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Gang Wang

Assistant Professor

Office: Knowledge Works II, Office 2223
Email: gangwang@vt.edu
Phone: (540) 231-0331
Website: http://people.cs.vt.edu/~gangwang/
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Office Hours: By Appointment
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Research Interests
  • Center for Human Computer Interaction
  • Human Computer Interaction
  • Systems and Cybersecurity

Gang Wang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech. His research covers a range of topics of Cyber Security, Internet Measurement, Mobile Networks, and HCI, mostly from data-driven perspectives. His current projects are focused on three areas: security and privacy in online communities, data-driven models of user behavior, security of mobile and wearable devices. His work targets a range of top conferences such as Usenix Security/NDSS/Oakland/CCS, WWW/IMC, and CHI/CSCW.

Gang obtained his PhD in Computer Science from UC Santa Barbara in 2016. He received his bachelor degree in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University in 2010. He spent two summers at Microsoft Research Redmond in 2011 and 2014. He was the recipient of Outstanding Dissertation Award (2016) and PhD dissertation fellowship (2015) from UC Santa Barbara, and Best Practical Paper Award from ACM SIGMETRICS (2013).

2016
Wang, G., B. Wang, T. Wang, A. Nika, H. Zheng, and B. Y. Zhao, "Defending against Sybil Devices in Crowdsourced Mapping Services", Proc. of The 14th ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys), 2016.
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Wang, G., X. Zhang, S. Tang, H. Zheng, and B. Y. Zhao, "Unsupervised Clickstream Clustering for User Behavior Analysis", Proc. of SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2016.
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Wang, G., S. Y. Schoenebeck, H. Zheng, and B. Y. Zhao, ""Will Check-in for Badges": Understanding Bias and Misbehavior on Location-Based Social Networks", Proc. the 10th International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), 2016.
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Wang, T., Y. Chen, Y. Wang, B. Wang, G. Wang, X. Li, H. Zheng, and B. Y. Zhao, "The power of comments: fostering social interactions in microblog networks", Frontiers of Computer Science (FCS), pp. 1–19, 2016.
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2015
Wang, G., T. Wang, B. Wang, D. Sambasivan, Z. Zhang, H. Zheng, and B. Y. Zhao, "Crowds on Wall Street: Extracting Value from Collaborative Investing Platforms", Proc. of the 18th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work {&} Social Computing (CSCW), 2015.
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Zhou, X., Z. Zhang, G. Wang, X. Yu, B. Y. Zhao, and H. Zheng, "Practical Conflict Graphs in the Wild", IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw. (TON), vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 824–835, 2015.
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2014
Wang, G., T. Wang, H. Zhang, and B. Y. Zhao, "Man vs. Machine: Practical Adversarial Detection of Malicious Crowdsourcing Workers", Proc.of USENIX Conference on Security Symposium (USENIX Security), 2014.
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Wang, G., B. Wang, T. Wang, A. Nika, H. Zheng, and B. Y. Zhao, "Whispers in the Dark: Analysis of an Anonymous Social Network", Proc. of the 2014 Conference on Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), 2014.
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2013
Zhang, Z., L. Zhou, X. Zhao, G. Wang, Y. Su, M. Metzger, H. Zheng, and B. Y. Zhao, "On the Validity of Geosocial Mobility Traces", Proc. of the 12th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets), 2013.
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Stringhini, G., G. Wang, M. Egele, C. Kruegel, G. Vigna, H. Zheng, and B. Y. Zhao, "Follow the Green: Growth and Dynamics in Twitter Follower Markets", Proc. of Conference on Internet Measurement Conference, 2013.
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Wang, G., T. Konolige, C. Wilson, X. Wang, H. Zheng, and B. Y. Zhao, "You Are How You Click: Clickstream Analysis for Sybil Detection", Proc. of the 22Nd USENIX Conference on Security (USENIX Security), 2013.
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Wang, G., J. W. Stokes, C. Herley, and D. Felstead, "Detecting Malicious Landing Pages in Malware Distribution Networks", Proc. of the 2013 43rd Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 2013.
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Zhou, X., Z. Zhang, G. Wang, X. Yu, B. Y. Zhao, and H. Zheng, "Practical Conflict Graphs for Dynamic Spectrum Distribution", Proc. of the ACM SIGMETRICS/International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (SIGMETRICS), 2013.
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Wang, G., K. Gill, M. Mohanlal, H. Zheng, and B. Y. Zhao, "Wisdom in the Social Crowd: An Analysis of Quora", Proc. of the 22Nd International Conference on World Wide Web (WWW), 2013.
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Wang, G., M. Mohanlal, C. Wilson, X. Wang, M. Metzger, H. Zheng, and B. Y. Zhao, "Social Turing Tests: Crowdsourcing Sybil Detection", Proc. of The 20th Annual Network Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2013.
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2012
Wang, G., C. Wilson, X. Zhao, Y. Zhu, M. Mohanlal, H. Zheng, and B. Y. Zhao, "Serf and turf: crowdturfing for fun and profit", Proc. of The 21st International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), 2012.
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2011
Zhang, Z., X. Zhou, W. Zhang, Y. Zhang, G. Wang, B. Y. Zhao, and H. Zheng, "I Am the Antenna: Accurate Outdoor AP Location Using Smartphones", Proc. of the 17th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom), 2011.
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Wilson, C., T. Steinbauer, G. Wang, A. Sala, H. Zheng, and B. Y. Zhao, "Privacy, Availability and Economics in the Polaris Mobile Social Network", Proc. of the 12th Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile), 2011.
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2009
Wang, G., S. Wu, G. Wang, B. Deng, and X. Li, "Experimental study on neighbor selection policy for Phoenix Network Coordinate system", Proc. of International Workshop on Peer-To-Peer Networking (P2PNet), 2009.
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