Dr. Wenjing Lou, Virginia Tech, USA.

Dr. Wenjing Lou is currently the W. C. English Endowed Professor of Computer Science at Virginia Tech and a Fellow of the IEEE. Her research interests span many topics in the fields of wireless networks and cybersecurity. On wireless networks, her interests lie in distributed algorithms and lightweight protocols for wireless networks. Her previous works include algorithm and protocol design for ad hoc networks, multihop cooperative communications, opportunistic routing, and network coding. She has recently collaborated with other colleagues on interference cancellation, MIMO networks, and dynamic spectrum sharing, and 5G wireless communications. On cybersecurity, she has worked on many security and privacy topics in networked information systems, including anonymous authentication, encryption-based information access control and sharing, search over encrypted data, and confidential data computation. More recently, she has been working on block-chain and decentralized consensus protocols, securing 5G/nextG mobile networks, and adversarial machine learning and trustworthy AI systems. Her research goal is to develop innovative solutions to address fundamental research challenges in emerging technologies and critical infrastructures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]