Brief Biography

Wenjing Lou is an associate professor in the Computer Science department at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Prior to joining Virginia Tech in 2011, she was on the faculty of the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute from 2003 to 2011.

She received a B.S. and an M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering at Xi'an Jiaotong University in China, an M.A.Sc. in Computer Communications at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, and a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Florida.

She was named Joseph Samuel Satin Distinguished fellow in 2006 by WPI. She was a recipient of the U.S. National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award in 2008. She received the Sigma Xi Junior Faculty Research Award at WPI in 2009.

She is currently serving on the editorial board of five journals: IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, IEEE Wireless Communications Letter, Elsevier Computer Networks, and Springer Wireless Networks. She has served as TPC co-chair for the security symposium of several leading IEEE conferences, including General Symposium at IEEE Globecom 2007, Network Security and Privacy Track at IEEE ICCCN 2009, Security Symposium at IEEE ICC 2010, Security and Localization Track at IEEE PIMRC 2011, and Security Symposium at IEEE Globecom 2012. She serves as TPC member regularly for IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE Globecom, IEEE ICC, ACM MobiHoc, ICDCS, and many more.