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Contact

  • Address:
    • Alex Hai Wang
    212A Dawson Bldg.
    120 Ridge View Drive
    Dunmore, PA 18512
  • Phone:
    • 570-963-2559 (office)
    570-218-WANG (cell)
    570-963-2535 (fax)
  • Email:
    • hwang@psu.edu

Biography

Dr. Alex Hai Wang now an Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track) in the College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) at the Pennsylvania State University (Worthington Scranton). He received his Ph.D. degree (IST) from the Pennsylvania State University in 2007. His Ph.D. advisor is Dr. Peng Liu. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees (E.E.) from Jilin University, Changchun, China. His M.S. advisor is Dr. Yantao Tian.

Research Interests

  • Information Security and Privacy
  • Security and Privacy in Social Networks
  • Cloud Computing
  • Machine Learning and Data Mining
  • Database Security
  • Survivability Modeling and Evaluation
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    Selected Publications

  • Su Yan, Dongwon Lee, Alex Hai Wang, Costco: Robust Content and Structure Constrained Clustering of Networked Documents, in Proceedings of 12th Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLing), February 2011, Tokyo, Japan (Acceptance ratio 24%).
  • Alex Hai Wang, Don't Follow Me: Twitter Spam Detection, in Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT), July 2010, Athens, Greece.
  • Meng Yu, Alex Hai Wang, Wanyu Zang, and Peng Liu, Evaluating Survivability and Costs of Three Virtual Machine based Server Architectures, in Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT), July 2010, Athens, Greece.
  • Alex Hai Wang, Detecting Spam Bots in Online Social Networking Websites: A Machine Learning Approach, in Proceedings of 24th Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Working Conference on Data and Applications Security (DBSec), June 2010, Rome, Italy.
  • Alex Hai Wang, Su Yan, and Peng Liu, A Semi-Markov Survivability Evaluation Model for Intrusion Tolerant Database Systems, in Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES), February 2010, Krakow, Poland (Acceptance ratio 22%).
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    Selected Services

  • PC Member, SECURWARE 2011
  • Editor, International Journal of Information Technology and Engineering

    • Teaching

  • IST 220: Networking and Telecommunications
  • IST 451: Network Security
  • SRA 221: Overview of Information Security
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