Dong Wang

Roles and Affiliations: Associate Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's School of Information Sciences, affiliated with the Siebel School of Computing and Data Science, Illinois Informatics, and multiple research centers including NCSA and CSBS. Director of the Social Sensing & Intelligence Lab.

Education: PhD in Computer Science from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Research Focus: Social sensing, human-centered AI, responsible AI, edge computing, and smart cities. Develops systems that integrate human and machine intelligence for societal challenges like disaster response, healthcare, and environmental sustainability. Authored two books on social sensing and edge computing.

Recent Trends in Publications: Focuses on AI fairness, crowd-AI collaboration, misinformation detection, and federated learning applications. Recent work addresses demographic bias mitigation in AI models and symbiotic learning frameworks for healthcare policy adherence.

Awards and Honors: NSF CAREER Award, ARO YIP Award, Google Faculty Award, and multiple teaching excellence recognitions. Senior Member of IEEE.

Grants and Projects: Active projects include metacognitive calibration interventions, disaster scene assessment systems, and environmental contaminant modeling. Completed work includes smart water crowdsensing and health policy projects.

Labs and Teams: Leads the Social Sensing & Intelligence Lab, collaborating on interdisciplinary initiatives across computer science, informatics, and environmental science.