Yan WANG'S WEBSITE

Yan Wang

Assistant Professor
Computer and Information Sciences Department
Temple University
Philadelphia, PA 19122

Office: SERC 328
Phone: 215-204-1743
Email: y.wang@temple.edu

Welcome to my website

I am an Assistant Professor in the Computer and Information Sciences Department at Temple University. Before joining Temple, I was an Assistant Professor with Binghamton University. I earned my Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Stevens Institute of Technology (under the supervision of Dr. Yingying Chen), and M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Rutgers University. My B.S. degree is earned from Tongji University in China.

I am looking for motivated students to work with me in Mobile Computing, Smart Healthcare, Embedded Systems, and Wireless Networks. If you have a strong motivation in doing system research in these areas please send me an email, or stop by and let's chat. Strong hardware and machine learning background are plus.

Latest Update

New! [October, 2019] Our demo of continuous user authentication using PPG in commodity wearable devices is presented at the 25th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (ACM MobiCom 2019), Los Cabos, Mexico.

New! [May, 2019] Our paper "WristSpy: Snooping Passcodes in Mobile Payment Using Wrist-worn Wearables" has been accepted by IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM 2019), Paris, France.

New! [April, 2019] I am now the Technical Program Committee member for the IEEE annual conference on Computer Communications and Networks (IEEE INFOCOM 2020). Please join us in Beijing, China.

New! [January, 2019] I am now the Publication Chair and Web Chair for IEEE International Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (IEEE DySPAN 2019). Please join us in Newark, New Jersey.

[December, 2018] I am now the Publication Chair for 12th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (ACM WiSec 2019). Please join us in Miami, Florida.

[October, 2018] Our posters about continuous authentication using cardiac characteristics and signal-turn based driver identification are presented in the 24th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (ACM MobiCom 2018), New Delhi, India.

[May, 2018] Our WiFi-based security scanner project (led by Rutgers University) is hot on BBC news.

[May, 2018] I am now the Publication Co-chair for the 24th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (ACM MobiCom 2018). Please join us in New Delhi, India.

[May, 2018] Our paper "Towards In-baggage Suspicious Object Detection Using Commodity WiFi" has received the Best Paper Award in the IEEE International Communications and Network Security (CNS 2018) .

New! [March, 2018] I am now the Technical Program Committee member for the 24th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (ACM MobiCom 2018). Please consider submitting your paper to it and join us in New Delhi, India.

[March, 2018] I am now the Technical Program Committee member for the IEEE annual conference on Computer Communications and Networks (IEEE INFOCOM 2019). Please join us in Paris, France.

[November, 2017] Our work in PPG-based finger-level gesture recognition has been accepted by IEEE INFOCOM 2018.

[November, 2017] I am now the Technical Program Committee member for the sixth IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (IEEE CNS 2018). Please consider submitting your paper to it and join us in Beijing, China.

[October, 2017] I am now the Technical Program Committee member for the 27th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2018). Please consider submitting your paper to it.

[October, 2017] I am now the Technical Program Committee member for the 7th IEEE Annual International Workshop on Mission-Oriented Wireless Sensor and Cyber-Physical System Networking (IEEE MiSeNet 2018). It will be co-located with IEEE INFOCOM'18 at Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. Please consider submitting your paper toit.

[August 2017] Our work of PIN leakage in wearable devices has been accepted by IEEE TMC.

[June, 2017] Our paper "Sensing Touches on Ubiquitous Surfaces through Vibration" has won the Best Paper award in the IEEE SECON 2017.

[March, 2017] I am now the Technical Program Committee member for the IEEE annual conference on Computer Communications and Networks (IEEE INFOCOM 2018). Please join us in Honolulu, HI, USA!

[March, 2017] Congratulations to my student, Pradeep Sai Uppula, whose excellent work (HandWashMonitor) has amazingly seized FOUR prizes in the HackBU 2017.

[March, 2017] Our paper "Sensing Touches on Ubiquitous Surfaces through Vibration" has been accepted to IEEE SECON 2017.

[February, 2017] Our paper "BigRoad: Scaling Massive Road Data Acquisition for Dependable Self-Driving" has been accepted to ACM MobiSys 2017.

I am now the Technical Program Committee member for the 2017 the 7th International Conference on Communication and Network Security (ICCNS 2017). Please join us in Tokyo, Japan!

[December, 2016] I am now the website chair and Technical Program Committee member for IEEE CNS 2017. Please join us in Las Vegas, NV, USA!

Our IoT security project (led by Stevens Institute of Technology) is hot in the media: IEEE Spectrum, PHYS.ORG, FORTUNE, ScienceDaily, Yahoo Tech, Stevens News, Binghamton News, etc.

Our wearable device based PIN detection paper "Friend or Foe? Your Wearable Devices Reveal Your Personal PIN" has received the Best Paper award in ACM AsiaCCS 2016. (Prof. Yingying Chen from the Stevens Institute of Technology is the lead researcher and the corresponding author of this paper.)

NSF awarded Yan's research project on "Ubiquitous Sensing based Location-aware Driving Safety System".

I am now the Technical Program Committee member for the IEEE annual conference on Computer Communications and Networks (IEEE INFOCOM 2017). Please join us in Atlanta, GA, USA!

Our wearable device based driver tracking paper "Leveraging Wearables for Steering and Driver Tracking" has been accepted by the IEEE annual conference on Computer Communications and Networks (IEEE INFOCOM 2016).

I am now the student travel grant co-chairs for the ACM Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (ACM MobiCom 2016). Please join us in New York, NY, USA!

I am now the website co-chair and Technical Program Committee member for the IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (IEEE CNS 2016). Please join us in Philadelphia, PA, USA!

I am now the Technical Program Committee member for the International Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing (MobiSPC-16). Please join us in Quebec, Canada!