Facilitator Associate Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Dr. Jian Ren received his B.S. degree and M.S. degree from Shaanxi Normal University, China, both in Mathematics. He received the Ph.D. degree from the Xidian University, China, in Electrical Engineering. Currently, he is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Michigan State University. Prior to joining MSU, Dr. Ren was the Leading Secure Architect at Avaya Lab, Bell Lab and Racal Datacom in security architecture and solution development. Dr. Ren's research interests include network security, wireless security, secure and energy efficient wireless sensor network protocols, cryptographic primitives, information forensics, network management, error-control coding and digital copyright protection. Dr. Ren received the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award in 2009 (MSU news). Dr. Ren is a senior member of the IEEE.
