Office: Thomas M. Siebel Center
201 North Goodwin Avenue
MC 258, Room 4316
Urbana, IL 61801-2302
Phone: 217-244-1008
Email: gangw@illinois.edu
Fall 2020: CS598
Spring 2020: CS463
Fall 2019: CS598
Spring 2019: CS4264
Fall 2018: CS4984
Spring 2018: CS4264
Fall 2017: CS6604
Fall 2016: CS4264
22 Dec. 2020:
A new paper accepted to
NDSS 2021! Congrats to Junjie and Wenbo!
01 Dec. 2020:
DIMVA 2021 TPC
26 Nov. 2020:
MobiSys 2021 TPC
19 Nov. 2020:
CCS 2021 TPC (Usability and Measurement track)
25 Oct. 2020:
A new paper accepted to AsiaCCS 2021.
02 Oct. 2020:
Two papers accepted to USENIX Security 2021. Big congrats to our students (Limin, Wenbo, Qingying, Hang, and Steve) and collaborators (Xinyu, Yang, Ali, and Arri)!
27 Jul. 2020:
Thank you NSF for the support! New funded project with Xinyu (PSU) on "Vulnerability Reproduction by Fusing Crowd and Machine Generated Data"!
18 Jul. 2020:
WWW 2021 TPC (Security, Privacy and Trust track)
9 Jun. 2020:
eCrime 2020 TPC
12 May. 2020:
AISec 2020 TPC
8 May. 2020:
Hang passed his PhD defense today!
1 May. 2020:
Very excited to be organizing the SIGKDD Workshop on
Deployable Machine Learning for Security Defense!
2 Apr. 2020:
Interview with Vox on coronavirus scam and email phishing:
article;
video.
1 Apr. 2020:
Serving on USENIX Security 2021 TPC
25 Mar. 2020:
Serving on NDSS 2021 TPC
28 Feb. 2020:
Two papers accepted, one by IEEE SP'20, and the other one by USENIX Security'20. Big congrats to our students: Steve, Qingying, Tianrui, Jiameng, Shuofei, Jianjun, Limin, Boqin, and Ziyi!
10 Jan. 2020:
Our measurement paper on sensitive voice assistant applications accepted to WWW 2020 (TheWebConf). Congrats to Faysal, Hang, and Jiamin!
13 Nov. 2019:
Serving on the TPC of MobiSys 2020
22 Sep. 2019:
Our app usage fingerprinting paper won the IMWUT Distinguished Paper Award (2019). Congrats Zhen and Runtong!
18 Aug. 2019:
Our measurement paper on payment card industry is accepted by CCS 2019. Congrats Sazzadur!
27 Aug. 2019:
Serving on the TPC of TheWebConf 2020 (WWW) "Security, Privacy, Trust" Track.
18 Jul. 2019:
Two papers accepted by IMC 2019. Big congrats to Peng, Limin, and Mshabab!
21 May. 2019:
Joining the TPC of NDSS 2020 and IMC 2019.
9 Apr. 2019:
Congrats to Peng and Chao on their Asia CCS paper!
28 Nov. 2018:
Congrats to Hang and Peng on their very first IEEE SP paper!
Recent press coverage on our GPS spoofing project
Forbes,
The Wall Street Journal
ACM TechNews,
The Cyberwire podcast,
The Register,
Naked Security,
BleepingComputer,
Hackster, and more.
Recent press coverage on our spear phishing project
ACM TechNews,
Science Daily,
VT News,
Digital Journal,
The Cyberwire,
The University Network, and more.
Press coverage on our joint project with Dashlane
Daily Express,
The Sun,
Daily Mail,
Mirror,
Security Magazine,
Yahoo!,
Darkreading, and more.
My recent interview with The Washington Times on Internet scam.
Press coverage on our password project:
New Scientist,
Daily Express,
The Sun,
DailyMail
Interviewed by The New York Times on IoT and Smart devices.
Press coverage on our app collusioin project
ACM TechNews, phys.org, NewScientist, The Sun, Business Insider, Independent, Daily Mail, IBT, VT News and more.
