Gudrun Susanne Wetzel is a German computer scientist known for her work in

computer security Computer security (also cybersecurity, digital security, or information technology (IT) security) is a subdiscipline within the field of information security. It consists of the protection of computer software, systems and computer network, n ...

, including the use of information channels such as voice or keystroke dynamics to strengthen password-based security, and the security of wireless communications standards including

Bluetooth Bluetooth is a short-range wireless technology standard that is used for exchanging data between fixed and mobile devices over short distances and building personal area networks (PANs). In the most widely used mode, transmission power is li ...

and

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. She is a professor of computer science at the

Stevens Institute of Technology Stevens Institute of Technology is a Private university, private research university in Hoboken, New Jersey. Founded in 1870, it is one of the oldest technological universities in the United States and was the first college in America solely de ...

Education and career

Wetzel earned a diploma from the

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT; ) is both a German public research university in Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, and a research center of the Helmholtz Association. KIT was created in 2009 when the University of Karlsruhe (), founde ...

in 1993, and completed her doctorate ( Dr. rer. nat.) at Saarland University in 1998. Her dissertation, ''Lattice Basis Reduction Algorithms and their Applications'', concerned lattice reduction; her

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was Johannes Buchmann. She joined the Stevens Institute of Technology in 2002. In 2017, she served a one-year term as a program director at the

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wetzel, Susanne Year of birth missing (living people) Living people German computer scientists German women computer scientists Karlsruhe Institute of Technology alumni Saarland University alumni Stevens Institute of Technology faculty