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Chen Wang Associate Professor Department of Computer Science Southern Methodist University Address: 3145
Dyer Street, Suite 439 Dallas,
TX 75205 Email: cwang6 AT smu.edu |
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I am
an associate professor at SMU Lyle. I lead the Mobile and Internet SecuriTy
Lab (MIST LAB). My research interests include Cyber Security
and Privacy, Robotics Security, Sensing, Smart Health Care, Mixed Reality,
Internet of Things, and Machine Learning.
Chen
Wang received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at
Rutgers University and he worked at WINLAB.
He obtained his Master’s and
Bachelor’s degrees from University of Electronic and Science of
Technology of China (UESTC). [Google Scholar]
To my students: Be Your Unique Self and Keep
Winning!
· [May
2025] One paper will be presented at IEEE S&P 2025
and one paper will be presented at IEEE DySPAN
2025.
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[April 2025] My Ph.D. student, Ruxin Wang will
join University of Texas San Antonio as a tenure-track assistant professor this
fall.
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[September 2024] I received the O’Donnell Foundation
Endowed Professorship and was featured in SMU
News.
· [June
2024] I received the prestigious NSF Career Award.
· [May
2024] My Ph.D. student, Ruxin Wang, received the 2024 NSF
CPS Rising Stars Award and was featured in LSU
News.
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[May
2023] View the teaser video of
our IEEE S&P 2023 paper “Low-effort
VR Headset User Authentication Using Head-reverberated Sounds with Replay
Resistance” here.
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[May
2022] View the teaser video of
our IEEE S&P 2022 paper “PCR-Auth:
Solving Authentication Puzzle Challenge with Encoded Palm Contact Response”
here.
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[Feb
2022] View the demo video of
our Mobicom 2021 paper “Notification Privacy
Protection via Unobtrusive Gripping Hand Verification Using Media Sounds” here.
Honors and Awards
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The O’Donnell Foundation Professorship, 2024
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NSF Career Award, 2024
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NSF SaTC Small, 2022
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BOR RCS Award, 2021
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Best
Paper Award ($1000)
in 14th International Workshop on Wireless Sensor, Robot and UAV Networks (IEEE
WiSARN), 2021.
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Best Paper Award in the EAI International
Conference on IoT Technologies for HealthCare, 2019.
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IEEE COMSOC Phoenix ISS Award ($3000), 2019.
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Best Paper Award in the IEEE Conference on Communications and Network
Security (IEEE CNS), 2018. - First author
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Best Poster Award Runner-up at ACM Conference on Mobile Computing and
Networking (ACM MobiCom), 2018. - First author
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Best Paper Award in the ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and
Communications Security (ASIACCS), 2016. – First author
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Best Paper Award in the IEEE Conference on Communications and Network
Security (IEEE CNS), 2014. – Second author
· First Place Winner - IEEE North Jersey Cybersecurity Poster Award at 4th
Annual Symposium on Cybersecurity & Internet of Things, September 2016. –
First author
· ECE Graduate Program
Award - Best Teaching
Assistant of the Spring 2018 Semester at Rutgers University, 2019.
· ECE Outstanding Research Assistant Award at Stevens Institute of Technology, 2016.
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Third price in the poster competition at North
Jersey Advanced Communications Symposium (IEEE NJACS), 2015.
Ph.D. Students:
Long
Huang (B.S., University of Electronic Science and Technology of China) - Best Paper
Award (WiSARN)
Zeyu Deng
(B.S., Huazhong University of Science and Technology & Birmingham
University) - Best Paper Award (WiSARN)
Ruxin Wang (M.S., Syracuse
University) – NSF CPS Rising Stars 2024
Jingwei
Zhang (M.S., Stevens Institute of Technology)
Wen Liu (M.S., George
Washington University)
Sihang Wang
(B.S., Shanghai Jiao Tong University, M.S., Colorado School of Mines)
Selected Publications
Journal Papers, Conference Papers and Posters:
[1] Long Huang, Chen
Wang, “Sniffing Location Privacy of Video Conference Users Using Free Audio
Channels”, in Proceedings of the 46rd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE S&P Oakland), May 2025. (Acceptance rate: 257/1740 = 14.8%).
[2] Long Huang, Zeyu Deng, Jingwei Zhang, Chen Wang and Huaxia Wang, “Adversarial OFDM Spectrum Modification to
Manipulate Channel State Information Systems”, in 2019 IEEE International
Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (IEEE DySPAN), May 2025.
