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, Postdoc

Yufei holds dual Ph.D. degrees from the City University of Hong Kong and Xi'an Jiaotong University, and also earned both his B.Eng. and B.B.A. degrees from Xi'an Jiaotong University. He also worked as a research intern at Qihoo 360 in 2018. He is interested in trustworthy machine learning and behavioral biometrics.

Yuefeng Du, Postdoc

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 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.

Jianyu Niu, Postdoc

Jianyu is a postdoctoral researcher at City University of Hong Kong. His research interests include blockchain security, cryptography, and distributed systems.

Wenhao Li, Postdoc

Wenhao is a postdoctoral researcher at City University of Hong Kong. His research interests include machine learning security and privacy.

Wentao Dong, Postdoc

Wentao received his B.Eng. in Computer Science at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2018 and Ph.D. degree from City University of Hong Kong. He received the Academic Excellence Scholarships every academic year. He has been working as software engineer (or intern) at Tencent, Intel, Sangfor, as well as research assistant at LoCCS and CityU. He is interested in "applicable & pragmatic" Privacy Enhancement Technologies recently, as well as AI, Blockchain, Cryptography.

Leqian Zheng, Postdoc, HKPF winner

Leqian received his B.Sc. degree at the City University of Hong Kong in 2021 with first-class honours and Ph.D. degree from City University of Hong Kong. He received the Hong Kong Ph.D. Fellowship in 2021. His research interests include but are not limited to searchable encryption, differential privacy, and hardware-assisted security.

Xiang Zheng, Postdoc

Xiang Zheng obtained his Master degree from Department of Automation at Tsinghua University in 2019, and received his B.Eng degree with the "highest honor" from SHENYUAN Honors College (formerly known as School of Advanced Engineering) at Beihang University in 2016, and Ph.D. degree from City University of Hong Kong. His main research area is robust machine learning, especially in area of adversarial reinforcement learning, with the aim of designing robust and secure machine learning methods for various AI applications, like zero-sum multiplayer games, space robot control, etc. He was the recipient of the Presidential Award in 2020 at City University of Hong Kong.

Yi Liu, PhD student

Yi Liu received his B.Eng. degree from Heilongjiang University in 2019. He was an intern at Tencent Jarvis Lab. His research interests include but are not limited to security and privacy in machine learning, federated learning, and AIoT.

Longxiang Wang, PhD student

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. Currently, he is a 1st-year PhD student at CityU.

Shengchen Ling, PhD student

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

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.

Jintian Ji, Research Assistant

Jintian is a research assistant at City University of Hong Kong.


Alumni and Visitor

Name Position in Lab Known Position
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