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 cybersecurity, 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, Certificates, & Awards:
Honorary Member of iCSS of the University of Kent, Canterbury, U.K., 2023 - present.
Advance HE Fellowship, UK Professional Standards Framework (UKPSF) postgraduate certificate (PGCert) in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, University of Liverpool - 2022.
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, Fei Du, Zhihui Wang, Qiyu Cao, Lekun Liu, Kejing Chang, and Sang-Yoon Chang, "HoneyLLMd: A Large Language Model-Powered Adaptive Honeypot System," IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, 2026.
Fei Du, Hiroyuki Sato, Zhenzhen Jiang, Lekun Liu, Yang Hong, Yan Bai, and Wenjun Fan, "PentestLLM: A Cyber Kill Chain-driven Multi-Agent Large Language Model Framework Enabling Automatic Penetration Testing," In IEEE 50th Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC), pp. 1-10, 2026.
Wenjun Fan, Jia Liu, Sang-Yoon Chang, "Link State-enabled IFA Threat Detection and Tracing in Named Data Networking," in IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Glasgow, United Kingdom, pp. 1-7, 2026.
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), Denver, USA, pp. 133-139, 2024.
Wenjun Fan, Zichen Yang, Yuanzhen Liu, Lang Qin, and Jia Liu, "Honeyllm: A large language model-powered medium-interaction honeypot," In International Conference on Information and Communications Security (ICICS), pp. 253-272, 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, Hsiang-Jen Hong, Jinoh Kim, Simeon Wuthier, Makiya Nakashima, Xiaobo Zhou, Ching-Hua Chow, and Sang-Yoon Chang, "Lightweight and Identifier-Oblivious Engine for Cryptocurrency Networking Anomaly Detection," IEEE Transactions Dependable and Secure Computing, 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 IEEE 42nd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), pp. 191-201, 2022.
Wenjun Fan, Sang-Yoon Chang, Xiaobo Zhou, and Shouhuai Xu, "Conman: A connection manipulation-based attack against bitcoin networking," In IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS), pp. 101-109, 2021.
Hsiang-Jen Hong, Wenjun Fan, Simeon Wuthier, Jinoh Kim, Xiaobo Zhou, C. Edward Chow, "Robust P2P Connectivity Estimation for Permissionless Bitcoin Network," in 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," in 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 IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft), pp. 1-9, 2017.