Wenjing Lou, a professor at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Falls Church, Virginia campus since 2011, was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2015[1] for contributions to information and network security. She was named as an ACM Fellow, in the 2023 class of fellows, with the same citation.[2]
Prior to Virginia Tech, she was a faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) from 2003 to 2011. She received a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Florida, an M.A.Sc. in Computer Communications from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, and an M.S. and a B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from Xi'an Jiaotong University in China.