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Yucheng Yang
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin - Madison
yang552_AT_wisc_dot_edu

I am a 5th year Ph.D. student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department of the University of Wisconsin - Madison, advised by Professor Kassem Fawaz at Wi-Pi and Security and Privacy Research Group at UW-Madison (MadS&P). My research interests focus on protecting user data privacy and building cyber-physical system for road user safety.

Previously, I investigated the privacy of mute buttons in video conferencing apps, including Webex, zoom, etc., on various desktop operating systems. Before that, I designed and implemented a pedestrian-to-vehicle authentication system based on pedestrian mobility verification using commercial mobile devices. I also implemented a crowd-sourcing pedestrian data collection app to tracking user’s daily walking behavior traces. Currently, I’m working on smartphone-based pedestrian road-crossing prediction to avoid potential traffic conflict through pedestrian motion tracking.

Interests

  • Usable Security and Privacy
  • Cyber-physical Safety Systems
  • Internet of Things
  • Mobile Systems for Motion Tracking

Academia

University of Wisconsin - Madison
2018 - present
Ph.D. Computer Engineering , Minor: Computer Science
Shanghai JiaoTong University
2014 - 2018
B.Engr. Electronic Engineering

News

Recent Publications

Are You Really Muted?: A Privacy Analysis of Mute Buttons in Video Conferencing Apps, 2022, 22nd Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS 2022)
Yucheng Yang , Jack West, George K. Thiruvathukal, Neil Klingensmith, Kassem Fawaz
AeroKey: Using Ambient Electromagnetic Radiation for Secure and Usable Wireless Device Authentication, 2022, Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT 22')
Kyuin Lee , Yucheng Yang, Omkar Prabhune, Aishwarya Lekshmi Chithra, Jack West, Kassem Fawaz, Neil Klingensmith, Suman Banerjee, Younghyun Kim
PEDRO: Secure Pedestrian Mobility Verification in V2P Communication using Commercial Off-the-shelf Mobile Devices, 2021, Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on CPS&IoT Security and Privacy (CPSIoTSec ’21)
Yucheng Yang , Kyuin Lee, Younghyun Kim, and Kassem Fawaz
Optimization of Fingerprints Reporting Strategy for WLAN Indoor Localization, 2017, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
Xiaohua Tian, Wenxin Li, Yucheng Yang, Zhehui Zhang, Xinbing Wang

Projects

Privacy Analysis of Mute Buttons in Video Conferencing Apps
Harnessing Mobile Ad hoc Network (MANET) to Improve Vulnerable Road User Safety