University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Illinois Advanced Research Center at Singapore (Illinois ARCS)

Binbin Chen

Binbin Chen
Binbin Chen

Binbin Chen is an Associate Professor in Information Systems Technology and Design with Singapore University of technology and Design. His research focuses on improving the design of complex interconnected systems (e.g., cyber-physical systems and IoT systems), so that such systems can become more efficient and more secure, yet still remain as simple as they can. 

Prior to joining ADSC, Binbin obtained his PhD from National University of Singapore (NUS) and Bachelor from Peking University, both in Computer Science. His research has received several awards, including the Best Paper Award in ACM SIGCOMM conference 2010. His research has been funded by Energy Market Authority (EMA) of Singapore, Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Building & Construction Authority (BCA) of Singapore, and Singapore Cybersecurity Consortium.

Research Interests:

  • Smart grid/cyber-physical system security. 
  • Applied algorithms for networked systems. 
  • Safety and security co-analysis.

Publications

Journals

  • Daisuke Mashima, Prageeth Gunathilaka, and Binbin Chen, "Artificial Command Delaying for Secure Substation Remote Control: Design and Implementation," to appear in Transactions on Smart Grid (TSG), 2018. [PDF]
  • Yongdong Wu, Binbin Chen, Zhigang Zhao, Yao Cheng, "Attack and Countermeasure on Interlock-Based Device Pairing Schemes," IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), pp. 745-757, Volume 13, Issue 3, 2018. [PDF]
  • Daisuke Mashima, Aidana Serikova, Yao Cheng, Binbin Chen, “Towards quantitative evaluation of privacy protection schemes for electricity usage data sharing,” ICT Express Available online 31 January 2018. [Online]
  • Xiangfa Guo, Binbin Chen, and Mun Choon Chan, “Analysis and Design of Low-Duty Protocol for Smartphone Neighbor Discovery,” in Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), Pages 3294-3307, Volume 16, Issue 12, December 2017. [PDF]
  • Girisha De Silva, Binbin Chen, and Mun Choon Chan, "Collaborative Cellular Tail Energy Reduction: Feasibility and Fairness," to appear in Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC) journal, fast track article from ICDCN'16.
  • Yuda Zhao, Haifeng Yu and Binbin Chen, "Near-Optimal Communication-Time Tradeoff in Fault-Tolerant Computation of Aggregate Functions." Distributed Computing, Volume 29, Issue 1, pp. 17-38, Feb 2016. [PDF]
  • Ziling Zhou, Binbin Chen, and Haifeng Yu, "Understanding RFID Counting Protocols," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), Volume 24, Issue 1, pp. 312-327, Feb 2016. [PDF]
  • Binbin Chen, Haifeng Yu, Yuda Zhao, and Phillip Gibbons, "The Cost of Fault Tolerance in Multi-Party Communication Complexity," in the Journal of the ACM (JACM), Volume 61, Issue 3, May 2014.[PDF]
  • Xin Lou, David K. Y. Yau, Hoang Hai Nguyen, and Binbin Chen, "Profit-Optimal and Stability-Aware Load Curtailment in Smart Grids," IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, Volume 4, Issue 3, pp. 1411-1420, September 2013. [PDF]
  • Binbin Chen, Ziling Zhou, Yuda Zhao, and Haifeng Yu, "Efficient Error Estimating Coding: Feasibility and Applications," IEEE / ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), Volume 20, Issue 1, pp. 29-44, February, 2012. [PDF]
  • Sebastien Soudan, Binbin Chen, and Pascale Vicat-Blanc Primet, "Flow scheduling and endpoint rate control in GridNetworks," Future Generation Computer Systems, Volume 25, Issue 8, Sep. 2009, Pages 904-911. [Available online in Jul. 2008].

