Chansu Yu

Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Cleveland State University

Director, Mobile Computing Research Laboratory
Co-Director, CSU T.E.C.H. Hub
Coordinator, Quantum Computing Research Group
Faculty advisor, CSU-Cleveland Clinic IBM Quantum (CSU internal)
Steering committee, Applied Data Science, a joint PhD Program with Cleveland Clinic

Summary

  • 10+ years of industry experience (LG Electronics) and 20+ years in academia
  • Leadership role at Cleveland State University (CSU) – Chair of Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Fall 13-Spring 20); CSU 2.0 Task Force (Fall 20 – Spring 21); Cleveland Innovation District ($200M, Spring 21-current); Co-director, CSU T.E.C.H. Hub (Fall 2022-current)
  • Academic initiatives at CSU – Developed BS in Data Science (Fall 21-Spring 22); Developed Applied Data Science, a joint PhD program with Cleveland Clinic (Fall 21-Spring 22);  Coordinating the Quantum Computing program (with Cleveland Clinic/IBM, Spring 22-current); Coordinator of the Virtual Reality facility and program (with NASA and School of Media Arts and Film, Fall 20-current)
  • Regional activities – Regional Leadership Board, Greater Cleveland Partnership (GCP) RITE (Fall 20-current); Mentor, Global Cleveland (Fall 22-current)
  • State/national-level activities – Chair, Computer Science Endorsement Standard Revision Committee, Ohio Department of Higher Education (ODHE) (Fall 21); Chair, State Faculty Panel, CS Endorsement Programs, ODHE (Fall 20-current); National Center for Women & IT (NCWIT) (Summer 20-current)
  • Active grants of $4M including three NSF grants (Cybersecurity education, $400K, PI; CS for K-12, $2M, co-PI; Inter-state (seven universities) effort on CS education, $640K, co-PI), two PIT-UN grants (Data privacy and equity & Quantum pipeline), and an OCRI Center award (Ohio Cyber Range Regional Programming Center)
  • Diversity, equity, and inclusion – Both the NSF grant (CS education for K-12) and PIT-UN grant (Quantum pipeline) aiming at engaging with CMSD (Cleveland Metropolitan School District) students, more than three quarters of whom are Black/Hispanic and economically disadvantaged; GCP RITE and its Workforce Connect IT Sector Partnership focusing on addressing racial, gender and geographic disparities; Helped organizing the WiCyS (Women in Cybersecurity) conference through CSU T.E.C.H. Hub in March 2022 in Cleveland, OH; Helping emerging leaders, mostly from overseas, as a mentor for Global Cleveland; Faculty advisor of a Senior capstone project which features Hough riots and neighborhood using virtual reality devices in collaborated with the School of Media Arts and Film at CSU and GCUFF, Greater Cleveland Urban Film Festival

Research

My research interests include:

My on-going projects are:

  • CS Education; Public Interest Technology
  • Quantum computing – QAOA, PQC, Noise model, Distributed quantum architecture
  • Cybersecurity Challenge Platforms
  • Hardware security (Fault injection attacks, Meltdown & Spectre)
  • Website fingerpriting attacks and defenses
  • Mobile networking (Secure Wi-Fi, Indoor localization, Mobile hotspot)
  • Software defined radio & Wireless steganography

I lead the Mobile Computing Research Laboratory (MCRL) at Cleveland State.

Research Highlights:

