Dr. Wang's research focuses on security and privacy issues in the Internet of Things, cyber-physical systems, cyberinfrastructure, and machine learning and artificial intelligence. Over the past 13 years, Dr. Wang was involved in 12 successful proposals (11 PIs and 1 Co-PI) totaling over $2.5M in research. Dr. Wang received Merrill Hunter Award for Excellence in Research from Dakota State University in 2015.

Recent News

• Dr. Wang is part of a cyber agriculture project titled 'Designing a Secure Cyberinfrastructure for Precision Agriculture in South Dakota Based on LPWAN Technology,' in collaboration with South Dakota State University.
• Dr. Wang received a grant for IoT device identificatoin in 2021.
• Dr. Wang received a NSF grant to establish a REU Site in IoT Security at Dakota State University in 2019.

Recent Publications

• C. Koball, Y. Wang, B. P. Rimal and V. Vaidyan, "Machine Learning Security: Threat Model, Attacks, and Challenges," in Computer, vol. 57, no. 10, pp. 26-35, Oct. 2024, doi: 10.1109/MC.2024.3396357.
• Kaushik Muthusamy Ragothaman, Yong Wang, Bhaskar Rimal, and Mark Lawrence, Access Control for IoT: A Survey of Existing Research, Dynamic Policies and Future Directions, Sensors, 23, no. 4: 1805 (2023). https://doi.org/10.3390/s23041805.