Selected Essays and Publications

Social and Cultural Anthropology

• W. Jia, "Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs: A Cultural Perspective" August 2013 - ethnography on Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs (under revision for publication).
• Selected as top paper in Stanford's introductory social and cultural anthropology class, ANTHRO 101S.

Political Science and International Relations

• W. Jia, "Noam Chomsky: The Rhetoric of Thought Leadership and the Role of Intellectuals in Political Activism" June 2013 - explores Noam Chomsky's rhetorical strategies as a political "activist" and the relationship of Chomsky's linguistics research and his philosophical work as a political dissident.
• Received Highly Commended Honors by the Undergraduate Awards, an annual competition of honors theses; top 10% of 3,711 submitted theses in international relations and politics.

Real-Time Concurrent Systems

• W. Jia, "Symp.ly Collaboration System" December 2012 - new real-time collaboration system utilizing an infinitely hierarchical data structure (under revision for publication).

Computer and Cyber Security

• W. Jia, R. Hsu, "Formal Modeling and Analysis of Bluetooth 4.0 Pairing Protocol" April 2013 - a formal analysis of the security of Bluetooth's 4.0; formally verified known security vulnerabilities and found a new security loophole.
• Selected as top paper in Stanford's graduate level computer security and analysis class, CS 259.
• W. Jia, "Decrypting the Morris Code" March 2012 - exploring the Morris Worm, history and lessons.
• W. Jia, "Cracking Cybersecurity" June 2012 - analysis of cybersecurity policy in the United States, recommendations & improvements.

Mathematics

• W. Jia, "Primality Testing" May 2012 - an exposition of the Miller-Rabin Primality Test.