  • We are currently supported by the grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) on our research work on cybersecurity challenge platform. This will be used to train future cybersecurity professionals in both the technical hands-on IT skills and the legal and policy and legal issues. Cybersecurity scenarios we implement and investigate include EternalBlue ransomware attack, Meltdown, #OpJustina DDoS attack, and Hacking group Thallium. (NSF; May 2021 – April 2025; 400K)
  • We are currently supported by the grant award from the NSF to develop CS pathways as a part of the nation-wide CSforAll initiative. The Cleveland Tech Talent Pipeline is a Research-Practitioner Partnership (RPP) that will build upon several NSF-supported efforts in Cleveland to develop pathways for students in computer science and information technology from high school to career, community college and/or four-year colleges and universities. (NSF; November 2020 – October 2025; $2M)
  • We recently received the grant award from the NSF to develop the SEI (Scaling, Expanding and Iterating) ITEST program, LEGACY++. Seven universities across four states (AL, MS, OH and MI) are partner with local industries (Mercedes Benz [AL], C Spire [MS], and the Cleveland Clinic [OH]) to promote students’ computational thinking skills and knowledge of CS workforce needs by collaborating on coding projects on topics that are pertinent to these industries. (NSF, May 2024 – April 2028, 640K)
  • We submitted two NSF project proposals on quantum computing, Quantum Computational Toolbox for Life (NQVL program) and Robust Quantum Computing Through Integrated Data Engineering and Error Correction (ExpandQISE program), both of which are in collaboration with the Cleveland Clinic.
  • Our paper, entitled Experience in Teaching Quantum Computing with Hands-on Programming Labs, has been published in Journal of Supercomputing, 2024. (Available from: https://rdcu.be/dBojs) An earlier version of the paper has been presented at the International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence, December 2023. (Available from: https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.14002v2)
  • Our paper, entitled Tail Time Defense Against Website Fingerprinting Attacks, has been published in IEEE Access, 2022 (DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS. 2022.3146236) An earlier version of the paper was presented at the Nineteenth International Conference on Networks (ICN 2020), Lisbon, Portugal, in February, 2020. Website fingerprinting attacks are an Internet censorship technology and many attack and defense mechanisms have been proposed in the literature. The proposed defense algorithm maintains the high defense performance while reducing the page loading time, which has been identified as the weakness in previous mechanisms.
  • Our paper, entitled Task, Knowledge, Skill, and Ability: Equipping the Small-Medium Businesses Cybersecurity Workforce, has been presented at the ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition in June 2024. See this. This is based on a MS Thesis.
  • Our paper, entitled Towards Low-Barrier Cybersecurity Research and Education for Industrial Control Systems, has been presented at the IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (IEEE ISI 2023) in October 2023. See this.

Publications

My complete list of publications

Recent publications and preprints:

Funded Projects

Externally funded projects in recent years:

Teaching

  • CIS 492/592 Quantum Computing
  • EEC 380 Digital Systems
  • EEC 483 Computer Organization Course, EEC 485 High Performance Computer Architecture, CIS 480 Computer Architecture
  • EEC 581 Computer Architecture, CIS 580 Computer Architecture, CIS 600 Advanced Computer Architecture
  • EEC 492 Hands-on Experience on Computer System Security
  • EEC 492 Software Define Radio
  • EEC 685/785 Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Computer Systems
  • EEC 687/787 Mobile Computing

Lab info

Recent and current students:

Short Bio

Prof. Chansu Yu received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Seoul National University, S. Korea and the Ph.D. degree in computer engineering from the Pennsylvania State University in 1994. He had been with LG Electronics for more than ten years. He was an Associate Professor at the Information and Communications University (now KAIST) in S. Korea between 1997 and 2001. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Cleveland State University in Cleveland, Ohio. He was also a Distinguished Professor at POSTECH, S. Korea between 2009 and 2013​. He has authored/coauthored more than 120 technical papers and numerous book chapters in the areas of Computer Science & Data Science Education, Public Interest Technology, Cybersecurity, Hardware Security, Quantum Computing, Mobile Computing, and Parallel Computing. Dr. Yu’s research is supported by National Science Foundation and other government agencies and industry. Dr. Yu is a senior member of the ACM, ACM CSE, IEEE and IEEE Computer Society.

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in action

Yesr-end Party, Washkewicz College of Engineering, December 2022

WiCyS (Women in Cybersecurity), Huntington Convention Center of Cleveland, March 17, 2022
Ribbon cutting ceremony of IBM Quantum System One at Cleveland Clinic (March 20, 2023)
IBM Quantum Summit 2022, New York, November 9, 2022
NSF SaTC Project Team, June 18, 2021
Mobile Computing Research Lab
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