I work at the School of Cyber Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China as postdoc now in Hefei, China. I received the B.E. degree from Hefei University of Technology, China, in 2017, and my D.E. degree from the same university in 2023, supervised by Prof.Meng Wang and Prof.Yu Gu. During my doctoral period, I receive a CSC scholarship, and I am guided by Prof.Yusheng Ji from National Institute of Informatics, Japan.

My research interest includes wireless sensing, IOT security and affective computing. I have published 20+ papers at the top international conferences and journals. I’m the recipient of the IEEE SMC Society Andrew P. Sage Best Transactions Paper Award and the IEEE HITC Distinguished Phd Dissertation Award.

🔥 News

• 2025.06:  🎉🎉 One Paper about WiFi Hidden Camera Localization accepted by Usenix Security 2025. Congrats to Myself!
• 2025.05:  🎉🎉 One Paper about RFID Sensing accepted by ACM TOSN. Congrats to Yuanhao Feng!
• 2025.05:  🎉🎉 Invited to serve as Publication Chair for IEEE ISPA 2025 (CCF C).
• 2025.03:  🎉🎉 One Paper about Watermark Updating accepted by IEEE ICME 2025. Congrats to Yanyan Liu!
• 2025.03:  🎉🎉 One Paper about WiFi-based domain adaption gesture recognition accepted by IEEE IOTJ. Congrats to Huan Yan!
• 2025.03:  🎉🎉 One Paper about Wireless Hidden Camera Localization accepted by IEEE S&P 2025. Congrats to Myself!
• 2025.03:  🎉🎉 One Paper about Noise Robust Facial Expression Recognition accepted by IEEE TAFFC. Congrats to Myself!
• 2025.02:  🎉🎉 Invited to serve as a TPC member for IEEE Globecom 2025 (CCF C).
• 2025.01:  🎉🎉 One Paper about WiFi-based Gesture Recognition accepted by IEEE THMS. Congrats to Myself!
• 2024.12:  🎉🎉 One Paper about WiFi-based Respiratory Healthcare accepted by IEEE Network. Congrats to Meng Wang!
• 2024.11:  🎉🎉 It’s an honor to become the recipient of the IEEE HITC Distinguished Phd Dissertation Award. Congrats to Myself!
• 2024.10:  🎉🎉 One Paper about WiFi-based Pulmonary Function Testing accepted by IEEE IOTJ. Congrats to Peng Zhao!
• 2024.10:  🎉🎉 It’s an honor to become the recipient of the IEEE SMC Society Andrew P. Sage Best Transactions Paper Award. Congrats to Myself!
• 2024.09:  🎉🎉One Demo Paper about WiFi-based Malicious Camera Detection accepted by ACM Mobicom. Congrats to Myself!

📝 Publications

Usenix Security 2025

DiffLoc: WiFi Hidden Camera Localization Based on Electromagnetic Diffraction

Xiang Zhang, Jie Zhang, Huan Yan, Jinyang Huang, Zehua Ma, Bin Liu, Meng Li, Kejiang Chen, Qing Guo, Tianwei Zhang, and Zhi Liu, Usenix Security 2025.

Mobicom 2024, S&P2025

Hidden WiFi Camera Localization via Signal Propagation Path Analysis

Xiang Zhang, Zehua Ma, Jinyang Huang, Huan Yan, Meng Li, Zhi Liu, and Bin Liu, ACM Mobicom 2024 Demo.

CamLoPa: A Hidden Wireless Camera Localization Framework via Signal Propagation Path Analysis

Xiang Zhang, Jie Zhang, Zehus Ma, Jinyang Huang, Meng Li, Huan Yan, Peng Zhao, Zijian Zhang, Bin Liu, Qing Guo, Tianwei Zhang, and Nenghai Yu, IEEE S&P 2025.

THMS 2022, Best Transactions Paper Award

WiGRUNT: WiFi-enabled gesture recognition using dual-attention network

Yu Gu, Xiang Zhang*, Yantong Wang, Meng Wang, Huan Yan, Yusheng Ji, Zhi Liu, Jianhua Li, Mianxiong Dong, IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems 2022.

