[July 2019] Congratulations to Jian Liu, who will join the EECS department at University of Tennessee, Knoxville, as a tenure-track Assistant Professor.

[July 2019] Congratulations to Chen Wang, who will join the CS department at Louisiana State University, as a tenure-track Assistant Professor.

[July 2019] Our work on "Speech Privacy Exploit via Accelerometer-Sensed Reverberations from Smartphone Loudspeakers" has been reported in The Hacker News: "New Attack Lets Android Apps Capture Loudspeaker Data Without Any Permission ".

[June 2019] Congratulations to Chen Wang, who has been selected as the recipient of IEEE COMSOC Phoenix ISS Scholarship 2019. [Rutgers News]

[March 2019] Congratulations to Cong Shi, who has been selected as the recipient of Siemens Fellowship. [Rutgers News]

[October 2018] Yingying provides comments on "2018's States Most Vulnerable to Identity Theft & Fraud" for WalletHub.com, which is one of the leading outlets covering the personal finance industry.

[August 2018] CBS TV has interviewed Yingying and her team on their work on "In-baggage Suspicious Object Detection Using Commodity WiFi". . The CBS news is here.

[August 2018] Our work on "In-baggage Suspicious Object Detection Using Commodity WiFi" has been reported in Rutgers News: "Common WiFi Can Detect Weapons, Bombs and Chemicals in Bags" and over 50 media outlets, e.g., BBC News, NBC New York, Philadelphia Inquirer, and Yahoo News.

[July 2018] NSF awarded Yingying's research project on "Security Assurance in Short Range Communication with Wireless Channel Obfuscation".

[July 2018] NSF awarded Salim and Yingying's research project on "Medium: Secure Distributed Coded Computations for IoT: An Information Theoretic and Network Approach".

[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). .

[April 2018] ARO awarded Yingying's research project on "Enhanced Learning of Sensor Fusion for Human Authentication".

[December 2017] Our work on Abnormal Driving Behaviors Detection and Identification with Smartphones has been featured in IEEE Xplore Innovation Spotlight.

[November 2017] National Science Foundation has showcased our work on "Finger-input Authentication via Physical Vibration" as top story on NSF Science News. .

[October 2017] Our work on "Finger-input Authentication via Physical Vibration" has been reported in Rutgers News: "Good Vibrations: Smart Access to Homes and Cars Using Fingers" and over 30 media outlets, e.g., IEEE Spectrum, Yahoo Finance News, NSF Science 360 News, and Futurity.

[August 2017] NSF awarded Yingying's research project on "Exploiting Physical Properties in Wireless Networks for Implicit Authentication".

[August 2017] Yingying received 2017 IEEE Region 1 Technological Innovation in Academic Award.

[August 2017] DAISY lab got one paper accepted by ACM CCS'17.

[June 2017] Our paper "VibSense: Sensing Touches on Ubiquitous Surfaces through Vibration" has received the Best Paper Award in the IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication and Networking (SECON 2017) [pdf]. .

[May 2017] Yingying received Henry Morton Distinguished Teaching Professor Award (Stevens President Dr. Nariman Farvardin presented the award to Yingying at the Ph.D. Hooding Ceremony). .

[May 2017] Congratulations to Dr. Xiaonan Guo, who has joined Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, as a tenure-track Assistant Professor.

[April 2017] Yingying gives a tutorial on IoT security at IEEE 5G Learning Series - New Jersey Edition.

[March 2017] Yingying received a DURIP award 2017 on "Infrastructure for Securing Dynamic Tactical MANETs Research and Education" from ARO .

[January 2017] Guest Editor on IEEE Communications Magazine Special Issue: Behavior Recognition Based on Wi-Fi Channel State Information (CSI).

[November 2016] San Francisco Chronicle interviewed Yingying about possible security vulnerabilities through home devices with microphones.

[October 2016] ACM MobiCom 2016 has been successfully held in NYC, and Yingying is the General Co-chair. .

[October 2016] IEEE CNS 2016 has been successfully held in Philadelphia, and Yingying is the TPC Co-chair. .

[September 2016] National Science Foundation has showcased our work on "Cracking the PIN Number Using Wearables" on NSF facebook and podcast NSF Science 360 Radio. .

[September 2016] CNN has interviewed Yingying and her team on their work on "Your Wearable Devices Reveal Your Personal PIN". .

[July 2016] Our work on wearable devices revealing your personal PIN has been reported in Stevens News: "Did Your Smart Watch & Fitness Tracker Just Give Away Your PIN?" and over 60 media outlets, e.g., FORTUNE, PHYS, IEEE Spectrum and live interview with Top of Mind with Julie Rose on BYU Radio.

