“When the agent skill is flawed or developed with malicious intent, it will steal your data and maybe pass it back to a remote server to be used in some malicious way”. Ying Zhang, Computer Science Department. Dr. Zhang will present her research at the […]
“A vulnerability in code, configuration or infrastructure may already pose a risk, but AI agents can amplify its impact by autonomously exploring systems and attempting attacks at a scale beyond human capability,” said Ying Zhang, an assistant professor of computer science at Wake Forest University. […]
Join us Tuesday, September 22 at 4:00 PM in Alumni Hall 286! Our students will share what they did last summer and insights into their research and internship experiences. They will discuss the practical work they engaged in, how they secured these opportunities, and provide […]
Join us Monday, September 14 at 4:00 PM in Alumni Hall 286! Dr. Ron Doyle will share his insight on topic entitled Computing & Entrepreneurship – Thriving in the AI Era. What happens when computing meets entrepreneurship in the age of artificial intelligence? The result […]
A big shout out to Dr. Ying Zhang! The paper, titled CognixShield: PoV-Guided Vulnerable API Usage Detection in Large Codebases via LLMs, has been accepted at theESEM 2026! Congratulations!
A big shout out to Dr. Grey Ballard’s research group! The paper, entitled “Communication Avoiding Parallel Sketching via Sparse Subspace Embeddings,” is a collaborative work between CS faculty member, postdoctoral researcher, and former CS MS graduate. The work has been accepted to the 33rd IEEE […]
A big shout out to Drs. Hussain, Ballard and Devarakonda! The paper, entitled “High-Performance Star-M SVD for Big Data Compression,” is accepted to the International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP 2026). “High-Performance star-M SVD for Big Data Compression,” presents the first high-performance implementation of the […]
We are excited to announce that Prof. Alex Hicks will be joining our WFU Computer Science department as an Instructor starting in July 2026. His research focuses on computer science education, with an emphasis on help-seeking behavior, software testing, and automated feedback systems that support […]
A big shot out to Dr. Devarakonda! His paper, entitled “Scalable GNN Explanations with Distributed Shapley Values” has been accepted to the 52nd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB) 2026! The paper, “Scalable GNN Explanations with Distributed Shapley Values”, is a collaboration with […]
Ever since she took her first computer science class at Wake Forest, Ruby Flanagan knew that the major was the right path for her. Having previously excelled in other computer science and math classes in high school, Flanagan understood both the challenges and rewards that […]