Network Inference for Cyber Security in Complex Networks

Chee Wei Tan received the B.S. (First Class Honors) in electrical engineering from the National University of Singapore in 2002, and the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, in 2006 and 2008, respectively. He is an Assistant Professor at the City University Hong Kong. He was a Postdoctoral Scholar at the California Institute of Technology, and affiliated with the Netlab and the Rigorous Systems Research Group at Caltech. He is currently serving as an Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Communications (TCOM) and the Chair of the IEEE Information Theory Society Hong Kong Chapter. Dr. Tan was the recipient of the 2008 Princeton University Wu Prize for Excellence, a 2011 IEEE Communications Society Asia-Pacific Young Researcher Award and a selected participant of the US. National Academy of Engineering 2013 China-America Frontiers of Engineering Symposium.

Introduction to Network Statistical Inference.- Spreading Models in Online Social Networks.- Mathematics of Spreading in Networks.- Single Rumor Source and Multiple Sources Detection Problems.- Computational Algorithms for Rumor Source Detection.- Advanced Topics in Network Inference Problems.- Cyber-Security Protocol Design and Network Forensics Implementation.