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Rui Tan  

Rui Tan

Research Scientist
Advanced Digital Sciences Center, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
E-mail: tanrui@adsc.com.sg
Address:1 Fusionopolis Way, #08-10 Connexis North Tower, Singapore 138632

I am currently a Research Scientist at Advanced Digital Sciences Center (ADSC), a Singapore-based research center established by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Before joining ADSC in September 2012, I worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Michigan State University from 2010 to 2012.

Research Interests

  • Collaborative and distributed signal/information processing
  • Fidelity and mobility control
  • Interdisciplinary applications of sensor networks
  • Security of cyber-physical systems

Publication

  • Peer-reviewed conference papers

    1. Volcanic Earthquake Timing using Wireless Sensor Networks. New!
      Guojin Liu, Rui Tan*; Ruogu Zhou; Guoliang Xing; Wen-Zhan Song; Jonathan M. Lees.
      The 12th ACM/IEEE Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2013), April 8-11, Philadelphia, PA, USA. (Acceptance ratio: 24/115=21%)
      * The first two authors are listed in alphabetic order.
      [fulltext]

    2. Supero: A Sensor System for Unsupervised Residential Power Usage Monitoring. New!
      Dennis E. Phillips, Rui Tan*; Mohammad-Mahdi Moazzami; Guoliang Xing; Jinzhu Chen; David K. Y. Yau.
      The 11st IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2013), Mar 18-22, San Diego, CA, USA. (Acceptance ratio for full papers: 19/170=11%)
      Best paper candidate (3 out of 170 submissions)
      * The first two authors are listed in alphabetic order.
      [fulltext]

    3. Spatiotemporal Aquatic Field Reconstruction using Robotic Sensor Swarm. New!
      Yu Wang, Rui Tan, Guoliang Xing, Xiaobo Tan, Jianxun Wang, Ruogu Zhou.
      The 33rd IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS 2012), Dec 4-7, San Juan, Puerto Rico. (CPS track. Acceptance ratio: 22%)
      [fulltext]

    4. A High-Fidelity Temperature Distribution Forecasting System for Data Centers. New!
      Jinzhu Chen, Rui Tan, Yu Wang, Guoliang Xing, Xiaorui Wang, Xiaodong Wang, Bill Punch, Dirk Colbry.
      The 33rd IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS 2012), Dec 4-7, San Juan, Puerto Rico. (CPS track. Acceptance ratio: 22%)
      [fulltext]

    5. Accuracy-Aware Aquatic Diffusion Process Profiling using Robotic Sensor Networks.
      Yu Wang, Rui Tan, Guoliang Xing, Jianxun Wang, Xiaobo Tan.
      The 11th ACM/IEEE Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2012), Apr 16-20, Beijing, China. (IP track. Acceptance ratio: 22/147=14.9%)
      [fulltext]

    6. Quality-driven Volcanic Earthquake Detection using Wireless Sensor Networks.
      Rui Tan, Guoliang Xing, Jinzhu Chen, Wen-Zhan Song, Renjie Huang.
      The 31st IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS 2010), pp. 271-280, Nov 30 - Dec 3, San Diego, CA, USA. (WSN track. Acceptance ratio: 25%)
      [fulltext] [slides]

    7. System-level Calibration for Fusion-based Wireless Sensor Networks.
      Rui Tan, Guoliang Xing, Zhaohui Yuan, Xue Liu, Jianguo Yao.
      The 31st IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS 2010), pp. 215-224, Nov 30 - Dec 3, San Diego, CA, USA. (WSN track. Acceptance ratio: 25%)
      [fulltext]

    8. Fidelity-aware Utilization Control for Cyber-Physical Surveillance Systems.
      Jinzhu Chen, Rui Tan, Guoliang Xing, Xiaorui Wang, Xing Fu.
      The 31st IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS 2010), pp. 117-126, Nov 30 - Dec 3, San Diego, CA, USA. (CPS track. Acceptance ratio: 25%)
      [fulltext]

    9. Adaptive Calibration for Fusion-based Wireless Sensor Networks.
      Rui Tan, Guoliang Xing, Xue Liu, Jianguo Yao, Zhaohui Yuan.
      The 29th Annual IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM 2010), pp. 1-9, Mar 15-19, San Diego, CA, USA. (Acceptance ratio: 17.5%, full version of the MobiCom'09 poster.)
      [fulltext] [slides]

