Education

• Ph.D.
  Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE)
  Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA (2022 - now)
• M.S.
  National Taiwan University (NTU), Computer Science and Information Engineering
  Taipei, Taiwan (2020 - 2022)
• B.S.
  National Taiwan University (NTU), Electrical Engineering
  Taipei, Taiwan (2016 - 2020)

Publications

Conference and Workshop Papers

1. Bending microarchitectural weird machines towards practicality
   Ping-Lun Wang, Riccardo Paccagnella, Riad S. Wahby, Fraser Brown
   USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Sec), 2024
   
   Nominated to the Pwnie Awards!
2. Capturing Antique Browsers in Modern Devices: A Security Analysis of Captive Portal Mini-Browsers
   Ping-Lun Wang, Kai-Hsiang Chou, Shou-Ching Hsiao, Ann Tene Low, Tiffany Hyun-Jin Kim, Hsu-Chun Hsiao
   International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS), 2023
   
   Best student paper award!
3. The ghost is the machine: Weird machines in transient execution
   Ping-Lun Wang, Fraser Brown, Riad S. Wahby
   Workshop on Offensive Technologies (WOOT), IEEE Security and Privacy Workshops (SPW), 2023
   
   Best student paper award!
4. Privacy-Preserving Data Analysis without Trusted Third Party
   Atsuko Miyaji, Tomoka Takahashi, Ping-Lun Wang, Tatsuhiro Yamatsuki, Tomoaki Mimoto
   IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom), 2022
   
5. Tool: An Efficient and Flexible Simulator for Byzantine Fault-Tolerant Protocols
   Ping-Lun Wang, Tzu-Wei Chao, Chia-Chien Wu, Hsu-Chun Hsiao
   52nd Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 2022
   
6. Compatible Equivalence Checking of X-Valued Circuits
   Yu-Neng Wang, Yun-Rong Luo, Po-Chun Chien, Ping-Lun Wang, Hao-Ren Wang, Wan-Hsuan Lin, Jie-Hong Roland Jiang, Chung-Yang Ric Huang
   IEEE/ACM International Conference On Computer Aided Design (ICCAD), 2021
   

Posters

1. Hybrid-Voting: A Hybrid Structured Electronic Voting System
   Ping-Lun Wang, Shao-Hong Yang, Hsu-Chun Hsiao
   Companion Proceedings of the Web Conference (WWW), 2020
   

Honors and Awards

1. Ann and Martin McGuinn Graduate Fellowship
   2022 - 2024
2. CAD Contest at ICCAD 2020 Problem A - First Place Award
   Ping-Lun Wang, Yu-Neng Wang, Yun-Rong Luo
   Advisors: Prof. Jie-Hong Roland Jiang and Prof. Chung-Yang Ric Huang
   2020