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Kemi Ding

School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering
Nanyang Technological University
Center for System Intelligence and Efficiency, S1-B4c-14, BLK S1
Singapore, 639798

Phone: +1(646) 220-0689
E-mail: kemi.ding@ntu.edu.sg,
               kemiding225@gmail.com.

Education

  • Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), Hong Kong, 2014.9-2018.8
    Ph.D. in Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering

  • Harvard University, USA, 2016.9-2017.1
    Visiting student in School of Engineering & Applied Sciences (SEAS)

  • Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), China, 2010.9-2014.7
    Bachelor in School of Electronic Information and Communications, Advanced Class

Working Experience

  • Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 2019.8 to present
    Experience Research Fellow, School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering

  • Arizona State University, USA, 2018.9 to 2019.8
    Postdoctoral Researcher, School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

Research Interests

  • Security and privacy in Cyber-physical Systems

  • State estimation and sensor scheduling

  • Game theory, Graph signal processing

  • Online social networks

Awards

  • Research Travel Grant, Overseas Research Award, HKUST, Hong Kong, 2017.

  • Outstanding Graduate, HUST, Wuhan, China, 2014.

  • Excellent Student Award, HUST, Wuhan, China, 2013.

  • Tencent innovation scholarship excellence award, Tencent Company, 2012.

  • First prize, China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling (CUMCM), 2012.

Funding Projects

  • “Industrial Internet of Things”, Singapore IAF-PP Project, no. A1788a0023, SGD439,200,Projects 2017-2021, project participant.

  • “A Stochastic Game and Reinforcement Learning Approach to Building a Resilient Cyber-Physical System”,
    Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC) project, no. 16208517, HKD443,950, 2017-2020, leading project participant.

  • “Cyber-Physical Systems Security: A Control-theoretic Approach”,
    Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC) project, no. 16222716, HKD482,605, 2016-2019, leading project participant.

  • “Subspace-based Face Recognition”,
    Undergraduate Innovation Project of Hubei Province, no. 201210487080, CHY20,000, 2012.11-2013.12, PI.

Journal Papers

Published or Accepted

*—Corresponding author

  • J.11 Kemi Ding, Xiaoqiang Ren, Hongsheng Qi, Guodong Shi, Ling Shi. “Interference Game for Intelligent Sensors in Cyber-Physical Systems”.
    Automatica, accepted, 2021.

  • J.10 Yuchi Wu, Kemi Ding*, Yuzhe Li, Ling Shi. “Optimal Unbiased Linear Sensor Fusion over Multiple Lossy Channels with Collective Observability”.
    Automatica, accepted, 2021.

  • J.9 Kemi Ding, Junfeng Wu, Lihua Xie. “Minimum-degree Distributed Graph Filter Design”.
    IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, early access, 2021. (regular paper)

  • J.8 Huang Lingying, Kemi Ding*, Alex S. Leong, Daniel E. Quevedo, Ling Shi. “Encryption Schedules for Remote State Estimation under an Operation Constraint”.
    Automatica, accepted, 2021.

  • J.7 Kemi Ding, Junshan Zhang. “Multi-party Privacy Conflict Management in Online Social Network: A Network Game Perspective”.
    IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. (to appear, regular paper)

  • J.6 Shuang Wu, Kemi Ding*, Peng Cheng, Ling Shi. “Optimal Scheduling of Multiple Sensors over Lossy and Bandwidth Limited Channels”.
    IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems. (regular paper)

  • J.5 Kemi Ding, Xiaoqiang Ren, Alex S. Leong, Daniel E. Quevedo and Ling Shi. “Remote State Estimation in the Presence of an Active Eavesdropper”.
    IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2020. (regular paper)

  • J.4 Kemi Ding, Xiaoqiang Ren, Daniel E. Quevedo, Subhrakanti Dey and Ling Shi. “Defensive deception against reactive jamming attacks in remote state estimation”.
    Automatica, 2019. (regular paper)

  • J.3 Kemi Ding, Xiaoqiang Ren, Daniel E. Quevedo, Subhrakanti Dey and Ling Shi. “DoS Attacks on Remote State Estimation with Asymmetric Information”.
    IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, 2018. (regular paper)

  • J.2 Kemi Ding, Subhrakanti Dey, Daniel E. Quevedo and Ling Shi. “Stochastic Game in Remote Estimation Under DoS Attacks”.
    IEEE Control Systems Letters, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 146-151, 2017.

  • J.1 Kemi Ding, Yuzhe Li, Daniel E. Quevedo, Subhrakanti Dey and Ling Shi. “A Multi-channel Transmission Schedule for Remote State Estimation under DoS Attacks”.
    Automatica, vol. 78, pp. 194-201, 2017.

Under Review

  • R.1 Xiaomeng Chen, Huang Lingying, Kemi Ding*, Subhrakanti Dey, Ling Shi. “Privacy-Preserving Push-sum Average Consensus via State Decomposition”.
    IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.

Conference Papers

  • C.8 Zhaofeng Zhang, Sen Lin, Mehmet Dedeoglu, Kemi Ding, Junshan Zhang “Data-driven Distributionally Robust Optimization for Edge Intelligence”, in IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) 2020.

  • C.7 Kemi Ding, Xiaoqiang Ren, Hongsheng Qi, Guodong Shi, Xiaofan Wang, Ling Shi. “Dynamic Pricing for Power Control in Remote State Estimation”, in Proceedings of the 21th World of Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), 2020.

  • C.6 Yuqing Li, Kemi Ding, Yong Yang, Ling Shi. “On the Performance Analysis of Binary Hypothesis Testing with Byzantine Sensors”, in Proceedings of the 38th Chinese Control Conference (CCC), Guangzhou, China, 2019.

  • C.5 Kemi Ding, Subhrakanti Dey, Daniel E. Quevedo and Ling Shi. “Stochastic Game in Remote Estimation Under DoS Attacks”, in Proceedings of the 56th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Melbourne, Australia, 2017.

  • C.4 Kemi Ding, Yuzhe Li, Subhrakanti Dey and Ling Shi. “Multi-sensor Trans- mission Management for Remote State Estimation under Coordination”, in Proceedings of the 20th World of Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), Toulouse, France, 2017.

  • C.3 Kemi Ding, Subhrakanti Dey, Daniel E. Quevedo and Ling Shi. “A Secure Cross-layer Design for Remote Estimation under DoS Attack”, in Proceedings of the 55th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Las Vegas, USA, 2016.

  • C.2 Kemi Ding, Xiaoqiang Ren and Ling Shi. “Deception-based Sensor Schedul- ing for Remote Estimation under DoS Attacks”, in Proceedings of the 6th IFAC Workshop on Distributed Estimation and Control in Networked Systems (Necsys), Tokyo, Japan, 2016.

  • C.1 Kemi Ding and Ling Shi. “A Data-driven Power Schedule for Privacy Pro- tection in Remote State Estimation”, in Proceedings of the 35th Chinese Control Conference (CCC), Chengdu, China, 2016.

Academic Service

Associate Editor

IEEE 16th International Conference on Control and Automation (ICCA), 2020.

Reviewer (Journals)

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control,
IEEE Transactions on Control and Network Systems,
IEEE Control Systems Letters,
IET Control Theory & Applications, International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control

Reviewer (Conference)

IEEE Conference on Decision and Control,
American Control Conference,
European Control Conference,
Chinese Control Conference, etc.

Teaching Assistant (at HKUST)

ELEC 1100: Introduction to Electro-Robot Design
ELEC 3200: System Modeling, Analysis and Control