Interview with WVTF Radio NPR on scam, fake content and more
Press coverage on our Waze/Sybil device project
Fusion (1,
2),
CBS News,
Recode/CNBC,
The Telegraph, Times of Israel,
i24 News,
TechCrunch,
PC Magazine,
and many more.
Press coverage on Crowdturfing
MIT Tech Review,
Boston Globe,
SlashDot,
MIT Technology Review,
Consumerist,
InfoWorld
05/2020| CFP: CCS21 05/2020| SP20 Conf 06/2020| CFP: SP21 06/2020| CFP: USENIX21 08/2020| KDD Workshop 08/2020| USENIX20 Conf
MyCS,
Compass2g,
CS Wiki
Gradudate Application
Clickstream Project
CACM,
CRA, Computeroxy
Lab Cluster
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). At UIUC, I am also affiliated with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (by courtesy), and the Security and Privacy Research at Illinois (SPRAI) group. My research covers a range of topics in Security and Privacy, Internet Measurements, Mobile Networks, and HCI, from data-driven perspectives. My current projects are focused on the security and privacy of mobile and IoT systems, security of social computing systems, adversarial machine learning, and machine learning explanation. My work is usually published in cconferences such as Usenix Security/CCS/NDSS/Oakland, IMC/WWW, and CHI/IMWUT/CSCW. I am a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award (2018), Google Faculty Research Award (2017), IMWUT Distinguished Paper Award (2019), ACM CCS Outstanding Paper Award (2018), and SIGMETRICS Best Practical Paper Award (2013)
Before joining UIUC, I worked as an Assistant Professor at Virginia Tech for three years (2016 to 2019). I obtained my PhD from UC Santa Barbara under the supervision of Ben Y. Zhao and Heather Zheng in 2016. I received my bachelor degree from Tsinghua University in 2010. I spent two summers at Microsoft Research Redmond in 2011 and 2014.
CADE: Detecting and Explaining Concept Drift Samples for Security Applications
Limin Yang, Wenbo Guo, Qingying Hao, Arridhana Ciptadi, Ali Ahmadzadeh, Xinyu Xing, Gang Wang
Proceedings of The 30th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security)
Vancouver, BC, Canada, August 2021.
Artifact Evaluated
Assessing Browser-level Defense against IDN-based Phishing
Hang Hu, Steve T.K. Jan, Yang Wang, Gang Wang
Proceedings of The 30th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security)
Vancouver, BC, Canada, August 2021.
FARE: Enabling Fine-grained Attack Categorization under Low-quality Labeled Data
Junjie Liang, Wenbo Guo, Tongbo Luo, Vasant Honavar, Gang Wang, Xinyu Xing
Proceedings of The Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS)
Virtual Conference, February 2021.
VerHealth: Vetting Medical Voice Applications through Policy Enforcement
Faysal Hossain Shezan, Hang Hu, Gang Wang, Yuan Tian
Proceedings of The ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (UbiComp)
December 2020.
Measuring and Modeling the Label Dynamics of Online Anti-Malware Engines
Shuofei Zhu, Jianjun Shi, Limin Yang, Boqin Qin, Ziyi Zhang, Linhai Song, Gang Wang
Proceedings of The 29th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security)
Boston, MA, August 2020.
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Data
Artifact Evaluated
Throwing Darts in the Dark? Detecting Bots with Limited Data using Neural Data Augmentation
Steve T.K. Jan, Qingying Hao, Tianrui Hu, Jiameng Pu, Sonal Oswal, Gang Wang, Bimal Viswanath
Proceedings of The 41st IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE SP)
San Francisco, CA, May 2020.
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Video
Read Between the Lines: An Empirical Measurement of Sensitive Applications of Voice Personal Assistant Systems
Faysal Hossain Shezan, Hang Hu, Jiamin Wang, Gang Wang, Yuan Tian
Proceedings of The Web Conference (WWW)
Taipei, April 2020.
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Data
Security Certification in Payment Card Industry: Testbeds, Measurements, and Recommendations
Sazzadur Rahaman, Gang Wang, Danfeng Yao
Proceedings of The 26th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS)
London, UK, November 2019.
