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Wenyuan Xu

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Wenyuan Xu (Chinese: 徐文渊) is a Chinese computer scientist specializing in computer security for wireless networks, embedded systems, and the internet of things. She is a professor in the College of Engineering of Zhejiang University, where she directs the Ubiquitous System Security Lab.

Education and career

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Xu studied electrical engineering at Zhejiang University, graduating in 1998, and continuing for a master's degree in 2001. She completed a Ph.D. at Rutgers University in the US in 2007.[1] Her dissertation, Defending Wireless Networks from Radio Interference Attacks, was jointly supervised by Wade Trappe and Yanyong Zhang.[2]

She joined the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of South Carolina, becoming an associate professor there,[1] before returning to Zhejiang University as a professor in 2013.[3]

Recognition

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Xu won the Chinese Young Women in Science Award in 2023.[4] She was named an IEEE Fellow, in the 2024 class of fellows, "for contributions to embedded systems for automobile security".[5]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Wenyuan Xu", Speaker biographies, 27th Usenix Security Symposium, August 2018, retrieved 2023-12-28
  2. ^ Wenyuan Xu at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ "Wenyuan Xu", ORCiD, retrieved 2023-12-28
  4. ^ Zhejiang University wins "grand slam" at 18th Chinese Young Women in Science Awards, Zhejiang University, 22 May 2023, retrieved 2023-12-28
  5. ^ 2024 Fellow Class (PDF), IEEE, retrieved 2023-12-28
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