PhD Candidate · Computer Science

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Yan He

Bio

I am a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oklahoma (OU), where I have been pursuing my doctoral studies under the supervision of Dr. Song Fang since 2023. I earned both my M.S. (2022) and B.Eng. (2019) degrees in Computer Science from OU.

Research interests

Cybersecurity Cyber-Physical & Embedded Systems Computer Vision
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Latest updates

Oct 2025

I am on the market for faculty roles!

Sep 2025

PhantomMotion accepted to NDSS 2026

Aug 2025

MotionDecipher accepted to RAID 2025

Oct 2024

I served as a committee member for CANSec 2024

Publications

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    Accepted NDSS 2026 Conference 17.49% AR

    PhantomMotion: Laser-Based Motion Injection Attacks on Wireless Security Surveillance Systems

    The Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS 2026), pp. 1-18, 2026.

    (Acceptance Rate: 17.49%=113/646)

    Yan He, Guanchong Huang, Song Fang

    PDF pending
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    Published RAID 2025 Conference 22.06% AR

    MotionDecipher: General Video-assisted Passcode Inference In Virtual Reality

    The 28th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID 2025), pp. 298-313, 2025.

    (Acceptance Rate: 22.06%=62/281)

    Guanchong Huang, Yan He, Shangqing Zhao, Yi Wu, Song Fang

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    Published IEEE TMC 2023 Journal

    Precise wireless camera localization leveraging traffic-aided spatial analysis

    IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), vol. 23, no. 6, pp. 7256-7269, June 2024.

    Yan He, Qiuye He, Song Fang, Yao Liu

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    Published CCS 2023 Conference 19.1% AR

    When free tier becomes free to enter: Identifying security cameras with no cloud subscription

    ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM CCS 2023), Nov. 2023.

    (Acceptance Rate: 19.1%=234/1222)

    Yan He, Qiuye He, Song Fang, Yao Liu

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    Published MobiSys 2021 Conference 21.7% AR

    MotionCompass: Pinpointing wireless cameras via motion-activated traffic

    ACM MobiSys, Mars, Solar System, Milky Way, Jun. 2021.

    (Acceptance Rate: 21.7%=36/166)

    Yan He, Qiuye He, Song Fang, Yao Liu

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    Published MASS 2020 Conference 29.7% AR

    Virtual Step PIN Pad: Towards foot-input authentication using geophones

    IEEE MASS, Dec. 2020.

    (Acceptance Rate: 29.7%=65/219)

    Yan He, Hanyan Zhang, Edwin Yang, Song Fang

Patents

  • US Patent Provisional 63/356,211

    Method and Apparatus for Determining Locations of Wireless Cameras

    Non-provisional application #: 18/341,567 (filed 2023; published)

  • US Patent Provisional Invention Disclosure No. 2024-042

    A Non-Intrusive Way to Identify Security Cameras with no Cloud Subscription

    Status: provisional application

Course assisted at OU

Guiding labs, grading, and project support across core systems and applied CS.

  • ES

    Embedded Systems

    Fall 2022

    Guided RTOS labs, peripheral drivers, timing analysis, and deploy-on-hardware checkouts.

  • OS

    Operating Systems

    SP 2023 · Fall 2022, 2023

    Led recitations on CPU scheduling, synchronization primitives, paging/segmentation, and kernel tracing labs.

  • SEC

    Computer Security

    Fall 2020, 2021, 2024 · SP 2024, 2025

    Ran labs on threat modeling, packet analysis, web/app hardening, and guided secure coding/code review sessions.

  • ML

    Machine Learning

    SP 2021

    Supported students on model training workflows, validation/metrics, hyperparameter tuning, and project mentorship.

  • DB

    Database Management

    Fall 2025

    Taught SQL labs, schema design and normalization, indexing strategies, and query plan performance tuning.

  • CO

    Computer Organization

    SP 2020

    Facilitated logic design labs, pipelined CPU walkthroughs, and ISA fundamentals with hands-on simulation exercises.