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Research Interests

His research interests include performance, privacy, and security study of networks and cyber-physical systems.

Awards

• Research Excellence Award 2020-2021, 2021-2022 (School of Decision Sciences, The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong)
• Teaching Excellence Award 2017-2018, 2018-2019 (School of Decision Sciences, The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong)
• Teaching Excellence Award 2016-2017 (School of Decision Sciences, Hang Seng Management College)
• Purdue University Graduate Student Award for Outstanding Teaching (Purdue University)
• Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship 2010 (Purdue University)
• Purdue Summer Research Grant 2008 (Purdue University)
• Excellent teaching assistantship for the course CEG4430, CSC4430 (CUHK)

Research Grant

• 2021, PI, “Quantifying Privacy Risk of Mobile Applications through Machine Learning”, Research Grant Committee, Faculty Development scheme, Project No: UGC/FDS14/E01/21 (HKD$ 0.8 million)
• 2019, PI, “Securing Smart-City Infrastructures Using Markov Game”, Research Grant Committee, Faculty Development scheme, Project No: UGC/FDS14/E01/19 (HKD$ 1.1 million)

Professional services

Reviewer of various journals and conferences, including IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), Transactions on Information Forensics & Security (T-IFS), Transactions on Computers, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, Machines, Transactions on Sensor Networks, ISIF Journal of Advances in Information Fusion, Sensors, Symmetry, Electronics, Entropy, and Applied Sciences; IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS), IEEE WCNC, IEEE SmartGridComm, IEEE GreenCom, and International Conference on Information Fusion.

Publications (Journal Articles and Book Chapters)

Journal Articles

• Nageswara S. V. Rao, Chris Y. T. Ma, and Fei He. Game Strategies for Data Transfer Infrastructures Against ML-Profile Exploits. IEEE Transactions on Machine Learning in Communications and Networking, 2, June 2024.
• Nageswara S. V. Rao, Chris Y. T. Ma, and Fei He. Game-Theoretic Strategies for Cyber-Physical Infrastructures Under Component Disruptions. IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 72(2), June 2023.
• Chris Y. T. Ma and Daniel Y. Mo. Integrating Internet of Things in Service Parts Operations for Sustainability. International Journal of Engineering Business Management, 15, 2023. doi:10.1177/18479790231165639.
• Daniel Y. Mo, Chris Y. T. Ma, Danny C. K. Ho, and Yue Wang. Design of a Reverse Logistics System with Internet of Things for Service Parts Management. Sustainability, 14(19), 12013, Sep 2022. https://doi.org/10.3390/su141912013.
• Nageswara S. V. Rao, Chris Y. T. Ma, Fei He, David K. Y. Yau, and Jun Zhuang. Cyber–Physical Correlation Effects in Defense Games for Large Discrete Infrastructures. Games, 9(3), July 2018.
• Nageswara S. V. Rao, Chris Y. T. Ma, Kjell Hausken, Fei He, David K. Y. Yau, and Jun Zhuang. Defense Strategies for Asymmetric Networked Systems with Discrete Components. Sensors, 18(5), May 2018.
• Jongho Won, Chris Y. T. Ma, David K. Y. Yau, and Nageswara S. V. Rao. Privacy-Assured Aggregation Protocol for Smart Metering: A Proactive Fault-Tolerant Approach. In IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 24(3), June 2016.
• Nageswara S. V. Rao, Stephen W. Poole, Chris Y. T. Ma, Fei He, Jun Zhuang, and David K. Y. Yau. Defense of Cyber Infrastructures Against Cyber-Physical Attacks Using Game-Theoretic Models. In Risk Analysis, 36(4), April 2016.
• Chris Y. T. Ma, David K. Y. Yau, Nung Kwan Yip, and Nageswara S. V. Rao. Privacy Vulnerabilities of Published Anonymous Mobility Traces. In IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 21(3), June 2013.
• Chris Y. T. Ma, David K. Y. Yau, Xin Lou, and Nageswara S. V. Rao. Markov Game Analysis for Attack and Defense of Power Networks under Possible Misinformation. In IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 28(2), May 2013.
• Chris Y. T. Ma, David K. Y. Yau, and Nageswara S. V. Rao. Scalable Solutions of Markov Games for Smart-Grid Infrastructure Protection. In IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, Special Section on Smart Grid Communications Systems: Reliability, Dependability, and Performance, 4(1), March 2013.
• Chris Y. T. Ma, David K. Y. Yau, Nung Kwan Yip, Nageswara S. V. Rao, and Jiming Chen. Stochastic Steepest-Descent Optimization of Multiple-Objective Mobile Sensor Coverage. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 61(4), May 2012.
• David K. Y. Yau, Nung Kwan Yip, Chris Y. T. Ma, Nageswara S. V. Rao, Mallikarjun Shankar. Quality of Monitoring of Stochastic Events by Periodic and Proportional-Share Scheduling of Sensor Coverage. ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN), 7(2), August 2010.
• Jren-Chit Chin, Yu Dong, Wing-Kai Hon, Chris Y. T. Ma, and David K. Y. Yau. Detection of Intelligent Mobile Target in a Mobile Sensor Network. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 18(1), February 2010.
• Chris Y. T. Ma, David K. Y. Yau, Jren-chit Chin, Nageswara S. V. Rao, and Mallikarjun Shankar. Matching and Fairness in Threat-based Mobile Sensor Coverage. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 8(12), December 2009.
• Jren-Chit Chin, Jeffrey M. Rautenberg, Chris Y. T. Ma, Santiago Pujol, and David K. Y. Yau. An Experimental Low-cost, Low-data-rate Rapid Structural Assessment Network. IEEE Sensors Journal, Special Issue on Sensor Systems for Structural Health Monitoring, 9(11), November 2009.

