Dr. Jianwei Lai
Associate Professor of Information Systems
- About
- Education
- Awards & Honors
- Selected Research
Biography
Jianwei Lai is an associate professor in the School of Information Technology at Illinois State University. She received her Ph.D. in Information Systems in 2016 from University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She also earned her master's degree in Psychology from Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, in 2009.
Current Courses
IT 214.003 Social, Legal, And Ethical Issues In Information Technology
IT 353.001 Web Development Technologies
IT 353.002 Web Development Technologies
IT 453.001 Web Development Technologies
Teaching Interests & Areas
Jianwei is interested in teaching courses related to Web development, user interface design, human-computer interaction, research methodology, usability, user experience, and mobile computing.
Research Interests & Areas
Jianwei Lai's research interests lie in the fields of Human-Computer-Interaction, Mobile Computing and Applications, and User Behavioral and Cognitive Activities. She is interested in both foundational issues and practical innovations of user interaction with digital devices, particularly the design of novel interfaces and interaction techniques. She is also very interested in accessibility issues.
Ph D Information Systems
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Baltimore, MD
MS Information Systems
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Baltimore, MD
MS Educational and Developmental Psychology
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Beijing, China
BA English
University of Science & Technology, Beijing
Beijing, China
The School of IT Teaching Innovation Award
School of IT
2023
Grants and Contracts
Bizarre Yet Memorable: Improving Authentication Security through the Use of ChatGPT-generated Images
Jianwei Lai.
CAST URG. July 1 2024 - June 30 2025
Nurturing the sense of belonging by supporting visually impaired students in hands-on labs
Yi-hsiang Chang, Elahe Javadi, Jianwei Lai.
CAST. January 2024 - June 2024
Artificial Intelligence Foundations in Autonomous Vehicles
Yi-hsiang Chang, Elahe Javadi, Jianwei Lai.
Illinois Innovation Network. March 2023 - March 2024
SafeNAV – A Technology-Enable Navigation Solution for Visually Impaired Pedestrians
Yi-hsiang Chang, Elahe Javadi, Jianwei Lai.
ISU RSP. August 2023 - December 2024
A Shoulder-surfing Resistant Graphical Passcode
Jianwei Lai.
School of IT SEEDS award. March 2021 - December 2021
A Shoulder-surfing Resistant Graphical Passcode
Jianwei Lai.
School of IT Summer Research Grant. May 2021 - August 2021
A shoulder-surfing resistant graphical passcode
Jianwei Lai.
CAST URG. July 1 2021 - June 30 2022
Using Information Technology to Foster Diversity, Equity, Belonging, and Inclusion
Elahe Javadi, Cristan Embree, Jianwei Lai, Zeb Houle, Yousra Javed.
CAST. 2021 - 2022
SoTL URG: Science Literacy for General Education at ISU: A Pilot Study with HSC 156: Environmental Health in the 21st Century
Guang Jin, Alicia Wodika, Jianwei Lai.
Illinois State University. August 2019
SaTC: CORE: Medium: Implicit Single-handed User Authentication by Induced Thumb Biometrics on Touchscreen Mobile Devices
Jianwei Lai, Lina Zhou, Dongsong Zhang.
NSF. August 1 2017 - July 31 2020
University Research Grant (URG)
Jianwei Lai.
Search Results College of Applied Science and Technology. August 1 2017 - June 30 2018
New Faculty Startup
Jianwei Lai.
September 15 2016 - September 15 2018
Conference Proceeding
From Small to Big: Smartwatch Use in Mitigating COVID-19 – Understanding User Experience from Social Media Content Analysis
Jianwei Lai, Lina Zhou, Kanlun Wang, Dongsong Zhang.
Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-55), 4199-4208, (2022)
A shoulder-surfing resistant graphical password scheme
Jianwei Lai.
Americas Conference on Information Systems 2021, (2021)
Behaviors of Unwarranted Password Identification via Shoulder-Surfing during Mobile Authentication
Lina Zhou, Kanlun Wang, Jianwei Lai, Dongsong Zhang.
