PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Rongxing Lu

Also known as Lu Rongxing, Lu Rong-xing

Rongxing Lu is a computer scientist who works on security and privacy for IoT, big data and artificial intelligence, using privacy-enhancing techniques and applied cryptography. After a PhD at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2006, he earned a second doctorate at the University of Waterloo in 2012 and won the Governor General's Academic Gold Medal. He was an assistant professor at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore from 2013 to 2016, joined the University of New Brunswick in 2016, became an IEEE Fellow in 2021, and took the Mastercard IoT Research Chair in 2022. A Highly Cited Researcher in 2023, he served as Acting Director of the Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity from January 2024 and coauthored the CVPR 2024 paper DIEM on image question answering. Since 2025, he is a professor in the School of Computing at Queen's University, where his Privacy Enhancing Techniques lab works on federated learning, homomorphic encryption and local differential privacy.

Works
825
Citations
33,184
h-index
85

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 22 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 2006–2012

    Doctorates in Shanghai and Waterloo

    He earns a PhD at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2006 and a second PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo in 2012, supervised by Sherman Shen. The Waterloo degree brings him the Governor General's Academic Gold Medal in 2012.

  2. 2012–2016

    Assistant professor at NTU

    He works as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Waterloo from May 2012 to April 2013 and as an assistant professor in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore from April 2013 to August 2016. In 2013, he wins the IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award.

  3. 2016

    Joining the University of New Brunswick

    In 2016, he joins the University of New Brunswick. Its computer science faculty gives him the 2016–2017 Excellence in Teaching Award.

  4. 2021

    Named an IEEE Fellow

    In January 2021, IEEE elevates him to Fellow, in the Class of 2021, for contributions to security and privacy in vehicular communications. He is the only Fellow in the IEEE New Brunswick Section.

  5. April 2022

    Mastercard IoT Research Chair

    In April 2022, Mastercard announces a $1.75 million investment in UNB's Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity, and he is named the new Mastercard IoT chair.

  6. 2023–2024

    Highly Cited Researcher and DIEM

    The Web of Science Group names him a 2023 Highly Cited Researcher in Computer Science. In 2024, he coauthors DIEM, a CVPR paper that splits an image question into sub-questions and sub-images for image question answering with LLaVA-v1.5. He also coauthors a EuroS&P 2024 paper on a fingerprinting scheme that protects the intellectual property of image-to-image GANs.

  7. January 2024

    Acting director of the CIC

    In January 2024, he takes on the role of Acting Director of the Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity at the University of New Brunswick.

  8. Since 2025

    Professor at Queen's University

    In January 2025, he joins the School of Computing at Queen's University, where he is a full professor. His Privacy Enhancing Techniques lab works on security and privacy in IoT, big data, and artificial intelligence, with frameworks in local differential privacy, homomorphic encryption, and secure, explainable federated learning. In 2026, he receives the Technical Recognition Award from the IEEE Communications and Information Security Technical Committee.

Career

  1. Since 2025Queen's UniversityFull Professor
  2. 2016–2025University of New BrunswickMastercard IoT Research Chair, Acting Director
  3. 2013–2016Nanyang Technological UniversityAssistant Professor
  4. 2012–2013University of WaterlooPostdoctoral Fellow

Education

  1. 2012University of WaterlooPhD
  2. 2006Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityPhD

From the biography and OpenAlex affiliations (the years of papers that list the organization), so some years are approximate.

Most-cited works

  1. CICIoT2023: A Real-Time Dataset and Benchmark for Large-Scale Attacks in IoT Environment2023 · Sensors · 1,207 citations
  2. EPPA: An Efficient and Privacy-Preserving Aggregation Scheme for Secure Smart Grid Communications2012 · IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems · 774 citations
  3. Optimal Workload Allocation in Fog-Cloud Computing Towards Balanced Delay and Power Consumption2016 · IEEE Internet of Things Journal · 677 citations
  4. DeepFed: Federated Deep Learning for Intrusion Detection in Industrial Cyber–Physical Systems2020 · IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics · 597 citations
  5. Smart community: an internet of things application2011 · IEEE Communications Magazine · 586 citations

From OpenAlex, as of 21 October 2026.

  1. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other universityIncludes Queen's University. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other university. We compare doctorate and 5+ year employment links, career timing and current workplaces for 187 major-prize and 1,111 best-paper winners.
  2. More people shaping AI studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology than at any other institutionIncludes Queen's University. We estimate where the people shaping AI studied and where their careers led. Massachusetts Institute of Technology leads with 467 former students, including 291 recorded doctorates.
  3. The company share of AI researchers’ top papers was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974Includes Queen's University. We estimate where the people shaping AI worked when their most-cited papers appeared: the company share was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974, and Google led all organizations in 2020–2024.
  4. 84% of people shaping AI with recorded undergraduate and doctoral schools changed institutions for their doctorateIncludes Shanghai Jiao Tong University. 84% of people shaping AI with recorded undergraduate and doctoral schools changed institutions for their doctorate. Across 2,116 people with both an undergraduate degree and a doctorate recorded, we trace which undergraduate schools feed which doctoral programs, how often students stay at the same school, and how paths differ by birth-country region.

Colleagues

People with dated positions at the same organization in the same years.

Sources and credits

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  1. Welcome to Rongxing Lu's Website ! research.cs.queensu.ca. Checked 20 October 2026.
  2. University of New Brunswick and Mastercard announce $1.75 million in funding to advance IoT cybersecurity research and training in Canada blogs.unb.ca. Checked 20 October 2026.
  3. Rongxing Lu | The Governor General of Canada gg.ca. Checked 20 October 2026.
  4. Rongxing Lu | IEEE Vehicular Technology Society vtsociety.org. Checked 20 October 2026.
  5. Welcome to Rongxing Lu's Website ! research.cs.queensu.ca. Checked 20 October 2026.
  6. Rongxing Lu Elevated to IEEE Fellow – IEEE New Brunswick nb.ieee.ca. Checked 20 October 2026.
  7. University of New Brunswick and Mastercard announced $1.75 million in funding to advance IoT cybersecurity research and training in Canada | Mastercard Newsroom newsroom.mastercard.com. Checked 20 October 2026.
  8. CVPR 2024 Open Access Repository openaccess.thecvf.com. Checked 20 October 2026.
  9. [2106.11760] Fingerprinting Image-to-Image Generative Adversarial Networks arxiv.org. Checked 20 October 2026.
  10. Welcome to Rongxing Lu's Website ! research.cs.queensu.ca. Checked 20 October 2026.