Dr. Dong Wang

Professor

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Biography

Dong Wang joined the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois as a professor in August 2021. He previously served as an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. His honors include the NSF CAREER Award, Google Faculty Research Award, and several best paper awards at prestigious conferences. Wang has served as TPC chair for both IEEE DCoSS 2022 and ACM/IEEE ASONAM 2023. His work has a wide range of real-world applications including social network analysis, crowdsourcing, disaster response, education, smart cities, synthetic biology, and environmental sustainability. He has published over 150 technical papers in peer-reviewed conferences and journals. Wang is the author of the books 'Social Edge Computing: Empowering Human-Centric Edge Computing, Learning and Intelligence' and 'Social Sensing: Building Reliable Systems with Unreliable Data.' His research involves social sensing and intelligence computing, resulting in software tools that find applications across academia, industry, and government research labs.

Research Interests

Experience

Professor

2021-08-01 — Present

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign • Champaign, IL

Joined the School of Information Sciences

Requirements for University of Illinois

Master Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3
IELTS
Listening
Required:7
Reading
Required:7
Writing
Required:7
Speaking
Required:7
Overall
Required:7.5
TOEFL
Listening
Required:17
Reading
Required:19
Writing
Required:21
Speaking
Required:20
Total
Required:103
GRE General
Prerequisites
Mathematical background Linear Algebra Calculus
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Specialization Notes

GRE is optional for admission to all graduate programs in Statistics. Full status admission requires higher language scores than limited status.