Lan Wang (computer scientist)
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Lan Wang is a Chinese and American computer scientist specializing in computer networks, and especially named data networking, including data forwarding, data synchronization, and network scheduling. She is the Faudree University Professor of Computer Science at the University of Memphis, on leave as a program director at the National Science Foundation.[1]
Wang was born in Hunan. She graduated from Peking University in 1997, with a bachelor's degree in computer science, and continued her education at the University of California, Los Angeles. She received a master's degree there in 1999 and completed her Ph.D. in 2004.[2] Her dissertation, Improving Internet resilience through lightweight preventive detection (LPD) and persistent detection and recovery, was supervised by Lixia Zhang.[3]