Biography
Ligong Wang received the B.E. degree in electronic engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2004, and the M.Sc. and Dr.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from ETH Zurich, Switzerland, in 2006 and 2011, respectively. From 2011 to 2014, he was a Post-Doctoral Associate with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA. He is currently a Researcher (chargé de recherche) with CNRS, France, and the ETIS Laboratory, Cergy-Pontoise. His research interests include classical and quantum information theory, physical-layer security, and digital, in particular optical communications. Since 2019, he has been serving as an Associate Editor for Shannon Theory for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.
Research activities
- Information theory
- Quantum information theory
- Digital communication
- Optical communication
- Information-theoretic security
- Error-correcting codes
Ongoing projects
- CY Initiative d’Excellence Ambition Program, “Physical-Layer Security for Beyond 5G (PHEBE)”
- ANR JCJC, “Covertness and Secrecy in the Wireless Physical Layer (COSI)”
- PHC Germaine de Staël French-Swiss Program, “Provably Secure Covert Communications”
