Janne Lindqvist is an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering. He directs the Rutgers Human-Computer Interaction and Security Engineering Laboratory https://www.lindqvistlab.org. He is the recipient of NSF CAREER award, which is “the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization.” He works at the intersection of human-computer interaction, mobile computing and security engineering.
Before joining academia, Janne co-founded a wireless networks company, Radionet, which was represented in 24 countries before being sold to Florida-based Airspan Networks in 2005. Janne Lindqvist’s work has received sustained attention in the global media including Scientific American, IEEE Spectrum, MIT Technology Review, Communications of the ACM, NPR, WHYY Radio, Yahoo! News, International Business Times, and also in ABC News, CBS News, Fox News, CW, WPIX News, WGN News, ABC News Radio, CBS Radio News, Fortune, Computerworld, Der Spiegel, London Times, New Scientist, PBS, Slashdot, The Register, and Wired (UK).