Jinhua Guo

Associate Professor

Department of Computer and Information Science

University of Michigan-Dearborn

Office: 211 CIS

Email: jinhua@umich.edu

Phone: (313) 583-6439

Short Bio

Dr. Jinhua Guo is the founder and director of Vehicular Networking Systems Research Laboratory and an Associate Professor in the Computer and Information Science Department at the University of Michigan - Dearborn. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Georgia in the Department of Computer Science. He also held B.E. and M.E. both in Computer Science from Dalian University of Technology, China.

Dr. Guo has worked on a range of problems in experimental computer systems, spanning vehicular networking, mobile computing, cloud computing, and security & privacy. His research has been funded by highly competitive external and internal sources, including NSF, Chrysler, Amazon, OVPR, Rackham, and CEEP. He was also a recipient of the IEEE/ASEE Frontiers in Education New Faculty Fellow Award.

Research Interests

Networking, Vehicular Networking, Data Center Networking
Distributed Systems, Distributed Computing, Interactive Steering
Optimization, Scientific Computing

Recent Grants

NSF Grant: co-PI, “EDU: Collaborative: Enhancing Pervasive and Mobile Computing Security Education with Research Integration,” US National Science Foundation, 2014–2016 (PI: D. Ma).
Amazon: PI, “Amazon AWS in Education Coursework Grant award,” 2012-2015, in AWS credits.
NSF Grant: PI, “Acquisition of Instruments for Mobile Computing Research in the Context of Automotive Applications,” US National Science Foundation, 2005–2010 (co-PIs: H. Abdu, K. Akingbehin, N. Patel, W. Xiang, and Q. Zhu; Senior Person: P. Richardson).
Chrysler Research Grant: PI, “Developing a Delay Tolerant Networking Convergence Layer for Vehicular Internet,” Chrysler LLC/Brightstar Corp, 2008 – 2009.
IAVS Grant: PI, “Optimizing Traffic Flow Management, Topology Control, and Virtual Machine Placement in Cloud Data Centers,” 2014 (co-PI: D. Ma)
OVPR: PI, “Increasing Broadcast Reliability in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks,” 2006 – 2007.
Rackham: PI, “Development of Routing Protocols for Vehicular Ad hoc Networks,” 2004 – 2005.
CEEP: PI, “Secure and Privacy-Preserving Inter-Vehicle Communication Framework,” 2006 – 2008.

