rof. F. Richard Yu received the PhD degree in electrical engineering from the University of British Columbia (UBC) in 2003. From 2002 to 2004, he was with Ericsson (in Lund, Sweden), where he worked on the research and development of dual mode UMTS/GPRS handsets. From 2005 to 2006, he was with a start-up in California, USA, where he worked on the research and development in the areas of advanced wireless communication technologies and new standards. He also held a position as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with UBC in 2005 and 2006. He joined Carleton School of Information Technology and the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering (cross-appointment) at Carleton University, Ottawa, in 2007, where he is currently an Assistant Professor. He received the Leadership Opportunity Fund Award from Canada Foundation of Innovation in 2009 and best paper awards at IEEE/IFIP TrustCom 2009 and Int’l Conference on Networking 2005. His research interests include cross-layer design, security and QoS provisioning in wireless networks. He serves on the editorial boards of several journals, including IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications Networking, Ad Hoc & Sensor Wireless Networks, Wiley Journal on Security and Communication Networks, and International Journal of Wireless Communications and Networking. He has served on the Technical Program Committee (TPC) of numerous conferences and as the Publication Chair of ICST QShine 2010, Co-Chair of ICUMT-CWCN'2009, TPC Co-Chair of IEEE INFOCOM-CWCN'2010, IEEE IWCMC'2009, VTC'2008F Track 4, WiN-ITS'2007. He is a senior member of the IEEE.