International                   ($138,000)

  • Byrne Criminal Justice Innovation Program: Planning and Implementation: Flint's University Avenue Corridor Coalition (UACC)

(Co-PI)                                                                                                            10/2014 - 9/2017

Sponsor: U.S. Department of Justice                                                              ($1,000,000)

  • MRI: Acquisition of 4G LTE and WiMAX Wireless System to Facilitate Multidisciplinary Research Efforts and Enhance Undergraduate Research Training

(PI) (CNS 1429352)                                                                                       9/2014 - 8/2016

Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)                                               ($143,920)

Teaching

·        CS 202 System Programming Concepts

·        CS 203 Computing and Algorithms III

·        CS 231 Programming Language Paradigms

·        CS 351 Cloud Computing

·        CS 457 Wireless and Mobile Security

·        CS 491 Advanced Mobile & Networking Applications

Publications

·         Jie Wu and Yunsheng Wang (Eds.). "Opportunistic Mobile Social Networks", CRC Press, 1st Edition. ISBN: 978-1466594944, 541 pages, August 5, 2014.

·         Yunsheng Wang and Jie Wu. “Multicast in Opportunistic Networks”, in Opportunistic Mobile Social Networks, J.Wu and Y.Wang (Eds.), CRC Press. 2014.

·         Wenquan Xu, Zhikang Chen, Chuwen Zhang, Xuefeng Ji, Yunsheng Wang, Hang Su, and Bin Liu, "GlobalInsight: An LSTM Based Model for Multi-Vehicle Trajectory Prediction", In IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Dublin, Ireland, June, 2020

·         Ning Wang, and Yunsheng Wang, "AutoWaze: Towards Automatic Event Inference in Intelligent Transportation Systems", In the Midscale Education and Research Infrastructure and Tools (MERIT) Workshop In conjunction with IEEE ICNP, Chicago, October 7-10, 2019.

·         Xuefeng Ji, Wenquan Xu, Chuwen Zhang, Tong Yun, Gong Zhang, Xiaojun Wang, Yunsheng Wang, and Bin Liu. "Keep Forwarding Path Freshest in VANET via Applying Reinforcement Learning", In The First International Workshop on Network Meets Intelligent Computations In conjunction with IEEE ICDCS 2019, Dallas, TX, July 7-10, 2019.

·         Yunsheng Wang, Rachel Wyatt, and Tom Wyatt. "City Life: Tourism and Residential Engagement Mobile and Web Application", In Smart Cities Connect, Denver, CO, April 2019.

·         Yunsheng Wang, and John Geske. "Next Generation Vehicle Network Application", In the Network Innovators Community Event (GENI NICE), in conjunction with IEEE ICNP 2017, Toronto, Canada, October 2017.

·         Mingjun Xiao, Jie Wu, Liusheng Huang, Ruhong Cheng and Yunsheng Wang. "Online Task Assignment for Crowdsensing in Predictable Mobile Social Networks", IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 16, no. 8, pp. 2306-2320, Aug. 1 2017.

·         Yunsheng Wang, Noah Causin, John Geske, Jie Wu, Chiu C. Tan, and Anduo Wang. "A Vehicle Testbed for Future Intelligent Transportation System", In the Network Innovators Community Event (GENI NICE), in conjunction with ACM CoNEXT 2016, Irvine, CA, December 2016.

·         Ke Fan, Daqiang Zhang, Yunsheng Wang, and Shengjie Zhao. “Discovering Urban Social Functional Regions Using Taxi Trajectories”, in the 12th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC), August, 2015

·         Daqiang Zhang, Shengjie Zhao, Laurence T. Yang, Min Chen, Yunsheng Wang, and Huazhong Liu,“NextMe: Localization Using Cellular Traces in Internet of Things”, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 302-312, January, 2015.

·         Mingjun Xiao, Jie Wu, Liusheng Huang, Yunsheng Wang, and Cong Liu. “Multi-Task Assignment for CrowdSensing in Mobile Social Networks”, In the 34st Annual IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Hong Kong, April 2015.

·         Daqiang Zhang, Shengjie Zhao, Laurence T. Yang, Min Chen, Yunsheng Wang, and Huazhong Liu. "NextMe: Localization Using Cellular Traces in Internet of Things", IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 302-312, April 2015.

