Dr. Lina Pu

Education

• B.S., Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China, 2009
• Ph.D., Engineering, University of Connecticut, 2015

Biography

Dr. Lina Pu is a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Alabama (UA). Before joining UA, she was an Assistant Professor at the University of Southern Mississippi. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Connecticut in 2015. Her lab focuses on research areas that include cybersecurity, network security, wireless and underwater networking, sustainable IoT, terrestrial/underwater edge computing, and deep learning-enabled wireless networking.​ To meet the ever-growing need of energy supply to numerous sensor nodes in IoT, energy harvesting is emerging as a promising alternative to traditional power grids and batteries. Through scavenging energy such as solar, RF, and biothermal energy from the surrounding environment, we expect sensors to run semi-perpetually without a battery replacement. Dr. Pu’s research goals are to design and develop sustainable, efficient, and secure communication and computing techniques in the terrestrial/underwater edge computing paradigm.

Dr. Pu also works with the UA Cyber Institute (UACI) and UA Alabama Water Institute (AWI).

Honors and Awards

• Best Student Paper Award, International Conference on Modeling, Identification and Control, 2019
• Pre-doctoral Fellowship, University of Connecticut, 2015
• Best Paper Award, IFIP Networking Conference, 2013