Dr. Deng visited the Department of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, WINLAB at Rutgers University in Fall of 2005. He was with the Department of Computer Science at the University of New Orleans from 2004 to 2008. He served as a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at Syracuse University from 2002 to 2004. He received his Ph.D. degree from School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY in January, 2002. Dr. Deng is an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT). Dr. Deng's research focuses include wireless network security, information assurance, mobile ad hoc networks, and wireless sensor networks.