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David Yau

YAU David

Professor
EMAIL
david_yau
sutd.edu.sg
OFFICE
1.402.17
CONTACT
+65 6499 4775
RESEARCH AREAS
Artificial and Augmented Intelligence
Networked and Autonomous Systems
Secure Computing

Biography

 

David Yau obtained the B.Sc. from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), and M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin, all in computer science. Since 2013, he has been Professor in the Information Systems Technology and Design pillar of the Singapore University of Technology and Design. He served as Distinguished Scientist at the Advanced Digital Sciences Center, Singapore (a research center of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), where he was also Cybersecurity Program Director. Prior to Singapore, he was Assistant Professor and then Associate Professor (Computer Science) at Purdue University (West Lafayette).

 

David is interested in different aspects of networked computing systems, including protocol design and implementation, security and privacy, quality of service (QoS), network incentives, and wireless sensor networks. He received a CAREER award from the U.S. National Science Foundation. He won Best Paper award in 2017 IEEE/ACM Int’l Conf. Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN) and 2010 IEEE Int’l Conf. Multi-sensor Fusion and Integration (MFI). He was Mark Weiser Best Paper finalist of 2013 IEEE Int’l Conf. Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom), and Best Paper finalists of 2013 ACM BuildSys, 2013 IEEE Int’l Conf. Cyber-Physical Systems, Networks, and Applications (CPSNA), and 2007 IEEE Int’l Conf. Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS).

 

David is an Associate Editor of ACM Trans. Sensor Networks (TOSN). He was Guest Editor (2022-2023) of Elsevier Computer Networks, Special Issue on Selected Papers from IFIP/IEEE Networking. He was Associate Editor of IEEE Trans. Network Science and Engineering (2017-2022, awarded Excellent Editor in 2021), IEEE Trans. Smart Grid, Special Section on Smart Grid Cyber-Physical Security (2017), and IEEE/ACM Trans. Networking (2004-09). He was technical program committee (TPC) co-chair of IFIP/IEEE Networking (2022); TPC co-chair (2006) and steering committee member (2007-09) of IEEE Int’l Workshop Quality of Service (IWQoS); vice general chair (2006), TPC co-chair (2007), TPC area chair (2011), and Workshop co-chair (2016) of IEEE Int’l Conf. Network Protocols (ICNP); TPC track co-chair (2012) of IEEE Int’l Conf. Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS); TPC track co-chair (2013) of IEEE Int’l Conf. Green Computing and Communications (GreenCom); and Workshop Chair (2018) of IEEE Int’l Conf. Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS). He was a Keynote Speaker for 42nd IEEE Conf. Local Computer Networks (LCN), 2017. In 2017-2022, he served in the Management Committee of the Singapore Cybersecurity Consortium (SCC) and chaired the SCC’s SIG in IoT and CPS security.

 

His research has been supported by NRF (in association with different agencies) in Singapore; by NSF, DOE, ONR, IBM, and the Indiana 21st Century Research and Technology Fund in the U.S.; by the National Natural Science Foundation of China; and by the Korea Electronics Technology Institute. He has served as a panelist and reviewer for several international funding agencies.

Selected Research Projects
  • Trustworthy and Secure Cyber-Plexus for Digital Communities, 2023-2028.
  • Estate-IQ: An Advanced AI System for Enabling Smart HDB Estate Services, 2021-2025.
  • ACRES: AI-enabled Cyber Resilience for Power Systems, 2018-2021.
  • PoPSeCo: Power Plant Security by Advanced Sensing and Computing, 2015-12018.