    10. Impact of Data Fusion on Real-time Detection in Sensor Networks.
      Rui Tan, Guoliang Xing, Benyuan Liu, Jianping Wang.
      The 30th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS 2009), pp. 323-332, Dec 1-4, Washington, D.C., USA. (WSN track. Acceptance ratio for WSN track: 12%)
      [fulltext] [slides]

    11. Data Fusion Improves the Coverage of Wireless Sensor Networks.
      Guoliang Xing, Rui Tan, Benyuan Liu, Jianping Wang, Xiaohua Jia, Chih-Wei Yi.
      The 15th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom 2009), pp. 157-168, Sept 20-25, Beijing, China. (acceptance ratio: 30/282=10.6%)
      [fulltext]

    12. Fast Sensor Placement Algorithms for Fusion-based Target Detection.
      Zhaohui Yuan, Rui Tan, Guoliang Xing, Chenyang Lu, Yixin Chen, Jianping Wang.
      The 29th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS 2008), pp. 103-112, Barcelona, Spain, Nov 30-Dec 3, 2008. (WSN track. Acceptance ratio: 23%)
      [fulltext]

    13. Collaborative Target Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks with Reactive Mobility.
      Rui Tan, Guoliang Xing, Jianping Wang, Hing Cheung So.
      16th International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS 2008), pp. 150-159, Enschede, The Netherlands, June 2-4, 2008. (Acceptance ratio: 26/73=35%)
      [fulltext] [slides]

    14. Traffic Video Segmentation Using Adaptive-K Gaussian Mixture Model.
      R. Tan, H. Huo, J. Qian, T. Fang.
      The International Workshop on Intelligent Computing in Pattern Analysis/Synthesis 2006 (IWICPAS'06), pp. 125-134, Xi'an, China, August 26-27, 2006. (satellite workshop of ICPR 2006, acceptance ratio: 51/264=19.3%)
      [fulltext]

  • Peer-reviewed journal papers

    1. Profiling Aquatic Diffusion Process using Robotic Sensor Networks. New!
      Yu Wang, Rui Tan, Guoliang Xing, Jianxun Wang, Xiaobo Tan.
      IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC). In press.
      [preprint]

    2. System-level Calibration for Data Fusion in Wireless Sensor Networks.
      Rui Tan, Guoliang Xing, Zhaohui Yuan, Xue Liu, Jianguo Yao.
      ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN). In press.
      [preprint]

    3. Fidelity-Aware Utilization Control for Cyber-Physical Surveillance Systems.
      Jinzhu Chen, Rui Tan, Guoliang Xing, Xiaorui Wang, Xing Fu.
      IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Vol. 23, No. 9, pp. 1739-1751, September 2012. (This paper was accepted without any revision.)
      [fulltext]

    4. Fusion-based Volcanic Earthquake Detection and Timing in Wireless Sensor Networks.
      Rui Tan, Guoliang Xing, Jinzhu Chen, Wen-Zhan Song, Renjie Huang.
      ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN). In press.
      [preprint]

    5. Exploiting Data Fusion to Improve the Coverage of Wireless Sensor Networks.
      Rui Tan, Guoliang Xing, Benyuan Liu, Jianping Wang, Xiaohua Jia.
      IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 450-462, April 2012.
      [fulltext] [appendices]

    6. Sensor Placement Algorithms for Fusion-based Surveillance Networks.
      Xiangmao Chang, Rui Tan, Guoliang Xing, Zhaohui Yuan, Chenyang Lu, Yixin Chen, Yixian Yang.
      IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Vol. 22, No. 8, pp. 1407-1414, August 2011.
      [fulltext] [appendices]

    7. Adaptive Calibration for Fusion-based Cyber-Physical Systems.
      Rui Tan, Guoliang Xing, Xue Liu, Jianguo Yao, Zhaohui Yuan.
      ACM Transactions in Embedded Computing Systems (TECS). In press.
      [preprint]

    8. Performance Analysis of Real-Time Detection in Fusion-based Sensor Networks.
      Rui Tan, Guoliang Xing, Jianping Wang, Benyuan Liu.
      IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Vol. 22, No. 9, pp. 1564-1577, September 2011.
      [fulltext] [appendices]

    9. Mobile Scheduling for Spatiotemporal Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks.
      Guoliang Xing; Jianping Wang; Zhaohui Yuan, Rui Tan; Limin Sun; Qingfeng Huang; Xiaohua Jia; Hing Cheung So.
      IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Vol. 21, No. 12, pp. 1851-1866, December 2010.
      [fulltext]

    10. Exploiting Reactive Mobility for Collaborative Target Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks.
      Rui Tan, Guoliang Xing, Jianping Wang, Hing Cheung So.
      IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 317-332, March 2010.
      [fulltext] [appendices]

    11. Mobile Element Assisted Cooperative Localization for Wireless Sensor Networks with Obstacles.
      Hongyang Chen, Qingjiang Shi, Rui Tan, H. Vincent Poor, Kaoru Sezaki.
      IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC), Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 956-963, March 2010.
      [fulltext]

  • Book chapters

    1. Spatiotemporal Coverage in Fusion-based Sensor Networks.
      Rui Tan, Guoliang Xing.
      The Art of Wireless Sensor Networks, Springer. In press.

