Barry Wang

Barry Wang

Ph.D. Student, Computer Science

Carnegie Mellon University

Biography

Advised by Professor Daphne Ippolito, my Ph.D. thesis research currently explores on the topics of LLM Security and Adapters.

Previously at Cornell, advised by Professor Thomas Ristenpart, I had concentrated my master thesis on End-to-End Encryption applications in my security research. My research aims to enhance online community governance and privacy while balancing anti-abuse.

In my NLP work during my undergraduate and master degree, guided by Professor Claire Cardie, my focus was on improving Information Extraction and model interpretability, particularly when inputs are at the document level.

Education

  • Ph.D. Student in Computer Science - Carnegie Mellon University
  • M.S. in Computer Science, 2024 - Cornell University
  • B.A. in Computer Science, 2022 - Cornell University

Publications

Private Hierarchical Governance for Encrypted Messaging

Armin Namavari, Barry Wang, Sanketh Menda, Ben Nassi, Nirvan Tyagi, James Grimmelmann, Amy Zhang, Thomas Ristenpart

Oakland (2024)

Probing Representations for Document-level Event Extraction

Barry Wang, Xinya Du, Claire Cardie

EMNLP Findings (2023)

Automatic Error Analysis for Document-level Information Extraction

Aliva Das, Xinya Du, Barry Wang, Kejian Shi, Jiayuan Gu, Thomas Porter, Claire Cardie

ACL Main (2022)

Experiences

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Teaching Assistant

Cornell UniversityIthaca, New York

August 2020 - May 2024

  • CS4410: Operating System (Spring 2022, Spring 2024)
  • CS5430: System Security (Fall 2023)
  • CS3410: Computer System Organization and Programming (Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Fall 2022)
  • CS2112: Object-Oriented Design and Data Structures (Honors) (Fall 2020)
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Software Engineering Intern (Research)

RobloxSan Meteo, California

May 2023 - August 2023