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). My work appears at top-tier security and AI venues, including USENIX Security, IEEE S&P, ACM CCS, and AAAI. I will be joining Zoox as a perception research engineer in Spring 2027.

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

Experience

Research Engineer Intern
Zoox
Jun 2026 – Sep 2026 · Perception

Education

PhD · Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Arizona · 2023–2026 (Expected)
GPA: 4.0 · Herbold Fellow
MA · Statistics
Columbia University · 2021–2022
GPA: 4.0
BS · Statistics & BA · Mathematics
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities · 2018–2021
GPA: 3.93 · Minor in CS · High Distinction · Phi Beta Kappa
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Publications

ACM CCS 2026 (accepted; to be published) Investigating Planning Attacks against End-to-End Autonomous Driving Song, Wang, Muller, Monteuuis, Gerdes, Petit, Li, Bianchi, Celik
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
Paper
IEEE S&P 2025 Investigating Physical Latency Attacks against Camera-based Perception Muller, Song, Wang, Zhan, Monteuuis, Man, Li, Gerdes, Petit, Celik
Paper
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
Paper

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 2027
  • IEEE SaTML 2027
  • AAAI 2027
  • ACM CCS 2026 Artifact Evaluation
  • USENIX Security 2026 Artifact Evaluation
  • VehicleSec 2026 Poster/Demo
  • NDSS 2026 Poster Session
  • EAI SmartSP 2026

Reviewer

  • IEEE TDSC 2026
  • USENIX Security '23, '24, '26
  • ACM CCS '23, '24, '25, '26
  • VehicleSec '23, '25
  • AAAI '26 · IEEE IoT '25, '26
  • IEEE TIFS '24 · TCPS '25
  • IEEE ICC '25 · ICCCN '23

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