I am currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Applied and Creative Computing at 鶹Ʒ. My primary research focuses on AI security, as well as security and privacy issues in networked, mobile, and distributed systems.
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Research Interests
1) AI & Cybersecurity; 2) Cyber-Physical Systems & Supply Chain; 3) Network
Cloud & Mobile Security; 4) Cybersecurity Education
Jiawei Li, Yan Zhang, Dianqi Han, Ang Li, Tao Li, and Yanchao Zhang, TagStroke: Stealthy Keystroke Inference via Passive RFID Arrays Beneath Keyboards,” IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM'26), Tokyo, Japan, May 2026.
Yan Zhang, Tao Li, and Yanchao Zhang, “GNN-SML: Graphic Neural Network-Based Spectrum Misuser Localization,” IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM'25), London, United Kingdom, May 2025.
Ziqian Bi, Amit Singha, Hongfei Xue, Tao Li, Yimin Chen, and Yanchao Zhang, “Physical Backdoor Attacks against mmWave-based Human Activity Recognition,” IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'25), Glasgow, UK, July 2025.
Ang Li, Tao Li, Yan Zhang, Lili Zhang, and Yanchao Zhang, “SocialDistance: how far are you from verified users in online social media?” IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS’19), Phoenix, AZ, June 2019. (10 pages, acceptance rate: 42/153 = 27.4%)
Lili Zhang, Dianqi Han, Ang Li, Tao Li, Yan Zhang, and Yanchao Zhang, “WristUnlock: secure and usable smartphone unlocking with wrist wearables,” IEEE International Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS’19), Washington, DC, June 2019. (9 pages, acceptance rate: 32/115 = 27.8%)
Dianqi Han, Yimin Chen, Tao Li, Rui Zhang, Yanchao Zhang, and Terri Hedgpeth, “ProximityProof: secure and usable two-factor mobile authentication,” ACM Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom’18), New Delhi, India, October 2018. (15 pages, acceptance rate: 42/187 = 22.5%)
Yimin Chen, Tao Li, Rui Zhang, Yanchao Zhang, and Terri Hedgpeth, “EyeTell: video-assisted touchscreen keystroke inference from eye movements,” IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P’18), San Francisco, CA, May 2018. (17 pages, acceptance rate: 63/549 = 11.5%)
Tao Li, Yimin Chen, Rui Zhang, Yanchao Zhang, and Terri Hedgpeth, “Secure crowdsourced indoor positioning systems,” IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM’18), Honolulu, HI, April 2018. (9 pages, acceptance rate: 309/1606=19.2%)
