Yong Huang （黄勇）
Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Master Advisor
（副教授，硕士生导师）
School of Cyber Science and Engineering, Zhengzhou University
（郑州大学网络空间安全学院·中原网络安全研究院）
Office: Room 213, Building #1, North Campus
Email: yonghuang AT zzu DOT edu DOT cn

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Biography

Dr. Huang is an associate professor of School of Cyber Science and Engineering at Zhengzhou University (ZZU). He is the deputy director of the Department of Cryptographic Science and Technology. He received his Ph.D. degree in School of Electronic Information and Communications from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) in 2021, supervised by Prof. Wei Wang. His research is concerned with network security and wireless sensing. His papers have appeared in several premier journals and top conferences, such as IEEE TMC, IEEE TWC, IEEE/ACM TON, and IEEE INFOCOM, USENIX Security.

Research

Dr. Huang’s research focuses on security, sensing, and their intersection within the Internet of Things (IoT), which is increasingly integrating physical world, cyberspace, and human society together.
He heads a research group, namely PHY Group, which seeks to develop innovative model-driven and data-driven approaches for Physical-layer security, Side-cHannel analysis, and Network traffic analYsis. Accordingly, the core objectives of PHY Group span three distinct but interconnected areas:

  • Physical-layer security for open wireless networks, where conventional upper-layer encryption is exposed to widespread risks of key leakage
  • Side-channel analysis for any medium that may contain unpatched physical leakage vulnerabilities
  • Network traffic analysis for modern encrypted heterogeneous networks, where conventional signature-based detection techniques are becoming ineffective

主要研究方向：物理层安全、侧信道分析和网络流量分析。

Hiring

Dr. Huang is looking for new graduate students (M.S. students) and undergraduate interns to work on exciting research projects!

  • Candidates are expected to be highly motivated and resilient against pressure. Also, they should have a solid background in computer science, electrical engineering, or mathematics.
  • Graduate students will have access to research-related software and hardware resources. Attendance at international academic conferences is highly encouraged and fully sponsored. Twice the monthly stipend stipulated by ZZU is provided per month.
  • Top-notch undergraduate students with rich system implementation experience and/or strong mathematical skills are preferred.

Contact him if you are interested.

硕士研究生：

  • 欢迎具备较强自我驱动力、较强抗压能力、良好计算机科学/电气工程/数学专业功底、较强动手实践/理论分析能力、较好英语能力的学生报考本人研究生！
  • 课题组将为每位研究生提供科研活动所需的软硬件设备与资源。同时，将全额资助学生参加国际学术会议，并每月提供双倍的导师助研津贴。

本科实习生：

欢迎动手实践能力强、自驱力强、专业成绩排名靠前的本科实习生联系本人。

News

  • [2026.03] Jiyu's is accepted by the IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IEEE IJCNN, one of the CCF rank-C conferences). Congratulations!
  • [2025.12] Our paper is accepted by the 35th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security, one of the CCF rank-A conferences). Congratulations!
  • [2025.11] Feiyang and Ruihao's paper is accepted by the IEEE Internet of Things (IOTJ, one of the CCF rank-C journals). Congratulations!
  • [2025.11] Xiaoguang and Zhibo's paper is accepted by the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC, one of the CCF rank-A journals). Congratulations!
  • [2025.11] Zhibo's paper is accepted by the IEEE International Conference on Mobility, Sensing and Networking (IEEE MSN'25, one of the CCF rank-C conferences). Congratulations!
  • [2025.10] Junjie and Wenjing's paper is accepted by the IEEE Internet of Things (IOTJ, one of the CCF rank-C journals). Congratulations!
  • [2024.05] Junjie's and Xiaoguang's papers are accepted by the International Conference on Intelligent Computing (ICIC, one of the CCF rank-C conferences). Congratulations!

Students

Master Students

  • Jiyu Liu (2024, previously@Qilu University of Technology)
  • Ruihao Li (2024, previously@ZZU)
  • Yanzhao Lu (2024, previously@Jiangnan University)
  • Congzhi Liu (2024, previously@Jilin University)
  • Shubao Sun (2025, previously@ZZU嵩山实验班)
  • Jianfeng Guo (2025, previously@Shenzhen University)
  • Chen Chen (2025, previously@Central China Normal University)
  • Mengkai Dong (2025, previously@ZZU)
  • Ziang Zhang (2025, previously@ZZU)
  • Yumeng Jia (2026, previously@ZZU)
  • Senyi Wang (2026, previously@ZZU)

Undergraduate

  • Sijie Wang (2023, GPA Top 5%)
  • Feifan Dou (2024, ZZU嵩山实验班)
  • Yirang Wang (2024, ZZU嵩山实验班)
  • Yujing Yang (2024, ZZU嵩山实验班)
  • Xianjie Hu (2024)
  • Ning Li (2024)
  • Xiaozhi Wang (2024)
  • Wei Su (2024)
  • Lingbin Meng (2024)
  • Shunpeng Qian (2024)
  • Yuanjie Lou (2024)

PG Alumni

  • 2026: Zhibo Dong, Yunfan Li, Wenjing Wang, Feifan Liu, Zhuang Rao, Qingqing Zhu, Yongteng Ou, Qing Liu
  • 2025: Xiaoguang Yang, Junjie Wang, Feiyang Zhao, Xinyue Hu, Zi Zhao
  • 2024: Chaoran Su, An Dong

