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I am currently assistant professor* in Technical University Berlin as well as affiliated with Deutsche Telekom Laboratories (T-labs) in Berlin, Germany. (* official title is Juniorprofessur in German system). I have received my MS and PhD degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC), where I worked in Coordinated Science Laboratory (CSL) under the supervision of Prof. Tamer Basar. My research involves applications of distributed decision making, game theory, and control to various security and resource allocation problems in complex and networked systems. >> more

Security and risk management.
Game, control, and optimization theories.
Mechanism design, pricing, and decision making under limited information.
Spectrum and various resource allocation problems in wired and wireless networks.
Distributed machine learning and social networking.

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News

I am honored to (co-)host John F. Nash, who received the Nobel Prize for his famous work on game theory, in Deutsche Telekom Laboratories on January 22nd, 2010.
I offer the seminar course "Decision making for security" this winter semester in TU-Berlin. Please check the link for further details.
Officially joined Technical University (TU-)Berlin as assistant (junior) professor in October 2009. The affiliation with Deutsche Telekom Laboratories (T-labs) continues.
Co-organizer of the invited session "Game Theory for Networks and Security" at the 46th Allerton Conference, Univ. of Illinois at UC, USA.
Publicity chair and TPC member of GameNets 2009 Conference.
Co-Chair of the GameComm 2008 Workshop.
All of my professional activities are listed here.
T-OpenID research prototype is now available under the GPL open source license!
SPREE project results are now available under the AGPL open source license!
A complete list of my conference and journal articles. Most of them are downloadable.
Bibtex file of my publications for your convenience.