Network Security Empowered by Artificial Intelligence

Yingying (Jennifer) Chen is a Professor and Department Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and Peter Cherasia Endowed Faculty Scholar at Rutgers University. She is the Associate Director of Wireless Information Network Laboratory (WINLAB). She also leads the Data Analysis and Information Security (DAISY) Lab. She is a Fellow of IEEE and a Fellow of National Academy of Inventors (NAI). She is also an ACM Distinguished Member. Her research interests include Applied Machine Learning in Mobile Computing and Sensing, Internet of Things (IoT), Security in AI/ML Systems, Smart Healthcare, and Deep Learning on Mobile Systems. She is a pioneer in RF/WiFi sensing, location systems, and mobile security. Before joining Rutgers, she was a tenured professor at Stevens Institute of Technology and had extensive industry experiences at Nokia (previously Lucent Technologies). She has published 3 books, 4 book chapters and 240+ journal articles and refereed conference papers. She is the recipient of seven Best Paper Awards in top ACM and IEEE conferences. She is the recipient of NSF CAREER Award and Google Faculty Research Award. She received NJ Inventors Hall of Fame Innovator Award and is also the recipient of IEEE Region 1 Technological Innovation in Academic Award. Her research has been supported by many funding agencies including NSF, NIH, ARO, DoD and AFRL and reported in numerous media outlets including MIT Technology Review, CNN, Fox News Channel, Wall Street Journal, National Public Radio and IEEE Spectrum. She has been serving/served on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWireless), IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN) and ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security.
Jie Wu is Laura H. Carnell Professor at Temple University and the Director of the Center for Networked Computing (CNC). He served as Chair of the Department of Computer and Information Sciences from the summer of 2009 to the summer of 2016 and Associate Vice Provost for International Affairs from the fall of 2015 to the summer of 2017. Prior to joining Temple University, he was a program director at the National Science Foundation and was a distinguished professor at Florida Atlantic University, where he received his Ph.D. in 1989. His current research interests include mobile computing and wireless networks, routing protocols, network trust and security, distributed algorithms, applied machine learning, and cloud computing. Dr. Wu regularly published in scholarly journals, conference proceedings, and books. He serves on several editorial boards, including IEEE Transactions on Service Computing, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, and Journal of Computer Science and Technology. Dr. Wu is/was general chair/co-chair for IEEE DCOSS'09, IEEE ICDCS'13, ICPP'16, IEEE CNS'16, WiOpt'21, ICDCN'22, IEEE IPDPS'23, and ACM MobiHoc'23 as well as program chair/cochair for IEEE MASS'04, IEEEINFOCOM'11, CCF CNCC'13, and ICCCN'20. He was an IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor, ACM Distinguished Speaker, and chair for the IEEE Technical Committee on Distributed Processing (TCDP). Dr. Wu is a Fellow of the AAAS and a Fellow of the IEEE.
Dr. Cliff Wang graduated from North Carolina State University with a PhD in computer engineering in 1996. He has been carrying out research in the area of computer vision, medical imaging, high speed networks, and most recently information security. He has authored 60 technical papers and 3 Internet standards RFCs. Dr. Wang also authored/edited for 20 books in the area of information security and hold 4 US patents on information security system development. Since 2003, Dr. Wang has been managing extramural research portfolio and leading cyber security research at ARO and serves as the division director for Network Sciences. Since 2023, he is with NSF as program director and serves as the co-lead for the SaTC cluster. Dr. Wang also holds adjunct professor appointment at both Department of Computer Science and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University. Dr. Wang is a Fellow of IEEE and AAAS.