Bio

Gang is a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara. He works in SAND Lab, co-advised by Prof. Ben Y. Zhao and Prof. Heather Zheng. Gang received a bachelor degree in Electronic Engineering at Tsinghua University in 2010. He is the recipient of PhD Dissertation Fellowship from UC Santa Barbara (2015), and Best Practical Paper Award from ACM SIGMETRICS (2013).

Gang's research interests are Privacy and Security, Online Social Networks, Crowdsourcing and Mobile Networks. Much of his work is measurement-driven and modeling based. Gang's interests in privacy and security are closely related to web services like social and crowdsourcing systems. The goal is to uncover emerging threats and develop efficient defense techniques. 

After his PhD, Gang will join the Department of Computer Science in Virginia Tech as an assistant professor in Fall 2016. His new homepage is here.