PhD (University of Waterloo, Canada, 2012)
awarded the Governor General's Academic Gold Medal
PhD (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, 2006)
Bio: Rongxing Lu is a full professor at Queen's School of Computing. Previously, he served as the Acting Director of the Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity (CIC), held the Mastercard IoT Research Chair, and was a professor in the Faculty of Computer Science at the University of New Brunswick (UNB). Before that, he was a tenure-track assistant professor at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, from April 2013 to August 2016. Rongxing Lu worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Waterloo from May 2012 to April 2013. He was awarded the most prestigious “Governor General’s Gold Medal”, when he received his PhD degree from the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada, in 2012; and won the 8th IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) Asia Pacific (AP) Outstanding Young Researcher Award, in 2013. Dr. Lu is an IEEE Fellow. His research interests include IoT-Big Data security and privacy, privacy enhancing technologies, and applied cryptography. He has published extensively in his areas of expertise with H-index 93 and citations 38,840+ from Google Scholar as of March 2025, and was the recipient of 10 best (student) paper awards from some reputable journals and conferences. Dr. Lu served/ serves as the Chair of 2022-2023 IEEE ComSoc CIS-TC (Communications and Information Security Technical Committee), and the founding Co-chair of IEEE TEMS Blockchain and Distributed Ledgers Technologies Technical Committee (BDLT-TC). Dr. Lu is an IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer (2024-2025). Dr. Lu is the Winner of 2016-17 and 2023-24 Excellence in Teaching Award in FCS, UNB.
School of Computing, Queen's University
25 Union St, Kingston, Ontario K7L 2N8
Office: Goodwin Hall 531
Email: rongxing.lu@queensu.ca or rxlu@ieee.org
School of Computing, Queen's University
25 Union St, Kingston, Ontario K7L 2N8
Office: Goodwin Hall 531
Email: rongxing.lu@queensu.ca
