Biography

Dr. Boyang Wang is a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Cincinnati. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering (supervised by Prof. Ming Li ) from the University of Arizona in 2017, his Ph.D. in Cryptography (supervised by Prof. Hui Li ) and B.S. in Information Security from Xidian University, China, in 2014 and 2007, respectively. He worked for Bosch Research and Technology Center as a research intern in 2015. He was a visiting student (supervised by Prof. Ming Li) at Utah State University from 2012 to 2013 and a visiting student (supervised by Prof. Baochun Li ) at the University of Toronto from 2010 to 2012.

Dr. Wang's research focus on data security and privacy, side-channel attacks, wireless security, machine learning, and applied cryptography. Dr. Wang has published more than 50 peer-reviewed papers and has secured research fundings from National Science Foundation (CRII and REU Site), NSF IUCRC CHEST, IoTeX, and Ohio Cyber Range Institute. He is a member of IEEE and ACM.

Honors and Awards

  • OCRI (Ohio Cyber Range Institute) Fellow, 2021

  • William E. Restemeyer Teaching Excellence Award, ECE (previously EECS), University of Cincinnati, 2021

  • NSF CRII Award, 2020

  • Best Paper Award (runner-up), SecureComm 2020, 2020

  • Distinguished TPC Member IEEE INFOCOM 2020, 2020

  • William H. Middendorf Research Excellence Award, ECE (previously EECS), University of Cincinnati, 2023, 2019

  • CEAS Faculty Development Award, University of Cincinnati, 2018

  • Presidential Doctoral Research Fellowship, Utah State University, 2014

  • Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award, Xidian University, 2014