Chenyi Wang (王晨懿)

PhD Candidate · University of Arizona

PhD candidate at the WiSeR Lab, researching performance and security of perception in autonomous systems. My work spans AI/ML security, computer vision, and cyber-physical systems. I'm fortunate to be advised by Dr. Ming Li, FIEEE and work closely with Dr. Z. Berkay Celik (Purdue), Dr. Ryan Gerdes (Virginia Tech), Dr. Jonathan Petit and Dr. Jean-Philippe Monteuuis (Qualcomm).

AI/ML Security Computer Vision Robotics Cyber-Physical Systems Multi-Agent Systems

Open to internship and full-time opportunities — feel free to reach out.

Education

PhD · ECE
U of Arizona · 2023–2026 (Expected)
GPA: 4.0 · Herbold Fellow
MA · Statistics
Columbia University · GPA: 4.0
BS · Statistics & BA · Mathematics
U of Minnesota · GPA: 3.93
Minor in CS · High Distinction · Phi Beta Kappa
Chenyi Wang

Publications

AAAI 2026 CP-FREEZER: Latency Attacks against Vehicular Cooperative Perception Wang, Song, Muller, Monteuuis, Celik, Petit, Gerdes, Li
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USENIX Security 2025 From Threat to Trust: Exploiting Attention Mechanisms for Attacks and Defenses in Cooperative Perception Wang, Muller, Song, Monteuuis, Petit, Man, Gerdes, Celik, Li
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IEEE S&P 2025 Investigating Physical Latency Attacks against Camera-based Perception Muller, Song, Wang, Zhan, Monteuuis, Man, Li, Gerdes, Petit, Celik
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IEEE S&P Magazine 2025 Spatiotemporal Consistency: A Universal Defense Against Attacks on Autonomous Systems Muller, Wang, Song, Monteuuis, Man, Li, Gerdes, Petit, Celik
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ACSAC 2024 Physical ID-Transfer Attacks against Multi-Object Tracking via Adversarial Trajectory Wang, Man, Muller, Li, Celik, Gerdes, Petit
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Honors & Awards

🌵 Beyond Research 14ers · Philosophy · ? click me...

Beyond Research

I love deep dives into philosophy and am an avid outdoor enthusiast. I've summited several of Colorado's famed 14ers, including Mt. Harvard, Mt. Yale, and Mt. Holy Cross.

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Academic Service

Program Committee

  • USENIX Security 2026 Artifact Evaluation
  • VehicleSec 2026 Poster/Demo
  • NDSS 2026 Poster Session
  • EAI SmartSP 2026

Reviewer

  • USENIX Security '23, '24, '26
  • ACM CCS '23, '24, '25
  • VehicleSec '23, '25
  • AAAI '26 · IEEE IoT '25
  • IEEE TIFS '24 · TCPS '25
  • IEEE ICC '25 · ICCCN '23

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