Zesheng Chen
Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
Purdue University Fort Wayne
Office: ET-125E
E-mail: chenz[AT]pfw.edu
What is New
- [March 2024] Our poster "PFW CS Chatbot" won the Third Place for Graduate Student Awards at 27th PFW Annual Student Research and Creative Symposium! Congrtulations Neel, Daniyal, Koustav, and Sanidhya!
- [June 2023] My application for the 2023-2024 Office of Graduate Studies for Graduate Research Assistantship (GRA) was approved for funding!
- [May 2023] My proposal has been accepted by Indiana Data Mine (IDM) Lilly Grant PFW!
- [April 2023] My paper "On the Detection of Adaptive Adversarial Attacks in Speaker Verification Systems" has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Internet of Things Journal (Impact Factor (JCR'22): 10.6)!
Biography
Dr. Chen received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2005 and 2007. He also holds B.E. and M.E. degrees from the Department of Electronic Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China in 1998 and 2001, respectively. He worked as an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Florida International University from 2007 to 2009. He moved to Fort Wayne in 2009 and worked as a limited term lecturer in the Department of Engineering and in the Department of Computer Science from 2009 to 2015 at Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne. He also worked as a software engineer at TransWorks from 2012 to 2015.
Research Interests
- Adversarial attacks and defenses in speaker verification systems
- Adversarial attacks and defenses in network intrusion detection systems
- Applications of machine learning, especially deep learning
- Internet of things
- Network security, especially modeling and defending against Internet worm and botnet attacks
- Performance evaluation