PhD Candidate · Computer Science
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
Latest updates
I am on the market for faculty roles!
PhantomMotion accepted to NDSS 2026
MotionDecipher accepted to RAID 2025
I served as a committee member for CANSec 2024
Publications
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Accepted NDSS 2026 Conference 17.49% ARPhantomMotion: 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)
, Guanchong Huang, Song Fang
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Published RAID 2025 Conference 22.06% ARMotionDecipher: 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, , Shangqing Zhao, Yi Wu, Song Fang
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Published IEEE TMC 2023 JournalPrecise wireless camera localization leveraging traffic-aided spatial analysis
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), vol. 23, no. 6, pp. 7256-7269, June 2024.
, Qiuye He, Song Fang, Yao Liu
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Published CCS 2023 Conference 19.1% ARWhen 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)
, Qiuye He, Song Fang, Yao Liu
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Published MobiSys 2021 Conference 21.7% ARMotionCompass: Pinpointing wireless cameras via motion-activated traffic
ACM MobiSys, Mars, Solar System, Milky Way, Jun. 2021.
(Acceptance Rate: 21.7%=36/166)
, Qiuye He, Song Fang, Yao Liu
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Published MASS 2020 Conference 29.7% ARVirtual Step PIN Pad: Towards foot-input authentication using geophones
IEEE MASS, Dec. 2020.
(Acceptance Rate: 29.7%=65/219)
, Hanyan Zhang, Edwin Yang, Song Fang
Patents
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US Patent Provisional 63/356,211
Method and Apparatus for Determining Locations of Wireless Cameras
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US Patent Provisional Invention Disclosure No. 2024-042
A Non-Intrusive Way to Identify Security Cameras with no Cloud Subscription
Course assisted at OU
Guiding labs, grading, and project support across core systems and applied CS.
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Embedded Systems
Fall 2022Guided RTOS labs, peripheral drivers, timing analysis, and deploy-on-hardware checkouts.
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Operating Systems
SP 2023 · Fall 2022, 2023Led recitations on CPU scheduling, synchronization primitives, paging/segmentation, and kernel tracing labs.
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Computer Security
Fall 2020, 2021, 2024 · SP 2024, 2025Ran labs on threat modeling, packet analysis, web/app hardening, and guided secure coding/code review sessions.
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Machine Learning
SP 2021Supported students on model training workflows, validation/metrics, hyperparameter tuning, and project mentorship.
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Database Management
Fall 2025Taught SQL labs, schema design and normalization, indexing strategies, and query plan performance tuning.
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Computer Organization
SP 2020Facilitated logic design labs, pipelined CPU walkthroughs, and ISA fundamentals with hands-on simulation exercises.