Welcome
Who are we?

We are a group of researchers in the Department of Electrical, Computer, and
Biomedical Engineering at University of Rhode Island. Our research work
improves security and trust in distributed computing and communication systems.
ETAN is our nick name.

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About us:
Prof. Yan (Lindsay) Sun received her B.S. degree with the highest honor
from Beijing University, Beijing, China, in 1998, and the Ph.D. degree in
Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Maryland in 2004.
She is currently an assistant professor in the Electrical and Computer
Engineering Department, University of Rhode Island. Her research interests
include wireless network security, e-Trust in distributed systems, and
quantitative security assessment. Dr. Sun received the Graduate School
Fellowship at the University of Maryland from 1998 to 1999, the Excellent
Graduate Award at Peking University in 1998, and ShuPing Scholarship from
1993 to 1998. She received NSF CAREER Award in 2007. For more
information, please visit www.ele.uri.edu/faculty/yansun.
Prof. Qing Yang received the B.Sc. in computer science from Huazhong
University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, in 1982, the M.A.Sc. in
electrical engineering from University of Toronto, Canada, in 1985, and the
Ph.D degree in computer Engineering from The Center for Advanced
Computer Studies, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, in 1988. Presently, he
is Distinguished Engineering Professor in the Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering at The University of Rhode Island where he has been a faculty member since 1988. His research interests include computer
architectures, memory systems, disk I/O systems, data storages, parallel and
distributed computing, performance evaluation, and local area networks. Dr.
Yang is a senior member of the IEEE Computer Society and a member of the SIGARCH of the Association for Computing Machinery.
Yafei Yang is currently a Ph.D candidate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Rhode Island. His research interests include Security and Trust issues of Embedded System and Distributed networks (such as Wireless Sensor Networks, Peer-to-Peer
Networks, and online rating system). He uses NS2/ TinyOS/ Symbian/ PalmOS/ J2ME/ BREW to simulate and implement his proposed schemes. Yafei received
his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), China, in
2002 and 2004.
He has been a student member of IEEE and ACM since 2003.
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Jin Ren received his B.E degree in 1999 and M.E. degree in 2002 both from
Huazhong University of Sci.&Tech., Wuhan, China. He is now studying for his PhD degree in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Rhode Island. He has extensive background in storage systems design and implementation. His research interests also include network security and distributed system.
Nitish Reddy Busannagari received his B. Tech degree from PIRMEC,
affiliated to Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, India in
2006. He is currently pursuing his Masters degree in the Department of

Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Rhode Island. His
research interests mainly include Network Security and Wireless
Communication.