[3] Ruxin Wang, Kaitlyn Madden, Chen Wang, “Enhancing QR Code System
Security by Verifying the Scanner's Gripping Hand Biometric,” in Proceedings
of 17th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks
(ACM WiSec), May
2024. (Acceptance rate: 21.1%)
[4] Zeyu Deng, Long Huang, Chen
Wang, “Enhanced In-air Signature Verification via Hand Skeleton Tracking to
Defeat Robot-level Replays”, in Proceedings
of the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC),
December 2023. (Acceptance rate: 24.0%)
[5] Ruxin Wang, Long Huang, Chen
Wang, “Low-effort VR Headset User Authentication Using Head-reverberated
Sounds with Replay Resistance”, in Proceedings of the 44th IEEE Symposium on
Security and Privacy (IEEE S&P or Oakland),
May 2023. (Acceptance rate: 17.1%). [PDF]
[6] Long Huang, Chen
Wang, “PCR-Auth: Solving Authentication Puzzle
Challenge with Encoded Palm Contact Response”, in Proceedings of the 43rd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE S&P or Oakland), May 2022 (Acceptance rate: 15.2%). [PDF]
[7] Long Huang, Chen
Wang, “Unobtrusive Pedestrian Identification by Leveraging Footstep Sounds
with Replay Resistance”, in Proceedings of ACM International Joint Conference
on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (ACM UbiComp), (published at ACM IMWUT). September
2022. [PDF]
[8] Huang, Long,
Zhen Meng, Zeyu Deng, Chen Wang, Liying Li, and Guodong Zhao.
“Towards Verifying the User of Motion-controlled Robotic Arm Systems via the
Robot Behavior”. IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IEEE IoT) 2021. [PDF]
[9] Long Huang, Chen
Wang, “Notification Privacy Protection via
Unobtrusive Gripping Hand Verification Using Media Sounds”, in Proceedings of The
27th Annual International Conference On Mobile
Computing And Networking (ACM
MOBICOM), 2021. (Acceptance rate: 17.4%) [PDF]
[10] Long
Huang, Zhen Meng, Zeyu Deng, Chen Wang, Liying
Li, and Guodong Zhao. "Robot Behavior-Based User
Authentication for Motion-Controlled Robotic Systems," in
Proceedings of the 14th International Workshop on Wireless Sensor, Robot and
UAV Networks (IEEE WiSARN),
2021
– Best
Paper Award [PDF]
[11] Ruxin Wang, Long
Huang, Chen Wang, “Preventing Handheld Phone Distraction for Drivers by
Sensing the Gripping Hand”, in Proceedings
of 18th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc
and Smart Systems (IEEE MASS),
2021. [PDF]
[12] S
Abhishek Anand, Chen Wang,
Jian Liu, Nitesh Saxena, Yingying Chen, “Spearphone:
A Lightweight Speech Privacy Exploit via Accelerometer-Sensed Reverberations
from Smartphone Loudspeakers,” in Proceedings of the ACM Conference on
Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (ACM
WiSec), June-July 2021. (Acceptance rate: 27/121 = 22.3%)
[13] S
Abhishek Anand, Jian Liu, Chen Wang, Maliheh Shirvanian, Nitesh Saxena,
Yingying Chen, EchoVib: Exploring Voice
Authentication via Unique Non-Linear Vibrations of Short Replayed Speech, in Proceedings of the 16th ACM ASIA
Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM
AsiaCCS), 2021. (Acceptance rate:
29/157=18.4%).
[14] Xin Yang, Song
Yang, Jian Liu, Chen Wang, Yingying Chen, Nitesh Saxena, “Enabling
Finger-touch-based Mobile User Authentication via Physical Vibrations on IoT
Devices”, IEEE Transactions on Mobile
Computing (IEEE TMC), 2021.
[15] Chen Wang, Yan Wang,
Yingying Chen, Hongbo Liu, Jian Liu, “User Authentication on Mobile Devices:
Approaches, Threats and Trends”, Computer
Networks, 2020. [PDF]
[16] Long Huang, Chen
Wang, WalkID: Towards Context
Awareness of Smart Home by Identifying Walking Sounds, In 2020 IEEE 6th World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT), pp. 1-6.
IEEE, 2020. [PDF]
[17] Zhenzhe Lin, Yucheng Xie, Xiaonan Guo,
Chen Wang, Yanzhi
Ren and Yingying Chen, in Proceedings of
EAI International Conference on IoT Technologies for HealthCare, December
2019. [PDF]
- Best Paper Award
[18] Chen Wang, S Abhishek Anand, Jian Liu, Payton R. Walker, Yingying
Chen and Nitesh Saxena. “Defeating Hidden Audio Channel Attacks on Voice
Assistants via Audio-Induced Surface Vibrations.” In Proceedings of the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), December 2019. (Acceptance rate: 60/266 =
22.6%)
[19] Chen Wang, Jian Liu, Xiaonan Guo, Yan Wang and Yingying Chen. “WristSpy: Snooping Passcodes in Mobile Payment Using
Wrist-worn Wearables”. in Proceedings of
IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM), April 2019. (Acceptance rate:
288/1464 = 19.7%) [PDF]
[20] Yanzhi Ren, Chen Wang, Yingying Chen, Jie Yang,
Continuous and Noninvasive Fine-grained Sleep Monitoring: Hearing Your
Breathing Leveraging Smartphones, in IEEE
Internet of Things Journal (IEEE IoT), 2019.
