Helen J. Wang is a Principal Researcher and Research Manager at Microsoft Research, Redmond. Helen founded the security and privacy research group MSR’s Redmond lab. Her research interests are in systems security. She's led numerous projects over her tenure at MSR including PeerPressure, Shield, BrowserShield, MashupOS/Gazelle/ServiceOS, each of which has been technology-transferred into the real-world, impacting Microsoft products as well as the computing industry at large. Helen received SIGMOD Test-of-time award in 2007, Gold Star award and multiple tech-transfer awards from Microsoft and Best Practical Paper from IEEE security and privacy symposium in 2012. Helen received her Ph.D. degree from the Computer Science department of U. C. Berkeley in 2001 and her B.S. in Computer Science from U.T. Austin in 1995.