Selected Publications

J. Liu and J. Guo, “Energy Efficient Scheduling of Real-Time Tasks on Multi-core Processors with Voltage Islands,” Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier, Vol 56 (2016), pp, 202-210.
K. Liu, J. Guo, N. Lu, F. Liu, X. Wang, P. Wang, “RAMC: A RSU-Assisted Multi-Channel Coordination MAC Protocol for VANET,” IEICE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 94-B (1), pp. 203-214, 2011.
J. Guo, L. Yang, “CAR: Context-Aware Routing for Vehicular Ad hoc Networks,” IJEI: International Journal of Engineering and Industries, Vol. 1 (1), pp. 10-29, December 2010.
Z.J. Shi and J. Guo, “Global Convergence of Conjugate Gradient Method,” Optimization, Taylor and Francis, Volume 58, Issue 2 (2009), pp. 163-179.
Z.J. Shi and J. Guo, “A New Family of Conjugate Gradient Methods,” Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Elsevier. Volume 224, Number 1 (February 2009), pp. 444-457.
Z.J. Shi and J. Guo, “A New Trust Region Method with Adaptive Radius,” Computational Optimization and Applications, Springer, Volume 41, Number 2 (November 2008), pp. 225-242.
D. Butcher, X. Li, and J. Guo, “Security Challenge and Defense in VoIP Infrastructures,” IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics--Part C. vol. 37, no. 6, 2007, pp. 1152-1162.
T. Jiang, W. Xiang, P. Richardson, J. Guo, and G. Zhu, “PAPR Reduction of OFDM signals Using Partial Transmit Sequences with Low Computation Complexity.” IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting. vol. 53, no. 3, 2007, pp. 719-724.
Z.J. Shi and J. Guo, “Convergence of Memory Gradient Methods,” International Journal of Computer Mathematics, Taylor and Francis, Volume 85, Number 7 (2008), pp. 1039 - 1053.
Z.J. Shi and J. Guo, “A New Trust Region Method for Unconstrained Optimization,” Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Elsevier, Volume 213, Number 2 (2008), pp. 509-520.
Z.J. Shi and J. Guo, “A new algorithm of nonlinear Conjugate gradient method with strong convergence,” Computational and Applied Mathematics. vol. 27, no. 1, 2008, pp. 93-106.
Z.J. Shi and J. Guo, “Some Extensions of Trust Region Method,” Pacific Journal of Optimization. Volume 3, Number 3 (September 2007), pp. 539-554.
J. Guo, “Consistency Verification in Transaction-based Optimistic Steering of Distributed Computations,” International Journal of Parallel, Emergent, and Distributed Systems, Taylor and Francis, Volume 21, Number 6 (2006), pp. 385-404.
J. Guo and J.P. Baugh, “Security and Privacy in Vehicle Safety Communication Applications,” SAE 2006 Transactions Journal of Passenger Cars: Electronic and Electrical Systems, Volume 115, Number 7 (2006), pp. 721-727.
J. Guo, W. Xiang, S. Wang, “Reinforce Networking Theory with OPNET Simulation,” Journal of Information Technology Education, Volume 6 (2007), pp. 215-226.
J. Guo and T. Taha, “Parallel Implementation of the Split-step Fourier Method and the Pseudospectral Method For Solving Higher KdV Equation,” Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, Elsevier, Volume 62, Number 1 (2003), pp. 41-51.
E. Kraemer, J. Wang, J. Guo, S. Hopkins, and J. Arnold, “An Analysis of Gene-Finding Programs for Neurospora Crassa,” Bioinformatics, Volume 7, Number 10 (2001), pp. 901-912.

