Openings: The SPIRIT lab is looking for one self-motivated Ph.D. student (starting Fall 2024, Spring 2025) who is passionate about exploring security and privacy issues in the software supply chain to join our team at UCF. Students with experience in software analysis, or vulnerability detection and mitigation are highly encouraged to apply. If you are interested, please feel free to send an email to xueqiang.wang@ucf.edu with the subject line "Prospective Student [Your Name]", your research interests, and your CV. For more information about CS PhD program at UCF, please visit the program webpage! |
Xueqiang (Brandon) Wang is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at UCF, where he is also a member of the Cyber Security and Privacy Cluster (CyberSP). Dr. Wang obtained his Ph.D. degree in 2021 from Indiana University Bloomington under the guidance of Dr. XiaoFeng Wang. Prior to that, he earned a Master's degree from IIE CAS in 2015 and a Bachelor's degree from USTC in 2012.
Dr. Wang leads the Security and PRIvacy for smarT systems (SPIRIT) lab at UCF. His current research interests are in software supply chain security and privacy automation. He is also interested in mobile/IoT system security and cybercrime, with a focus on safeguarding end-users and developers by identifying new attack vectors and developing data-driven security analysis methodologies to quantify and measure their security and privacy impacts.
- Software Supply Chain Security: [USENIX Security'23-C], [USENIX Security'21], [USENIX Security'19], [SP'19]
- Mobile/IoT Security: [USENIX Security'23-A], [USENIX Security'23-B], [DSN'23], [CCS'20], [USENIX Security'19], [NDSS'18], [NDSS'18], [CCS'17], [NDSS'17], [SP'16], [NDSS'15], [ICISC'14]
- Cybercrime: [USENIX Security'21], [TDSC'19], [USENIX Security'19]
News
- (10/2023) I am serving as registration chair for CCS'24.
- (09/2023) NSF awarded our collaborative grant led by FAU through the CyberTraining program.
- (08/2023) I will serve as a PC member of EuroS&P 2024
- (08/2023) Welcome Jingzhou and Zhaojie to the team!
- (04/2023) Our paper on mobile dark user interface patterns is accepted to DSN 2023.
- (03/2023) Our paper on software supply chain security is accepted to USENIX Security 2023.
- (09/2022) Our paper on a large-scale analysis of IoT data exposure is accepted to USENIX Security 2023.
- (07/2022) Our paper on the security of exposed cloud services is accepted to USENIX Security 2023.
- (07/2022) I will serve as a PC member of ACNS 2023 (Applied Cryptography and Network Security 2023).
- (03/2022) I will join UCF as a tenure-track assistant professor in fall 2022.
- (09/2021) I will serve as a reviewer of IEEE Security & Privacy.
- (01/2021) I will serve as a reviewer of ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security.
- (12/2020) Our paper about malicious cross-library data harvesting (XLDH) attack is accepted by USENIX Security'21.
- (06/2020) Our paper about the app-in-app paradigm was accepted by CCS'20
- (04/2020) I have joined Amazon Lab126.