·         Yunsheng Wang, JieWu, and Mingjun Xiao. “Hierarchical Cooperative Caching in Mobile Opportunistic Social Networks”, In IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom), Austin, TX, USA, December 2014.

·         Yunsheng Wang, Jie Wu, Mingjun Xiao, and Daqiang Zhang. “Heterogeneous Community-based Routing in Opportunistic Mobile Social Networks”, In the third Annual International Workshop on Mission-Oriented Wireless Sensor Networking (MiSeNet), in conjunction with IEEE MASS 2014, Philadelphia, PA, October, 2014.

·         Yunsheng Wang, and Jie Wu. “Complex Contagions in Opportunistic Mobile Social Networks”, In IEEE the 23rd International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), Shanghai, China, August 2014.

·         Huanyang Zheng, Yunsheng Wang, and Jie Wu. "Optimizing Multi-copy Two-hop Routing in Mobile Social Networks", In IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking (SECON), Singapore, June 2014.

·         Jie Wu and Yunsheng Wang. "Hypercube-based Multi-path Social Feature Routing in Human Contact Networks". IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), vol. 63, no. 2, pp. 383-396, February, 2014.

·         Yunsheng Wang, Jie Wu, and Wei-Shih Yang. "Cloud-based Multicasting with Feedback Multi-Path Routing in Delay Tolerant Networks". IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communication (TWC), vol. 12, no. 12, pp. 6043-6053, December, 2013.

·         Yunsheng Wang, Wei-Shih Yang, and Jie Wu. "Analysis of a Hypercube-based Social Feature Multi-Path Routing in Delay Tolerant Networks", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed System (TPDS), vol. 24, no. 9, pp. 1706-1716, September, 2013. [Supplemental Material]

·         Yunsheng Wang, and Jie Wu. "Ticket-based Multiple Packet Broadcasting in Delay Tolerant Networks", Ad Hoc & Sensor Wireless Networks, vol. 19, no. 3-4, pp. 171-188, 2013.

·         Yunsheng Wang and Jie Wu. "Information Influence in Mobile Opportunistic Social Networks", Proc. of The IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM), 2013.

·         Yunsheng Wang, Jie Wu, Zhen Jiang, and Feng Li. "A Joint Replication-Migration-based Routing in Delay Tolerant Networks", Proc. of The IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2012.

·         Jie Wu and Yunsheng Wang. "Social Feature-based Multi-path Routing in Delay Tolerant Networks". Proc. of The 31st Annual IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 2012.

·         Yunsheng Wang, and Jie Wu. "A Dynamic Multicast Tree based Routing Scheme without Replication in Delay Tolerant Networks", Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), Volume 72, Issue 3, Pages 424-436, 2012.

·         Yunsheng Wang, Xiaoguang Li, and Jie Wu. "Delegation Forwarding in Delay Tolerant Networks Multicasting", Journal of Communications, Vol 6, No 5 (2011), 384-392, August, 2011.

·         Yunsheng Wang, Yuhong Guo, and Jie Wu. "Making Many People Happy: Greedy Solutions for Content Distribution", Proc. of The 40th Annual IEEE International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP), Taipei, Taiwan, September, 2011.

·         Yunsheng Wang, Xiaoguang Li and Jie Wu, "Multicasting in Delay Tolerant Networks: Delegation Forwarding", Proc. of IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Miami, December, 2010.

·         Jie Wu and Yunsheng Wang, "A Non-Replication Multicasting Scheme in Delay Tolerant Networks", Proc. of The 7th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), San Francisco, November, 2010.

·         Chi-Kin Chau, Muhammad Husni Wahab, Fei Qin, Yunsheng Wang and Yang Yang, "Battery Recovery Aware Sensor Networks", Proc. of Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt) , 2009.

Invited Talks

1. Huge Data for Connected Vehicles, NSF Large Scale Networking (LSN) Workshop on Huge Data: A Computing, Networking and Distributed Systems Perspective, April 2020

2. Vehicle Edge Computing, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, January 2020

3. Vehicle Fog/Edge Computing, Shanghaitech University, China, December 2019

4. Autonomous and Connected Vehicles, Symposium on Advanced Mobility, Kettering University, Flint, MI, October 2019

5. Keep Forwarding Path Freshest in VANET via Applying Reinforcement Learning, In The First International Workshop on Network Meets Intelligent Computations

In conjunction with IEEE ICDCS 2019, Dallas, TX, July 7-10, 2019.