🎙 Journals

• ReSup: Reliable Label Noise Suppression for Facial Expression Recognition, Xiang Zhang, Yan Lu, Huan Yan, Jinyang Huang, Yu Gu, Yusheng Ji, Zhi Liu, Bin Liu, IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing 2025 CCF B, JCR Q1, IF = 9.6
• WiOpen: A Robust Wi-Fi-based Open-set Gesture Recognition Framework, Xiang Zhang, Jinyang Huang, Huan Yan, Yuanhao Feng, Peng Zhao, Guohang Zhuang, Zhi Liu, Bin Liu, IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems 2025 CCF B, JCR Q1, IF = 3.5
• Wi-SFDAGR: WiFi-based Cross-Domain Gesture Recognition via Source-free Domain Adaptation, Huan Yan, Xiang Zhang*, Jinyang Huang, Yuanhao Feng, Meng Li, Anzhi Wang, Weihua Ou, Hongbing Wang, Zhi Liu, IEEE Internet of Things Journal 2025 CCF C, JCR Q1, IF = 8.2
• RF-Eye: Commodity RFID Can Know What You Write and Who You Are Wherever You Are, Yuanhao Feng, Jinyang Huang, Youwei Zhang, Xiang Zhang, Meng Li, Fusang Zhang, Tianyue Zheng, Anran Li, Mianxiong Dong, Zhi Liu, ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks CCF B, JCR Q2, IF = 3.9
• Target-Oriented WiFi Sensing for Respiratory Healthcare: from Indiscriminate Perception to In-Area Sensing, Meng Wang, Jinyang Huang*, Xiang Zhang*, Zhi Liu, Meng Li, Peng Zhao, Huan Yan, Xiao Sun, Mianxiong Dong, IEEE Network 2024 JCR Q1, IF = 8.5
• Wi-Pulmo: Commodity WiFi Can Capture Your Pulmonary Function Without Mouth Clinging, Peng Zhao, Jinyang Huang*, Xiang Zhang*, Zhi Liu, Huan Yan, Meng Wang, Guohang Zhuang, Yutong Guo, Xiao Sun, Meng Li, IEEE Internet of Things Journal 2024 CCF C, JCR Q1, IF = 8.2
• Keystrokesniffer: An off-the-shelf smartphone can eavesdrop on your privacy from anywhere, Jinyang Huang, Jia-Xuan Bai, Xiang Zhang*, Zhi Liu, Yuanhao Feng, Jianchun Liu, Xiao Sun, Mianxiong Dong, Meng Li, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security 2024 CCF A, JCR Q1, IF = 6.3
• Wital: A COTS WiFi devices based vital signs monitoring system using NLOS sensing model, Xiang Zhang, Yu Gu, Huan Yan, Yantong Wang, Mianxiong Dong, Kaoru Ota, Fuji Ren, Yusheng Ji, IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems 2023 CCF B, JCR Q1, IF = 3.5
• WiFE: WiFi and vision based unobtrusive emotion recognition via gesture and facial expression, Yu Gu, Xiang Zhang*, Huan Yan, Jingyang Huang, Zhi Liu, Mianxiong Dong, Fuji Ren, IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing 2023 CCF B, JCR Q1, IF = 9.6
• Phyfinatt: An undetectable attack framework against phy layer fingerprint-based wifi authentication, Jinyang Huang, Bin Liu, Chenglin Miao, Xiang Zhang, Jianchun Liu, Lu Su, Zhi Liu, Yu Gu, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing 2023 CCF A, JCR Q1, IF = 7.7
• WiGRUNT: WiFi-enabled gesture recognition using dual-attention network, Yu Gu, Xiang Zhang*, Yantong Wang, Meng Wang, Huan Yan, Yusheng Ji, Zhi Liu, Jianhua Li, Mianxiong Dong, IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems 2022 CCF B, Best Transactions Paper Award, JCR Q1, IF = 3.5
• Toward facial expression recognition in the wild via noise-tolerant network,Yu Gu, Huan Yan, Xiang Zhang, Yantong Wang, Yusheng Ji, Fuji Ren, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology 2022 CCF B, JCR Q1, IF = 8.3
• 3-d facial expression recognition via attention-based multichannel data fusion network,Yu Gu, Huan Yan, Xiang Zhang, Zhi Liu, Fuji Ren, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement 2021 JCR Q1, IF = 5.6
• Wione: one-shot learning for environment-robust device-free user authentication via commodity wi-fi in man–machine system,Yu Gu, Huan Yan, Mianxiong Dong, Meng Wang, Xiang Zhang, Zhi Liu, Fuji Ren, IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems 2021 CCF C, JCR Q1, IF = 4.5
• BeSense: Leveraging WiFi channel data and computational intelligence for behavior analysis,Yu Gu, Xiang Zhang, Zhi Liu, Fuji Ren, IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine 2019 JCR Q1, IF = 10.3

