Dr. Wenke Lee, Professor of Computer Science at Georgia Tech University and Co
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Executive Director of the Institute for Information Security
, was the sole computer scientist appointed to the Secretary of State’s Secure Accessible Fair Elections (“SAFE”) Commission
Research Interests
Systems and Network Security, Applied Cryptography, and Machine Learning
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science, Columbia University, New York, NY. 1994-1999.
Dissertation: A Data Mining Framework for Constructing Features and Models for Intrusion Detection Systems.
Advisor: Salvatore J. Stolfo.
M.S. in Computer Science, The City College of New York, New York, NY. 1988-1990.
B.S. in Computer Science, SUN YAT-SEN University, Guangzhou, China. 1984-1988.
Professional Experience
John P. Imlay Jr. Chair, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA. 3/2016 - present.
Director, Institute for Information Security & Privacy (IISP) at Georgia Tech. 7/2015 - present.
Director, Georgia Tech Information Security Center (GTISC). 8/2012 - 6/2015.
Professor, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA. 2/2009 - present.
Associate Professor, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA. 3/2005 - 2/2009.
Assistant Professor, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA. 8/2001 - 3/2005.
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC. 7/1999 - 8/2001.
Summer Research Staff Member, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorn, NY. 5/1997 - 8/1997.
Summer Member of Technical Staff, AT&T Labs - Research, Murray Hill, NJ. 5/1996 - 8/1996.
Senior Software Analyst, Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, AL. 4/1991 - 8/1994.
Software Analyst, Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, AL. 4/1990 - 4/1991.
Awards and Honors
IEEE Fellow, 2021.
ACM SIGSAC (Special Interest Group on Security, Audit and Control) Outstanding Innovation Award for "pioneering contributions to network and systems security, in particular, machine-learning based approaches to security analytics, including tackling intrusion and botnet detection", 2019.
CCS Test of Time Award, The 25th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), for the paper "Artem Dinaburg, Paul Royal, Monirul Sharif, and Wenke Lee. Ether: Malware Analysis via Hardware Virtualization Extensions" published in CCS 2008 that have had the greatest impact on security research and practice over the past decade, 2018.
ACM Fellow, 2017.
Distinguished Practical Paper Award, for the paper: "Yanick Fratantonio, Chenxiong Qian, Pak Chung, and Wenke Lee. Cloak and Dagger: From Two Permissions to Complete Control of the UI Feedback Loop" in Proceedings of The 2017 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2017.
Internet Defense Prize, awarded by Facebook and USENIX, for the paper: "Byoungyoung Lee, Chengyu Song, Taesoo Kim, and Wenke Lee. Type Casting Verification: Stopping an Emerging Attack Vector" in Proceedings Proceedings of The 24th USENIX Security Symposium, 2015.
Cyber Is A Global Sport Award (awarded to David Dagon and Wenke Lee), Department of Homeland Security, Science and Technology Directorate, Cyber Security Division, 2015.
Outstanding Achievement in Research Program Development Award, (awarded to Mustaque Ahamad, Wenke Lee, Paul Royal, and David Dagon), Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015.
Outstanding Community Service Award, IEEE Technical Committee on Security and Privacy, 2013.
Outstanding Faculty Leadership for the Development of GRAs Award, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012.
Sigma Xi Faculty Best Paper Award, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2010.
Best Student Paper Award, IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, for the paper: "Monirul Sharif, Andrea Lanzi, Jon Giffin, and Wenke Lee. Automatic Reverse Engineering of Malware Emulators", 2009.
Outstanding Senior Faculty Research Award, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009.
Raytheon Faculty Fellowship Award, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2005.
NSF CAREER Award, 2002.
Best Paper Award, Applied Research Category, the 5th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD '99), August 1999 (with Kui Mok and Sal Stolfo).
Honorable mention (runner-up) for Best Paper Award, Applied Research Category, the 4th International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD '98), August 1998.
Honorable mention (runner-up) for Best Paper Award, Applied Research Category, the 3rd International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD '97), August 1997.