Faculty

Cong Wang
Chair Professor
Fellow of the IEEE
Homepage: cs.cityu.edu.hk/~congwang

Prof. Cong Wang is a Chair Professor in the Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong. He serves/has served as the Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, associate editors for IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IEEE Networking Letters, Journal of Blockchain Research, and TPC co-chairs for a number of IEEE conferences and workshops. He is a fellow of the IEEE and a member of the ACM.

Selected Honors and Awards
  • Stanford's Top 2% Most Highly Cited Scientists, 2020 - 2025
  • BOCHK Science and Technology Innovation Prize (STIP) 2024
  • EiC of IEEE TDSC, the flagship security journal of the IEEE Computer Society, Jan. 2023
  • Member of the Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) Expert Group, Hong Kong Monetary Authority, 2023
  • RGC Research Fellow, Research Grants Council, 2021
  • IEEE Fellow, IEEE, 2020
  • Best Paper Award, IEEE ICDCS, 2020
  • IEEE INFOCOM Test of Time Paper Award, IEEE, 2020
  • The President's Awards 2019, City University of Hong Kong, 2019
  • Outstanding Research Award (Junior Faculty), City University of Hong Kong, 2019
  • First Place Award, The 2019 iDASH Genome Privacy & Security Competition, National Institute of Health (NIH) and Indiana University, 2019
  • Best Paper Award, IEEE ICPADS, 2018
  • Outstanding Supervisor Award, City University of Hong Kong, 2017
  • Founding Member, Young Academy of Sciences of Hong Kong, 2017
  • The President's Awards, City University of Hong Kong, 2017
  • Best Student Paper Award, IEEE ICDCS, 2017
  • Best Paper Award, IEEE MSN, 2015
  • No. 1 top accessed article in INFOCOM'10 (1 out of 276 accepted papers), since 2010
  • No. 1 top accessed article in ICDCS'10 (1 out of 84 accepted papers), since 2010

Research Staff

Yufei Chen, Research Assistant Professor (RAP)

Yufei is a Research Assistant Professor at City University of Hong Kong. He holds dual Ph.D. degrees from CityU (Computer Science) and Xi'an Jiaotong University (Control Science and Engineering), and earned both his B.Eng. and B.B.A. degrees from Xi'an Jiaotong University. He was a CityU postdoc before the RAP appointment. His research sits at the intersection of cybersecurity and AI, covering AI-related attack surfaces and AI-assisted security, with publications at venues including USENIX Security, NeurIPS, and NDSS.

Jianyu Niu, Research Fellow

Jianyu is a Research Fellow at City University of Hong Kong working with Prof. Cong Wang. He received his Ph.D. from The University of British Columbia in 2021 and was a Research Assistant Professor at Southern University of Science and Technology (2021–2025). His research focuses on trustworthy distributed systems, including blockchain performance and security, scalable BFT consensus, and distributed confidential computing, with publications at NSDI, USENIX Security, ICDE, EuroSys, and CCS.

Yuefeng Du, Postdoc Fellow

Yuefeng received his B.S. degree with First Class Honors (2018) and Ph.D. degree (2022), both from City University of Hong Kong. He is currently a Postdoc Fellow who also teaches multiple courses as the course instructor at City University of Hong Kong. His research interests include secure system design, network security, blockchain, and more broadly application of cryptography. He is a member of IEEE.

Yi Liu, Postdoc

Yi Liu received his B.Eng. degree from Heilongjiang University in 2019 and his Ph.D. from City University of Hong Kong in 2026. He was an intern at Tencent Jarvis Lab and is now a postdoc in the group. His research interests include security and privacy in machine learning, federated learning, and AIoT, with co-authored work on privacy-preserving LLM fine-tuning, federated learning, and LVLM red teaming at venues such as INFOCOM, WWW, MM, and KDD.

Xiaoyue Ma, Postdoc

Xiaoyue is a postdoctoral researcher at City University of Hong Kong. Her research focuses on IoT and wireless systems security, including automated testing and fuzzing of smart-home and Matter ecosystems, firmware analysis, and privacy risks in large-scale location and Bluetooth tracking systems. She has published at security and mobile systems venues such as USENIX Security, MobiCom, and MobiSys.

Hongwei Yao, Postdoc

Hongwei is a postdoctoral researcher at City University of Hong Kong working with Prof. Cong Wang. He earned his Ph.D. from Zhejiang University in 2024 as an Outstanding Graduate. His research interests include trustworthy AI and LLM security and safety, including watermarking and privacy protection for large language models.

Tianpei Lu, Postdoc

Tianpei is a postdoctoral researcher at City University of Hong Kong. His research interests include applied cryptography and privacy-preserving machine learning, with prior affiliation at Zhejiang University.