J. Baugh and J. Guo, “A Per-Face Popularity Scheme to Increase Cache Robustness in Information-Centric Networks,” the 13th International Conference on Future Networks and Communications (FNC-18), Gran Canaria, Spain, August 2018.
R. Bankston and J. Guo, “Performance of Container Network Technologies in Cloud Environments,” Proceedings of the 18th Annual IEEE International Conference on Electro Information Technology (eit2018), Rochester, Michigan, May 2018.
V. Singh and J. Guo, “Optimization of Power Usage Effectiveness for Heterogeneous Modular Data Centers using Neural Network,” Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Smart Grids, Green Communications and IT Energy-aware Technologies (Energy 2016), Lisbon, Portugal, June 2016.
V. Singh and J. Guo, “Improving Service Levels Using Internet of Things Infrastructure in Data Centers,” Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP 2016), St. Louis, Missouri, May 2016.
J. Liu, J. Guo, and D. Ma, “Traffic Aware Virtual Machine Packing in Cloud Data Centers,” Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on High Performance and Smart Computing, pp. 256-261, New York City, April 2016.
J. Liu and J. Guo, “Voltage Island Aware Energy Efficient Scheduling of Real-Time Tasks on Multi-core Processors,” Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems (ICESS 2014), pp. 645-652, 2014.
Y. Cao, J. Guo, and Y. Wu, “SDN enabled content distribution in vehicular networks,” Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Innovative Computing Technology (INTECH), IEEE, pp. 164-169, 2014
J. Richmond and J. Guo, “Pricing the Internet for Congestion Control and Social Welfare,” Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Wireless Mesh and Ad-hoc Networking in conjunction with 23rd International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2014) , pp. 1-6, 2014.
K. Liu, J.Guo, N. Lu, and F. Liu, “RAMC: A RSU-Assisted Multi-channel Coordination MAC Protocol for VANET,” IEEE Workshop on Networking Intelligent Vehicles and Infrastructures (NiVi), Honolulu, Hawaii, December 2009.
L. Yang, J. Xu, Y. Wu, and J. Guo, “Road Probing: RSU Assisted Data Collection in Vehicular Networks,” The 5th International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, Beijing, China, September 2009.
Y. Wu, L. Yang, G. Wu, and J. Guo, “An Improved Coded Repetition Scheme for Safety Messaging in VANETs,” The 5th International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, Beijing, China, September 2009.
L. Yang, J. Guo, and Y. Wu, “Piggyback Cooperative Repetition for Reliable Broadcasting of Safety Messages in VANETs,” The IEEE Intelligent Vehicular Communication Systems (IVCS), Las Vegas, Nevada, January 2009.
L. Yang and J. Guo, “Increasing Broadcast Reliability by Coded Cooperative Repetition in VANETs,” The First International Conference on Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments (WAVE 2008), Dearborn, Michigan, December 2008.
C. Atkins and J. Guo, “Creating a Viable Vehicular Network: A VTP Convergence Layer for DTN,” The First International Conference on Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments (WAVE 2008), Dearborn, Michigan, December 2008.
L. Yang, J. Guo, and Y. Wu “Channel Adaptive One Hop Broadcasting for VANETs,” The 11th IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC2008), Beijing, China, October 2008.
S-Y Chang, L. Yang, and J. Guo, “Sybil Attacks on Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks,” 2008 SAE World Congress Session on In-Vehicle Networks, Detroit, Michigan, April 2008, Paper number: 2008-01-0770.
J. Guo, J.P. Baugh, and S. Wang, “A Group Signature Based Secure and Privacy-Preserving Vehicular Communication Framework,” CD-ROM Proceedings of the Mobile Networking for Vehicular Environments (MOVE) workshop in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM, Anchorage, Alaska, May 2007, pp 103-108.
J. Guo and G. Xing, “Using Mobile Agent-based Middleware to Support Distributed Coordination for Vehicle Telematics,” Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Ubiquitous Computing and Intelligence (UCI-07), Niagara Falls, Canada, May 2007, pp. 374-379
G. Xing, Z. Xia, and J. Guo, “Clustering XML Documents Based on Structural Similarity,” Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA2007), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Volume 4443/2007.
N. Balan and J. Guo, “Increasing Broadcast Reliability in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks,” Proceedings of the Third ACM International Workshop on Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANET 2006) in conjunction with ACM MobiCom 2006, September 2006, pp. 104-105.
J.P. Baugh and J. Guo, “Location Privacy in Mobile Computing Environments,” Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC-06), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Volume 4159/2006, pp. 936-945.
W. Xiang, P. Richardson, J. Guo “Introduction and Preliminary Experimental Results of Wireless Access for Vehicular Environments (WAVE) Systems,” 2nd Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communications Workshop (V2VCOM 2006), San Jose, July 2006 (Invited Paper), pp. 1-8.
V. Dumitrescu and J. Guo, “Context Assisted Routing Protocols for Inter-Vehicle Wireless Communication,” Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV’05), Las Vegas, Nevada, June 2005, pp. 594-600.
G. Xing, J. Guo, and R. Wang, “Managing XML Documents using RDBMS,” Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking, and Parallel/Distributed Computing (SNPD2005), Towson, Maryland, May 2005, pp. 186-191.
J. Guo and S. Seely, “Monitor Preprocessor for Pthreads,” Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE/ASEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE2004), Savannah, Georgia, October 2004, Paper number: S1H: 1323.
G. Xing, G. and J. Guo, “One Practical Range-Based Numbering Scheme for XML Documents,” Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking, and Parallel/Distributed Computing (SNPD2004), Beijing, China, July 2004, pp. 19-24.
J. Guo, S. Ramaswamy, and G. Xing, “A Jini-Based Framework for Nomadic Computing,” Communication Networks and Distributed Systems Modeling and Simulation Conference (CNDS'04), San Diego, California. January 2004, pp 35-40.
D. W. Miller, J. Guo, E. Kraemer and Y. Xiong, “On-The-Fly Calculation and Verification of Consistent Steering Transactions,” Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM Supercomputing Conference (SC2001), Denver, Colorado, November 2001.

