Wenjun (Eric) Fan, Ph.D.
About
Dr. Fan is currently a tenure-track Assistant Professor with the University of Washington, Tacoma.
His research interests include network softwarization, cloud computing, blockchain, and machine learning.
He worked as a postdoctoral associate with the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (US) in 2019-2021.
He worked as a postdoc with the University of Kent, Canterbury (UK) in 2017-2019.
He earned the Phd degree in Telematics Systems Engineering from the Technical University of Madrid (Spain) in 2017.
Honors & Awards:
Honorary Member of iCSS of the University of Kent, Canterbury, U.K., 2023 - present.
Excellence Review Certificate, ELSEVIER Computer Networks, 2024.
Best Paper Award, 24th IEEE Asia-Pacific Network Operations and Management Symposium (APNOMS), 2023.
Best Paper Nomination, IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC), May 2021.
Wenjun Fan, Na Fan, Junhui Zhang, Jia Liu, and Yifan Dai, "Securing VNDN With Multi-Indicator Intrusion Detection Approach Against the IFA Threat," IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 2025.
Wenjun Fan, Siyuan Wu, and Yuwen Zou, "A Keyless Authentication Based on Zero-Knowledge Proof with SDN Link Information to Secure Permissionless P2P Networking," In IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), pp. 133-139, 2024.
Hsiang-Jen Hong, Wenjun Fan, Simeon Wuthier, Jinoh Kim, C. Edward Chow, Xiaobo Zhou, and Sang-Yoon Chang, "Robust P2P networking connectivity estimation engine for permissionless Bitcoin cryptocurrency," Computer Networks, 219, 109436, 2022.
Wenjun Fan, Simeon Wuthier, Hsiang-Jen Hong, Xiaobo Zhou, Yan Bai, and Sang-Yoon Chang, "The security investigation of ban score and misbehavior tracking in bitcoin network," In 2022 IEEE 42nd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), pp. 191-201, 2022.
Wenjun Fan, Hsiang-Jen Hong, Xiaobo Zhou, and Sang-Yoon Chang, "A generic blockchain framework to secure decentralized applications," In IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), pp. 1-7, 2021.
Hsiang-Jen Hong, Wenjun Fan, Simeon Wuthier, Jinoh Kim, Xiaobo Zhou, C. Edward Chow, "Robust P2P Connectivity Estimation for Permissionless Bitcoin Network," 2021 IEEE/ACM 29th International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQOS), Tokyo, Japan, pp. 1-6, 2021.
Wenjun Fan, Hsiang-Jen Hong, Xiaobo Zhou, and Sang-Yoon Chang, "A Generic Blockchain Framework to Secure Decentralized Applications," In IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Montreal, QC, Canada, pp. 1-7, 2021.
Arijet Sarker, SangHyun Byun, Wenjun Fan, Maria Psarakis, and Sang-Yoon Chang, "Voting Credential Management System for Electronic Voting Privacy," 2020 IFIP Networking Conference (Networking), Paris, France, pp. 589-593, 2020.
Wenjun Fan, Zhihui Du, Max Smith-Creasey and David Fernández, "HoneyDOC: An Efficient Honeypot Architecture Enabling All-Round Design," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 37, no. 3, pp. 683-697, March 2019.
Wenjun Fan, Zhihui Du, David Fernández and Victor A. Villagrá, "Enabling an Anatomic View to Investigate Honeypot Systems: A Survey," IEEE Systems Journal, vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 3906-3919, 2018.
Wenjun Fan and David Fernández, "A novel SDN based stealthy TCP connection handover mechanism for hybrid honeypot systems," In 2017 IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft), pp. 1-9, 2017.
Zhihui Du, Wenjun Fan, Yunpeng Chai, and Yinong Chen, "Priori information and sliding window based prediction algorithm for energy-efficient storage systems in cloud," Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory, 39, 3-19, 2013.