Conference Publications:

  • Ziling Zhou and Binbin Chen, “RFID Counting over Time-Varying Channels,” to appear in INFOCOM’18, April 2018. [PDF]
  • Binbin Chen, Yuan Li, and Daisuke Mashima, “Analysis and Enhancement of RPL under Packet Drop Attacks,” invited paper, in COMSNETS’18, January 2018. [PDF] [Slides]
  • Binbin Chen, Xinshu Dong, Guangdong Bai, Sumeet Jauhar, and Yueqiang Cheng, “Secure and Efficient Software-based Attestation for Industrial Control Devices with ARM Processors,” in Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC’17), Dec. 2017. [PDF] [Slides]
  • William Temple, Yue Wu, Binbin Chen, and Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, “Systems-Theoretic Likelihood and Severity Analysis for Safety and Security Co-Engineering,” in International conference on reliability, safety and security of railway systems: modelling, analysis, verification and certification – (RSSRail’17), Nov. 2017. [PDF] [Slides]
  • Daisuke Mashima, Binbin Chen, Prageeth Gunathilaka, and Edwin Tjiong, "Towards a Grid-wide, High-fidelity Electrical Substation Honeynet,” in IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm’17), Oct. 2017. [PDF] [Slides]
  • Carmen Cheh, Binbin Chen, William G. Temple and William H. Sanders, “Data-Driven Model-Based Detection of Malicious Insiders via Physical Access Logs,” in 14th International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of SysTems (QEST’17), September 2017. [PDF]
  • William G. Temple, Bao Anh N. Tran, Binbin Chen, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk and William H. Sanders, "On Train Automatic Stop Control Using Balises: Attacks and a Software-Only Countermeasure," to appear in Proceedings of the IEEE Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing (PRDC), Jan. 2017.
  • Xinshu Dong, Sumeet Jauhar, and Binbin Chen, "SwapGuard: A Software-Only Solution for Attesting Hot-Swappable Devices in Power Grids," in IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm), Nov. 2016.
  • Daisuke Mashima, Prageeth Gunathilaka, and Binbin Chen, "An Active Command Mediation Approach for Securing Remote Control Interface of Substations," in IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm), Nov. 2016.
  • Zhan-Teng Teo, Bao Anh Tran Nguyen, Subhash Lakshminarayana, William G. Temple, Binbin Chen, Rui Tan, David. K. Y. Yau, "SecureRails: Towards an Open Simulation Platform for Analysing Cyber-Physical Attacks in Railways," in IEEE Region 10 Technical Conference (TENCON), Nov. 2016.
  • William G. Temple, Yuan Li, Bao Anh N. Tran, Yan Liu and Binbin Chen, "Railway System Failure Scenario Analysis," in the 11th International Conference on Critical Information Infrastructures Security (CRITIS), Oct. 2016.
  • Prageeth Gunathilaka, Daisuke Mashima, and Binbin Chen, "SoftGrid: A Software-based Smart Grid Testbed for Evaluating Substation Cybersecurity Solutions," in the 2nd ACM Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems Security and PrivaCy (CPS-SPC), with 23rd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), Oct. 2016.
  • Xinshu Dong, Sumeet Jauhar, William G. Temple, Binbin Chen, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, William H. Sanders, Nils Ole Tippenhauer and David M. Nicol,  "The Right Tool for the Job: a Case for Common Input Scenarios for Security Assessment, " in The Third International Workshop on Graphical Models for Security Lisbon (GraMSec’16), with 29th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSF), June 2016.
  • Girisha De Silva, Binbin Chen, and Mun Choon Chan, "Collaborative Cellular Tail Energy Reduction: Feasibility and Fairness," in Proceedings of the International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN’16), January 2016 (awarded best paper, networking track). [PDF]
  • Sumeet Jauhar, Binbin Chen, William G. Temple, Xinshu Dong, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, William H. Sanders, and David M. Nicol, "Model-Based Cybersecurity Assessment with NESCOR Smart Grid Failure Scenarios," in Proceedings of the IEEE Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing (PRDC’15, industry track), November 2015.  [PDF]
  • Binbin Chen, Christoph Schmittner, Zhendong Ma, William G. Temple, Xinshu Dong, Douglas L. Jones, and William H. Sanders, "Security Analysis of Urban Railway Systems: The Need for a Cyber-Physical Perspective," in Proceedings of the 2nd International workshop on the Integration of Safety and Security Engineering (ISSE’15), with International conference on computer safety, reliability & security (Safecomp’15), September 2015. [PDF] [Slides]
