Cong WANG

• Founding Member, The Hong Kong Young Academy of Sciences
• Head and Professor, Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong

WANG Cong is a Professor and the Head in the Department of Computer Science, College of Computing, City University of Hong Kong. He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees both from Wuhan University, China, and his Ph.D. from the Illinois Institute of Technology, USA. His research work spans across data security and privacy, AI systems and security, and blockchain and decentralized applications. He has made prolific contributions to these fields, witnessed by 30,000+ citations on Google Scholar and multiple best paper awards, including the 2020 IEEE INFOCOM Test of Time Paper Award. Prof. Wang holds the title of IEEE Fellow, HK RGC Research Fellow, and is a Founding Member of the Young Academy of Sciences of Hong Kong. At CityU of Hong Kong, Prof. Wang has received the Outstanding Research Award (2019), the Outstanding Supervisor Award (2017), and two President’s Awards (2016, 2019). He currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, a leading security journal within the IEEE Computer Society. Additionally, he is a senior scientist at The Laboratory for AI-Powered Financial Technologies Limited (AIFT) and has been appointed by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority as a member of the Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) Expert Group.