Quanyan Zhu is an associate professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and is director of the Laboratory for Agile and Resilient Complex Systems (LARX). The lab focuses on the development of fundamental principles and tools to address security and resilience issues with robotics, industrial control systems, manufacturing systems, Internet of Things, cyber-physical systems, and critical infrastructures. He has received multiple best paper awards and a National Science Foundation CAREER Award. Zhu received his doctorate from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2013.