Wenyuan Xu (Chinese: 徐文渊) is a Chinese computer scientist specializing in computer security for wireless networks, embedded systems, and the internet of things. She is a professor in the College of Engineering of Zhejiang University, where she directs the Ubiquitous System Security Lab.
Xu studied electrical engineering at Zhejiang University, graduating in 1998, and continuing for a master's degree in 2001. She completed a Ph.D. at Rutgers University in the US in 2007.[1] Her dissertation, Defending Wireless Networks from Radio Interference Attacks, was jointly supervised by Wade Trappe and Yanyong Zhang.[2]
She joined the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of South Carolina, becoming an associate professor there,[1] before returning to Zhejiang University as a professor in 2013.[3]
Xu won the Chinese Young Women in Science Award in 2023.[4] She was named an IEEE Fellow, in the 2024 class of fellows, "for contributions to embedded systems for automobile security".[5]