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Wei-Shinn Ku


Program Responsibilities:
IIS: Information Integration and Informatics (III)
Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC)
Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace Frontiers (SaTC Frontiers)

Biography:

Wei-Shinn Ku received the PhD degree in computer science from the University of Southern California (USC) in 2007. He is a program director in the III Cluster of the CISE/IIS Division at the National Science Foundation and a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama. His current research interests include data management systems, data science, cybersecurity, and mobile computing. He has published more than 100 research papers in refereed international journals and conference proceedings. He is a senior member of the IEEE and a member of the ACM SIGSPATIAL.