Thang Hoang

Thang Hoang

Assistant Professor

About

I am an Assistant Professor in the department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech and a CCI Research Fellow. Prior to joining VT, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow hosted by Prof. Elaine Shi at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), and a Research Associate hosted by Prof. Attila A. Yavuz at the University of South Florida (USF). I received my PhD degree from USF in August 2020.

My research spans the domains of cybersecurity and applied cryptography. I am interested in privacy, secure and verifiable computation, zero-knowledge proof, fuzzy cryptography, and trustworthy machine learning.

Interests

  • Applied Cryptograhy
  • Security and Privacy
  • Biometrics

Education

  • PhD in Computer Science, 2020

    University of South Florida

  • MS in Computer Science, 2014

    Chonnam National University

  • BS in Computer Science, 2010

    University of Science, VNU-HCMC

Recent News

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Feb 29, 2024
Paper on attack on searchable encryption accepted to ACM CODASPY 2024. This work is part of Jacob’s MS thesis, which he just also succefully defended. Congrats Jacob!
Feb 26, 2024
Received an NSF Travel Grant.
Jul 18, 2023
Got the Cybersecurity Research Grant from CCI. Thanks for your support!
Jun 30, 2023
Got the Collaborative Research Grant from 4-VA. Thanks for your continuous support!
May 01, 2023
Paper on oblivious encrypted search conditionally accepted to PETS 2023.4.

Publication

All publications
VTBC: Privatizing the Volume and Timing of Transactions for Blockchain Applications
Trevor Miller, Bobby Alvarez, Thang Hoang
International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN) 2023

MAPLE: A Metadata-Hiding Policy-Controllable Encrypted Search Platform with Minimal Trust
Tung Le, Thang Hoang
Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS) 2023

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ezDPS: An Efficient and Zero-Knowledge Machine Learning Inference Pipeline
Haodi Wang, Thang Hoang
Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS) 2023

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Efficient Dynamic Proof of Retrievability for Cold Storage
Tung Le, Pengzhi Huang, Attila A. Yavuz, Elaine Shi, Thang Hoang
Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) 2023

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*underlined indicates my current/former advisees at the time of initial/completion of the project.

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Postdoctoral Scholar
08.20 – 12.20
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburg, PA
 
 
 
 
 
Research Assistant & Associate
01.19 – 12.20
University of South Florida
Tampa, FL
 
 
 
 
 
Security Research Intern
06.16 – 08.16 || 06.18 – 08.18
Robert Bosch RTC
Pittsburgh, PA
 
 
 
 
 
Graduate Research Assistant
09.15 – 12.18
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR
 
 
 
 
 
Lecturer
09.14 – 08.15
Saigon Technology University
Saigon, Vietnam
 
 
 
 
 
Research Scientist
03.14 – 09.14
RedOne Technologies
Gwangju, S. Korea

Teaching

I am teaching the following course at VT
Past courses
  • CS 5594: Blockchain Technologies (Spring 2021, Spring 2023)
  • CS 4104: Data and Algorithm Analysis (Fall 2022, Fall 2023)
  • CS 4274: Secure Computing Capstone (Spring 2022)

Group

I am fortunate to work with the following talented students

PhD students

  • Tung Le | Fall 2021 - current
  • Arman Riasi | Fall 2022 - current
  • Hoang Dung Nguyen | Spring 2023 - current
  • Changqi Sun | Fall 2023 - current
  • Edmund Amanor | Fall 2023 - current
  • Munshi Ala Muid | Fall 2023 - current | co-advise w/ Tijay Chung

MS students

  • Jacob Haltiwanger | Fall 2022 - current
  • Atharva Haldankar | Fall 2023 - current

Visiting students

  • Haodi Wang | Spring 2021 - current, PhD student, Beijing Normal University

Alumni

  • Trevor Miller, MS (2023)
    • Thesis: Privatizing the Volume and Timing of Transactions for Blockchain Applications
  • Mohit Bhasi, MS (2022)
    • Thesis: Privacy-Preserving and Immutable Audit Log for Sensitive Data Operations
    Current Position: Software Engineer @ Robinhood

    Services

    All services
    I am involved with the following events

    2024

    Organzing Committee
    IEEE S&P (Student Travel Grant Chair)
    Program Committee
    PETS, ACSAC

    2023

    Organzing Committee
    IEEE S&P (Short-Talks Chair)
    Program Committee
    PETS, Inscrypt, IEEE MASS (S&P track), ACSAC

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