Home | Chenkai (Nicholas) Wang Chenkai (Nicholas) Wang| Home | Articles | PGP Key | CV |BiographyI am a PhD candidate in the Siebel School of Computing and Data Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, advised by Prof. Gang Wang. My research interests include security and privacy in general, networking, measurement, censorship and cybercrime, and embedded systems. Apart from my profession, my enthusiasm also covers Aviations, Motorsports, Photography, Mechanical Engineering, and some other acativities that overlaps with other engineering and sciences fields. I am a FAA-licensed private *********cationUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignPhD Candidate in Computer ScienceAugust, 2023 -University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignMaster of Science in Computer ScienceThesis: VeriSMS: A message verification system for inclusive and trusted patient outreachAugust, 2021 - May, 2023University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignBachelor of Science in Geography & Geographic Information ScienceMinor in Computer ScienceAugust, 2017 - May, 2021TeachingFall 2025, ECE422/CS461 Computer Security I – Teaching AssistantFall 2022, ECE422/CS461 Computer Security I – Teaching AssistantSpring 2022, ECE422/CS461 Computer Security I – Teaching AssistantPublicationsEmail Spoofing with SMTP Smuggling: How the Shared Email Infrastructures Magnify this VulnerabilityChuhan Wang, Chenkai Wang, Songyi Yang, Sophia Liu, Jianjun Chen, Haixin Duan, Gang WangProceedings of The 34th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security '25) August 13-15, 2025, Seattle, WA, USA. Permalink | Slides | Poster | Presentation VideoCan You Walk Me Through It? Explainable SMS Phishing Detection using LLM-based AgentsYizhu Wang, Haoyu Zhai, Chenkai Wang, Qingying Hao, Nick A. Cohen, Roopa Foulger, Jonathan A. Handler, Gang WangProceedings of The 21st USENIX Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS '25) August 10-12, 2025, Seattle, WA, USA. PermalinkTowards Continuous Integrity Attestation and Its Challenges in Practice: A Case Study of KeylimeMargie Ruffin, Chenkai Wang, Gheorghe Almasi, Abdulhamid Adebayo, Hubertus Franke, Gang WangProceedings of The 55th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN '25) June 23-26, 2025, Naples, Italy. DOI: 10.1109/DSN64029.2025.00036True Attacks, Attack Attempts, or Benign Triggers? An Empirical Measurement of Network Alerts in a Security Operations CenterLimin Yang, Zhi Chen, Chenkai Wang, Zhenning Zhang, Sushruth Booma, Phuong Cao, Constantin Adam, Alex Withers, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, Ravishankar K. Iyer, Gang WangProceedings of The 33rd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security '24) August 14-16, 2024, Philadelphia, PA, USA. PermalinkVeriSMS: A Message Verification System for Inclusive Patient Outreach against Phishing AttacksChenkai Wang, Zhuofan Jia, Hadjer Benkraouda, Cody Zevnik, Nicholas Heuermann, Roopa Foulger, Jonathan A. Handler, Gang WangProceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '24) May 11-16, 2024, Honolulu, HI, USA. DOI: 10.1145/3613904.3642027Revisiting Email Forwarding Security under the Authenticated Received Chain ProtocolChenkai Wang, Gang WangProceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2022 (WWW '22) April 25–29, 2022, Virtual Event, Lyon, France. DOI: 10.1145/3485447.3512228Mozilla bug bounty program awarded $1,000 for the Firefox Relay vulnerability August, 2023.Other InvolvementsDevelop proprietary embedded firmware used in production since Dec, 2016;Discovered 5 university-wide or course-specific vulnerabilities with PoCs over 4-year undergraduate studies;Systematically conduct Computer Security researches since July, 2020;Started b23.wtf Redirecting Service which removes user-tracking parameters on Feb, 2021;Start Competing in CTF games together with SIGPwny since Feb, 2022; Earned 436pts for team in DiceCTF ’22[1][2];Contribution to Cadmium project for running native ArchlinuxARM on Lenovo Chromebook Duet.Latest ArticlesFeb 23, 2021: Out with the old, in with the new!© 2025 Chenkai (Nicholas) Wang || Find me with [ GitHub Matrix E-mail ]
