Dr. Wei Lu

Wei Lu is a professor and chair of computer science at Keene State College with The University System of New Hampshire. 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, later acquired 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, and dual Master’s degrees in Intellectual Property Law (M.I.P) and Business Administration (M.B.A) from Franklin Pierce School of Law and Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics both at the University of New Hampshire (UNH) and M.S/B.S in Electronics Engineering from the Special Class for the Gifted Young, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST). His general research interests include Biomedical Informatics, Cybersecurity, and Artificial Intelligence, where he has about 100 papers published by peer-reviewed journals, book chapters, and conference proceedings that have been cited around 10,000 times, according to Google Scholar. In addition, he is a Senior Member of IEEE, a recipient of the 2021 KSC Faculty Distinction in Research and Scholarship Award, a principal investigator of several NIH and NSF-sponsored research projects, an author of two books published by Springer, and chaired Computer Society at the IEEE New Hampshire Section.