Chenyang Lu is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. He received the Ph.D. degree from University of Virginia in 2001, the M.S. degree from Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1997, and the B.S. degree from University of Science and Technology of China in 1995, all in computer science. The author and co-author of more than 100 publications, Professor Lu received an NSF CAREER Award in 2005 and a Best Paper Award at International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems in 2006. Professor Lu is Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks and International Journal of Sensor Networks, and Guest Editor of Real-Time Systems and IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. He also served on the organizational committees of a number of conferences, including as Program and General Chair of IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium in 2008 and 2009, Demo Chair of ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems in 2005, and Track Chair of IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium in 2007 and 2009. He is currently a member of the Executive Committee of IEEE Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems. His research interests include real-time embedded systems, wireless sensor networks, and cyber-physical systems.