Professor Weijia Jia  (賈維嘉教授)
Department of Computer Science
Director of Future Networking Centre--Shenzhen Research Institute (www.anyserver.info)


Contact Information:
Department of Computer Science
City University of Hong Kong
83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Phone: (852) 2788-9701; Fax: (852) 2788-8614
email: wei.jia@cityu.edu.hk, wjia@cs.cityu.edu.hk


Prof. Jia is currently a full Professor in the Department of Computer Science and the Director of Future Networking Center, ShenZhen Research Institute of City University of Hong Kong (CityU). He received BSc and MSc from Center South University , China in 1982 and 1984 and Master of Applied Sci. and PhD from Polytechnic Faculty of Mons, Belgium in 1992 and 1993 respectively, all in Computer Science. He joined German National Research Center for Information Science (GMD) in Bonn (St. Augustine) from 1993 to 1995 as a research fellow. In 1995, he joined Department of Computer Science, CityU as an assistant professor.

Prof. Jia’s research interests include next generation wireless communication, protocols and heterogeneous networks; distributed systems, multicast and anycast QoS routing protocols. In these fields, he has a number of publications in the prestige international journals (IEEE Transactions, e.g., TPDS, TC, TMC etc.), books/chapters and refereed international conference proceedings (e.g. ACM WiSec, MobiHoc, SenSys, IEEE ICDCS, INFOCOM etc.). He (with W. Zhou) has published a book “Distributed Network Systems” by Springer where the book contains extensive research materials and implementation examples. He has received the best paper award in a prestige (IEEE) conference and (with J. Chen et. al) has proposed an improved algorithm for well-known Vertex Cover and Set-packing NP-hard problems with time bounds of O(kn+1.2852k) and O((5.7k)kn) respectively. Both results stand on the current best time-bound to date for the fixed-parameterized intractable problems.

Prof. Jia is the Chair Professor of Central South University, Changsha, China, Guest Professor of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, University of Science and Technology of China, Beijing Jiao Tong University and Jinan University, Guangzhou, China. He has served as the editor and guest editor for international journals and PC chairs and members/keynote speakers for various prestige international conferences. He is the Senior Member of IEEE and the Member of ACM.


Hong Kong Government Innovation Technology Funds (ITF) for Platform Development

Cross-platform Cyber/Wireless Security System in Enterprise : Design and Implementations (HK$9.61M)

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Recent Selected Publications:

1. Zhen Ling, Junzhou Luo, Wei Yu, Xinwen Fu, Dong Xuan and Weijia Jia, “A New Cell Counter Based Attack Against Tor”, 2009 ACM Computer and Communications Security Conference (CCS2009, accepted).

2. Weijia Jia, Posco TSO, Xinwen Fu, Zheng Lin, Dong Xuan and Wei Yu, “Blind Detection of Spread Spectrum Flow Watermarks”, INFOCOM 2009.

3. Xiaole Bai, Chuanlin Zhang,  Jin Teng, Dong Xuan and Weijia Jia, Low-Connectivity and Full-Coverage Three Dimensional Wireless Sensor Networks, The 10th ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc 2009).

4. Xiaole Bai, Chuanlin Zhang, Dong Xuan and Weijia Jia, “Full-Coverage and k-Connectivity (k = 14, 6) Three Dimensional Networks”, INFOCOM 2009.

5. Nan Xu, Fan Zhang, Yisha Luo,Weijia Jia, Dong Xuan and Jin Teng, "Stealthy Video Capturer: A New Video-based Spyware in 3G Smartphones", The 2nd ACM Conference on Wireless Network Security (WiSec), 2009.

6. Xiaole Bai, Ziqiu Yun, Dong Xuan, Ten-Hwang Lai and Weijia Jia, “Optimal Deployment Patterns for Four-Connectivity And Full-Coverage Wireless Sensor Networks”, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (accepted).

7. Wenjun Gu, Zhimin Yang, Dong Xuan, Weijia Jia and Can Que, "Null Data Frame: A Double-edged Sword in IEEE 802.11 WLANs", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (accepted).

8. Ziqiu Yun, Xiaole Bai, Dong Xuan, Ten-Hwang Lai and Weijia Jia, “Optimal Deployment Patterns for Full Coverage and k-Connectivity (k<=6) Wireless Sensor Networks”, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (accepted).

9. Shui Yu, Wanlei Zhou, Robin Doss and Weijia Jia, "Traceback of DDoS Attacks using Entropy Variations", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (accepted)

(More publications:  2009, 2008  2007  2006  2005  2004  2003  2002  2001  1995--2000)

(Publications from Google Scholar); (Publications from ACM author profile); (Publications from DBLP)

Acknowledgements: "the work was supported by grants from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong SAR, China No. (CityU 114908) and CityU Applied R & D Funding (ARD-(Ctr)) Nos. 9681001 and 9678002.


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  • Courses Teaching:  2009-2010 Semester A:  CS3202: Network Systems Design