Courses Taught

Undergraduate

CIS 427 – Computer Networks and Distributed Processing
CIS 435 – Web Technology
CIS 450 – Operating Systems
CIS 437 – Advanced Networking and Distributed Systems
CIS 467 – Digital Forensics II
CIS 387 – Digital Forensics I
CIS 350 – Data Structures and Algorithms
CIS 296 – Java Programming
CIS 294 – .NET Visual Basic Programming
CIS 150 – Computer Science I

Graduate

CIS 527 – Computer Networks
CIS 537 – Advanced Networking
CIS 525 – Web Technology
CIS 578 - Advanced Operating Systems
CIS 627 – Advanced Networking and Distributed Systems
CIS 647 – Research Advances on Networking and Distributed Systems

Current and Past Students

Postdocs

Zhen-Jun Shi, 2006 ~ 2008

PhD Students

John P. Baugh, “Enhancing Cache Robustness in Named Data Networks,” Graduated in August 2018
Vishal Singh, “Internet of Things and Neural Network based Energy Optimization and Predictive Maintenance Techniques in Heterogeneous Data Centers,” Graduated in December 2016
Jun Liu, "Optimizing the Energy Consumption of Servers and Networks in Cloud Data Centers," Graduated in August 2015
Ryan Bankston, Ph.D. in progress

Master Theses Supervised

Longting Deng, “An Empirical Study of Performance of Open v-Switch using GENI,” December 2015.
Hao Xie, “Comparison of Performance of DPDK vSwitch and Open vSwitch in GENI Platform,” December 2015.
John P. Baugh, “Establishing Security and Privacy in Vehicular Ad hoc Networks via Utilization of Group Signatures,” April 2007.
Valentin Dumitrescu, “Context Assisted Routing Protocols for Inter-Vehicle Wireless Communication,” July 2006.
Sudha Ramaswamy, “Agent-Based Framework for Mobile Computing,” April 2004.

Undergraduate Research Students Supported

Rui Yang (UMD Undergraduate Research Fellowship), 2012.
Cale Colony (NSF REU research fellowship), 2009–2010.
Joe Mills (NSF REU research fellowship),2009–2010.
Christian Atkins (UMD Undergraduate Research Fellowship),2008.

Visiting PhD Students and Scholars Hosted

Lin Yang (Ph.D. student from Nankai University, China), 2008-2009.
Kai Liu (Ph.D. student from Tongji University, China), 2009-2010.
Yi Cao (Ph.D. student from University of Electronic Science and Technology, China), 2013-2014.
Mustafa Ulas (Assistant Professor, Fırat University, Turkey), Summer 2013.
Hassan A. Artail (Professor, American University of Beirut), Summer 2007.

Contact

Jinhua Guo

4901 Evergreen Rd, 211 CIS

Department of Computer and Information Science

University of Michigan - Dearborn

Dearborn, MI 48128, U.S.A.

Email: jinhua@umich.edu

Phone: (313) 583-6439

Fax: (313) 593-4256

Jinhua Guo

Short Bio

Research Interests

Recent Grants

Selected Publications

Refereed Journal Articles

Conference Proceedings Papers

Courses Taught

Undergraduate

Graduate

Current and Past Students

Postdocs

PhD Students

Master Theses Supervised

Undergraduate Research Students Supported

Visiting PhD Students and Scholars Hosted

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