[July 2016] Yingying has led "IoT: Internet of Things or Internet of Dreams?" panel at ACM MobiHoc 2016 in Paderborn, Germany. .

[June 2016] Our paper of "Friend or Foe? Your Wearable Devices Reveal Your Personal PIN" has received the Best Paper Award in the ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS 2016) [pdf], [Presentation Slides]. .

[October 2015] Yingying is the TPC Co-chair of IEEE CNS 2016. Please join us in Philadelphia!

[October 2015] Yingying delivers a keynote on "Tracking Vital Signs During Sleep Leveraging Mobile Devices" at IEEE Healthcom 2015.

[September 2015] NSF awarded Yingying's research project on "Exploiting Fine-grained WiFi Signals for Wellbeing Monitoring".

[July 2015] Our work on fine-grained sleep monitoring using smartphones has been reported by several Chinese famous technical sites: 网易科技, MIT科技评论, and 电子工程世界.

[June 2015] New papers appear at ACM MobiSys, MobiCom, MobiHoc and SenSys.

[June 2015] Congratulations to Dr. Yan Wang, who has joined the Computer Science Department at Binghamton University, the State University of New York, as a tenure-track Assistant Professor.

[May 2015] Yingying is invited to serve as an Area TPC Chair of IEEE INFOCOM 2016.

[January 2015] Our work on fine-grained sleep monitoring using smartphones has been reported by the "Engineering Innovation" on WTOP Radio (Washington's Top News).

[September - December 2014] Visiting professor at Princeton University, sabbatical leave at Stevens.

[December 2014] Our work on fine-grained sleep monitoring using smartphones has been reported by the MIT Technology Review , Yahoo News and Zeenews.

[October 2014] Yingying presented the Sensing Driver Phone Use work in the Voice of America (VoA-TV).

[October 2014] Our collaborative project with Rutgers University on "Enabling Pedestrian Safety Services via Shoe Sensing" has received the Award of Solutions for Pedestrians & Cyclists - Large Organization Recognition in the Connected Intersections challenge sponsored by AT&T.

[October 2014] Our paper of "Accurate Rogue Access Point Localization Leveraging Fine-grained Channel Information" has received the Best Paper Award in the IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (IEEE CNS 2014).

[September 2014] NSF awarded Yingying's research project on "Guardian Angel-Enabling Mobile Safety Systems".

[September 2014] NSF awarded Yingying's research project on "Towards Understanding Smartphone User Privacy: Implication, Derivation".

[August 2014] Congratulations to Dr. Jie Yang (previous Ph.D. student in our group) on joining the Computer Science Department at Florida State University as a tenure-track Assistant Professor.

[July 2014] IMPACT (the newletter showcases the remarkable diversity, breadth and successes of research and scholarship at Stevens) reported our vision on seeing smartphones more than communication and email devices: we sees vast potential to transform both the ways we monitor our health and the safety of the nation’s highways.

[April 2014] Yingying and Marco presented the Driver Phone Use Detection work in the National News Channel: Fox News Channel. [Fox News, Stevens News]

[April 2014] Yingying and Marco presented the Sensing Driver Phone Use work in the New Jersey News Channel My9. [My9 News, Stevens News]

[March 2014] Our paper "Tracking Human Queues Using Single-Point Signal Monitoring" has been accepted to ACM MobiSys 2014.

[January 2014] Our work on mobile healthcare has been reported in Fierce Mobile Healthcare and Digital Journal.

[January 2014] Our work on mobile healthcare has been reported in Stevens News: "Mobile Mini Clinic: Stevens Professor to Develop a Smartphone App that Reports a Patient’s Vitals".

[October 2013] Our paper on "Towards Self-Healing Smart Grid via Intelligent Local Controller Switching under Jamming," has received the Best Paper Runner Up in the IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (IEEE CNS 2013). [News]

[October 2013] Our project on "Measuring Human Queues Using WiFi Signals" has received the Student Research Competition (SRC) Award at ACM MobiCom 2013. Congratulations to Yan Wang!

[September 2013] Yingying received the Jess Davis Memorial Award for Research Excellence from Stevens.

[August 2013] NSF awarded Yingying's research project on "Distributed Robust Spectrum Sensing and Sharing in Cognitive Radio Networks". [News]

[July 2013] Army Research Office (ARO) awarded Yingying's research project on "Making Physical Inferences to Enhance Wireless Security". [News]

[July 2013] Our paper "E3: Energy-Efficient Engine for Frame Rate Adaptation on Smartphones" has been accepted to ACM SenSys 2013.

