The Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)

The Center for Education and Research in
Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)

Xiaojun Lin

 Xiaojun  Lin

Title

Professor 

Office

MSEE 340 

Email

Education

Ph.D. 

Research Areas

Performance analysis, control and optimization of large and complex networked systems, wireless and wireline communication networks, smart grid, cyber-physical security 

Key Areas

grid reliability under high renewable penetration, online multi-stage decisions under uncertainty, demand response and distributed coordination, cyber-physical security for smart grid. 

Notable Awards

[1] IBM Recognition Event Award, 1996 and 1997.

[2] Purdue Graduate Student Government (PGSG) Travel Grant, 2004.

[3] Student Travel Grant for IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (declined), 2004.

[4] IEEE Communications Society Student Travel Grant for IEEE INFOCOM, 2005.

[5] Best Paper Award Finalist (one of the two runner-up papers), IEEE INFOCOM, 2005 (for my paper [C8]).

[6] Best Paper of the Year Award, Journal of Communications and Networks, 2005 (for my paper [J1]).

[7] National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2007.

[8] Best Paper Award, IEEE INFOCOM, 2008 (for my paper [C19]).

[9] Best Paper Award Finalist (one of five finalists), ACM e-Energy, 2018 (for my paper [C63]).

[10] Best Paper Award Finalist (one of four finalists), IEEE SmartGridComm, 2020 (for my paper [C75]). 

Publications

Please see my Google scholar profile https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=xdrxqy8AAAAJ&hl=en 

Biography

Xiaojun Lin received his B.S. from Zhongshan University,Guangzhou, China, in 1994, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, in 2000 and 2005, respectively. He is currently an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. Dr. Lin’s research interests are in the analysis, control and optimization of large and complex networked systems, spanning both communication networks and power systems. He received the IEEE INFOCOM 2008 best paper award and 2005 best paper of the year award from Journal of Communications and Networks. His paper was also one of two runner-up papers for the best-paper award at IEEE INFOCOM 2005. He received the NSF CAREER award in 2007. He was the Workshop co-chair for IEEE GLOBECOM 2007, the Panel co-chair for WICON 2008, the TPC co-chair for ACM MobiHoc 2009, the Mini-Conference co-chair for IEEE INFOCOM 2012, the Workshop chair for WiOpt 2014, and the Publication chair for WiOpt 2016. He is currently serving as an Area Editor for (Elsevier) Computer Networks journal, and has served as a Guest Editor for (Elsevier) Ad Hoc Networks journal and an Associate Editor for IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.