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Dr. WEN Wu is a professor of ZIBS and the executive director at the Fintech Security International Research Center. His current work is to build future digital financial infrastructure using “Digital Value”, a term he coined to represent all types of digital assets in the digital economy. After obtaining his Ph.D from Oxford University, he has worked at NTT Communication Science Laboratory in Japan, before appointed the youngest Associate Professor in Tokyo Science University. While visiting Stanford University as a visiting professor, he worked on Department of Defense’s Common Access Card (CAC) program and later joined HID as chief security architect oversaw the entire Federal Identity Management products and deployment. He later took up position of Chief Scientist at Dell and SAIC, both Fortune 500 companies, managing the deployment of US Federal Government’s Personal Identification and Verification (PIV) program at NASA, DHS, and FDA etc. In September 2011, he co-founded eCurrency Mint Ltd, the first silicon valley company to provide Central Bank Digital Currency solution globally. He helped coin the term Digital Fiat Currency working as the US expert to ISO Technical Committee 68 (SC 2) for digital currency security, and was elected chairman of the International Telecommunication Union’s Focus Group on Digital Fiat Currency, working with central banks and telecom regulators from People’s Bank of China as well as over 40 Central Banks around the world. He co-authored the first “Digital Legal Currency” book published by People’s Finance Publisher and is used as textbook for graduate studies. He is currently working with a few Central Banks in developing countries using “World Change” as the new digital financial infrastructure in practice.
Education
Work Experience
2020 – Present, Professor, Zhejiang University, China
2017 – 2019, Chairman, ITU Focus Group on Digital Currency, Swiss
2011 – 2017, Co-founder, Chief Scientist, eCurrency Mint Ltd, USA
2009 – 2011, Chief Scientist, Science Application International Corp, USA
2006 – 2009, Senior Manager, Dell Government Services, USA
2001 – 2006, Chief Security Architect, ActivIdentity (HID), USA
2000 – 2001, Visiting Professor, CSLI, Stanford University, USA
1998 – 2000, Associate Professor, Science University of Tokyo, Japan
1994 – 1998, Senior Researcher, NASA Independent Software V&V Facility, USA
1992 – 1994, Senior Researcher, NTT Communication Science Lab, Japan
Publications
Journal Articles
Wen Wu. World Change: The Future of Digital Financial
Wen Wu. Some thoughts on digital finance and digital integration of port and shipping logistics. Modern Finance Tribune, 2021(8):9-13.
Books & Book Chapters
Wen Wu, Chen Baoshan. Digital Legal Currency. People’s Finance Publisher,2018.
Research Grants
“Meta Innovation Research Center” in Zhejiang University Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, by Hana Financial Group, Korea
“Internationalization of RenMingBi based on Blockchain and Digital Currency Technology”, People’s Bank of China
Research Interests
Financial Technology
Digital currency
Blockchain
Cyber Security
Teaching Courses
Awards & Honors
Elected IEEE Future Technology Summit, Blockchain and Digital Currency Chair
Hangzhou Entreprenuer Leader Award, 2019
Elected Chairman of ITU Focus Group on Digital Currency, 2017
Elected board member of ANSI X.9, S Expert to ISO TC 68 SC2, 2016
National Distinguished Expert 2013
NASA HSPD-12 Leadership Award 2009
