Coby Wang



Staff Research Scientist



Visa Research






About Me

I am a research scientist at Visa Research. My research interests are in authentication, applied cryptography, and distributed system security and privacy. I am particularly intrigued by the intersections of these domains.

I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from UNC at Chapel Hill in 2021, where I was fortunate to be advised by Prof. Mike Reiter. Immediately following my graduation from UNC, I worked as a research associate at Duke University before joining Visa Research in 2022.

Selected Publications

[Google Scholar]

    [WR24] 

    Bernoulli honeywords
    K. C. Wang and M. K. Reiter
    In 

    Proceedings of the 

    31st ISOC Network and Distributed System Security Symposium
    (NDSS '24) (Acceptance rate: 104/694=14.99%)

Mentoring

  • Mazharul Islam, Ph.D. student from UW-Madison, Summer 2023 and Summer 2024

  • Professional Service

  • Conference Program Committee Member

  • Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) 2024

  • ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS) 2025

  • ISOC Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) 2025

  • Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS) 2025

  • USENIX Security Symposium 2025

  • Journal Reviewer

  • IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (IEEE TDSC) 2023