Dr. Wei Lu

Wei Lu is a full professor of computer science at Keene State College. Before moving to the United States, he worked for several years in the software industry, including as a member of research staff with the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI GmbH), a secure software engineer with a start-up company Q1 Labs, acquired later by IBM as its Security Systems Division, and a Junior Member of Technical Staff (MTS-1) with Bell Labs (Asia & Pacific). He received his Ph.D. in the School of Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Victoria (UVic), Canada, Master of Intellectual Property from the University of New Hampshire (UNH Concord) Law School, MBA from UNH’s Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics, and M.S./B.S. in Electronics Engineering from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST). His general research interests include Data Science, Cybersecurity, and Artificial Intelligence, where he has about 80 papers published by peer-reviewed journals, book chapters, and conference proceedings, that have been cited over 7,000 times according to Google scholar. In addition, he is currently a principal investigator of an NIH-sponsored research project "Securing the Internet of Medical Things in Healthcare with Machine Learning", a Senior Member of IEEE, a recipient of the 2021 KSC Faculty Distinction in Research and Scholarship Award, serves as a Chair of Computer Society at the IEEE New Hampshire Section, and authored two books published by Springer.