Wade Trappe is a professor of electrical and

computer engineering Computer engineering (CoE or CpE) is a branch of electrical engineering and computer science that integrates several fields of computer science and electronic engineering required to develop computer hardware and software. Computer engineers ...

at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,

Rutgers University Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a Public university, public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's ...

, and an associate director of the Wireless Information Network Laboratory ( WINLAB). Trappe received his B.A. in

mathematics Mathematics is an area of knowledge that includes the topics of numbers, formulas and related structures, shapes and the spaces in which they are contained, and quantities and their changes. These topics are represented in modern mathematics ...

from the

University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin, UT, or Texas) is a public research university in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 1883 and is the oldest institution in the University of Texas System. With 40,916 undergraduate students, 11,075 ...

in 1994 and his Ph.D. in applied mathematics and

computational science Computational science, also known as scientific computing or scientific computation (SC), is a field in mathematics that uses advanced computing capabilities to understand and solve complex problems. It is an area of science that spans many disc ...

from the

University of Maryland, College Park The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland. Founded in 1856, UMD is the flagship institution of the University System of Mary ...

, in 2002. Trappe was an editor for ''

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security The ''IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security '' is a scientific journal published by the IEEE Signal Processing Society (IEEE SPS). The journal is co-sponsored by several of the subject societies that make up the IEEE: IEEE Comm ...

'', ''IEEE Signal Processing Magazine'' and ''

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing ''IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing'' is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering technology related to the mobility of users, systems, data and computing. It was established in 2002 and is published by the IEEE Computer Society. ...

'' and was the SPS' representative to the

IEEE Signal Processing Society The IEEE Signal Processing Society (IEEE SPS) is one of the nearly 40 technical societies of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the first one created. Its mission is to "advance and disseminate state-of-the-art scien ...

's governing board of IEEE TMC. He was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2014 "for contributions to information and communication security".

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