UG Alumni

  • 2026: Mingke Hao, JiaZi Li, En Zhang, Mingyang Chen
  • 2024: Xinyu Sun

Publications

Journal Papers

  1. [IEEE IoTJ'26] Securing UAV Communications by Fusing Cross-Layer Fingerprints
    Yong Huang, Ruihao Li, Mingyang Chen, Feiyang Zhao, Dalong Zhang, Wanqing Tu
    IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol.13, no.2, 2026.
  2. [IEEE TMC'25] Smartphone User Fingerprinting on Wireless Traffic
    Yong Huang, Zhibo Dong, Xiaoguang Yang, Dalong Zhang, Qingxian Wang, Zhihua Wang
    IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Early Access.
  3. [IEEE IoTJ'25] Enhancing WiFi CSI Fingerprinting: A Deep Auxiliary Learning Approach
    Yong Huang, Wenjing Wang, Junjie Wang, Dalong Zhang, Chen Chen, Yan Cao, Wei Wang
    IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol.12, no.24, 2025.
  4. [IEEE IoTJ'23] Over-The-Air Adversarial Attacks on Deep Learning Wi-Fi Fingerprinting
    Fei xiao, Yong Huang*, Yingying Zuo, Wei kuang, Wei Wang
    IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol.10, no.11, 2023.
  5. [IEEE TWC'22] Forgery Attack Detection in Surveillance Video Streams Using Wi-Fi Channel State information
    Yong Huang, Xiang Li, Wei Wang, Tao Jiang, Qian Zhang
    IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol.21, no.6, 2022.
  6. [IEEE/ACM TON'21] Detecting Colluding Sybil Attackers in Robotic Networks using Backscatters
    Yong Huang, Wei Wang, Tao Jiang, Qian Zhang
    IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol.29, no.2, 2021.
  7. [IEEE TWC'20] Authenticating On-Body IoT Devices: An Adversarial Learning Approach
    Yong Huang, Wei Wang, Hao Wang, Tao Jiang, Qian Zhang
    IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol.19, no.8, 2020.

Conference Papers

  1. [IEEE IJCNN'26] T2T: Captioning Smartphone Activities Using Mobile Traffic
    Jiyu Liu, Yong Huang*, Yanzhao Lu, Yun Tie, Wanqing Tu
    International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 2026
  2. [USENIX Security'26] Turn Your Face Into An Attack Surface: Screen Attack Using Facial Reflections in Video Conferencing
    Yong Huang, Yanzhao Lu, Mingyang Chen, En Zhang, Jiazi Li, Wanqing Tu
    USENIX Security Symposium, 2026
  3. [IEEE MSN'25] BLADE: Behavior-Level Anomaly Detection Using Network Traffic in Web Services
    Zhibo Dong, Yong Huang*, Shubao Sun, Wentao Cui, Zhihua Wang
    IEEE International Conference on Mobility, Sensing and Networking, 2025
  4. [Springer-Nature ICIC'24] Improving WiFi CSI Fingerprinting with IQ Samples
    Junjie Wang, Yong Huang*, Feiyang Zhao, Wenjing Wang, Dalong Zhang, Wei Wang
    International Conference on Intelligent Computing, 2024
    Acceptance Rate: 41%
  5. [Springer-Nature ICIC'24] Eavesdropping Mobile Apps and Actions through Wireless Traffic in the Open World
    Xiaoguang Yang, Yong Huang*, Junli Guo, Dalong Zhang, Qingxian Wang
    International Conference on Intelligent Computing, 2024
    Acceptance Rate: 41%
  6. [IEEE INFOCOM'21] Towards Cross-Modal Forgery Detection and Localization on Live Surveillance Videos
    Yong Huang, Xiang Li, Wei Wang, Tao Jiang, Qian Zhang
    IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications
    Acceptance Rate: 252/1266=19.9%
  7. [IEEE INFOCOM'20] Lightweight Sybil-Resilient Multi-Robot Networks by Multipath Manipulation
    Yong Huang, Wei Wang, Yiyuan Wang, Tao Jiang, Qian Zhang
    IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications
    Acceptance Rate: 268/1354=19.8%
  8. [IEEE ICC'19] Towards Motion Invariant Authentication for On-Body IoT Devices
    Yong Huang, Mengnian Xu, Wei Wang, Hao Wang, Tao Jiang, Qian Zhang
    IEEE International Conference on Communications
    Acceptance Rate: 1010/2590=39.0%
  9. [IEEE GLOBECOM'18] On Secure Transmission Design: An Information Leakage Perspective
    Yong Huang, Wei Wang, Biao He, Liang Sun, Tao Jiang
    IEEE Global Communications Conference
    Acceptance Rate: 1026/2700=38.0%

Grants & Awards

  • Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program by HAST (2025年度“科创中原”行动青年人才培育项目), Principal Investigator (项目负责人), 2025-2026
  • The National Key Research and Development Program of China (国家重点研发计划), Co-Principal Investigator (子课题负责人), 2023-2025
  • The National Natural Science Foundation of China (青年基金), Principal Investigator (项目负责人), 2024-2026
  • The Chinese Government Scholarship awarded by the China Scholarship Council (高级访问学者), 2023
  • IEEE ICC 2019 Best Paper Award, 2019
  • Fundamental Research Funds, HUST, 2018
  • First-Class Postgraduate Scholarship, HUST, 2016-2021
  • National Encouragement Scholarship, Ministry of Education of China, 2013

Services

Membership:

Reviewer:

  • IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
  • IEEE Internet of Things Journal
  • Elsevier Smart Health
  • China Communications
  • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems
  • IEEE ICC 2022
  • IEEE GLOBECOM 2021