2021 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI), 3, (2021)
Understanding attacking behaviors toward password-based mobile user authentication
Lina Zhou, Kanlun Wang, Jianwei Lai, Dongsong Zhang.
Who Are You?! Adventures in Authentication Workshop (WAY 2021), (2021)
A Shortcut for Caret Positioning on Touch-Screen Phones
Jianwei Lai, Navid Rajabi, Elahe Javadi.
Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, (2019)
A Thumb Stroke-Based Virtual Keyboard for Sight-Free Text Entry on Touch-Screen Mobile Phones
Jianwei Lai, Dongsong Zhang, Sen Wang, Isil Yakut Kilic, Lina Zhou.
Proceedings of the 51st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 293-302, (2018)
Attribution Apprehension, Automated Attribution, and Creative Integration
Elahe Javadi, Jianwei Lai.
Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, (2017)
Continuous User Authentication on Touch-Screen Mobile Devices: Toward More Secure and Usable M-Commerce
Dongsong Zhang, Yin Kang, Lina Zhou, Jianwei Lai.
the Fifteenth Workshop on e-Business (WeB 2016), (2016)
A Shoulder-Surfing Resistant Scheme Embedded in Traditional Passwords
Jianwei Lai, Ernest Arko.
Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-54), 7144-7152
Countering Selectivity and Enhancing Integrative Complexity through Visualizing Knowledge Bottlenecks
Elahe Javadi, Jianwei Lai.
AMCIS 2019 proceedings
From Digits to Dialogues: Improving PIN Memorability via LLM-Generated Stories
Kanlun Wang, Lina Zhou, Jianwei Lai.
2025 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics, 121-126
Presentations
From Digits to Dialogues: Improving PIN Memorability via LLM-Generated Stories
Kanlun Wang, Lina Zhou, Jianwei Lai.
2025 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics, Hongkong, China, June, 2025
From Small to Big: Smartwatch Use in Mitigating COVID-19–Understanding User Experience from Social Media Content Analysis
Jianwei Lai, Lina Zhou, Kanlun Wang, Dongsong Zhang.
Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Online, January, 2022
Behaviors of Unwarranted Password Identification via Shoulder-Surfing during Mobile Authentication
Lina Zhou, Kanlun Wang, Jianwei Lai, Dongsong Zhang.
IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics, Online, November, 2021
A Shoulder-Surfing Resistant Graphical Password Scheme
Jianwei Lai.
Twenty-Seventh Americas Conference on Information System, online, August, 2021
Understanding Attacking Behaviors toward Password-based Mobile User Authentication
Lina Zhou, Kanlun Wang, Jianwei Lai, Dongsong Zhang.
Who Are You?! Adventures in Authentication Workshop, USENIX Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS), online, August, 2021
Pedagogical Tools Developed to Foster Accuracy-Oriented Reasoning
Guang Jin, Alicia Wodika, Rebekka Darner, Jianwei Lai, Jared Cihlar, Maddie Moore.
20th SENCER (Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities) Conference (Virtual), online, August, 2020
"Science Literacy for General Education at ISU: A Pilot Study"
Guang Jin, Alicia Wodika, Rebekka Darner, Jianwei Lai, Jared Cihlar, Maddie Moore.
Illinois State University Annual Teaching & Learning Symposium, Normal IL, January 8, 2020
Implicit One-handed Mobile User Authentication by Induced Thumb Biometrics on Touch-screen Handheld Devices
Jianwei Lai, Lina Zhou, Dongsong Zhang.
NSF 2019 Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace Principal Investigators' Meeting, Alexandria, Virginia, October 28, 2019
A Thumb Stroke-Based Virtual Keyboard for Sight-Free Text Entry on Touch-Screen Mobile Phones
Jianwei Lai, Dongsong Zhang, Sen Wang, Isil Yakut Kilic, Lina Zhou.
51st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Hawaii, January 2, 2018
Attribution Apprehension, Automated Attribution, and Creative Integration
Elahe Javadi, Jianwei Lai.
Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, Portland, OR, February, 2017