Tianhao Wang is a data privacy and security researcher. He joined the University of Virginia School of Data Science as an Assistant Professor in 2022 with his primary appointment in the Department of Computer Science. He has extensive publications in top security and database conferences. His work about differentially private synthetic data generation won multiple awards in NIST’s competition. Prior to the University of Virginia, he obtained his Ph.D. from Purdue University in 2021 and held a postdoc position at Carnegie Mellon University.