Yongge Wang

Yongge Wang received his PhD degree from the University of Heidelberg of Germany. Since then, Dr. Wang worked in the industry for a few years until he joined UNC Charlotte in 2002. In particular, Dr. Wang has worked in Certicom (now a division of Research In Motion Inc.) as a cryptographic mathematician specializing in efficient cryptographic techniques for wireless communications. He has actively participated in and contributed to the standards bodies such as IETF, W3C XML Security protocols, IEEE 1363 standardization groups for cryptographic techniques, and ANSI T11 groups for SAN network security standards. Dr. Wang is the inventor of Remote Password Authentication protocols SRP5, which is an IEEE 1363.2 standard, and the inventor of Identity based key agreement WANG-KE, which is an IEEE 1363.3 standard. He has also worked with Cisco researchers and American Gas Association researchers to design security protocols for the SCADA industry. Dr. Wang has been actively working in the research areas of information theory, cryptography, network security, and smart grid security. More information can be found at Dr. Wang’s homepage: http://sis.uncc.edu/~yonwang/