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Zheng Yan

Senior Researcher (PhD)
Trustworthy Mobile Platform, NRC Helsinki, Finland

Background

I joined Nokia Research Center in July, 2000, located at Helsinki, Finland. Prior to this, I worked in Singapore as a research scholar at the Institute for Information Research for secure and fair e-payment research and a software engineer at an IBM partner company for developing an IBM global electronic ordering system. I am a member of the IEEE. I am a program committee member of a number of conferences and workshops.

Professional Activities

I serve as a program committee member of a number of conferences and workshops, and a reviewer of a number of journals. selected forums below:

- ACM MobileHCI (2009, 2010) (A class)

- ICSOC (2009, 2010)(A class)

- IEEE/IFIP TrustCom (2011) workshop chair (A class)

- UIC/ATC (2010) Special Track co-chair; ATC (2009) publicity co-chair (B class)

- IEEE ICEBE (2010) (B class)

- ACM SAC TRECK (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, …) (B class)

- ACM IWCMC (2010, 2011) (B class)

- MobiSec (2009, 2010)

- IEEE WiMob (2010)

- IEEE MINES, Workshops co-chair, special track technical chair, PC member (2009, 2010)

- IEEE SOCA (2010)

- IEEE VTC (2011) (B class)

- Computer Communications (2010) (B class)

- Journal of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (2008) (B class)

- Wireless Networks (2007) (B class)

- IET Communications (2010) (B class)

- Journal of Network and Computer Applications (2010) (A class)

* PhD jury member (March 30th, 2010, France):
(TELECOMMUNICATION-TELECOM SUDPARIS AND THE COMMITTEE ON GRADUATE STUDIES OF UNIVERSITE PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE - PARIS6)

Research Interests

  • Trust modeling and management
  • Trust in HCI
  • Trusted computing and communications
  • Security, dependability and trustworthiness of software platform
  • Reputation and recommender systems
  • Distributed systems (P2P, Adhoc, Grid, Pervasive computing)
  • E-commerce
  • Information security, multimedia security
  • Social trust
  • Social networking

I am aiming to build up a trusted mobile environment for activities related to mobile devices and establish trust intelligence for pervasive and ubiquitous services and computing.

Research Projects

I participated in a number of research projects related to pervasive social networking, mobile commerce, services and applications, trusted computing and communications, and software platform at NRC. My research focuses on the issues related to trust and security.

Current Research

  • Pervasive social computing
  • Reputation systems
  • Trust in human computer interaction 
  • Autonomic trust management
  • User driven trust modeling and management, usable trust management
  • Trust4All: a trustworthy middleware platform for component software
  • Trusted computing platform

Current Project

  • Human-machine trust interaction
  • AwareNet
  • Future Internet

Conferences

- Workshop co-chair of TrustCom'11

- Special track chair of UIC/ATC'10: Pervasive Social Computing

- Publicity chair of ATC'09

- Workshop chair of MINES'09

- Technical committee chair of SECMCS'09

Personal Information

Education

I have received my doctoral degree and Licentiate degree from the Helsinki University of Technology (TKK). I have two M.Eng got from the Xi'an Jiaotong University in 1997 and the National University of Singapore in 2000.

Others

My biggest achievement in my life so far is having my son in 2004. My current hobbies are playing badminton and yoga, from which I made friends and improve my health. I am seeking their skill improvement -- another technical issue.

Publications

I authored about 40 journal & conference papers and 3 book chapters. I am the editor of one book.

