Shaoen Wu

State Farm Endowed Full Professor
School of Information Technology
Illinois State University


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Research Interests: Cyber and Information Security, Internet of Things, Autonomous Robotics, Wireless Communications and Networking

Short Bio: Shaoen Wu received his PhD degree in Computer Science and Software Engineering from Auburn University, his MS degree in Control Theory and Engineering from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), and his BS degree in Automation from Qingdao University of Science and Technology (QUST). He is a senior member of IEEE, the secretary of IEEE MMTC 2018-2020, and a member of ACM. Before his current employment, he worked for Ball State University 2013-2020 where he served on the Advisory Council of Scholarship for the Vice Provost for Research, the Dean's Faculty Advisory Board and the assistant department chair of computer science. He has worked as an assistant professor in the School of Computing at University of Southern Mississippi, a Staff Scientist at ADTRAN, and a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies. He has published over 80 peer-reviewed papers in wireless, IoT, smart health and robotics at international journals e.g. IEEE Internet of Things Journal and conferences e.g. IEEE Globecom, ICC and ICCCN. His research has been generously supported by NSF, NASA, Cisco, NVIDIA, Intel, Dell, ARM, Cypress Inc. and Microsoft. He has received three Best Paper Awards including one from IEEE GC'19, a Faculty Excellence Award, and a First Place in Graduate Student Forum. He has actively served as a Chair/Co-Chair at several international conferences and an editor for a few international journals.


OU202, School of Information Technology
Illinois Sate University
Normal, IL 61790 USA