Alan Wang, Ph.D.

I’m a creative technologist blending data science, design, and automation. I help teams build intuitive systems that scale from human to global levels of interaction.

news

Aug 05, 2024	I joined the inaugural class of NobleReach Scholars
Nov 13, 2023	We published our work “Smart Metadata in Action: The Social Impact Data Commons” to the Conference on Smart Metadata for Official Statistics 2024
Aug 11, 2023	I started my postdoctoral fellowship at the Biocomplexity Institute, Social and Decision Analytics Division
May 30, 2023	Dissertation defense

latest posts

Aug 15, 2023	Exploring and Splitting TopoJSONs
Jul 25, 2023	Extracting Broadband Data in an IP-Throttled Web

selected publications

Using Language Models to Classify Innovation and Extract Structured Information about Product Innovation from Unstructured News Stories

Neil Kattampallil, Nathaniel Ratcliff, Gizem Korkmaz, and 4 more authors

In Proceedings of the Biocomplexity Institute, Technical Report, 2023

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@inproceedings{kattampallil23language,
  title = {Using Language Models to Classify Innovation and Extract Structured Information about Product Innovation from Unstructured News Stories},
  author = {Kattampallil, Neil and Ratcliff, Nathaniel and Korkmaz, Gizem and Wang, Alan and Zhou, Steve and Anderson, Gary and Jankowski, John},
  year = {2023},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Biocomplexity Institute, Technical Report}
}

Building performance simulations can inform IoT privacy leaks in buildings

Alan Wang, Bradford Campbell, and Arsalan Heydarian

Scientific Reports, 2023

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@article{wang2023building,
  title = {Building performance simulations can inform IoT privacy leaks in buildings},
  author = {Wang, Alan and Campbell, Bradford and Heydarian, Arsalan},
  year = {2023},
  journal = {Scientific Reports},
  publisher = {Nature Publishing Group UK London},
  volume = {13},
  number = {1},
  pages = {7602}
}

Is my sensor sleeping, hibernating, or broken? A data-driven monitoring system for indoor energy harvesting sensors

Alan Wang, Jianyu Su, Arsalan Heydarian, and 2 more authors

In Proceedings of the 7th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation, 2020

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@inproceedings{wang2020my,
  title = {Is my sensor sleeping, hibernating, or broken? A data-driven monitoring system for indoor energy harvesting sensors},
  author = {Wang, Alan and Su, Jianyu and Heydarian, Arsalan and Campbell, Bradford and Beling, Peter},
  year = {2020},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 7th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation},
  pages = {210--219}
}