  1. Z. Yan, C. Prehofer, “ Autonomic Trust Management for a Component Based Software System”, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, accepted on April 29, 2010.
  2. J. Wang, F. Wang, Z. Yan, B. Huang, “Message Receiver Determination in Multiple Simultaneous IM Conversations”, IEEE Intelligent Systems, accepted on March 04, 2010.
  3. Z. Yan, Y. Chen, “AdContRep: A Privacy Enhanced Reputation System for MANET Content Services”, UIC2010, Xi’an, China, Oct. 2010.
  4. Z. Yan, C. Liu, V. Niemi, G. Yu, “Effects of Displaying Trust Information on Mobile Application Usage”, ATC2010, Xi’an, Oct. 2010.
  5. Z. Guo, Z. Yan, F. Wang, “A Methodology to Predicate Human-Being's Movement Based on Movement Group”, ACM/IEEE CPSCom, 2010.
  6. Q. Yan, R. Deng, Z. Yan, Y. Li, T. Li, “Pseudonym-based RFID Discovery Service to Mitigate Unauthorized Tracking in Supply Chain Management”, ISDPE-10, Sept. 2010.
  7. Z. Yan (ed.), “Trust Modeling and Management in Digital Environments: from Social Concept to System Development”, book published by IGI Global, 2010.
  8. Z. Yan, Y. Dong, V. Niemi, G. Yu, "Exploring Trust of MobileApplications Based on User Behaviors', InTrust 2009, LNCS 6163, pp. 212-226, Beijing, China, Dec. 2009.
  9. Z. Yan, V. Niemi, “A Methodology towards Usable Trust Management”, ATC09, LNCS 5586, pp. 179-193, Brisbane, Australia, July, 2009.
  10. Z. Yan, R. Yan, “Formalizing Trust Based on Usage Behaviours for Mobile Applications”, ATC09, LNCS 5586, pp. 194-208, Brisbane, Australia, July, 2009.
  11. Z. Yan, “Security via Trusted Communications”, Book Chapter for Handbook on Communications and Information Security (Ed. Peter Stavroulakis), Springer, 2009.
  12. Z. Yan, "Digital Rights Management for Mobile Multimedia: a Technical Overview", book chapter of Multimedia Communication Security: Recent Advances, S. Lian (ed.), Nova Science Publisher, 2008.
  13. Z. Yan, “Autonomic Trust Management for a Pervasive System”, Secypt’08, July, Portugal.
  14. Z. Yan, “A Comprehensive Trust Model for Component Software”, SecPerU’08, held in conjunction with International Conference on Pervasive Services 2008, Italy.
  15. Z. Yan, V. Niemi, "Towards User Driven Trust Modeling and Management", Proceedings of TIME’08, iTrust/PST, Trondheim, Norway, June 2008.
  16. Z. Yan, V. Niemi, Y. Dong, G. Yu, "A User Behavior Based Trust Model for Mobile Applications",Proceedings of ATC’08, LNCS, 2008.
  17. Z. Yan, V. Niemi, "Digital Management of Trust for Component Software", International Journal of Computers (NAUN), Issue 3 Vol. 1, pp. 88-94, 2007.
  18. Z. Yan, and C. Prehofer, "A Trustworthy Middleware Platform for Component Software", Nokia Advance, No.2. 2007.
  19. Z. Yan, and P. Zhang, "Bridging Disjoint Trusted Domains into a Trustworthy System", In Proceedings of the 7th WSEAS International Conference on Applied Informatics and Communications (AIC'07), Greece, August 2007.
  20. Z. Yan, C. Prehofer, and V. Niemi, "Trust4All: a Trustworthy Middleware Platform for Component Software", In Proceedings of the 7th WSEAS International Conference on Applied Informatics and Communications (AIC'07), Greece, August 2007.
  21. Z. Yan, "Predicting Trustworthiness for Component Software", In Proceedings of IEEE 3rd International Workshop on Security, Privacy and Trust in Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (SecPerU'07), held in conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Services 2007, Turkey, July 2007.
  22. Z. Yan, C. Prehofer, “An Adaptive Trust Control Model for a Trustworthy Component Software Platform”, ATC07, LNCS 4610, July, 2007. (The best student paper award)
  23. Z. Yan, S. Holtmanns, "Trust Modeling and Management: from Social Trust to Digital Trust", book chapter of Computer Security, Privacy and Politics: Current Issues, Challenges and Solutions, R. Subramanian (ed.). Idea Group Inc., 2008, pp. 290-323.
  24. Z. Yan, "A Methodology to Predict and Select Control Modes for a Trustworthy Platform", WSEAS Transactions on Computers, Issue 3, Vol. 6, pp. 471-477, March 2007.
