Coby Wang
Staff Research Scientist
 
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.
[WR24] 
Bernoulli honeywordsProceedings of the
31st ISOC Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS '24) (Acceptance rate: 104/694=14.99%)[WR21] 
Using Amnesia to detect credential database breachesProceedings of the
30th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security '21) (Acceptance rate: 246/1316=18.69%)[WR20] 
Detecting stuffing of a user’s credentials at her own accountsProceedings of the
29th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security '20) (Acceptance rate: 157/977=16.07%)[WR19] 
How to end password reuse on the webProceedings of the
26th ISOC Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS '19) (Acceptance rate: 89/521=17.08%)Mazharul Islam, Ph.D. student from UW-Madison, Summer 2023 and Summer 2024
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