Chansu Yu

Research

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

Research Highlights:

• We received 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 2024; 400K)
• We received the grant award from the Ohio Space Grant Consortium (OSGC) for the development of individualized, integrative, and progressive electronics laboratory course. This project creates a set of experiments of advanced electronics, e.g., bioelectronics and SRAM PUF (physically unclonable function), that enables students to see the curriculum as exciting and relevant to life outside of school. (OSGC; January 2021 – October 2021)
• We received 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 2024; $2M)
• Our paper, entitled Delay-Conscious Defense Against Fingerprinting Attacks, has been selected to present 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.
• We received the grant award from the NSF for the research and education of cybersecurity systems. This project is intended to provide a holistic view on information and software security as well as hardware security. In particular, hardware security attacks such as hardware IP piracy, side-channel analysis, fault injection, and clock glitching are a growing concern to both semiconductor industry as well as end users. Our work is based on Altera FPGA prototyping systems and Quartus. (NSF TUES program; September 2013 – August 2019)

Publications

My complete list of publications

Publications and preprints in recent years:

• J Liang, C Yu, K Suh, Delay-Conscious Defense Against Fingerprinting Attacks, The Nineteenth International Conference on Networks (ICN 2020), Lisbon, Portugal, February 24, 2020.
• Chu, P., Hamlen, K. R. and Yu, C., A Simple SoC Platform for the Integrated Computer Engineering Lab Framework, 2018 ASEE conference, June 24-27, 2018.
• S. Jeon, Y-J Suh, C. Yu, Pre-shared Key Agreement for Secure Public Wi-Fi, arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.02293, 2017 – arxiv.org
• S. Jeon, J-P Jeong, Y-J Suh, C. Yu, D. Han, Selective AP Probing for Indoor Positioning in a Large and AP-Dense Environment, Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 2017.
• D. Bakunas-Milanowski, V. Rego, J. Sang, and C. Yu, Efficient Algorithms for Stream Compaction on GPUs, International Journal of Networking and Computing, Vol 7, No 2, 2017.
• Chu, P. P., Yu, C., and Hamlen-Mansour, K. R., A spiral computer engineering lab framework. AAAS/NSF Envisioning the Future of Undergraduate STEM Education: Research and Practice Symposium (EnFUSE), 2016.
• Rego, V., Sang, J., and Yu, C., A Fast Hybrid Approach for Stream Compaction on GPUs. International Workshop on GPU Computing and Applications, 2016.
• Bakunas-Milanowski, D., Rego, V., Sang, J., and Yu, C., A Fast Parallel Selection Algorithm on GPUs. International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Computational Science, 2015.
• Bakunas-Milanowski, D., Rego, V., Sang, J., and Yu, C., An Improved Implementation of Parallel Selection on GPUs. International Symposium on Software Engineering and Applications, 2015.
• S. Bak, K.-H. Jung, C. Yu and Y.-J. Suh, Guided Tour of Handoff Steering for Bandwidth in Indoor Venues, IEEE WCNC, 2015
• Y. Qi, C. Yu, Y.-J. Suhand S. Y. Jang, GPS Tethering for Energy Conservation, IEEE WCNC, 2015
• K.-H. Jung, Y. Qi, C. Yu and Y.-J. Suh, Energy Efficient Wifi Tethering on a Smartphone, IEEE INFOCOM, Toronto, Canada, April 2014.

I am involved in these workshops/conferences:

• Program committee, IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM)
• Co-Chair, International Conference on Network of the Future (NoF 2013)

Funded Projects

• Transdisciplinary Cybersecurity Education for Law and Engineering Students, National Science Foundation, May 2021 ~ April 2024 (Collaborators: Drs. Brian Ray, Sathis Kumar and Debbie Jackson)
• Developing an Individualized, Integrative, and Progressive Electronics Laboratory Course, Ohio Space Grant Consortium, January 2021 ~ October 2021.
• The Cleveland Tech Talent Pipeline (CLE TTP), National Science Foundation, November 2020 ~ October 2024 (Collaborators: Drs. Debbie Jackson and Brian Harper)
• A Spiral Computer Engineering Lab Framework, National Science Foundation, July 1, 2015 ~ June 30 2019, (Collaborators: Drs. Pong Chu and Karla Mansour)
• An Integrative Hands-on Approach to Security Education for Undergraduate Students, National Science Foundation, September 2013 ~ August 2018 (Collaborators: Dr. Sanchita Mal-Sarkar at CIS and Dr. Bhunia Swarup at CWRU)
• Acquisition of a 4G/LTE Wireless Communications Test Set, National Science Foundation, October 2013 ~ September 2017 (Collaborators: Drs. Ye Zhu and Fuqin Xiong at ECE, Dr. Haodong Wang at CIS, and Dr. Miron Kaufman at Physics)
• Mobility and Security Support in Cyber Physical Systems, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, July 2010 ~ January 2015

Teaching

• EEC 380 Digital Systems
• EEC 483 Computer Organization Course,
• EEC 485 High Performance Computer Architecture
• EEC 492 Hands-on Experience on Computer System Security
• EEC 492 Software Define Radio
• EEC 581 Computer Architecture
• EEC 685/785 Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Computer Systems
• EEC 687/787 Mobile Computing
• System Modeling and Performance Evaluation : Fall 2000 (ICU)
• Computer Architecture : Spring 1998 (ICU)
• High Performance Computer Architecture : Spring 2000 (ICU)
• Parallel Programming : Summer 1999 (ICU)

Other info

Short bio: Prof. Chansu Yu received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Seoul National University, Korea and the Ph.D. degree in computer engineering from the Pennsylvania State University in 1994. He has been with LG Electronics for more than ten years. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Cleveland State University in Cleveland, Ohio. He has authored/coauthored more than 120 technical papers and numerous book chapters in the areas of mobile networking, performance evaluation and parallel and distributed 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, IEEE and IEEE Computer Society.