[Cong Pu @ Oklahoma State]

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News Cong Pu is invited to serve on a National Science Foundation (NSF) panel, 2025.
Journal Our paper entitled "A Redactable Blockchain-Assisted Application-Aware Authentication System for Internet of Drones" has been accepted for publication by IEEE Internet of Things Journal, April 15, 2025.
News Cong Pu is one of 65 OSU faculty ranked among the best researchers by The Stanford/Elsevier Top 2% Scientists List, April 8, 2025.
Grant Caitlin Barnes (PI), Roger Mailler (Senior Personnel), and Cong Pu (Senior Personnel) received an OSRHE Grant Programs Award ($15,000) from the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education (OSRHE) to offer online cybersecurity training to Oklahoma K-12 STEM educators, Oct 30, 2024. Many thanks to OSRHE for their generous support!
Conference Our paper entitled "Integrating Generative AI With Data Structures and Algorithm Analysis Course Homework" has been accepted to appear at the 2024 ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), July 23, 2024.
Grant Cong Pu (PI) received a SaTC award ($288,398) from National Science Foundation (NSF) to improve the security and privacy of Internet of Drones systems, July 15, 2024.
Journal Our paper entitled "A Lightweight and Anonymous Application-Aware Authentication and Key Agreement Protocol for the Internet of Drones" has been accepted for publication by IEEE Internet of Things Journal, February 15, 2024.
Award Our paper entitled "A Lightweight Aggregate Authentication Protocol for Internet of Drones" has won Best Paper Award at the 2024 IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (IEEE CCNC 2024), January 8, 2024.
Journal Our two papers have been accepted for publication by IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Nov 2023.
Conference Our two security papers have been accepted to appear at the 2024 IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (IEEE CCNC 2024), January 6 – 9, 2024.
Conference Our paper entitled "Resource-Efficient and Data Type-Aware Authentication Protocol for Internet of Things Systems" has been accepted to appear at the 2023 5th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Privacy and Security in Intelligent Systems, and Applications (IEEE TPS 2023), November 1 - 3, 2023.
Conference Our paper entitled "Privacy-Preserving and Fault-Tolerant Data Aggregation Protocol for Internet of Drones" has been accepted to appear at the 2023 6th IEEE Conference on Dependable and Secure Computing (IEEE DSC 2023), November 7 - 9, 2023.
Grant Cong Pu (PI) received a grant ($127,128) from National Security Agency (NSA) to build an effective cybersecurity training program, June 16, 2023.
Conference Our paper entitled "A Featherweight Authentication and Key Agreement Scheme for Internet of Drones Applications" has been accepted to appear at the 2023 IEEE 34th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC) - Track 2: Networking and MAC, September 5 - 8, 2023.
Conference Our paper entitled "Deep Learning Assisted Channel Estimation for Cell-Free Distributed MIMO Networks" has been accepted to appear at the The 19th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob), June 21 - 23, 2023.
Conference Our paper entitled "Bilinear Pairing and PUF Based Lightweight Authentication Protocol for IoD Environment" has been accepted to appear at the 2022 IEEE 19th International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Smart Systems (MASS) (Security and Privacy Track), October 20 - 22, 2022.
Conference Our paper entitled "Low Complexity Resource Allocation for Multiuser Uplink Communication Systems" has been accepted to appear at the 2022 45th IEEE International Conference on Telecommunications and Signal Processing (IEEE TSP), July 13 - 15, 2022.
Journal Our paper entitled "A Lightweight and Anonymous Authentication and Key Agreement Protocol for Wireless Body Area Networks" has been accepted for publication by IEEE Internet of Things Journal, May 13, 2022.
Education Cong Pu is recognized by West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission and West Virginia Community & Technical College System for successful adoption of Open Education Resources (OER) in a course, demonstrating a strong commitment to innovation, college affordability, and student success, May 04, 2022.
Journal Our paper entitled "Drone Helps Privacy: Sky Caching Assisted k-Anonymity in Spatial Querying" has been accepted for publication by IEEE Systems Journal, April 26, 2022.
Journal Our paper entitled "A Lightweight and Privacy-Preserving Mutual Authentication and Key Agreement Protocol for Internet of Drones Environment" has been accepted for publication by IEEE Internet of Things Journal, March 27, 2022.
Conference Our paper entitled "SecureIoD: A Secure Data Collection and Storage Mechanism for Internet of Drones" has been accepted to appear at the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM 2022), Paphos, Cyprus, June 6 - 9, 2022.
Book Chapter Our book chapter entitled "Cyber Attacks and Countermeasures in RPL-based Industrial Internet of Things" has been accepted to appear in the CRC Press Book Entitled "Intelligent Cyber-Physical Systems Security for Industry 4.0: Applications, Challenges and Management", CRC Press (USA), March 16, 2022.
Conference Our paper entitled "A Reinforcement Learning Based Service Scheduling Algorithm for Internet of Drones" has been accepted to appear at the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2022 - UAV5G Workshop, Seoul, South Korea, May 16 - 20, 2022.
Professional Service Cong Pu is recognized as Exemplary Reviewer by IEEE Wireless Communications Letters Journal, IEEE Communications Society, March 05, 2022.
Conference Our paper entitled "Mitigating Routing Misbehavior in the Internet of Drones Environment" has been accepted to appear at the 2022 IEEE 95th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2022-Spring), Helsinki, Finland, June 19 - 22, 2022.
Journal Our paper entitled "DarkSky: Privacy Preserving Target Tracking Strategies Using a Flying Drone" has been accepted for publication by Elsevier Vehicular Communications, February 07, 2022.
Event Cong Pu has been elected to serve as Faculty Marshal for the Spring 2022 Commencement on April 30, 2022.
Journal Our paper entitled "A Stochastic Packet Forwarding Algorithm in Flying Ad Hoc Networks: Design, Analysis, and Evaluation" has been accepted for publication by IEEE Access, December 06, 2021.
Journal Our paper entitled "Dynamic Resource Allocation for IRS Assisted Energy Harvesting Systems with Statistical Delay Constraint" has been accepted for publication by IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, December 05, 2021.
Education Cong Pu's application for Open Education Resources (OER) adoption in CS300: Programming Languages has been accepted by West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission and West Virginia Community & Technical College System, December 04, 2021.
Education Cong Pu is recognized by West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission and West Virginia Community & Technical College System for successful adoption of Open Education Resources (OER) in a course, demonstrating a strong commitment to innovation, college affordability, and student success, November 19, 2021.
Journal Our paper entitled "Lightweight Sybil Attack Detection in IoT Based on Bloom Filter and Physical Unclonable Function" has been accepted for publication by Elsevier Computers & Security, November 08, 2021.
Award Many congratulations! Andrew Wall received NASA West Virginia Undergraduate Affiliate Fellowship Program Award, November 02, 2021.
Conference Our paper entitled "Defending against Flooding Attacks in the Internet of Drones Environment" has been accepted to appear at the 2021 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Madrid, Spain, December 7-11, 2021.
Invited Talk Cong Pu will give an Invited Talk in the session "Machine Learning, Guidance, and Control" at the 2021 IEEE National Aerospace & Electronics Conference (NAECON), August 16-19, 2021, Dayton, OH, USA. (Virtual Conference)