Tian Wang
Postdoctoral Research Associate
PhD, Informatics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
MS, Information Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
BS, Informatics, Indiana University Bloomington
Research focus
Privacy in AI and IoT, privacy policies and frameworks, user-centered privacy, user behaviors and perceptions in digital privacy, social media, AI governance.
Publications & Papers
Wang, T., Ma, Y., Blake, C., Bashir, M., & Wang, H. Y. (2025). Taking disagreements into consideration: human annotation variability in privacy policy analysis. Information Research an international electronic journal, 30(iConf), 81-92.
Wang, T., Chin, C. L., Benner, C., Hayes, C. M., Wang, Y., & Bashir, M. (2023). Patron Privacy Protections in Public Libraries. The Library Quarterly, 93(3), 294-312.
Wang, T., Hayes, C. M., Chen, C., & Bashir, M. (2022). An Analysis of Mobile Gaming Apps' Privacy Policies. In 2022 IEEE Games, Entertainment, Media Conference (GEM) (pp. 1-6). IEEE.
Wang, T., & Bashir, M. (2022). Attitudes Towards the Use of COVID-19 Apps and Its Associated Factors. In International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (pp. 492-501). Springer, Cham.
Wang, T., Hayes, C. M., & Bashir, M. (2022). Developing a Framework of Comprehensive Criteria for Privacy Protections. In Future of Information and Communication Conference (pp. 905-918). Springer, Cham.
Wang, T., Brooks, I., & Bashir, M. (2021). Public Reaction on Social Media During COVID-19: A Comparison Between Twitter and Weibo. In Intelligent Computing (pp. 612-625). Springer, Cham.
Wang, T., Guo, L., & Bashir, M. (2021). COVID‐19 Apps and Privacy Protections from Users' Perspective. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 58(1), 357-365.
Wang, T., & Bashir, M. (2021). Gaming Apps’ and Social Media Partnership: A Privacy Perspective. In International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (pp. 475-487). Springer, Cham.
Wang, T., Guo, L., & Bashir, M. (2021). Assessing Individual Differences in Coping Mechanisms during the COVID-19 Pandemic. In 2021 5th International Conference on Medical and Health Informatics (pp. 215-219).
Wang, T., & Bashir, M. (2020). Privacy considerations when predicting mental health using social media. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 57(1), e244.
Presentations
Wang, T., Bashir, M. (2023, August). “Development of Privacy Controls in Cloud Certifications: A Case Study of Cisco’s Cloud Controls Framework (CCF).” Privacy Engineering in Practice (PEP '23). Anaheim, CA, USA.
Wang, T., Li, X., Rivera-Lanas, M., Maurya, Habib, H., Y., Cranor, L., & Sadeh, N. (2024, August). Poster: UsersFirst: A User-Centric Privacy Threat Modeling Framework for Notice and Choice. In the 20th Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS).
Li, X., Yang, Y., Maurya, Y., Wang, T., Habib, H., Sadeh, N., & Cranor, L. (2024, August). Poster: Design and evaluation of the UsersFirst privacy notice and choice threat analysis taxonomy. In the 20th Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS).
Wang, T., Hayes, C., Chen, C., & Bashir, M. (2022, November). “An Analysis of Mobile Gaming Apps’ Privacy Policies.” Poster session presented in 2022 iSchool Research Showcase at University of Illinois. Champaign, IL, USA.