[May 2013] Congratulations to Dr. Hongbo Liu, who will join Indiana University and Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI) as a tenure-track Assistant Professor.

[March 2013] Our paper "Sensing Vehicle Dynamics for Determining Driver Phone Use" has been accepted to ACM MobiSys 2013.

[January 2013] Program Vice Chair for Systems and Protocols, the 10th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (IEEE MASS 2013). Call For Papers.

[November 2012] News on our research in mobile healthcare.

[November 2012] Publicity Chair for the First IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (IEEE CNS 2013). Call For Papers.

[November 2012] Co-Chair for the First International Workshop on Resource Management of Cloud Computing (CCRM 2013), in conjunction with ICDCS. Call For Papers.

[October 2012] Yingying together with her collaborators Dr. Marco Gruteser and Dr. Richard P. Martin have received the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame Innovator Award. (In the middle of the picture is Dr. Steven Chu, the Secretary of Dept. Energy, who has received the Trustees Award in NJ Inventors HoF.)

[September 2012] NSF awarded Yingying's research project on "Smartphone Enabled Social and Physical Compass System (SENSCOPS)".

[August 2012] Congratulations to Dr. Jie Yang, who has joined the Computer Science and Engineering Department at Oakland University as a tenure-track Assistant Professor.

[July 2012] Our paper "Sensing Driver Phone Use with Acoustic Ranging through Car Speakers" has been selected as the Spotlight Paper for the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.

[June 2012] Our paper "Push the Limit of WiFi based Localization for Smartphones" has been accepted in ACM Mobicom 2012.

[March 2012] Yingying has been early promoted to Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering with tenure at Stevens Institute of Technology.

[March 2012] Co-chairing the IEEE Workshop on Enabling Technologies for Smartphone and Internet of Things (ETSIoT) 2012, held in conjunction with 9th Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON), 2012.

[February 2012] Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) awarded Yingying's research on "Attribute-based Algorithms for Assured Information Sharing (A3IS) in Clouds". 

[February 2012] Our research on detecting driver phone use leveraging car speakers has been featured on Inside Science TV (ISTV). (ISTV is an organization supported by the American Institute of Physics, which produces news vignette about cutting-edge research and development in science and engineering for local television newscasts.)

[February 2012] National Public Radio (NPR) has two featured news discussing our research on sensing driver phone to address the driver distraction problem. [News1],[News2]

[September 2011] Our paper on "Detecting Driver Phone Use Leveraging Car Speakers" has received the Best Paper Award at the ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom) 2011. Here are the presentation slides. This work has received wide press coverage in many U.S. media outlets, e.g., The Wall Stree Journal, MIT Technology Review, CNet News, WCBS, Yahoo News, and the Tonight Show with Jay Leno (video). It also draws attention of many international media outlets, e.g., Sohu, Sina and CSDN [more] .

[2011] Highlights of our research from President of Stevens Institute of Technology. [video]

[June 2011] Yingying gave a talk on "Performing Joint Learning for Passive Intrusion Detection in Pervasive Wireless Environments" at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center.

[January 2011] Yingying received Google Research Award in mobility.

[September 2010] Yingying received Stevens Board of Trustees Award for Scholarly Excellence.

[August 2010] NSF awarded Yingying's research project on "MILAN: Multi-Modal Passive Intrusion Learning in Pervasive Wireless Environments". [News]

[July 2010] NSF awarded Yingying's research project on "SEMOIS: Secure Mobile Information Sharing System".

[February 2010] Yingying received NSF CAREER Award on "Enhancing the Security of Pervasive Wireless Networks by Exploiting Location".

[2010] I co-chaired the student travel grant application in ACM MobiCom 2010.

[February 2009] Our paper on "Non-interactive Localization of Cognitive Radios Based on Dynamic Signal Strength Mapping" has received the Best Paper Award at the Sixth International Conference on Wireless On-demand Network Systems and Services (WONS).

[February 2009] I am co-chairing the Second IEEE Workshop on Security, Privacy and Authentication in Wireless Networks (SPAWN 2009) (held together with WoWMoM 2009). You are welcome to submit papers in this workshop.

[August 2008] NSF awarded Yingying's research project on "Securing Spectrum Usage in Future Radio Systems".

[March 2008] I am co-chairing the First IEEE Workshop on Security, Privacy and Authentication in Wireless Networks (SPAWN 2008) (held together with WoWMoM 2008). You are welcome to submit papers in this workshop.