Wei-Shinn Ku

Wei-Shinn Ku is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Auburn University. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California in 2007, following M.S. degrees in Computer Science (2003) and Electrical Engineering (2006), and a B.S. in Information and Computer Education from National Taiwan Normal University (1999). As a program director at the National Science Foundation (2019–2022), he shaped research directions in data science and cybersecurity.

Dr. Ku leads the Data Science and Engineering Laboratory (DSE Lab) at Auburn University, focusing on data management systems, data analytics, cybersecurity, and mobile computing. His recent work includes privacy-preserving techniques for IoT networks, spatio-temporal modeling for traffic prediction, and federated learning frameworks for mobile social networks. He has secured multiple NSF grants for projects like Indoor Spatial Query Evaluation and Data Integrity in Clouds.

Dr. Ku's 15 most recent articles (2024–2025) span domains including traffic prediction, air quality modeling, secure cloud computing, and IoT security, with subfields like graph neural networks, quadtree-based optimization, and homomorphic encryption. His research has been recognized with awards such as the Auburn Alumni Engineering Council Research Award (2018, 2012) and the AFRL Summer Research Associate (2016).

He has advised 18 current and graduated students in Ph.D. and M.S. programs, including Wenlu Wang, Ting Shen, and Kazuya Sakai. His professional service includes chair roles at IEEE/ACM conferences (ICDE, CIC, ICLR) and editorial positions at journals like IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering.