Dr. Lei Chen earned his B.Eng. (Computer Science) from Nanjing University of Technology (China) in 2000. He received Ph.D. in Computer Science from Auburn University in Aug. 2007. During his graduate study at Auburn University, he taught undergraduate courses and worked as a GTA in multiple graduate courses for 5 years. He joined the Department of Computer Science at Sam Houston State University as an assistant professor in Aug. 2007. Dr. Chen teaches Network, Network Security and Information Security courses in the department.

Dr. Chen has been actively engaged in research on computer networks, network security, wireless and multimedia networking. He was a graduate research assistant for 5 years at Auburn University and worked as Vodafone Research Fellow in the last year of his Ph.D. study. In the years of 2005 and 2006, he had 5 papers published in major IEEE and ACM conferences. He welcomes any research/project collaboration on the above research topics.

EXPERIENCE:

·        Aug. 2007 ~ present: Assistant Professor, Computer Science, Sam Houston State University

·        Aug. 2001~ Aug. 2007: Teaching/Research Assistant/Fellowship, Instructor, Computer Science and Software Engineering, Auburn University

·        Jan. 2001 ~ July 2001: Network and Database Engineer, Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation, Shenzhen, China

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