About
Weiping Pei, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the School of Cyber Studies at The University of Tulsa. Her research interests are broadly in the area of security and privacy, crowdsourcing, machine learning, and human-computer interaction, with the recent focus on (1) secure and privacy-preserving crowdsourcing, (2) robust and reliable machine learning, and (3) usable security and privacy. She received Ph.D. degree in computer science from the Colorado School of Mines in 2022. Before that, she earned a B.Eng. degree in microelectronics and an M.Eng. degree in software engineering from the Sun Yat-sen University in 2015 and 2017, respectively.
Awards and Honors
- Recipient of NSF CRII Grant in 2023
- Distinguished Nominee of the university-level Rath Award for the Best Ph.D. Thesis with the Potential for the Greatest Societal Impact at MINES, December 2022
- Outstanding CS Ph.D. Student Award at MINES in 2021
- Grace Hopper Celebration (GHC) Student Scholarship in 2018
Education
- Ph.D., Computer Science, Colorado School of Mines, 2022
- M.Eng., Software Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, 2017
- B.Eng., Microelectronics, Sun Yat-sen University, 2015
Research interests and areas of expertise
- Security and privacy
- Crowdsourcing
- Machine learning
- Human-computer interaction