  • Nils Ole Tippenhauer, William G. Temple, An Hoa Vu, Binbin Chen, David M. Nicol, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, and William H. Sanders, "Automatic Generation of Security Argument Graphs, " in Proceedings of the IEEE Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing (PRDC’14), November 2014. [PDF]
  • Yuda Zhao, Haifeng Yu and Binbin Chen, "Near-Optimal Communication-Time Tradeoff in Fault-Tolerant Computation of Aggregate Functions." in Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC'14), July 2014.[PDF]
  • William G. Temple, Binbin Chen, and Nils Ole Tippenhauer, "Delay Makes a Difference: Smart Grid Resilience under Remote Meter Disconnect Attack," in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm’13), October 2013.[PDF]
  • Binbin Chen, Ziling Zhou, and Haifeng Yu, "Understanding RFID Counting Protocols," in Proceedings of the ACM Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom), Miami, FL, USA, September 2013. [PDF] [Slides] [Technical Report]
  • William G. Temple, Binbin Chen, and Nils Ole Tippenhauer, "Delay Makes a Difference: Smart Grid Resilience Under Remote Meter Disconnect Attack," in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm), Vancouver, Canada, October 2013. [PDF]
  • Binbin Chen, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, David Nicol, William H. Sanders, Rui Tan, William G. Temple, Nils Ole Tippenhauer, An Hoa Vu, and David K. Y. Yau, "Go with the Flow: Toward Workflow-oriented Security Assessment," in Proceedings of the New Security Paradigms Workshop (NSPW), Banff, Canada, September 2013. [PDF]
  • Binbin Chen, Ziling Zhou, and Haifeng Yu, "Understanding RFID Counting Protocols," in Proceedings of the ACM Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom), Miami, FL, USA, September 2013. [PDF] [Slides] [Technical Report]
  • William G. Temple, Binbin Chen, and Nils Ole Tippenhauer, "Delay Makes a Difference: Smart Grid Resilience Under Remote Meter Disconnect Attack," in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm), Vancouver, Canada, October 2013. [PDF]
  • Binbin Chen, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, David Nicol, William H. Sanders, Rui Tan, William G. Temple, Nils Ole Tippenhauer, An Hoa Vu, and David K. Y. Yau, "Go with the Flow: Toward Workflow-oriented Security Assessment," in Proceedings of the New Security Paradigms Workshop (NSPW), Banff, Canada, September 2013. [PDF]
  • Binbin Chen, Haifeng Yu, Yuda Zhao, and Phillip Gibbons, "The Cost of Fault Tolerance in Multi-Party Communication Complexity," Proceedings of 31st Annual ACM SIGACT-SIGOPS Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC), Madeira, Portugal, Jul. 2012. [PDF] [Technical Report].
  • Binbin Chen and Haifeng Yu, "Secure Aggregation with Malicious Node Revocation in Sensor Networks," ICDCS, Minneapolis, MN, USA, Jun. 2011. [PDF]
  • Binbin Chen, Ziling Zhou, Yuda Zhao, and Haifeng Yu, "Efficient Error Estimating Coding: Feasibility and Applications," ACM SIGCOMM, New Delhi, India, Aug. 2010. (awarded best paper). [PDF] [TechReport]
  • Binbin Chen and Mun Choon Chan, "MobiCent: a Credit-Based Incentive System for Disruption Tolerant Network," IEEE INFOCOM, San Diego, CA, USA, Mar. 2010. [PDF] [TechReport]
  • Binbin Chen, Shuai Hao, Mingze Zhang, Mun Choon Chan, and A. L. Ananda, "DEAL: Discover and Exploit Asymmetric Links in Dense Wireless Sensor Networks," IEEE SECON, Rome, Italy, Jun. 2009. [PDF] [Slides]
  • Binbin Chen and Mun Choon Chan, "MobTorrent: A Framework for Mobile Internet Access from Vehicles," IEEE INFOCOM, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Apr. 2009. [PDF] [Slides]
  • Binbin Chen and Pascale Vicat-Blanc Primet, "Supporting bulk data transfers of high-end applications with guaranteed completion time," IEEE ICC,Glasgow, Scotland, Jun. 2007. An earlier version as [LIP and INRIA report].
  • Binbin Chen and Pascale Vicat-Blanc Primet, "Scheduling deadline-constrained bulk data transfers to minimize network congestion," IEEE CCGrid, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 2007.
  • Binbin Chen and Mun Choon Chan, "Proportional Fairness for Overlapping Cells in Wireless Networks," IEEE VTC 2006-Fall, Montreal, Canada, Sep. 2006. [Slides]
  • Binbin Chen and Mun Choon Chan, "Resource Management in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks with Overlapping coverage," COMSWARE, New Delhi, India, Jan. 2006. [Slides]

