Projects

As a Ph.D. Student and Research Assistant, and now a Postdoctoral Researcher, at the Information Systems and Sciences Laboratory in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of Boston University, I have had the opportunity to work on several interesting and exciting research projects. My research advisor is Professor Prakash Ishwar. My research and technical interests include Information Theory, Information Security and Assurance, Communication Systems and Networks, Coding Theory, Data and Sensor Networks, Signal and Multimedia Processing.

Research Projects

Secure Computation and Inference in Networks

Distributed Field Estimation with One-bit Sensors

Delayed Sequential Coding of Correlated Sources

Publications

Journal Articles

1. Ye Wang and Prakash Ishwar, "Distributed Field Estimation with Randomly Deployed, Noisy, Binary Sensors," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, March 2009.
2. Ye Wang, Prakash Ishwar and Venkatesh Saligrama, "One-Bit Distributed Sensing and Coding for Field Estimation in Sensor Networks," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Sept 2008.

Conference Publications and Talks

3. Ye Wang and Prakash Ishwar, "On Unconditionally Secure Multi-Party Sampling from Scratch," IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 2011.
4. Ye Wang, Shantanu Rane, Stark C. Draper, and Prakash Ishwar, "An Information-Theoretic Analysis of Revocability and Reusability in Secure Biometrics," Information Theory and Applications Workshop, San Diego, CA, Feb 2011.
5. Ye Wang, Shantanu Rane, Wei Sun, and Prakash Ishwar, "On Unconditionally Secure Computation with Vanishing Communication Cost," Allerton Conference On Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, IL, Sept 2010.
6. Ye Wang and Prakash Ishwar, "Bootstrapped Oblivious Transfer and Secure Two-Party Function Computation," IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Seoul, South Korea, June 2009.
7. Ye Wang and Prakash Ishwar, "On Non-Parametric Field Estimation using Randomly Deployed, Noisy, Binary Sensors," IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Nice, France, June 2007.
8. Nan Ma, Ye Wang, and Prakash Ishwar, "Delayed Sequential Coding of Correlated Sources," Information Theory and Applications Workshop, San Diego, CA, Jan 2007.
9. Ye Wang, Nan Ma, Manqi Zhao, Prakash Ishwar, and Venkatesh Saligrama, "On Universal Distributed Estimation of Noisy Fields with One-bit Sensors," Allerton Conference On Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, IL, Sept 2006.

Patent Application

10. Shantanu Rane, Ye Wang, Wei Sun, and Prakash Ishwar, "Secure Multi-Party Computation of Normalized Sum-Type Functions," U.S. Patent Application No 12/890,151, Publication No US 2011/0040820 A1, Feb 2011

Book Chapter

11. Ye Wang, Nan Ma, Manqi Zhao, Prakash Ishwar, and Venkatesh Saligrama, "Distributed Field Estimation with One-bit Sensors," Networked Sensing Information and Control, Springer, 2008.

Resume

My resume is outlined below and available here (PDF format).

Education

• Boston University, Ph.D. ECE, May 2011
• Boston University, M.S. ECE, May 2009
• Worcester Polytechnic Institute, B.S. ECE, May 2005

Work Experience

• Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Summer Research Internship, Summer 2010
• MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Summer Research Internship, Summer 2009
• Charles River Analytics, Assistant Software Engineer, Summer 2005
• NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, WPI Senior Design Project, Fall 2004
• MIT Lab for Nuclear Science, Summer Research Assistant, Summer 2003

Honors and Awards

• Boston University Graduate Teaching Fellow, Fall 2005
• Graduated from WPI with High Distinction, May 2005
• Member of Tau Beta Pi, since 2004
• Member of Eta Kappa Nu, since 2003
• WPI Presidential Scholar, 2002 through 2005