  • Ph.D. thesis

    • Exploiting Data Fusion to Improve the Sensing Performance of Wireless Sensor Networks.
      Rui Tan, City University of Hong Kong, August 2010.
      [defense slides]

  • Short papers and posters

    1. DroidSense: A Toolkit for Smartphone-Based Data-Intensive Embedded Sensing Systems.
      Mohammad-Mahdi Moazzami, Rui Tan, Dennis E. Phillips, Guoliang Xing.
      IPSN 2013, PhD Forum

    2. Supero: A Sensor System for Unsupervised Residential Power Usage Monitoring.
      Dennis E. Phillips, Rui Tan; Mohammad-Mahdi Moazzami; Guoliang Xing; Jinzhu Chen.
      The 1st International Workshop on Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring. ICES, CMU. May 7, 2012.
      [extended abstract]

    3. Analysis of Quality of Surveillance in Fusion-based Sensor Networks.
      Rui Tan, Guoliang Xing, Xunteng Xu, Jianping Wang.
      The 2nd International Workshop on Information Quality and Quality of Service for Pervasive Computing (IQ2S 2010) in conjunction with The 8th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2010), pp. 37-42, Mar 29, Mannheim, Germany, invited paper.
      [fulltext] [slides]

    4. Exploiting Heterogeneity for Adaptive Calibration in Wireless Sensor Networks.
      Rui Tan, Guoliang Xing, Xue Liu, Jianguo Yao, Zhaohui Yuan.
      MobiCom 2009, poster session.
      [extended abstract]

  • Technical reports

    1. Volcanic Earthquake Timing in Wireless Sensor Networks. Guojin Liu, Rui Tan; Ruogu Zhou; Guoliang Xing; Wen-Zhan Song; Jonathan M. Lees. MSU-CSE-12-8.

    2. Supero: A Sensor System for Unsupervised Residential Power Usage Monitoring. Dennis E. Phillips, Rui Tan; Mohammad-Mahdi Moazzami; Guoliang Xing; Jinzhu Chen; David K. Y. Yau. MSU-CSE-12-10.
* Note that the above linked articles are for personal use only, as most of them are copyrighted by IEEE and ACM.

Participated Projects

Professional services

  • Reviewer
    • Conferences:
      INFOCOM 2008 2009 2011 2012, RTSS (WSN track) 2009 2010 2012, RTAS 2010, ICDCS 2010, MobiHoc 2008, PerCom 2012, MASS 2010 2011, SECON 2011, WCNC 2009 2012 2013, MSWiM 2008 2009, EUC 2009, GLOBECOM 2008, HeterSenet 2008, ICC 2009, ICCCN 2010, IWCMC 2010, MILCOM 2009, WASA 2009, CyberC 2011, CNSR 2009
    • Journals:
      ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems, Computer Communications (Elsevier), Computer Networks (Elsevier), Ad Hoc Networks (Elsevier), Wireless Networks (Springer), EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, International Journal of Sensor Networks (Inderscience), International Journal of Parallel Emergent and Distributed Systems (Taylor & Francis), Ad Hoc & Sensor Networks, Seismological Research Letters
  • TPC member
    • The 34th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), 2013, WSN track
    • The 10th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC), 2012, CPS/IoT track
    • The 4th International Conference on Cyber-enabled Distributed Computing and Knowledge Discovery, 2012

Selected awards and honors

  • Outstanding Academic Performance Award from City University of Hong Kong, 2009
  • Research Tuition Scholarship from City University of Hong Kong, 2009
  • Rockwell Master Scholarship from Rockwell Automation, Inc., 2006

Education and experience

  • Research Scientist, Advanced Digital Sciences Center, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, from Sept 2012 to present
  • Postdoctoral Research Associate, Michigan State University, from Oct 2010 to Sept 2012
  • Ph.D. in Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, 2010
  • M.S. in Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Systems, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, 2007
  • B.S. in Automation, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, 2004

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