Dr. Cong Wang is an Associate Professor at the College of Control Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, where he was born and raised. He 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 Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA. His research focuses on LLM Efficiency and Security. He is the recipient of the NSF CRII Award in 2019 and NSF CAREER Award in 2021.
📢News: System-Level LLM Attack Accepted at NeurIPS 2026 ! Congrats to Tianyi and Huawei !
🎉News: Congratulations to Phil Huawei Fan on winning the Second Prize in GoAI! AgentTero, a Zotero-like open-source agent for scientific literature management, is now fully open source. Code: AgentTero on GitHub. Press coverage: 📰 📡
Research Interests
Awards
2026ACL SAC Highlight AwardACL
2023China Overseas Talents ProgramNSFC
2021NSF CAREER AwardNSF
2021Distinguished Research Award, ODUODU
2020Richard Cheng Research Innovation Award, ODUODU
2019NSF CRII AwardNSF
2018IEEE PerCom Mark Weiser Best Paper AwardIEEE
Services
Chairing
IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing — Associate Editor 2025–Now ACM SenSys 24 — Finance Chair ICNC 23 — ECB Co-Chair
Program Committee
INFOCOM 20–26 ICDCS 23 IPDPS 20 All AI Conferences
Journal Reviewer
TMC TON JSAC TC TWC TOSN TIS CSUR
NSF Panelist
2019 2020 2021 2022