📚 Conferences

• DiffLoc: WiFi Hidden Camera Localization Based on Electromagnetic Diffraction, Xiang Zhang, Jie Zhang, Huan Yan, Jinyang Huang, Zehua Ma, Bin Liu, Meng Li, Kejiang Chen, Qing Guo, Tianwei Zhang, and Zhi Liu, The 34th USENIX Security Symposium, Usenix Security 2025, Accepted. CCF A
• CamLoPa: A Hidden Wireless Camera Localization Framework via Signal Propagation Path Analysis, Xiang Zhang, Jie Zhang, Zehus Ma, Jinyang Huang, Meng Li, Huan Yan, Peng Zhao, Zijian Zhang, Bin Liu, Qing Guo, Tianwei Zhang, and Nenghai Yu, IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, IEEE S&P 2025. CCF A (257/1740=14.8%)
• A Watermark Updating Framework for Multi-stage Image Content Distribution, Yanyan Liu, Bin Liu, Jie Zhang, Xiang Zhang, Zehua Ma, Nenghai Yu, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo, IEEE ICME 2025, Accepted. CCF B (Best Paper Award Nomination, 15/3737=0.4%)
• Hidden WiFi Camera Localization via Signal Propagation Path Analysis, Xiang Zhang, Zehua Ma, Jinyang Huang, Huan Yan, Meng Li, Zhi Liu, Bin Liu, ACM Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, ACM Mobicom 2024, Demo. CCF A
• FacialPulse: An Efficient RNN-based Depression Detection via Temporal Facial Landmarks, Ruiqi Wang, Jinyang Huang, Jie Zhang, Xin Liu, Xiang Zhang, Zhi Liu, Peng Zhao, Sigui Chen, Xiao Sun, ACM Multimedia, ACM MM 2024. CCF A (Oral Paper, 174/4385=3.97%)
• Mitigating label-noise for facial expression recognition in the wild, Huan Yan, Yu Gu, Xiang Zhang, Yantong Wang, Yusheng Ji, Fuji Ren, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo, IEEE ICME 2022. CCF B
• Real-time vital signs monitoring based on COTS WiFi devices, Yu Gu, Xiang Zhang*, Huan Yan, Zhi Liu, Yusheng Ji, IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, IEEE BIBM 2021. CCF B
• Wifi-based real-time breathing and heart rate monitoring during sleep, Yu Gu, Xiang Zhang, Zhi Liu, Fuji Ren, IEEE Global Communications Conference, IEEE Globecom 2019. CCF C
• Your wifi knows how you behave: Leveraging wifi channel data for behavior analysis, Yu Gu, Xiang Zhang, Chao Li, Fuji Ren, Jie Li, Zhi Liu, IEEE Global Communications Conference, IEEE Globecom 2018. CCF C

🎖 Honors and Awards

• 2024.11 IEEE HITC Distinguished Phd Dissertation Award.
• 2024.10 IEEE SMC Society Andrew P. Sage Best Transactions Paper Award (The corresponding author).
• 2020.09 China Scholarship Council (Joint Doctoral Program), China Scholarship Council
• 2019.10 National Scholarship, Ministry of Education of P. R. China, Ph.D.

📖 Educations

• 2017.06 - 2023.05, Master and Phd, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, China.
• 2013.09 - 2017.06, Undergraduate, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, China.

🧑‍🎨 TPC Member and Reviewers

• IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (ISPA 2025, Publication Chair)
• ACM Multimedia(MM 2024)
• IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2023,2024,2025, TPC)
• IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2023,2025)
• ACM Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT 2024)
• Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2025)
• IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing
• IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems
• IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
• IEEE Wireless Communication Magazine
• IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
• IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
• ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems
• IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management
• IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence