Network Security Lab Alumni

Advanced Computing Technologist

Boeing Phantom Works

Bellevue, WA

myli "at" u.washington.edu

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Research Interests

Collusion-resistant, scalable solutions to provide security and privacy in multi-user environments, with applications to medical systems including electronic health records (EHR), vehicular ad hoc networks (VANET), secure group communications, secure distribute storage, sensor networks, and RFID systems; Application of information-theory and game-theory in multi-user security

Published Journal Articles

1.      Mingyan Li, R. Poovendran, and S. Narayanan, Protecting patient privacy against unauthorized release of medical images in a group communication environment, Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics, Vol. 29, No. 5, pp. 367-383, July 2005, a news coverage "Image watermarking could address HIPAA loophole" on this work appeared in Diagnostic Imaging Magazine's PACSweb http://www.dimag.com/pacsweb/
 

2.      Mingyan Li, R. Poovendran, Disenrollment with forward secrecy in threshold schemes, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 52, No. 4, pp. 1676-1682, April 2006   
 

3.      Mingyan Li, R. Poovendran, and D. McGrew, Minimizing center key storage in hybrid one-way function based group key management with communication constraints, Information Processing Letters,  Vol. 93, No. 4, pp. 191-198, February 2005.
 

4.      Mingyan Li and R. Poovendran, and C. Berenstein, Design of secure multicast key management schemes under communication budget constraints, IEEE Communication Letters, Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 108-110, March 2002.
 

5.      C.C.Lim and Mingyan Li, Observability Analysis of Two Closed loop guidance Systems with Bearings-only Measurements, Nonlinear Analysis (Series B): Real World Application, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 261-286, June 2000.
 

6.      Mingyan Li and C.C.Lim, Observability-Enhanced Proportional Navigation Guidance with Bearings-Only Measurements, Journal of Australian Mathematical Society, Series B, Vol. 40, No. 4, pp. 497-512, 1999.

Book Chapter

1.      C.C.Lim and M. Li, Proportional navigation system with acceleration saturation constraint, Chapter 4 of Optimization Methods and Applications, Kluwer Academic, 2001.

Journal Article Under Review

1.      K. Sampigethaya, M. Li, L. Huang and R. Poovendran, AMOEBA: Robust Location Privacy Scheme for VANET, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2005.
 

2.      K. Sampigethaya, M. Li, L. Huang and R. Poovendran, The security and privacy of wireless communications in VANET, submitted to IEEE on Wireless Communications, 2006

Published Conference Papers

1.      Mingyan Li  , I. Koutsopoulos, and R. Poovendran, Optimal Jamming Attack and Network Defense Policies in Wireless Sensor Networks, INFOCOM 2007, Anchorage, Alaska, May 2007

2.      Mingyan Li, K. Sampigethaya, L. Huang and R. Poovendran, Swing & Swap: User-centric Approaches Towards Maximizing Location Privacy, Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES), Alexandria, VA, October 2006

3.      S. Lintelman, R. Robinson, Mingyan Li, D. von Oheimb, R. Poovendran, K. Sampigethaya, Security assurance for IT infrastructure supporting airplane production, maintenance, and operation, (position paper), National Workshop on Aviation Software Systems: Design for Certifiably Dependable Systems, Alexandria, VA, October 2006

4.      Mingyan Li and R. Poovendran, Enabling Distributed Addition of Secure Access to Patient's Records in A Tele-Referring Group, Proceedings of the 27th IEEE EMBS Annual International Conference (EMBC), Shanghai, China, September 2005.
 

5.      Mingyan Li, S. Narayanan, and R. Poovendran, Privacy enhanced group communication in clinical environment, Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging 2005: PACS and Imaging Informatics, Vol. 5748, pp. 348-56, San Diego, CA, February 2005.
 

6.      Mingyan Li, S. Narayanan, and R. Poovendran, Tracing medical images using multi-band watermarks, Proceedings of EMBC, Vol. 2, pp. 3233-36, San Francisco, CA, September 2004.
 

7.      Mingyan Li and R. Poovendran, Broadcast enforced threshold schemes with disenrollment, Proceedings of Selected Area on Cryptography (SAC), Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 3006, pp. 101-16, Ottawa, Canada, August 2003.
 

8.      R. Sampigethaya, L. Huang, Mingyan Li, R. Poovendran, K. Matsuura, and K. Sezaki, CARAVAN: providing location privacy for VANET, Proceedings of the workshop on Embedded Security in Cars (ESCAR), Cologne, Germany, November 2005.
 

9.      Mingyan Li and R. Poovendran, A note on threshold schemes with disenrollment, Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, March 2003.
 

10.   Mingyan Li, R. Poovendran, and C. Berenstein, Optimization of key storage for secure multicast, Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, pp. 771-774, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, March 2001.
 

11.   Mingyan Li and C.C.Lim Analysis of proportional navigation guidance systems with acceleration saturation constraints, Invited; Proceedings of International Congress on Dynamics and Control of Systems, Ottawa, Canada, August 1999.