Gang Wangمشاهده پروفایل
دانشیار
Gang Wang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), affiliated with the Siebel School of Computing and Data Science. He also holds affiliate roles in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the Informatics Program (School of Information Sciences), and the Coordinated Science Laboratory (CSL). He joined UIUC in 2019, previously serving as an Assistant Professor at Virginia Tech. Education: Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Santa Barbara (2016), advised by Ben Y. Zhao and Heather Zheng; B.E. from Tsinghua University (2010). Awards include the NSF CAREER Award (2018), Amazon Research Award (2021), and multiple best paper awards in top conferences like USENIX Security and ACM CCS. Research focuses on Security and Privacy, Internet Measurement, and Data Mining. Key areas include email spoofing vulnerabilities, adversarial machine learning, and AI-driven security tools. Recent projects involve explainable AI for phishing detection, benchmark contamination in LLMs, and mitigating deepfake disinformation. Publications span top venues like USENIX Security, IEEE S&P, ACM CCS, and IMC. He collaborates with industry partners and researchers in HCI and AI. Current roles include Associate Director of the Capital One Illinois Center for Generative AI Safety (ASKS) and leadership in NSF-funded initiatives like the ACTION AI Institute.