Academic Book Chapters

• Nageswara S. V. Rao, Y. Narahari, C. E. Veni Madhavan, David K. Y. Yau, and Chris Y. T. Ma. An Analytical Framework for Cyber-Physical Networks. In Guide to Wireless Sensor Networks. Sajal K. Das, Krishna Kant, Nan Zhang (eds), Morgan Kaufmann (Waltham, MA). January 2012.

Publications (Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceedings)

Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceedings

• Nageswara S. V. Rao, Chris Y. T. Ma, and Fei He. ML Classifier Fusion for Three Data Streams with Quality Inversely Proportional to Time Resolution. In Proc. International Conference on Information Fusion, Venice, Italy, July 2024.
• Nageswara S. V. Rao, Chris Y. T. Ma, and Fei He. Game-Theoretic Strategies for Quantum-Conventional Network Infrastructures. In Proc. International Conference on Information Fusion, Charleston, SC, June 2023.
• Nageswara S. V. Rao, Chris Y. T. Ma, and Fei He. Classification and Fusion of Two Disparate Data Streams and Nuclear Dissolutions Application. In Proc. International Conference on Information Fusion, Linköping, Sweden, July 2022.
• Fei He, Nageswara S. V. Rao, and Chris Y. T. Ma. Game-Theoretic Approach for Grace-Period Policy in Supercomputers. In Proc. International Conference on Information Fusion, Rustenburg, South Africa, November 2021.
• Hai Liu, Wai Kit Wong, Shujin Ye, and Yu Tak Ma. Joint Energy Optimization of Cooling Systems and Virtual Machine Consolidation in Data Centers. In Proc. International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), August 2020.
• Nageswara S. V. Rao, Neena Imam, Chris Y. T. Ma, and Fei He. Defense Strategies and Expected Capacity of High Performance Computing Infrastructures. In Proc. International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN 2019), Bangalore, India, Jan 2019.
• Nageswara S. V. Rao, Chris Y. T. Ma, and Fei He. Defense Strategies for Multi-Site Cloud Computing Server Infrastructures. In Proc. International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN 2018), Varanasi, India, Jan 2018.
• Nageswara S. V. Rao, Chris Y. T. Ma, Kjell Hausken, Fei He, David K. Y. Yau, and Jun Zhuang. Defense Strategies for Asymmetric Networked Systems under Composite Utilities. In Proc. IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems (MFI 2017), Daegu, Korea, Nov 2017.
• Nageswara S. V. Rao, Chris Y. T. Ma, Kjell Hausken, Fei He, and Jun Zhuang. Game-Theoretic Strategies for Systems of Components Using Product-Form Utilities. In Proc. IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems (MFI 2016), Baden-Baden, Germany, Sept 2016.
• Chris Y. T. Ma and David K. Y. Yau. On Information-theoretic Measures for Quantifying Privacy Protection of Time-series Data. In Proc. AsiaCCS, Singapore, April 2015.
• Jongho Won, Chris Y. T. Ma, David K. Y. Yau, and Nageswara S. V. Rao. Proactive Fault-Tolerant Aggregation Protocol for Privacy-Assured Smart Metering. In Proc. IEEE INFOCOM, Toronto, Canada, April 2014.
• Nageswara S. V. Rao, Stephen W. Poole, Chris Y. T. Ma, Fei He, Jun Zhuang, David K. Y. Yau. Cloud Computing Infrastructure Robustness: A Game Theory Approach. In Proc. ICNC, Maui, Hawaii, January 2012.
• Chris Y. T. Ma, David K. Y. Yau, Nung Kwan Yip, Nageswara S. V. Rao. Privacy Vulnerabilities of Published Anonymous Mobility Traces. In Proc. Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom), Chicago, IL, September 2010.
• Chris Y. T. Ma, David K. Y. Yau, Nung Kwan Yip, Nageswara S. V. Rao, and Jiming Chen. Stochastic Steepest-Descent Optimization of Multiple-Objective Mobile Sensor Coverage. In Proc. IEEE Int’l Conf. on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Genoa, Italy, June 2010.
• Chris Y. T. Ma, David K. Y. Yau, Nung Kwan Yip, Nageswara S. V. Rao, and Jiming Chen. Performance Analysis of Stochastic Network Coverage with Limited Mobility. In Proc. IEEE Int’l Conf. Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), Macau, China, October 2009.