[PDF]
[21] Jian Liu, Hongbo Liu, Yingying Chen, Yan
Wang, Chen Wang, “WiFi Sensing for Human Activity: A Survey”, IEEE Communications
Surveys & Tutorials, 2019.
[22] Chen Wang, Jian Liu, Xiaonan Guo, Yan Wang and Yingying Chen.
“Poster: Inferring Mobile Payment Passcodes Leveraging Wearable Devices”, in Proceedings of the 24th Annual International
Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (ACM MobiCom), New Delhi, India, October/November
2018. [PDF]
- Best Poster Award Runner-up
[23] Chen Wang, Jian Liu, Yingying Chen, Hongbo Liu, Yan Wang, “Towards
In-baggage Suspicious Object Detection Using Commodity WiFi”,
[PDF]
in Proceedings of IEEE International
Communications and Network Security (IEEE CNS 2018),
Beijing, China, May/June 2018. (Acceptance rate: 51/181 = 28.2%)
- Best paper award
[24] Yanzhi Ren, Chen Wang,
Yingying Chen, Mooi Choo Chuah, and Jie Yang, Signature Verification Using
Critical Segments for Securing Mobile Transactions, in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (IEEE TMC),
2018.
[25] Chen Wang, Xiaonan Guo,
Yingying Chen, Yan Wang, Bo Liu, “Personal PIN Leakage from Wearable
Devices," in IEEE Transactions on
Mobile Computing (IEEE TMC), 2018. [PDF]
[26] Jian Liu, Chen Wang, Yingying Chen, and Nitesh Saxena. “Good vibrations: accessing
‘smart’ systems by touching any solid surface”, Biometric Technology Today
2018, no. 4 (2018): 7-10.
[27] Jian Liu, Chen Wang, Yingying Chen, Nitesh Saxena, “VibWrite:
Towards Finger-input Authentication on Ubiquitous Surfaces via Physical
Vibration”, [PDF]
in Proceedings
of the 24th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2017), Dallas, USA, October 2017. (Acceptance
rate: 151/843 = 17.9%)
[28] Chen Wang, Chuyu Wang,
Yingying Chen, Lei Xie and Sanglu Lu, “Smartphone
Privacy Leakage of Social Relationships and Demographics from Surrounding
Access Points”, [PDF]
in
Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing (ICDCS 2017), Atlanta,
GA, USA, June 2017. (Acceptance rate: 90/531 = 16.9%)
[29] Chen Wang, Xiuyuan Zheng,
Yingying Chen, Jie Yang, “Locating Rogue Access Point using Fine-grained
Channel Information”, in IEEE
Transactions on Mobile Computing (IEEE TMC),
2017. [PDF]
[30] Chen Wang, Xiaonan Guo, Yan
Wang, Yingying Chen, Bo Liu, Friend or Foe? Your Wearable Devices Reveal Your
Personal PIN,
in Proceedings
of the 11th ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security
(ASIACCS), Xi'an, China, May 2016.
(Acceptance rate: 20.9%)
- Best Paper Award [PDF]
[31] Yanzhi Ren, Chen Wang, Yingying Chen, Mooi Choo
Chuah, Jie Yang, “Critical Segment Based Real-time E-Signature for Securing
Mobile Transactions”, in
Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (IEEE CNS),
Florence, Italy, September 2015. [PDF]
[32] Yanzhi Ren, Chen Wang, Jie Yang, Yingying
Chen, Fine-grained Sleep Monitoring: Hearing Your Breathing with Smartphones, [PDF]
in Proceedings
of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM), Hong
Kong, China, April 2015(Acceptance rate: 316/1640 =
19%).
[33] Xiuyuan Zheng, Chen Wang, Yingying Chen, Jie Yang,
“Accurate Rogue Access Point Localization Leveraging Fine-grained Channel
Information”, in Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Communications and Network
Security (IEEE CNS), San Francisco, CA, USA,
Oct. 2014.
-Best Paper Award [PDF]
[34] Ming Zhan, Liang Zhou, Chen Wang, “A New Algorithm without Exponential and Logarithmic
Computations in Iterative Decoding for Double Binary Convolutional Turbo Code”.
In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Wireless Communications,
Networking and Mobile Computing. Wuhan, China, pp. 1-4, 2011.
Patents
[35] Yingying
Chen, Chen Wang, Jian Liu, Hongbo
Liu, Yan Wang, In-Baggage Object Detection Using Commodity Wi-Fi, U.S.
Provisional Patent Application No. 62/828,151, April 2019.
[36] Yingying
Chen, Nitesh Saxena, Jian Liu, Chen Wang,
Systems and methods for user input and authentication using vibration analysis,
U.S. Provisional Application No. 62/680,970, 2018.
[37] Chen Wang, Liang
Zhou, Ming Zhan, Lili Zeng, Fast Two-Way Parallel Decoding Algorithm for
Convolutional Turbo Code, Chinese Patent Application No. CN102340320 B, 2013.
Last
updated: October 2024.
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