Long Cheng

Long Cheng is currently pursuing his second Ph.D. in the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech. His research interests include system and network security, cyber forensics, cyberphysical systems (CPS) security, mobile computing, and wireess networks. He received his first Ph.D. degree from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications in 2012. Dr. Cheng received the Best Paper Award from IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) in 2013 and the prestigious Erasmus Mundus Scholar Award from the European Union in 2014.

Dr. Cheng's research activities span across the fields of cyber security and networking. He has published over 60 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences, including IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), and Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS). He was invited to write a review article on enterprise data breach in Wiley's WIREs Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery. Dr. Cheng has extensive experiences collaborating with researchers in the industry and academia across multiple continents. He holds a patent for his sensor network routing method.