Jianwei Niu, PhD
Dean of University College, Computer Science
Hispanic Serving Institution Endowed Chair
Professor
Contact
- GSR 1.104
- 210-458-5191
- jianwei.niu@utsa.edu
- Google Scholar
Bio
Jianwei Niu serves as the Dean of University College and a professor of computer science at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She earned her PhD in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada in 2005. Her research focuses on software engineering, cybersecurity, and privacy compliance analysis. Through the use of formal methods and program analysis, she is able to heighten assurance that privacy regulations are complied and security policies are enforced. Her work has been supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), National Security Agency (NSA), U.S. Department of Defense, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, MITRE, and Microsoft, among others. She has published more than 60 peer reviewed journal articles and conference proceedings and has co-authored most publications with her students. Many of her publications have received prestigious awards, including multiple Best Paper Awards, one Distinguished Paper Award, two Test of Time Awards, and the ACM SIGSOFT Research Highlights Paper.
Jianwei Niu’s teaching has been recognized with the Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award and the President’s Distinguished Achievement Award for Teaching Excellence. Nine PhD students successfully completed their doctoral degrees under her supervision, with five securing tenure-track academic positions at Stony Brook University, Rochester Institute of Technology, St. Mary's University, Air Force Institute of Technology, and UT San Antonio. She is passionate about improving student success through mentoring and professional development, for which she has received several grant fundings.
Teaching
- Data Science
- Software Engineering
- Formal Methods
- Privacy Engineering
Research Interests
- Cybersecurity
- Data science
- Formal methods
- Privacy compliance
- Software engineering
Degrees
- PhD in Computer Science; University of Waterloo
- BS in Computer Science; Jilin University, China
