Alan Wang Someone in Security
About
I’m Alan Wang, a second 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). Recently, I’ve been researching new classes of side-channel vulnerabilities (check out Pixnapping), building practical defenses for the novel side-channel vulnerabilities, and studying new techniques for microarchitectural reverse engineering. I occasionally will dabble in computer systems research. For my full research profile click here. I am also one of the co-organizers of the Berkeley Security Seminar. Outside of research, I play soccer, swim, ski, poorly play volleyball, and am slowly getting into surfing.
What I do in the Summers
- This past summer (‘26), I was doing research on hardware security :D.
- In the summer of ‘25, I visited Seattle, Los Angeles, 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.