About

Dr. Cong Wang is an associate professor at the College of Control Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China, where he was born and raised. Cong received his Ph.D from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Stony Brook University (16’), advised by Prof. Yuanyuan Yang, B. Eng in Information Engineering from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (08’) and M. Sc in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University (09’). From 2017-2023, he was a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor at the Cybersecurity Department of George Mason University, Fairfax, VA and the Computer Science Department at the Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA (working with Prof. Hongyi Wu. His research mainly focuses on Adversarial ML, LLM Safety and Resource-constrained Devices. He is the recipient of NSF CRII Award in 2019 and NSF CAREER Award in 2021.

Research Interests

Mobile and Edge Computing; Paralleled and Distributed Computing; Adversarial Machine Learning

Selected Publications

Services

• Charing: ACM Sensys 24, Registration Chair; ICNC 23-Edge Computing Track Chair
• Program Committee Members: INFOCOM 2020-2025, ICDCS 23, IJCAI 23, CVPR 22, IJCAI 22, ECCV 22, ICDCS 22, INFOCOM 20, INFOCOM 19, IPDPS 20, ICDCS 19, ICPADS 17.
• Journal Reviewers: TMC, TON, JSAC, TC, TWC, TOSN, TIS, CSUR, TSP, TCOM, TCC
• NSF Panelist: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019.

Awards

• 2021: NSF CAREER Award
• 2021: Distinguished Research Award, ODU
• 2020: Richard Cheng Research Innovation Award, ODU
• 2019: NSF CRII Award
• 2018: IEEE PerCom Mark Weiser Best Paper Award