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Personal Information:

Haifan Yao
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of Buffalo, The State University of New York
Email: haifanya [at] buffalo.edu

I am currently a second-year PhD student in CSE department at UB. My advisor is Prof.Sheng Zhong

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Research Interests:

1. Wireless Network
(1) Incentive Compatibility in Wireless Networks
(2) Privacy Issues in Wireless Networks

2. Selected Topics in Theory and Algorithms
(1) Game Theory
(2) Cryptography

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Teaching Activities

Fall 2009: CSE241 Digital Systems
Spring 2010: CSE113 Introduction To Computer Programming
Fall 2010: CSE191 Discrete Structures
Spring 2011: CSE250
Fall 2011: CSE250

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Paper Published

1. Towards Cheat-Proof Cooperative Relay for Cognitive Radio Networks
Authors: Haifan Yao, Sheng Zhong
Accepted by: MobiHoc 2011

2. Security Protection for Online Learning of Music
Authors: Haifan Yao, Yue Ji
Accepted by: ICCCN 2011

3.An Identity-Based Cryptosystem for Encrypting Long Messages
Authors: Jiqiang Liu, Sheng Zhong, Lei Han and Haifan Yao
Accepted by: International Journal of Innovative Computing, Information and Control in 2011

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Paper Submitted

1. Cheating Detection for Payment Based Incentives with Application to Network Coding,
submitted to Ad Hoc & Sensor Wireless Networks

2. Algorithms for Cognitive Radio Networks using Cooperative Relay with General Utility Functions
submitted to Journal of Network and Computer Applications

3. An Incentive Scheme for Packet Forwarding and Payment Reduction in Wireless Networks using Xor Network Coding,
submitted to International Journal Computers,Communications & Control