6. Autonomous and Connected Vehicles, Tongji University, Shanghai, China, June 2019

7. Autonomous and Connected Vehicles, Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation (SAIC), Shanghai, China, June 2019

8. Autonomous and Connected Vehicles, Zhejiang Science & Technology Department, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China, June 2019

9. Autonomous and Connected Vehicles, Guangxi Science & Technology Department, Nanning, Guangxi, China, June 2019

10. Autonomous and Connected Vehicles, SAIC-GM-Wuling Automobile (SGMW), Liuzhou, Guangxi, China, June 2019

11. Autonomous and Connected Vehicles, Tongji University, Shanghai, China, January 2018

12. Smart Vehicle Testbed for Future Intelligent Transportation System, The United States Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center

(TARDEC), Warren, MI, June 2017

13. Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs), Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation (SAIC), Shanghai, China, September 2016

14. Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs), SAIC-GM-Wuling Automobile (SGMW), Liuzhou, Guangxi, China, September 2016

15. Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs), China Automotive Technology and Research Center (CATARC), Tianjin, China, September 2016

16. A Vehicle Testbed for Future Intelligent Transportation System, Continental, Troy, MI July 2016

17. Flint Ignite, NSF Future Wireless Cities Workshop, Washington DC, February 2016.

18. Next Generation Wireless Networks, Tongji University, Shanghai, China, March 2015

19. Hierarchical Cooperative Caching in Mobile Opportunistic Social Networks, In IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom), Austin, TX, USA, December 2014

20. Heterogeneous Community-based Routing in Opportunistic Mobile Social Networks, In the third Annual International Workshop on Mission-Oriented Wireless Sensor Networking (MiSeNet), in conjunction with IEEE MASS 2014, Philadelphia, PA, October, 2014.

21. Social Feature-based Multi-path Routing in Delay Tolerant Networks, The 31st Annual IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Orlando, FL, March 2012

22. Multicasting in Delay Tolerant Networks: Delegation Forwarding, IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Miami, December 2010

23. Harnessing Battery Recovery Effect in Wireless Sensor Networks, London Communications Research Symposium (LCS), London, UK, September 2008

Professional Activities

·         Member of IEEE

·         Member of Upsilon Pi Epsilon

·         Member of the National Security Agency (NSA) Science of Security (SoS)

·         Secretary of IEEE Special Technical Community on Autonomous Driving Technologies

·         Advisory Board Member of GM Mobility Research Center

·         Program Chair

      • Tutorials Chair of The Fourth IEEE International Conference on Connected and Autonomous Driving (MetroCAD 2021), Detroit, MI, USA, April 28-29, 2021
      • Track Co-Chair of Cognitive, Ad Hoc, Mobile, and Mesh Networks (CAMM), in The 29th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2020), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, August 3 - 6, 2020.
      • Track Chair of Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical-Social Computing Track, in the 16th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP), Granada, Spain, December 2016
      • Track Co-Chair: The First International Workshop on Mobile Sensing, Computing and Communication (MSCC), Philadelphia, PA, USA, August, 2014, co-located with ACM Mobihoc 2014

·         Journal Editor

      • International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing

·         Proposal Review

§  NSF Panelist 2018

§  Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) External Proposal Reviewer, 2017

·         Program Committee Member

      • Infocom
      • ICCCN
      • ICC
      • WCNC
      • GLOBECOM
      • Trustcom
      • TrustData
      • …

·         Reviewer for journals

      • IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
      • IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
      • IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
      • IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
      • IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
      • IEEE Sensors Journal
      • IEEE Wireless Communications Letters
      • IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine
      • IEEE Access
      • Elsevier Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
      • Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks
      • Springer Multimedia Systems
      • Springer Wireless Networks
      • International Journal of Sensor Networks
      • Journal of Computer Science and Technology
      • Journal of Ad Hoc & Sensor Wireless Networks
      • Scientific Research and Essays