C
Cipher
Lab
Cyber
Intelligence for
Privacy
Hardening against
Emerging
Risks
People
Principal Investigator
Dr. Chenggang Wang
Assistant Professor
Dr. Wang leads the lab with a focus on data security, privacy-preserving machine learning, and trustworthy computing systems. His research aims to build the next generation of secure and intelligent infrastructure.
Direction
Lab Thrust
AI-Driven Cybersecurity
- Developing robust and fair machine learning models.
- Ensuring AI systems are explainable and transparent.
- Focusing on critical applications in finance and healthcare.
AI Applications and Translational Research
- Developing AI-driven methods for knowledge discovery and pattern mining.
- Developing AI-based system that help learning from historical data and finding insights for future.
- Building scalable AI-based system that empower other displines.
Support
Funding
- OU AI Initiative, “Catalyst OU: A Pilot for an LLM-Powered Researcher Collaboration Network,” PI: Chenggang Wang, Co-PI: Chad Roller, $10,000, 2025/06/05 - 2025/12/31, Internal
- OU AI Initiative, “Establishing a High-Performance Local AI Development Platform: Empowering the University of Oklahoma with Secure and Efficient On-Premises LLM Capabilities,” PI: Sungbo Jung, Co-PI: Chenggang Wang, $10,000, 2025/06/05 - 2025/12/31, Internal
Work
Current Projects
Scalable Blockchain for IoT Security
We are designing a lightweight, scalable blockchain framework to secure communications and data integrity for large-scale Internet of Things (IoT) networks, addressing challenges in consensus algorithms and resource-constrained devices.
Side-Channel Attacks
We study how information can leak through timing, power, electromagnetic, and other physical or implementation-level signals, and develop practical defenses for secure computing systems.
Network Traffic Analysis
We analyze encrypted and large-scale network traffic to understand privacy leakage, identify suspicious behaviors, and improve resilient communication systems.
Catalyst OU: A Pilot for an LLM-Powered Researcher Collaboration Network
This project will develop and evaluate “Catalyst OU,” a pilot system designed to foster research collaboration at the University of Oklahoma by leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) to identify potential research synergies. This pilot aims to demonstrate the feasibility of using LLMs for sophisticated researcher profiling and research interest matching, which will lay the groundwork for a university-wide collaboration discovery platform.
Former Members
Alumni
Alexander Lee
Now pursuing a master's degree at OUPI.
Undergraduate Student