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I'm an Internet security researcher specializing in privacy measurement and novel
techniques for censorship circumvention. I'm especially interested in protecting vulnerable
populations from targeted and mass surveillance.
I’m currently a
Ph.D. Candidate at Princeton’s Center for IT Policy advised by Jonathan
Mayer and Prateek Mittal. I was previously a Research
Fellow at
The Citizen Lab and Staff Technologist at the
Electronic Frontier Foundation.
I'm honored to have received the FOCI Rising Star Award,
the OTF Information Controls Fellowship,
the ACM CSCW Impact Recognition Award,
and the IRTF Applied Networking Research Prize.
Working Papers
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Don't Roll Your Own: A Large-scale Analysis of the Chinese Transport
Security Ecosystem
(in progress)
Mona Wang, Jeffrey Knockel, Jonathan Mayer, Prateek
Mittal
🏆 HotPETS Best Talk 2024
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QUICstep: Circumventing QUIC‐based
Censorship
(in progress)
Seungju Lee, Watson Jia, Mona Wang, Liang Wang, Prateek Mittal
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Analyzing the Tracking Ecosystem of WeChat Mini Programs: MMTLS Privacy and Information
Flows
(under review)
Mona Wang, Pellaeon Lin, Jeffrey Knockel, Will Greenberg, Jonathan
Mayer, Prateek Mittal
Publications
* indicates co-first-authorship
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The Not-So-Silent Type: Vulnerabilities in Chinese IME Keyboards' Network Security
Protocols
ACM CCS 2024
Jeffrey Knockel, Mona Wang, Zoë Reichert
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Field-building and the Epistemic Culture of AI Safety
First Monday 2024
Shazeda Ahmed, Klaudia Jaźwińska, Archana Ahlawat, Amy Winecoff, Mona
Wang
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Account Verification on Social Media: User Perceptions and Paid
Enrollment
USENIX Security 2023
Madelyne Xiao, Mona Wang, Jonathan Mayer
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Self‐Censorship Under Law: A Case Study of the Hong Kong National
Security Law
FOCI 2023
Mona Wang, Jonathan Mayer
- Network Measurement Methods for Locating and Examining
Censorship Devices
CoNEXT
2022
*Ram Sundara Raman, *Mona Wang, Jakub Dalek, Jonathan Mayer, Roya Ensafi
🏆 IRTF
Applied Networking Research Prize 2023
- Weaving Privacy and Power: On the Privacy Practices of Labor
Organizers in the U.S. Technology Industry
ACM CSCW 2022
*Sayash Kapoor, *Matthew Sun, *Mona Wang, Klaudia Jaźwińska, Elizabeth Watkins
🏆 Impact Recognition Award
- Leveraging Strategic Connection Migration‐Powered Traffic Splitting
for Privacy
PoPETS 2022
Mona Wang, Anunay Kulshrestha, Liang Wang, Prateek Mittal
🏆 HotPETS Best Talk 2021
🏆 Andreas Pfitzmann Best Student Paper
Runner Up
Talks
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Breaking network crypto in almost every popular Chinese keyboard app
DEFCON, 2024
Jeffrey Knockel, Mona Wang
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Protecting the Network Traffic of One Billion People: Reverse-Engineering Chinese Cryptography
HOPE XV, 2024
Mona Wang, Jeffrey Knockel, Zoë Reichert
Other Writing