Yu Cheng
- Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Education
Ph.D., ECE, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada, 2003
M.E., EE, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 1998
B.E., EE, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 1995
Research Interests
Yu Cheng joined Illinois Institute of Technology's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in August 2006. His current research interests include wireless network performance analysis, machine learning, age of information, and network security. He has served as several symposium co-chairs for IEEE ICC and IEEE GLOBECOM. He was the technical program committee co-chair for the International Conference on Wireless Artificial Intelligent Computing Systems and Applications (WASA) in 2011 and the International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC) in 2015. He was a founding vice chair of the IEEE ComSoc Technical Subcommittee on Green Communications and Computing. He is an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, and IEEE Wireless Communications. He was an IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer from 2016 to 2017. He was elevated to IEEE Fellow in 2024.
Awards
2024 IEEE fellow
2021 IEEE INFOCOM Distinguished TPC Member Recognition Award
2018 Runner-Up Best Paper Award at ACM MobiHoc
2014 Runner-Up Best Paper Award at ACM MobiHoc
2013 IIT Sigma Xi Research Award in the junior faculty division
2012 The paper “Quick detection of stealthy SIP flooding attacks in VoIP networks” (co-authored with Jin Tang) is reviewed and highlighted by the IEEE Comsoc’s MMTC R-Letters
2011 National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award
2011 Best paper award, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), June 5-9, Kyoto, Japan, 2011
2011 Panel Speaker, IIT’s Boeing Scholars Academy, Panel of Information Technology and the City
2010 Invited paper, "Real-time detection of selfish behavior in IEEE 802.11 wireless networks", IEEE VTC-Fall, Ottawa, Canada, Sept. 6-9, 2010.
2008 Keynote speaker, "Design of next generation Internet based on application-oriented networking," Distributed Autonomous Network Management Systems Workshop (DANMS), 2008, co-located with IEEE GLOBECOM 2008, New Orleans, Nov. 30, 2008
2007 Best paper award, International Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security, and Robustness (QShine'07), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Aug. 14-17, 2007
2007 Best Paper Award (3rd Place), IEEE Electro/Information Technology Conference (EIT), Chicago, Illinois, May 17-20, 2007
2004 Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Postdoctoral Fellowship Award
Publications
Books
J. Tang and Y. Cheng, Intrusion Detection for IP-Based Multimedia Communications over Wireless Networks, Springer , 2013
X. Tian and Y. Cheng, Scalable Multicasting Over Next-Generation Internet: Design, Analysis, and Applications, Springer, 2012
Patents
Y. Cheng and K. Liu, “Method and system for forming an ad-hoc network over heterogeneous protocols,” US Patent US 10389854 B2, August 20, 2019.
Expertise
Wireless network performance analysis and protocol design; machine learning, cloud computing and big data; wireless network security; next-generation internet architecture, protocols, and management
