Dr. Wenhai Sun is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Technology and a Faculty member affiliated with the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS) and the Institute of Control, Optimization and Networks (ICON) of Purdue University. He holds two PhDs from the Department of  Computer Science at Virginia Tech and the School of Telecommunications at Xidian University.  His research interest mainly lies in data security and privacy, and network security, by conducting interdisciplinary research including cryptography, trusted hardware, AI/ML, and software engineering. He has published papers in premium security and networking conferences and prestigious journals, such as USENIX Security, IEEE INFOCOM, ACM WiSec, ACM ASIACCS, IEEE TIFS, IEEE TDSC, IEEE TPDS and IEEE TSC. He is the recipient of the prestigious NSF CAREER Award. He won the Distinguished Paper Award in ACM ASIACCS 2013. He also helped organize and served as a technical program committee member of high-quality international conferences in cybersecurity, networking, and ML/AI.