Gang Wang

Prof @ UIUC; PhD from UCSB; Researching in Security and Privacy, Data Analytics, and Human Factors

[Gang Wang @ffmagicbean]

Join us in Chicago for the Illinois AI Leadership Sprint (https://t.co/cWAl337ugL) https://t.co/Gv3MoetRsS

[Gang Wang @ffmagicbean]

Awesome job, team! P.S. PurpCode also won the 2025 Amazon Nova AI challenge as a defender model!

[Nirav Diwan @ocean_drifters]

Excited to finally share our #NeurIPS2025 paper "🔮PurpCode: Reasoning for Safer Code Generation"!  🙌

👐 First post-training recipe for training safe code reasoning models
🚀 SOTA for cybersafety + utility, outperforming Sonnet 4, o4-mini, R1
🥇 Winner of 2025 Amazon Nova AI Challenge

📝 Paper: https://t.co/9aOoiL5zgJ

🧵👇 1/11

[Nirav Diwan @ocean_drifters]

🚀 Made Possible by Incredible People!

This wouldn't have been possible without my brilliant fellow core contributors @JiaweiLiu_ and @zhewang_20! 🙌

Massive thanks to the entire PurpCode Team and our incredible advisors @ffmagicbean, @Ismini_L, and @LingmingZhang for their unwavering support!

Special shoutout to the Amazon Nova AI Challenge Team for making this opportunity possible!

11/11

[Yizhu (Joy) Wang @YizhuJoy]

🔥So excited to present our paper at @SOUPSConference

📊Check out the paper here:
Can You Walk Me Through It? Explainable SMS Phishing Detection using LLM-based Agents
https://t.co/cUuR456Zny

Thanks a lot for @ffmagicbean helping me in this paper!!

[Gang Wang @ffmagicbean]

We won! congrats team! Amazing experience with the Amazon AI Challenge this year!

[Amazon Science @AmazonScience]

Meet the champions of the Amazon Nova AI Challenge, where university teams around the world went head-to-head to break and defend LLMs under real adversarial pressure:
🏆 Defending: UIUC (PurpCorn-PLAN)
🏆 Attacking: Purdue (PurCL)
🥈 CTU Prague & Nova Lisbon

These students just raised the bar for secure Gen AI.

Full recap: https://t.co/EaP0maph1c

[Gang Wang @ffmagicbean]

[ACM CCS 2025] Want to host a workshop at CCS 2025? Check out the "Call for Workshops" here. 😃 Deadline March 14 (AoE) @acm_ccs
https://t.co/tkisr4HUVE

[Gang Wang @ffmagicbean]

@eredmil1 @TheOfficialACM @acm_ccs Congrats! Well deserved, Elissa!

[IEEE S&P @IEEESSP]

Our call for 2025 workshops is now available.
Proposals are due September 26, 2024

More info:
https://t.co/dbFqQCpEWN

#ieeesp2025

[The Grainger College of Engineering @uofigrainger]

A week of welcoming our newest Grainger engineers to #ILLINOIS 🧡

[Gang Wang @ffmagicbean]

@IEEESSP IEEE SP 2025 opened the "Call for Workshops" much earlier this year, to give workshop organizers more time to set up the workshop and review papers (proposals deadline: September 26, 2024). Please consider submitting🔥🔥🔥: https://t.co/w7P6FnCMDw

[Adam Bates Yuile @AdamBatesOrg]

Upcoming at @USENIXSecurity’24 — In (academic) systems security research, name checking @MITREattack has been the “peer review armor” of choice for a lot of work recently. But do these papers understand what ATT&CK is(n’t)? What about commercial products?

[Gang Wang @ffmagicbean]

Proud advisor moment! Jaron (@JaronMink) is joining ASU (@ASU) this fall as an Asst. Professor!

[Jaron Mink @JaronMink]

I'm so excited to say I'll be joining @ASU's School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence as an Asst. Professor this fall!

So many thanks to @ffmagicbean, @eredmil1, @yoshi_kohno, @yazz_acar, @adamaviv, and the many other mentors & friends who supported me through this journey

[Gang Wang @ffmagicbean]

@NeilGong Congratulations Neil!

[Gang Wang @ffmagicbean]

IEEE SP Workshops are online. Please consider submitting your papers.

[IEEE S&P @IEEESSP]

We are very excited to announce our IEEE S&P 2024 Workshops. Please take a look and submit your papers!
#Security #privacy #ieeesp @ComputerSociety #safethings #aisecurity

[Gang Wang @ffmagicbean]

congrats @JaronMink!

[Jaron Mink @JaronMink]

Woohoo, another #CHI2024 paper conditionally accepted to round out the PhD!

Excited to discuss how mental models used in deepfake moderation result in identity-based biases and harm to real users. Details to follow!

[Gang Wang @ffmagicbean]

@IllinoisCS Congratulations @LingmingZhang

[Sabrina Klivan @sa_amft]

Finally, it's time for @j_schmueser and @JaronMink to present their and @hkaur_in 's interview study on barriers regarding AML attack defenses!

[Gang Wang @ffmagicbean]

Limin did an excellent job defending his PhD dissertation! Congratulations Limin!

[Limin Yang @whyisyoung]

🎓🎉Defended my Ph.D. dissertation today!
🙏🏻Big thanks to my advisor @ffmagicbean and my committee Dr. Carl Gunter, Dr. Ravishankar Iyer, Dr. Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, and @lcavallaro!
Thank you all to my friends, collaborators, and family.
I will join @tiktok_us next month 😎

[Gang Wang @ffmagicbean]

@adwait_nadkarni @williamandmary Congratulations!!

[Gang Wang @ffmagicbean]

@deawonii Thank you ~

[Gang Wang @ffmagicbean]

I just learned that I got Tenure! --- It is such a privilege to work with our amazing students, collaborators, and colleagues. Very grateful to my family, friends, mentors, and the supportive department and university!