Wei Wang

Wei Wang

Assistant Professor @ Texas Tech University

Biography

I am an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science in the Edward E. Whitacre Jr. College of Engineering at Texas Tech University. Before joining TTU, I was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Saint Louis University. I received my Ph.D. in the Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

My research interests span Internet-of-Things (IoT), wireless networking, cybersecurity, and autonomous driving. I am also intrigued by emerging areas such as RF sensing, drones, and Robotics.

I have been fortunate to receive funding for my research from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Taylor Geospatial Institute.

Email: [email protected]           Google Scholar

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For Ph.D. applicants: If you are interested in my research and have relevant experience in these areas, please visit this link to read my recent publications (from the past 1 - 2 years).  Although you may find many papers on my Google Scholar page, please only select papers from this link, as they represent my top-tier conference publications and my group’s current research directions.

Then, send me your CV and publication list before applying for a Ph.D. position. In your email, please include: 

  • A brief review of one selected paper (from my recent works), describing its technical details and main limitations.  
  • Your proposed research plan or ideas. Please make sure your plan is concrete and technically grounded. Applicants who can clearly articulate a focused and feasible research direction are strongly preferred. (You may optionally prepare a 2–4 page research proposal to demonstrate your understanding of the topic and your ability to formulate research ideas.)




News

2026

  • [01/15/2026] Our work, "CogSpy: Cognition-Driven PIN Inference against Layout-Randomized Soft Keyboards," has been accepted by ACISP 2026.

  • [01/02/2026] Our work, "ATM-SLAM: Adaptive Temporal Memory Visual SLAM in Severe Rainy Conditions," has been accepted by ACM MobiCom 2026. 

2025

  • [12/07/2025] Our work, "HydroChirp: Dynamic Chirp Shaping for Reliable and Ultra-Long-Range Underwater Communication," has been accepted by IEEE INFOCOM 2026.
  • [8/01/2025] Dr. Wei joined Texas Tech University after serving as an Assistant Professor at Saint Louis University. I am grateful to my colleagues and students at SLU for their support and collaboration during my time there. 

2024

  • [12/05/2024] Our work, "OPTICS: Human Activity-Aware Integrated Optical Wireless Communication and Sensing," has been accepted by IEEE INFOCOM 2025.
  • [6/7/2024] Our work, "Adversary is on the Road: Attacks on Visual SLAM using Unnoticeable Adversarial Patch," has been accepted by USENIX Security 2024.
  • [5/30/2024] I've received an NSF CRII grant on Exploiting, Modeling, and Leveraging Hidden Features in IoT for Efficient and Secure Communication.
  • [4/23/2024] Our work, "Key Establishment for Secure Asymmetric Cross-Technology Communication," has been accepted by ACM AsiaCCS 2024.

2023

  • [6/5/2023] Our work, "LightThief: Your Optical Communication Information is Stolen," has been accepted by USENIX Security 2023.
  • [5/31/2023] Our work "High-Granularity Modulation for OFDM Backscatter" has been accepted by IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking 2023.
  • [4/25/2023] Our work, "IoT Sentinel: Correlation-based Attack Detection, Localization, and Authentication in IoT Networks," has been accepted by IEEE ICCCN 2023. Congratulations, Mr. Dianshi Yang and Mr. Stuart Ray.
  • [3/10/2023] Dr. Wei (Co-PI) received a Taylor Geospatial Institute (TGI) Grant to design multimodal localization systems at scale. 
  • [3/02/2023] Our work, "Simultaneous Data Dissemination among WiFi and ZigBee Devices," has been accepted by IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking 2023.
  • [3/09/2023] Dr. Wei (PI) received a 2023 President’s Research Fund Grant to design a reliable SLAM system. 

2022

  • [9/30/2022] Dr. Wei received a Taylor Geospatial Institute (TGI) Startup Funding.
  • [8/01/2022] Dr. Wei joined Saint Louis University