Dr. Yi Qian
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer and Electronics Engineering
College of Engineering
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Biography
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Yi Qian received a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Clemson University.
He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer and Electronics Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL).
His research interests include information assurance and network security, network design, network modeling, simulation and performance analysis
for next generation wireless networks, wireless ad-hoc and sensor networks, vehicular networks, broadband satellite networks, optical networks,
high-speed networks and the Internet. Prior to joining UNL, he worked in the telecommunications industry, academia, and the U.S. government.
Some of his previous professional positions include serving as a senior member of scientific staff and a technical advisor at Nortel Networks,
a senior systems engineer and a technical advisor at several start-up companies, an Assistant Professor at University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez,
and a senior researcher at National Institute of Standards and Technology.
He has a successful track record to lead research teams and to publish research results in leading scientific journals and conferences.
Several of his recent journal articles on wireless network design and wireless network security are among the most accessed papers in the IEEE Digital Library.
Dr. Yi Qian is a member of ACM and a senior member of IEEE.
He is currently serving as the Vice Chair for Conferences - Communications and Information Security Technical Committee (CISTC) for IEEE Communications Society.
He is also serving as the IEEE Communications Society CISTC Representative to the Ad Hoc Committee on Smart-Grid Communications.
Research
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Information Assurance and Network Security, Computer Networks, Mobile Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks,
Wireless Communications, Systems and Networks