Speaker – Prof Wenke Lee
Prof Wenke Lee
Executive Director,
Institute for Information Security & Privacy (IISP)
Biography
Wenke Lee is a Regents’ Professor and John P. Imlay Jr. Chair at Georgia Tech. His research interests include systems and network security, malware analysis, applied cryptography, and machine learning. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Columbia University and is an ACM Fellow and an IEEE Fellow.
Lee was the Executive Director of the Institute for Information Security & Privacy (IISP) (2015-2021) and the Georgia Tech Information Center (GTISC) (2012-2015). His leadership involved overseeing research initiatives and fostering collaborations between academia, industry, and government to address critical cybersecurity challenges. He also initiated and led the process of establishing a new academic department of Cybersecurity and Privacy at Georgia Tech in 2021.
Lee has graduated 31 Ph.D. students and supervised 10 postdoctoral fellows; nearly half of them are now tenure-track/tenured faculty members in leading institutions. He has won many awards and honors for his research contributions, including a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), ACM Special Interest Group on Security, Audit, and Control (SIGSAC) Outstanding Innovation Award, and eight Best Paper and Test of Time awards from the top academic conferences in cybersecurity. He has published more than 200 papers, and according to Google Scholar, his H-index is 103 and the total number of citations of all his papers is more than 49,000.
Lee has been the PI or co-PI of several very large research efforts including most recently the NSF AI Institute for Agent-based Cyber Threat Intelligence and Operation (ACTION). Wenke served on Georgia’s Secure, Accessible & Fair Elections (SAFE) Commission (2018-2019), and co-founded Damballa, Inc., a spin-off from his lab focusing on botnet detection (2006-2016).