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E-mail: renjian@msu.edu
Office: 2308H Engineering Building
Phone: (517) 353-4379
Department fax: (517) 353-1980
Editor-in-Chief, IET Communications
IEEE VTS Distinguished Lecture (2024-2026)
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Short Bio:
Jian Ren is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Michigan State University. Before joining MSU, Dr. Ren served as a Lead Security Architect at Avaya Labs (2000–2002), Bell Labs (1998–2000), and Racal Datacom (1997–1998). He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Xidian University, China. Dr. Ren’s research interests include cybersecurity and privacy, AI security, distributed data sharing and storage, decentralized data management, secure cloud computing, big data security, cost-aware privacy-preserving communications, and blockchain-based e-voting.
Dr. Ren’s research has been supported by multiple sources, including the National Science Foundation, AFRL, the Semiconductor Research Corporation, MSU Technologies, and other industrial collaborators. He is a recipient of the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award (2009).
Prof. Ren has served as TPC Chair or Co-Chair for multiple conferences and has been the Executive Chair of ICNC since 2019. He has been invited as a Keynote Speaker and Distinguished Speaker at several conferences. Dr. Ren is currently serving as Editor-in-Chief of IET Communications. Previously, he served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, the IEEE Internet of Things Journal, and the ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks. Dr. Ren is an IEEE Fellow and also a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS).
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