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Code
CSAW ’20 Applied Research Competition Finalist
Errors, Misunderstandings, and Vulnerabilities: Analyzing the Crowdsourcing Process of Ad-blocking Systems
Mshabab Alrizah, Sencun Zhu, Xinyu Xing, Gang Wang
Proceedings of The ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC)
Amsterdam, Netherlands, October 2019.
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Opening the Blackbox of VirusTotal: Analyzing Online Phishing Scan Engines
Peng Peng, Limin Yang, Linhai Song, Gang Wang
Proceedings of The ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC)
Amsterdam, Netherlands, October 2019.
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Towards the Detection of Inconsistencies in Public Security Vulnerability Reports
Ying Dong, Wenbo Guo, Yueqi Chen, Xinyu Xing, Yuqing Zhang, Gang Wang
Proceedings of The 28th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security)
Santa Clara, CA, August 2019.
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Data
Characterizing Pixel Tracking through the Lens of Disposable Email Services
Hang Hu, Peng Peng, Gang Wang
Proceedings of The 40th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE SP)
San Francisco, CA, May 2019.
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Video
Modeling Spatio-Temporal App Usage for a Large User Population
Huandong Wang, Yong Li, Sihan Zeng, Gang Wang, Pengyu Zhang, Pan Hui, Depeng Jin
Proceedings of The ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (UbiComp)
March 2019.
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Connecting the Digital and Physical World: Improving the Robustness of Adversarial Attacks
Steve T.K. Jan, Joseph Messou, Yen-Chen Lin, Jia-Bin Huang, Gang Wang
Proceedings of The Thirty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
Honolulu, HI, January 2019.
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Website
Spotlight
Needle in a Haystack: Tracking Down Elite Phishing Domains in the Wild
Ke Tian, Steve T.K. Jan, Hang Hu, Danfeng Yao, Gang Wang
Proceedings of ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC)
Boston, MA, October 2018.
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Code
LEMNA: Explaining Deep Learning based Security Applications
Wenbo Guo, Dongliang Mu, Jun Xu, Purui Su, Gang Wang, Xinyu Xing
Proceedings of The 25th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS)
Toronto, Canada, October 2018.
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Code
Outstanding Paper Award
Your Apps Give You Away: Distinguishing Mobile Users by Their App Usage Fingerprints
Zhen Tu, Runtong Li, Yong Li, Gang Wang, Di Wu, Pan Hui, Li Su, Depeng Jin
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (UbiComp)
September 2018.
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IMWUT Distinguished Paper Award
End-to-End Measurements of Email Spoofing Attacks
Hang Hu, Gang Wang
Proceedings of The 27th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security)
Baltimore, MD, August 2018.
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Understanding the Reproducibility of Crowd-reported Security Vulnerabilities
Dongliang Mu, Alejandro Cuevas, Limin Yang, Hang Hu, Xinyu Xing, Bing Mao, Gang Wang
Proceedings of The 27th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security)
Baltimore, MD, August 2018.
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Data
All Your GPS Are Belong To Us: Towards Stealthy Manipulation of Road Navigation Systems
Kexiong (Curtis) Zeng, Shinan Liu, Yuanchao Shu, Dong Wang, Haoyu Li, Yanzhi Dou, Gang Wang, Yaling Yang
Proceedings of The 27th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security)
Baltimore, MD, August 2018.
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De-anonymization of Mobility Trajectories: Dissecting the Gaps between Theory and Practice
Huandong Wang, Chen Gao, Yong Li, Gang Wang, Depeng Jin, Jingbo Sun
Proceedings of The 25th Annual Network And Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS)
San Diego, CA, February 2018.
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Slides
Code
Measuring the Insecurity of Mobile Deep Links of Android
Fang Liu, Chun Wang, Andres Pico, Danfeng Yao, Gang Wang
Proceedings of The 26th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security)
Vancouver, Canada, August 2017.
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Slides
Talk
Cold Hard E-Cash: Friends and Vendors in the Venmo Digital Payments System
Xinyi Zhang, Shiliang Tang, Yun Zhao, Gang Wang, Haitao Zheng, Ben Y. Zhao
Proceedings of International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM)
Montreal, Canada, May 2017.
