Xin Yang 「杨昕」

Ph.D. Candidate
Email: [first].[last]ualberta.ca

Ph.D. - Computing Science - University of Alberta, 2021-Present.
M.S. - Computer Engineering - Rutgers University-New Brunswick, 2017-2019.
B.E. - Computer Science and Technology - University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), 2014-2017.
Research interests: Machine Learning, Data Privacy, Mobile Computing, Mobile Sensing, and IoT.

Recent News

  • [Nov 2023] I received Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship.
  • [Oct 2023] I received Mary Louise Imrie Graduate Student Award.
  • [Sep 2023] I passed Ph.D. Candidacy Exam.
  • [Sep 2023] Our paper "Blinder: End-to-end Privacy Protection in Sensing Systems via Personalized Federated Learning" has been accepted to ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN).
  • [Aug 2023] Our workshop paper "Privacy through Diffusion: A White-listing Approach to Sensor Data Anonymization" has been accepted to CPSIoTSec at ACM CCS.
  • [Nov 2021] I received Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship.
  • [Oct 2021] My abstract paper "Towards utility-aware privacy-preserving sensor data anonymization in distributed IoT" has been accepted to PhD Forum at ACM BuildSys'23.
  • [Sep 2021] I received University of Alberta Graduate Recruitment Scholarship.
  • [Apr 2021] Our paper "Secure Coded Computation for Efficient Distributed Learning in Mobile IoT" has been accepted to IEEE SECON'21 (Acceptance rate: 37/140 = 26.4%).
  • [Jan 2021] Our paper "Enabling Finger-touch-based Mobile User Authentication via Physical Vibrations on IoT Devices" has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC).
  • [Jun 2020] I received IEEE INFOCOM'20 Student Conference Award.
  • [Dec 2019] Our paper "MU-ID: Multi-user Identification Through Gaits Using Millimeter Wave Radios" has been accepted to IEEE INFOCOM'20 (Acceptance rate: 268/1354 = 19.8%).
  • [Oct 2019] Two demos (robot car dynamics monitoring and human pose tracking using mmWave sensors) have been accepted to IEEE DySPAN'19.

Publications

Preprints

  • Robust Multimodal Fusion for Human Activity Recognition Sanju Xaviar, Xin Yang, Omid Ardakanian

Journal Papers & Magazine Articles

  • Blinder: End-to-end Privacy Protection in Sensing Systems via Personalized Federated Learning Xin Yang, Omid Ardakanian ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (ACM TOSN), September 2023.
  • Enabling Finger-touch-based Mobile User Authentication via Physical Vibrations on IoT Devices Xin Yang, Song Yang, Jian Liu, Chen Wang, Yingying Chen, Nitesh Saxena IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (IEEE TMC), February 2021.

Refereed Conference & Workshop Papers

  • Privacy through Diffusion: A White-listing Approach to Sensor Data Anonymization Xin Yang, Omid Ardakanian in Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on CPS & IoT Security and Privacy (CPSIoTSec, co-located with ACM CCS 2023), Copenhagen, Denmark, November 2023.
  • Secure Coded Computation for Efficient Distributed Learning in Mobile IoT Yilin Yang, Rafael G.L. D'Oliveira, Salim El Rouayheb, Xin Yang, Hulya Seferoglu, Yingying Chen in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication and Networking (IEEE SECON 2021), Virtual Conference, July 2021. (Acceptance rate: 37/140 = 26.4%)
  • MU-ID: Multi-user Identification Through Gaits Using Millimeter Wave Radios Xin Yang, Jian Liu, Yingying Chen, Xiaonan Guo, Yucheng Xie in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM 2020), Virtual Conference, July 2020. (Acceptance rate: 268/1354 = 19.8%)

Posters, Demos and Abstracts...

  • PhD Forum Abstract: Towards Utility-Aware Privacy-Preserving Sensor Data Anonymization in Distributed IoT Xin Yang in Proceedings of the 8th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (BuildSys 2021), Coimbra, Portugal, November 2021.
  • Demo: Monitoring Movement Dynamics of Robot Cars and Drones Using Smartphone’s Built-in Sensors Yang Bai, Xin Yang, ChenHao Liu, Justin Wain, Ryan Wang, Jeffrey Cheng, Chen Wang, Jian Liu, Yingying Chen in Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (DySPAN 2019), Newark, New Jersey, November 2019.
  • Demo: Hands-Free Human Activity Recognition Using Millimeter-Wave Sensors Soo Min Kwon, Song Yang, Jian Liu, Xin Yang, Wesam Saleh, Shreya Patel, Christine Mathews, Yingying Chen in Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (DySPAN 2019), Newark, New Jersey, November 2019.

Teaching

  • CMPUT 274 - Intro to Tangible Computing I, University of Alberta - Fall 2022
  • CMPUT 275 - Intro to Tangible Computing II, University of Alberta - Winter 2022, 2023
  • CMPUT 404 - Web Applications and Architecture, University of Alberta - Fall 2021
  • 16:332:563 - Computer Architecture I, Rutgers University - Fall 2019

Honors & Awards

  • Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship, 2023.
  • Mary Louise Imrie Graduate Student Award, 2023.
  • Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship, 2021.
  • University of Alberta Graduate Recruitment Scholarship, 2021.
  • IEEE INFOCOM Student Conference Award, 2020.
  • National Endeavor Scholarship, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, 2016.

Professional Activities

  • ACM ACSAC Artifacts Evaluation (AE) Program Committee - Student Reviewer, 2020.

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