Patents

  • Binbin Chen, Xinshu Dong, Yueqiang Cheng, and Sumeet Jauhar, "Practical Timing-based Attestation for Networked Field Devices," US Provisional patent application filed, 2016.
  • Binbin Chen and Sreejaya Viswanathan, "Non-invasive Electric Sub-metering Using Magnetic Sensor Arrays," Singapore / US Patent application filed, 2016.

Tools

Demos & Short Papers:

  • Binbin Chen, "Invited Paper: Integrative Security Assessment of Cyber-Physical Systems," 12th IEEE Asia Pacific Wireless Communications Symposium (IEEE VTS APWCS’15), Aug. 2015. [Slides]
  • Binbin Chen, Kian Hoong Kwan, and Rui Tan, "Battery Capacity Planning for Grid-Connected Solar Photovoltaic Systems," Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC’14), Dec. 2014.
  • An Hoa Vu, Nils Ole Tippenhauer, Binbin Chen, David M. Nicol, and Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, "CyberSAGE: A Tool for Automatic Security Assessment of Cyber-Physical Systems," in Proceedings of the International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of SysTems (QEST’14), 2014.
  • Jerry T. Chiang, Tianzhu Zhang, Binbin Chen, and Yih-Chun Hu, "Load Disaggregation Using Harmonic Analysis and Regularized Optimization," Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC), Hollywood, CA, USA, Dec. 2012.
  • Sreejaya Viswanathan, Binbin Chen, Hoang Hai Nguyen, Jerry T. Chiang, Deokwoo Jung, and David K. Y. Yau, "Demo abstract: Using Anisotropic Magnetoresistive (AMR) Sensor Arrays for Electric Sub-metering," Demo @ SenSys, Toronto, Canada, Nov. 2012. Please find our video demo here.
  • Deokwoo Jung, Hoang Hai Nguyen, Sreejaya Viswanathan, Binbin Chen, and David K.Y. Yau, "Scalable Load Disaggregation System Using Distributed Electrical Signature Detection," Demo @ BuildSys, Toronto, Canada, Nov. 2012. Please find our video demo here.
  • Binbin Chen and Mun Choon Chan, "Architecture and Incentive Design of Integrated Cellular and Disruption Tolerant Networks," INFOCOM Student Workshop, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Apr. 2009. [Poster]

Professional Activities:

  • Associate Editor: APSIPA Transactions on Signal and Information Processing
  • TPC Member: CPSS'17, ICDCN'16, CPSS workshop'16, GraMSec'16, ISPEC'16, CPS-SPC'16, CPSS'16, ICDCS'15, ASIACCS'15, CPS-SPC'15, ISPEC'15, ISSNIP'15, ICCCN'14, ISSNIP'14, VTC'13, ICDCS'12, ScalCom'12.
  • Conference organization: Publicity Chair, ICNP’16; Energy Infrastructure Cyber Security Workshop 2016; Special Sessions on Smart Grids, APSIPA 2015, 2012; APSIPA ASC'12 and APSIPA ASC'14.
  • Journal Reviews: ACM / IEEE Transactions on Networking, ACM Transactions on Information and System Security, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems,  IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Elsevier Journal of Computer & Security, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Access, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IEEE Communications Letters, IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems.