Yingying Chen

Yingying (Jennifer) Chen is a computer scientist whose research involves mobile computing, the internet of things, the security implications of mobile sensor data, wearable technology, and activity trackers. She is a professor at Rutgers University, where she heads the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and directs the Data Analysis and Information SecuritY (DAISY) Lab.

Education and career
Chen has a 2007 Ph.D. from Rutgers, jointly supervised by Richard Martin and Wade Trappe. Before returning to Rutgers as a faculty member, she worked for Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise and then as a professor at the Stevens Institute of Technology.

Books
Chen is the coauthor of books including:
 * Securing Emerging Wireless Systems (with Wenyuan Xu, Wade Trappe, and Yanyong Zhang, Springer, 2009)
 * Pervasive Wireless Environments: Detecting and Localizing User Spoofing (with Jie Yang, Wade Trappe, and Jerry Cheng, Springer, 2014)
 * Sensing Vehicle Conditions for Detecting Driving Behaviors (with Jiadi Yu and Xiangyu Xu, Springer, 2018)

Recognition
Chen was named an IEEE Fellow, in the 2020 class of fellows, "for contributions to mobile computing and mobile security". She was named as a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in 2021. She was named as an ACM Fellow, in the 2023 class of fellows, for "contributions to design and application of mobile sensing and mobile security systems".