Wenliang (Kevin) Du

Professor, ACM Fellow and IEEE Fellow (CV)

Ph.D. Purdue University, 2001

Syracuse University (2001 - 2024)

Zhejiang University (2025 - present)

Email: wedu@acm.org or duw99@outlook.com

Research and Education Interests

• Reserach Interests: System Security, Internet Emulation, Satellite Network Emulation, and Security Education
• Lab exercises: SEED: Developing Hands-on Labs for Computer SEcurity EDucation
• Textbooks: Computer & Internet Security: A Hands-on Approach, 3rd Edition
• Online coures: Four cybersecurity courses on Udemy
• Software: Internet and Blockchain Emulators

Recent Publications (Full List)

• Wenliang Du, Chunling Yang and Qishu Jin. Internet in a Box: Scaling Hands-On Education with the SEED Emulator. In Proceedings of SIGCSE'27: The ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium, February 17-20, 2027, Sacramento, California, USA.
• Ruisheng Shi, Jiaqi Zeng, Lina Lan, Shihan Zhang, Bing Han, Xiapu Luo, Qishu Jin, Wenliang Du, Qin Wang. Are Unreachable Nodes Truly Safe? Fully Eclipsing Monero's P2P Networks. In Proceedings of CCS'26: The ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, November 15-19, 2026, The Hague, The Netherlands.
• Wenliang Du, Honghao Zeng, and Kyungrok Won. SEED Emulator: An Internet Emulator for Research and Education. In Proceedings of HotNets'22: The Twenty-First ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks, November 14-15, 2022, Austin, Texas, USA.

Grants and Awards

• ACM Fellow (Class of 2023).
• IEEE Fellow (Class of 2023).
• 2013 ACM CCS Test-of-Time Award: for paper A Pairwise Key Pre-distribution Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks, published in ACM CCS 2003 (official site).
• 2021 ACSAC Test-of-Time Award: for paper Privacy-Preserving Cooperative Statistical Analysis, published in ACSAC 2001 (official site).
• 2025 Qiushi Chair Professor, Zhejiang University.
• 2017 Academic Leadership Award: from The 21st Colloquium for Information System Security Education, due to the impact of the SEED labs.
• 2019 Meredith Professorship for Teaching Excellence, the highest teaching honor at Syracuse University.
• 2022 IEEE Region 1 Technological Innovation (Academic) Award.
• Building an Internet Emulator for Cybersecurity Education. (NSF-SaTC, $399,197, 10/2022 - 09/2025, PI. Award No. 2214916).
• Expanding TrustZone: Enabling Mobile Apps to Transparently Leverage TrustZone for Attestation and Data Protection (NSF, $497,296, 08/2017 - 08/2020, PI. Award No. 1718086).
• Our Cybersecurity MS students Sirisha Prakash and Priyank Thavai won the 1st Place in the 2018 National Cyber Analyst Challenge Competition (News, pic1, pic2)
• Spreading SEEDs: Large-Scale Dissemination of Hands-on Labs for Security Education. (NSF, $845,385, 09/2014 - 08/2018, PI. Award No. 1303306).
• Develop Fine-Grained Access Control for Third-Party Components in Mobile Systems. (NSF-SaTC, $521,562, 08/2013 - 07/2017, PI. Award No. 1318814).
• Collaborative: Bolstering Security Education through Transiting Research on Browser Security. (NSF-SaTC, $89,878, 09/2013 - 09/2016, PI. Award No. 1318883).
• 2014 Deans's Award for Excellence in Engineering Education, May 2014.
• 2013 Faculty Excellence Award from L.C.Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science (including a $20,000 research fund).
• Security-Enhanced WebView for Android System (Google Research Award, $49,387, 01/2012 - 12/2012, PI). This project is primarily based on my Ph.D. student Tongbo Luo's work.
• To Configure or to Implement, that is the Access Control Question for Web Applications (NSF Trustworthy Computing, $506,470, 09/2010 - 08/2013, PI. Award No. 1017771).
• SEED: Developing Instructional Laboratories for Computer SEcurity EDucation (NSF-CCLI, Type 2, $451,682, 01/2007-12/2011, PI. Award No. 0618680).
• Applied Research - Identity Management (JPMorgan Chase, $96,084, 1/08 - 8/08).
• Efficient and Resilient Key Management for Wireless Sensor Networks (ARO, $360,000, 5/05-4/08, PI).
• Collaborative Research: Trustworthy and Resilient Location Discovery in Wireless Sensor Networks (NSF CyberTrust, $150,000, 9/04-8/07, PI. Award No. 0430223).
• Collaborative Research: ITR: Distributed Data Mining to Protect Information Privacy (NSF-ITR, $140,418, 8/03-7/06, PI. Award No. 0312366).
• Private Prediction using Selective Models (NSF-ITR, $220,000, 9/02-8/05, PI. Award No. 0219560).
• Designing Laboratory Materials for Computer System Security Courses Using Minix Instructional Operating System (NSF-CCLI, Type 1, $74,984, 01/03-12/04, PI. Award No. 0231122).
• VINE: Using VIrtual Network Environment for Computer and Network Security Courses (University Vision Fund, $5000, 01/03-12/03, PI).