Dr. Yi (Estelle) Wang has been working as Head of Product Cybersecurity & Privacy Office (PCSO) Singapore at Continental Automotive since July 2016. Dr. Wang leads three teams: the automotive advanced research and governance team, consulting and engineering team, and the security operations team. She has deep knowledge on ISO/SAE 21434 and UNECE R155/R156 based on physically participating in working group meetings. She is an expert with cybersecurity industrial standards, e.g., ISO 2700x and ISO 26262. She is familiar with data protection and privacy regulations: GDPR and Asia regional regulations (Singapore PDPA and Chinese PIPL). Her advanced research topics include, but are not limited to, applied post quantum cryptography, applied lightweight cryptography, cybersecurity for artificial intelligence (adversarial model), embedded security for IoTs, data anonymization for personal privacy.
Dr. Wang is honored with “Top Women in Security ASEAN 2021” 2021 and 2022 (Singapore, Phillips, Indonesia, Malaysia, Cambodia, and Thailand), “Top Women in Security – Singapore Country Award” and “Top 20 Women in Cybersecurity Singapore 2020” by Public Security Society. She brought the know-how to the Singapore Cybersecurity ecosystem through guest lectures with the Singapore Institute of Technology in 2019.
With more than 20 years of experience in various embedded security topics, she is also active in academic activities, has published more than 60 international top journal/conference papers, and holds 16 industrial patents. She was Chair of the IEEE Circuit and System Society (CASS) chapter Singapore 2022-2023, Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Circuit and System II 2020-2022, and Chair for IEEE Standard of Hardware Security under IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Standards Activities Subdivision.
