Prof. Wenjing Lou, Prof. Yanchao Zhang and Prof. Yan Wang Visiting LION

LION are pleased to have Prof. Wenjing Lou, Prof. Yanchao Zhang and Prof. Yan Wang here at SJTU on June 11, 2018. They give brilliant invited talks related to security and privacy issues in Internet of Things (IoT) and mobile sensing applications.

Prof. Wenjing Lou is the W. C. English Professor of Computer Science at Virginia Tech and a Fellow of the IEEE. She served as a program director at the US National Science Foundation (NSF) from August 2014 to August 2017. She is the Steering Committee Chair of IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (IEEE CNS) and on the editorial boards of ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networking, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, and Journal of Computer Security. Prof. Lou gave a talk about the IoT and its security challenges. In her talk, she first introduced the network architecture and unique characteristics of IoT systems. Then she focused on unique security and privacy challenges in the IoT.

Prof. Yanchao Zhang is a professor in the School of Electrical, Computer and Engineering at Arizona State University. He is/was on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, and IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. He also chaired 2017 IEEE CNS. In his talk, Prof. Zhang discussed some challenges and solutions about security and privacy in the networked world. He first gave a high-level overview of our recent cyber security research in multiple directions, such as online social networks, dynamic spectrum sharing, mobile device security, and indoor navigation. Then he introduced EyeTell, their latest result published in the 2018 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy. In EyeTell, they propose a novel video-assisted attack that can infer a victim’s keystrokes on his touchscreen device from a video capturing his eye movements.

Prof. Yan Wang is from Department of Computer Science at SUNY Binghamton University. He received his Ph.D. degree in 2015 from Stevens Institute of Technology. His research interests include Mobile and Pervasive Computing, Smart Healthcare, Internet of Things, and Cyber Security and Privacy. The title of Prof. Wang’s talk is Low-cost Fine-grained Human-Computer Interaction Using Heart Rate Sensor in Wearables. In this work, they subvert the traditional understanding of PPG and open up a new direction of the utility of PPG in commodity wearable devices, especially in the domain of human-computer interaction of fine-grained gesture recognition.