Dr. Ming Yu received his Ph.D. from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, in 2002, and Doctor of Engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, in 1994, all in Electrical and Computer Engineering.
He is a professor in the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Florida A&M University (FAMU) and Florida State University (FSU) College of Engineering, Tallahassee, FL. He joined the Dept. in August 2006. From August 2003 – July 2006, he was an assistant professor in the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, State University of New York (SUNY) at Binghamton. Before that he was a senior technical staff member in AT&T Labs, NJ, and other companies for six years, on the projects of AT&T Network Service With Expert Rule (ANSWER), ATM Network Performance Measurement and Traffic Modeling, and IP/Data Network Fault Management Systems.
His research areas are smart grid communications, security issues of computer and communication networks, particularly various cyber-physical systems (CPS), including wireless sensor networks (WSN) and intelligent transportation systems (ITS). Currently, his research on CPS security has been funded by the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Office of Naval Research (ONR) ESRDC. He also works on a smart grid project “Reliable and Secure Communications for Future Renewable Electrical Energy Distribution Management" (FREEDM) Systems, funded by NSF ERC in NCSU. His research on WSN including the detection of radio jamming attacks was funded by the Army R&D Center, Fort Monmouth, NJ. His research on the security of NTCIP protocols for ITS was funded by Florida DOT.
Dr. Yu served on the Dept. of Energy (DOE) R&D Roadmap for Smart Grid Communications on Aug. 2016. He also served as NSF IT Research Panelist in 2004 and NSF Cyber Trust Panelist in 2005. He has been a reviewer for IEEE/ACM Trans. on Networking, IEEE Trans. on Communications, IEEE Trans. on Wireless Communications, IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing, IEEE Trans. on Antenna and Propagations, IEEE GLOBECOM, ICC, WCNC, and other conferences. He was the financial chair of the 2006 IEEE IWAT and TPC members and session chairs for many IEEE conferences. Recently, he serves as a guest editor for a Special Issue on Smart Grid Communications for the Journal of Network and Computer Applications (Elsevier) in January 2016.
Dr. Yu is a senior member of the IEEE. He was the winner of the IEEE Millennium Medal, awarded by the IEEE USA in May 2000.