Susanne Wetzel


Gudrun Susanne Wetzel is a German computer scientist known for her work in computer security, 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 and GSM. She is a professor of computer science at the Stevens Institute of Technology.

Education and career

Wetzel earned a diploma from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in 1993, and completed her doctorate at Saarland University in 1998. Her dissertation, Lattice Basis Reduction Algorithms and their Applications, concerned lattice reduction; her doctoral advisor 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 National Science Foundation.