Chenghong Wang

Chenghong Wang

Assistant Professor of Computer Science

cw166 [at] iu [dot] edu 3054 Luddy Hall, Bloomington, IN 47408

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Indiana University. I currently serve as co-PI of the NSF Center for Distributed Confidential Computing and am affiliated with the Security and Privacy in Informatics, Computing, and Engineering (SPICE) Center. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from Duke University, where I was advised by Ashwin Machanavajjhala and Kartik Nayak. My earlier work explored how multi-party computation and differential privacy can make encrypted databases practical.

I am recruiting Ph.D. students and postdoctoral researchers interested in confidential computing across systems and architecture. Please contact me with a short introduction and your CV.

Research areas

My research focuses on secure computing systems for data and AI. I build practical systems for computing on sensitive data with confidentiality and verifiable data-use guarantees. My work spans two directions.

Secure Data Infrastructure

Confidential data platforms · Collaborative analytics · Formal data governance and provenance

Secure AI Systems

Privacy-preserving training, inference, and knowledge retrieval · Secure agentic workflows

Research Sponsors

Students

Current Ph.D. students

Alumni & Former Students

  • Jianjun Lang Ph.D. student at IU → Nanyang Technological University (transfer)
  • Hongbo Chen Ph.D. 2026 → Google DeepMind
  • Matt Pan B.S. 2025 → Deloitte
  • Cameron Coy B.S. 2027 → Continuing studies at Indiana University
  • Yitong Guo

Courses

Indiana University

  • CSCI-4561 Database Concepts
  • CSCI-B561 Advanced Database Concepts
  • Applied Secure Computing Systems
  • CSCI-B561 Advanced Database Concepts

Duke University

  • CompSci-351 Computer Security
  • CompSci-310 Operating Systems
  • CompSci-290 Everything Data