Wujie Wen is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at NC State University. He received his B.S. in electrical and computer engineering from Beijing Jiaotong University, his M.S. in communication engineering from Tsinghua University, and his Ph.D. in computer engineering from the University of Pittsburgh. Before joining NC State, he was an assistant professor and later a tenured associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Lehigh University.

Wen’s research focuses on efficient, reliable, secure and privacy-preserving computing, with an emphasis on software-hardware co-design and electronic design automation. His work spans embedded systems, the internet of things, smart medical devices and intelligent cyber-physical systems. His group has published more than 40 papers in top-tier CSRankings venues, including DAC, ICCAD, MICRO, HPCA, EMSOFT, IEEE Security and Privacy, USENIX Security, NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV and AAAI. He has received best paper nominations from DAC, ICCAD, DATE and ASP-DAC.

Wen served as general chair and program chair of ISVLSI in 2018 and 2019 and has been a program committee member for conferences including DAC, ICCAD, DATE and HPCA. He is currently an associate editor for Neurocomputing and the IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, Air Force Research Laboratory and other sponsors, with more than $4.5 million in funding. He is a recipient of the NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award.