Dr. Xinwen Fu

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Dr. Xinwen Fu is a Professor in the School of Computer & Information Science at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He previously served as a tenured associate professor at the University of Central Florida. His research interests focus on computer and network security and privacy. Dr. Fu has published in prestigious venues, including the four top computer security conferences, including IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland), ACM CCS, USENIX Security, and NDSS, as well as IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE ICDCS, and leading journals such as ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networking (ToN) and IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC). He has received multiple best and distinguished paper awards, including the IEEE ICDCS 2024 Distinguished Paper Award and a USENIX Security 2025 Honorable Mention. He has also spoken at major technical security conferences such as Black Hat. His research has been featured by media outlets including CNN, Wired, The Huffington Post, Forbes, Yahoo, MIT Technology Review, and PC Magazine, and has aired on CNN Domestic and International as well as China's State Science and Education Channel (CCTV 10).

Dr. Xinwen Fu is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He previously served as a tenured associate professor at the University of Central Florida. He received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Xi'an Jiaotong University in 1995, his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1998, and his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Texas A&M University in 2005.

Dr. Fu's current research interests include computer and network security and privacy, system security, software security, and digital forensics. He has published in the top four computer security conferences, including the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland), the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), the USENIX Security Symposium, and the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), as well as other prestigious venues such as ACM MobiHoc, ACM SenSys (ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems), IEEE INFOCOM, and IEEE ICDCS. His work has also appeared in leading journals, including ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networking (ToN), IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), and IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT), in addition to books and book chapters. He has presented at major technical security conferences such as Black Hat. His research has been supported by NSF, DOE, and NSA.

Dr. Fu has received multiple best and distinguished paper awards, including the IEEE ICDCS 2024 Distinguished Paper Award and a USENIX Security 2025 Honorable Mention. His work was selected as the Spotlight Paper for the February 2014 issue of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC) and the July 2010 issue of IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS). His research has been featured by major media outlets such as CNN, Wired, The Huffington Post, Forbes, Yahoo, MIT Technology Review, and PC Magazine, and has been aired on CNN Domestic and International as well as China's State Science and Education Channel (CCTV 10).

Dr. Fu is active in academic service. He has served on the technical program committees of numerous prestigious conferences, including ACM CCS, USENIX Security, NDSS, IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE ICDCS, and SecureComm. He has held several leadership roles, including Program Co-Chair of the Communication Systems Security Symposium at IEEE Globecom 2011; Program Co-Chair of TrustCom 2010; Symposium Co-Chair for Communications and Information Security at ICNC 2015 and ICNC 2017; Security Track Chair for IEEE TrustCom 2016; and Co-General Chair of the 2018 IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC) and SecureComm 2019 (15th EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks). He has also served as an Area Chair for IEEE CNS 2023, TPC Co-Chair for IEEE MSN 2023, and Lead Co-Chair of the Communication & Information System Security Symposium for IEEE ICC 2025. Dr. Fu is a Senior Member of the IEEE.