  25. Z. Yan, "A Methodology for Trust Control Mode Prediction", the 5th International Conference on Information Security and Privacy, Venice, Italy, November 2006.
  26. Z. Yan, R. MacLaverty, “Autonomic Trust Management in a Component Based Software System”,  LNCS 4158 , ATC06, China, Sept. 2006
  27. Z. Yan, “A Conceptual Architecture of a Trusted Mobile Environment”, IEEE SecPerU06, France, June 2006
  28. Z. Yan and P. Zhang, “A Trust Management System in Mobile Enterprise Networking”, WSEAS Transactions on Communications, Issue 5, Vol. 5, pp. 854-861, May 2006.
  29. Z. Yan and P. Zhang, “Enhancing Trust in Mobile Enterprise Networking”, ACOS06, HangZhou, China, 2006.
  30. Z. Yan and P. Zhang, “Trust Collaboration in Peer-to-Peer Systems Based on Trusted Computing Platforms”, WSEAS transactions on Information Science and Applications, Issue 2, Vol. 3, pp. 275-282, February 2006.
  31. Z. Yan and P. Zhang, “Building up Trust Collaboration in Peer-to-Peer Systems Based on Trusted Computing Platforms”, 4th International Conference on Information Security, Communications and Computers (ISCOCO05), December 2005.
  32. Z. Yan and P. Cofta, “A Mechanism for Trust Sustainment among Trusted Computing Platforms”, the First International Conference on Trust and Privacy in Digital Business (TrustBus’04), Spain, September 2004.
  33. Z. Yan, “Efficient Maintenance Support in Offshore Software Development: a Case Study on a Global E-Commerce Project”, in Proc. Of the Int’l Workshop on Global Software Development, International Conference on Software Engineering (UCSE 2004), Edinburgh, Scotland, May 24, 2004, IEE, pp. 12-17.
  34. Z. Yan and P. Cofta, “Methodology to Bridge Different Domains of Trust in Mobile Communications”, The First International Conference on Trust Management, Greece, 05. 2003.
  35. Z. Yan and P. Zhang, “A Novel System for Content Protection in Home Environment”, The first MiAn International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security, (ACNS’03), Kunming, China, 10, 2003.
  36. Z. Yan, P. Zhang, and T. Virtanen, “Trust Evaluation Based Security Solution in Ad Hoc Networks”, The Seventh Nordic Workshop on Secure IT Systems, NordSec 2003, Gjovik, Norway, 10, 2003.
  37. Z. Yan and P. Cofta, “A Matter of Trust: The Trusted Computing Platform for Mobile Commerce”, Nokia Advance, No.4, 2003.
  38. Z.Yan, Q. Zheng, J. Bao, “Design and Implementation of Automatic Line Test System Software for PABX”, Journal of Computer Engineering and Design, ISSN 1000-7024, vol. 19, no. 2, p51-55, 1998.
  39. Z. Yan and L. Fang, "Design and Realization of PCM Primary Block Multiplexing System", Journal of Microcomputer Development, pp. 18-20, vol. 6, no. 4, July 1996.
  40. S. Hotlmanns, Z. Yan, “Context-aware Adaptive Trust”, AmI’d 2006, Sophia Antipolis, Sept. 2006.

Thesis

Presentations

  1. Building Trust in Mobile Environments, invited speech at HUST, China, Oct. 2010.
  2. Effects of Displaying Trust Information on Mobile Application Usage, ATC'10, Oct. 2010.
  3. AdContRep: A Privacy Enhanced Reputation System for MANET Content Services , UIC'10, Oct. 2010.
  4. Exploring Trust of Mobile Applications Based on User Behaviors, InTrust'09, December, 2009.
  5. Formalizing Trust Based on Usage Behaviours for Mobile Applications, ATC'09, July 2009.
  6. A Methodology towards Usable Trust Management, ATC'09, July 2009.
  7. Autonomic Trust Management for a Pervasive System, Secypt'08, July 2008.
  8. A Comprehensive Trust Model for Component Software, SecPerU'08, July 2008.
  9. A User Behavior Based Trust Model for Mobile Applications, ATC'08, June 2008.
  10. Towards User Driven Trust Modeling and Management, TIME'08 (IFIPTM/PST08), June 2008.
  11. Human-Machine Trust Interaction: Towards User Driven Trust Modeling and Management, Renmin University of China, May 2008.

Patents

I have 13 patent applications granted and pending.