Liang Wang

Associate Research Scholar

I am an Associate Research Scholar at Princeton University. I am working with Prof. Prateek Mittal and Prof. Jennifer Rexford. Prior to postdoc, I received my Ph.D degree in 2018 at UW-Madison, supervised by Prof. Michael Swift and Prof. Thomas Ristenpart. My research interests are security and privacy.

Publications

RAVEN: Stateless Rapid IP Address Variation for Enterprise Networks

Liang Wang, Hyojoon Kim, Prateek Mittal, Jennifer Rexford

PETS, 2023

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Voiceover: Censorship-Circumventing Protocol Tunnels with Generative Modeling

Watson Jia, Joseph Eichenhofer, Liang Wang, Prateek Mittal

FOCI, 2023

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Guarding Serverless Applications with Kalium

Deepak Sirone Jegan, Liang Wang, Siddhant Bhagat, Michael Swift

USENIX Security, 2023

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How Effective is Multiple-Vantage-Point Domain Control Validation?

Grace H. Cimaszewski, Henry Birge-Lee, Liang Wang, Jennifer Rexford, Prateek Mittal

USENIX Security, 2023

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Creating a Secure Underlay for the Internet

Henry Birge-Lee, Joel Wanner, Grace Cimaszewski, Jonghoon Kwon, Liang Wang, Francois Wirz, Prateek Mittal, Adrian Perrig, Yixin Sun

USENIX Security, 2022

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Data-plane security Applications in Adversarial Settings

Liang Wang, Prateek Mittal, Jennifer Rexford

ACM SIGCOMM CCR Vol 52, 2022

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Leveraging Strategic Connection Migration-Powered Traffic Splitting for Privacy

Mona Wang, Anunay Kulshrestha, Liang Wang, Prateek Mittal

PETS 2022

The Andreas Pfitzmann Best Student Paper 2022 Runner-up

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REDACT: Refraction Networking From the Data Center

Arjun Devraj, Liang Wang, Jennifer Rexford

ACM SIGCOMM CCR Vol 51, 2021

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Programmable In-Network Obfuscation of DNS Traffic

Liang Wang, Hyojoon Kim, Prateek Mittal, Jennifer Rexford

NDSS DNS Privacy Workshop, 2021

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Experiences Deploying Multi-Vantage-Point Domain Validation at Let’s Encrypt

Henry Birge-Lee, Liang Wang, Daniel McCarney, Roland Shoemaker, Jennifer Rexford, Prateek Mittal

USENIX Security, 2021

The Caspar Bowden PET Award 2022 Runner-up

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MIMIQ: Masking IPs with Migration in QUIC

Yashodhar Govil, Liang Wang, Jennifer Rexford

USENIX FOCI, 2020

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SICO: Surgical Interception Attacks by Manipulating BGP Communities

Henry Birge-Lee, Liang Wang, Jennifer Rexford, Prateek Mittal

ACM CCS, 2019

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SPINE: Surveillance protection in the network elements

Trisha Datta, Nick Feamster, Jennifer Rexford, Liang Wang

USENIX FOCI, 2019

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Blind Certificate Authorities

Liang Wang, Gilad Asharov, Rafael Pass, Thomas Ristenpart, abhi shelat

IEEE S&P, San Francisco, CA, USA, 2019

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Peeking Behind the Curtains of Serverless Platforms

Liang Wang, Mengyuan Li, Yinqian Zhang, Thomas Ristenpart, Michael Swift

ATC, Boston, MA, USA, 2018

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Towards Better Understanding of Bitcoin Unreachable Peers

Liang Wang, Ivan Pustogarov

arxiv

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Side-Channel Attacks on Shared Search Indexes

Liang Wang, Paul Grubbs, Jiahui Lu, Vincent Bindschaedler, David Cash, Thomas Ristenpart.

IEEE S&P, San Jose, CA, USA, 2017

Github Bug Bounty Award

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Secure Channel Injection and Anonymous Proofs of Account Ownership

Liang Wang, abhi shelat, Rafael Pass, Thomas Ristenpart.

ePrint (the ePrint version is outdated).

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MavZAP: Zone-Aware Policy Enforcement for Safer Micro Aerial Vehicles

Drew Davidson, Liang Wang, Daniel Szafir, Bilge Mutlu, Thomas Ristenpart.

(Under Patent review).

Seeing through Network-Protocol Obfuscation (How to detect and block Tor Pluggable Transports)

Liang Wang, Kevin P. Dyer, Aditya Akella, Thomas Ristenpart, Thomas Shrimpton.

CCS, Denver, Colorado, USA, 2015

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WhoWas: A Platform for Measuring Web Deployments on IaaS Clouds

Liang Wang, Antonio Nappa, Juan Caballero, Thomas Ristenpart, Aditya Akella.

ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Vancouver, Canada, 2014

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Next Stop, the Cloud: Understanding Modern Web Service Deployment in EC2 and Azure

Keqiang He, Alexis Fisher, Liang Wang, Aaron Gember, Aditya Akella, Thomas Ristenpart.

ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), Barcelona, Spain, 2013

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Professional Activities

Program committee member:

  • SIGCOMM SPIN Workshop 2020, 2021
  • FOCI 2021
  • PETS 2022, 2023, 2024
  • IEEE S&P 2023, 2024
  • USENIX Security 2023 (Noteworthy reviewers)
  • ACM CCS 2024

Contact Me

Office: B307 Engineering Quadrangle, Princeton, NJ 08540

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