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Wenjing Lou earned a BS and an MS in Computer Science and Engineering at Xi'an Jiaotong University in China, an MASc in Computer Communications at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, and a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Florida. From December 1997 to July 1999, she worked as a Research Engineer at Network Technology Research Center, Nanyang Technological University. She joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at Worcester Polytechnic Institute as an assistant professor in 2003, where she was promoted to associate professor with tenure in 2009. In 2011, she joined the Computer Science department at Virginia Tech as an associate professor with tenure. Her current research interests include security and privacy issues in cloud computing, cyber physical systems, and wireless networks and mobile computing. She is also interested in network protocols.