About

      I’m Alan Wang, a first year PhD student researching hardware security at the University of California, Berkeley (UCB) advised by Profesor Chris Fletcher. My main focus is side channel attacks and defenses (hardware and software). Specifically, I focus on Spectre attacks and mobile microarchitectural security. I occasionally will dabble in computer systems research. Outside of research, I play soccer, swim, and poorly play volleyball.

What I do in the Summers

• This past summer (‘25), I visited Alaska, Iceland, Austria, Slovenia, and Croatia! They were all very beautiful (Iceland has been my favorite).
• In the summer of ‘24, I was working as a software developer intern at Jane Street where I worked on systems critical to supporting the trading effort.
• In the summer of ‘23, I was a computer science intern at D.E. Shaw Research doing research on docking and writing embedded code that ran on the Anton3 ASIC!
• In the summer of ‘22, I was a research aide at Argonne National Laboratory working on a potpourri of things.
• In the summer of ‘21, I was a research intern at Argonne National Laboratory working on robotics for drug discovery.
• In the summer of ‘20 and ‘19, I was an intern at the Navy building an autonomous bomb defusing robot.

Fun Fact: I have some presence on scratch.mit.edu. I leave as an exercise to the reader to find out who I am on scratch though (: