
Gang Wang
474 posts

Gang Wang
@ffmagicbean
Prof @ UIUC; PhD from UCSB; Researching in Security and Privacy, Data Analytics, and Human Factors


Excited to finally share our #NeurIPS2025 paper "🔮PurpCode: Reasoning for Safer Code Generation"! 🙌 👐 First post-training recipe for training safe code reasoning models 🚀 SOTA for cybersafety + utility, outperforming Sonnet 4, o4-mini, R1 🥇 Winner of 2025 Amazon Nova AI Challenge 📝 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2507.19060 🧵👇 1/11





Meet the champions of the Amazon Nova AI Challenge, where university teams around the world went head-to-head to break and defend LLMs under real adversarial pressure: 🏆 Defending: UIUC (PurpCorn-PLAN) 🏆 Attacking: Purdue (PurCL) 🥈 CTU Prague & Nova Lisbon These students just raised the bar for secure Gen AI. Full recap: amzn.to/44JjrF0










I'm so excited to say I'll be joining @ASU's School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence as an Asst. Professor this fall! So many thanks to @ffmagicbean, @eredmil1, @yoshi_kohno, @yazz_acar, @adamaviv, and the many other mentors & friends who supported me through this journey





🎓🎉Defended my Ph.D. dissertation today! 🙏🏻Big thanks to my advisor @ffmagicbean and my committee Dr. Carl Gunter, Dr. Ravishankar Iyer, Dr. Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, and @lcavallaro! Thank you all to my friends, collaborators, and family. I will join @tiktok_us next month 😎