PhD Students

Sirui He, PhD student (2021.09~)

Sirui received his first Bachelor's degree at Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2015, when he was 15. Though he once focused on algorithms, he found his interest in ISA and system level security during his second undergraduate period in Zhejiang University. Currently he is trying to build hardware and binary defenses in a more algorithmic approach.

Sirui creates classical music in his spare time, and loves to hang out with friends for anything.

Longxiang Wang, PhD student (2023.09~)

Longxiang received his B.Eng. degree from Wuhan University in 2023. His research interests include machine learning security, particularly in LLM, and autonomous driving security.

Shengchen Lin, PhD student (2024.09~)

Shengchen received his B.Eng. degree in Computer Science and Technology at Northeastern University in 2022, and the M.S. degree in Electronic Commerce at City University of Hong Kong with Distinction in 2023. His research interests include blockchain security and privacy, consensus mechanisms, and DeFi.

Pinshen Xu, PhD student (2025.09~)

Pinshen is a PhD student at City University of Hong Kong. He received his Bachelor degree at Southern University of Science and Technology. His research interests include confidential computing.

Xutao Mao, PhD student (2026.09~)

Xutao is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at City University of Hong Kong (from 2026.09), advised by Prof. Cong Wang. He received a B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics from Vanderbilt University (2022–2026). His research focuses on trustworthy AI, especially safety and alignment of agentic and multimodal language models.


Alumni and Visitor

Name Position in Lab Known Position
Xiang Zheng PhD student, Postdoc Research Assistant Professor, Hong Kong Institute of AI for Science (HKAI-Sci), City University of Hong Kong
Leqian Zheng PhD student (HKPF), Postdoc (2025.10~2026.02) Lecturer, National University of Defense Technology (NUDT), China (since 2026.03)
Wentao Dong PhD student Research Staff, The Laboratory for AI-Powered Financial Technologies Limited (AIFT), Hong Kong
Yi Liu PhD student (2026) Postdoc, City University of Hong Kong
Tao Ni Postdoc Assistant professor, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia
Lei Xu Research associate Associate professor, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China
Huayi Duan PhD student Assistant Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), China
Haiwei Wu Postdoc Professor, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
Chengjun Cai PhD student Associate Professor, City University of Hong Kong (Dongguan), China
Lingchen Zhao Postdoc Associate Professor, Wuhan University, China
Jiasi Weng Postdoc Associate Professor, Jinan University, China
Cheng Tan Postdoc Lecturer, Wuhan University of Technology, China
Fei Chen Postdoc Lecturer, Shenzhen University, China
Yu Zhang Postdoc Senior Lecturer, Griffith University, Australia
Yu Guo PhD student, Postdoc, Research fellow Associate professor, Beijing Normal University, China
Yifeng Zheng PhD student, Research fellow Assistant professor, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Helei Cui PhD student, Research fellow Full professor, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
Xingliang Yuan PhD student Associate Professor, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Xinyan Li PhD student Huawei, Hong Kong
Rui Lian PhD student Huawei, Hong Kong
Xiangyi Meng PhD student MiHoYo, Shanghai, China
Zhengxiang Zhou PhD student QA-quality assurance, Bytedance, China
Anxin Zhou PhD student Software Engineer, OKBL Technology Company Limited, Hong Kong
Jiamin Li PhD student Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Asia, Vancouver, Canada
Yichen Zang PhD student Research Engineer, Kape Technologies, Hong Kong
Xiangyi Meng PhD student Game Engine Engineer, miHoYo, China
Zhenkui Shi PhD student Lecturer, Guangxi Normal University, China
Xinyu Wang PhD student Senior research and development engineer, Tencent Holdings Limited, China
Chengcheng Dai PhD student Research engineer, Huawei Hangzhou, China
Ruochen Wang Research assistant MSc student, University of Washington, US
Rabeya Bosri Research assistant Graduate teaching assistant, University of Alberta, Canada
Yan Zhang MSc student Researcher, Create Technology & Science Co., Ltd, China
Yilei Chu Undergraduate student Software engineer, Facebook, US
Qiyuan Liang Undergraduate student MSCS student, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Jianxiong Lin Undergraduate student MSc student, University of California San Diego, US
Yuqi Li Undergraduate student PhD student, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, US
Zixuan Huang Undergraduate student MSR student, Carnegie Mellon University, US
Jiaqing Chen Undergraduate student MSCS student, Columbia University, US
Ruikang Li Undergraduate student MSCS student, Duke University, US
Hang Sun Undergraduate student MSc student, University of Southern California, US
Yiying Zhang Summer intern MSc student, Yale University, US