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Anatomy of a Personalized Livestreaming System
Bolun Wang, Xinyi Zhang, Gang Wang, Haitao Zheng, Ben Y. Zhao
Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC)
Santa Monica, CA, November 2016.
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Dataset
Defending against Sybil Devices in Crowdsourced Mapping Services
Gang Wang, Bolun Wang, Tianyi Wang, Ana Nika, Haitao Zheng, Ben Y. Zhao
Proceedings of ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys)
Singapore, June 2016.
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Video
"Will Check-in for Badges": Understanding Bias and Misbehavior on Location-based Social Networks
Gang Wang, Sarita Y. Schoenebeck, Haitao Zheng, Ben Y. Zhao
Proceedings of International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM)
Cologne, Germany, May 2016.
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Slides
Unsupervised Clickstream Clustering For User Behavior Analysis
Gang Wang, Xinyi Zhang, Shiliang Tang, Haitao Zheng, Ben Y. Zhao
Proceedings of SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)
San Jose, CA, May 2016.
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Slides
Video
Website
Crowds on Wall Street: Extracting Value from Collaborative Investing Platforms
Gang Wang, Tianyi Wang, Bolun Wang, Divya Sambasivan, Zengbin Zhang, Haitao Zheng, Ben Y. Zhao
Proceedings of ACM conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW)
Vancouver, BC, Canada, March 2015.
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Slides
Whispers in the Dark: Analysis of an Anonymous Social Network
Gang Wang, Bolun Wang, Tianyi Wang, Ana Nika, Haitao Zheng, Ben Y. Zhao
Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC)
Vancouver, BC, Canada, November 2014.
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Slides
Man vs. Machine: Practical Adversarial Detection of Malicious Crowdsourcing Workers
Gang Wang, Tianyi Wang, Haitao Zheng, Ben Y. Zhao
Proceedings of USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security)
San Diego, CA, August 2014.
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Slides
Video
Follow the Green: Growth and Dynamics in Twitter Follower Markets
Gianluca Stringhini, Gang Wang, Manuel Egele, Christopher Kruegel, Giovanni Vigna, Haitao Zheng, Ben Y. Zhao
Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC)
Barcelona, Spain, October 2013.
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You are How You Click: Clickstream Analysis for Sybil Detection
Gang Wang, Tristan Konolige, Christo Wilson, Xiao Wang, Haitao Zheng, Ben Y. Zhao
Proceedings of USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security)
Washington, DC, August 2013.
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Slides
Practical Conflict Graphs for Dynamic Spectrum Distribution
Xia Zhou, Zengbin Zhang, Gang Wang, Xiaoxiao Yu, Ben Y. Zhao, Haitao Zheng
Proceedings ofACM International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (SIGMETRICS)
Pittsburgh, PA, June 2013.
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Best Practical Paper Award
Wisdom in the Social Crowd: an Analysis of Quora
Gang Wang, Konark Gill, Manish Mohanlal, Haitao Zheng, Ben Y. Zhao
Proceedings of International World Wide Web Conference (WWW)
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 2013.
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Slides
Social Turing Tests: Crowdsourcing Sybil Detection
Gang Wang, Manish Mohanlal, Christo Wilson, Xiao Wang, Miriam Metzger, Haitao Zheng, Ben Y. Zhao
Proceedings of Annual Network Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS)
San Diego, CA, February 2013.
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Slides
Serf and Turf: Crowdturfing for Fun and Profit
Gang Wang, Christo Wilson, Xiaohan Zhao, Yibo Zhu, Manish Mohanlal, Haitao Zheng, Ben Y. Zhao
Proceedings of International World Wide Web Conference (WWW)
Lyon, France, April 2012.
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Slides
I am the Antenna: Accurate Outdoor AP Location using Smartphone
Zengbin Zhang, Xia Zhou, Weile Zhang, Yuanyang Zhang, Gang Wang, Ben Y. Zhao, Haitao Zheng
Proceedings of Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom)
Las Vegas, NV, September 2011.
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