I am actively looking for self-motivated and talented students/research associates to join my research group. You could choose the below research topics (but not limited to)
"EMIRIS: Eavesdropping on Iris Information via Electromagnetic Side Channel" got accepted by NDSS 2025.
Glad to receive the National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars (国家优青)
Serve as Track Chair (Security, Privacy and Trust) for ICDCS 2025.
Serve on the program committee of ASIACCS 2025.
"LaserAdv: Laser Adversarial Attacks on Speech Recognition Systems" got accepted by USENIX Security 2024.
Serve on the program committee of CCS 2024.
* Corresponding Author
[NDSS'25]
EMIRIS: Eavesdropping on Iris Information via Electromagnetic Side Channel.
Wenhao Li, Jiahao Wang, Guoming Zhang, Yanni Yang, Riccardo Spolaor, Xiuzhen Cheng, Pengfei Hu
NDSS, 2025
[TMC'24]
t-READi: Transformer-Powered Robust and Efficient Multimodal Inference for Autonomous Driving.
Pengfei Hu, Yuhang Qian, Tianyue Zheng, Ang Li, Zhe Chen, Yue Gao, Xiuzhen Cheng, Jun Luo
TMC, 2024
[TMC'24]
Ambient Light Reflection-Based Eavesdropping Enhanced with cGAN.
Guoming Zhang, Heqiang Fu, Zhijie Xiang, Xinyan Zhou, Pengfei Hu, Xiuzhen Cheng, Yanni Yang
TMC, 2024
[TMC'24]
Seeing the Invisible: Recovering Surveillance Video with COTS mmWave Radar.
Mingda Han, Huanqi Yang, Mingda Jia, Weitao Xu, Yanni Yang, Zhijian Huang, Jun Luo, Xiuzhen Cheng, Pengfei Hu
TMC, 2024
[USENIX SECURITY'24]
LaserAdv: Laser Adversarial Attacks on Speech Recognition Systems.
Guoming Zhang, Xiaohui Ma, Huiting Zhang, Zhijie Xiang, Xiaoyu Ji, Yanni Yang, Xiuzhen Cheng, Pengfei Hu*
USENIX Security, 2024
[INFOCOM'24]
EchoLight: Sound Eavesdropping based on Ambient Light Reflection.
Guoming Zhang, Zhijie Xiang, Heqiang Fu, Yanni Yang, Pengfei Hu*
IEEE INFOCOM, 2024
[INFOCOM'24]
RF-Parrot: Wireless Eavesdropping on Wired Audio.
Yanni Yang, Genglin Wang, Zhenlin An, Xiuzhen Cheng, Guoming Zhang, Pengfei Hu*
IEEE INFOCOM, 2024
[TMC'24]
Jump out of Resonance: A Practical NFC Tag Fingerprinting Scheme.
Yanni Yang, Zhenlin An, Jiannong Cao, Yanwen Wang, Pengfei Hu*, Guoming Zhang, Xiuzhen Cheng
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2024
[Ubicomp'24]
AFace: Range-flexible Anti-spoofing Face Authentication via Smartphone Acoustic Sensing.
Zhaopeng Xu, Tong Liu, Ruobing Jiang, Pengfei Hu, Zhongwen Guo, Chao Liu
ACM IMWUT, 2024
[TMC'23]
EV-Tach: A Handheld Rotational Speed Estimation System With Event Camera.
Guangrong Zhao, Yiran Shen, Ning Chen, Pengfei Hu, Lei Liu, Hongkai Wen
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2023
[SenSys'23]
XGait: Cross-Modal Translation via Deep Generative Sensing for RF-based Gait Recognition.
Huanqi Yang, Mingda Han, Mingda Jia, Zehua Sun, Pengfei Hu, Yu Zhang, Tao Gu, and Weitao Xu
ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems, 2023
[Oakland'23]
mmEcho: A mmWave-based Acoustic Eavesdropping Method.
Pengfei Hu, Wenhao Li, Riccardo Spolaor, Xiuzhen Cheng
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 2023
[TC'23]
Model Poisoning Attack on Neural Network without Reference Data.
Xianglong Zhang, Huanle Zhang, Guoming Zhang, Hong Li, Dongxiao Yu, Xiuzhen Cheng, Pengfei Hu*
IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2023
[WWW'23]
Ginver: Generative Model Inversion Attacks Against Collaborative Inference.
Yupeng Yin, Xianglong Zhang, Huanle Zhang, Feng Li, Yue Yu, Xiuzhen Cheng, Pengfei Hu*
ACM Web Conference (WWW), 2023
[INFOCOM'23]
NFChain: A Practical Fingerprinting Scheme for NFC Tag Authentication.
Yanni Yang, Jiannong Cao, Zhenlin An, Yanwen Wang, Pengfei Hu*, Guoming Zhang
IEEE INFOCOM, 2023
[INFOCOM'23]
Wider is Better? Contact-free Vibration Sensing via Different COTS-RF Technologies.
Zhe Chen, Tianyue Zheng, Chao Cai, Yue Gao, Pengfei Hu*, Jun Luo
IEEE INFOCOM, 2023
[TMC'22]
Towards System-Level Security Analysis of IoT Using Attack Graphs.
Zheng Fang, Hao Fu, Tianbo Gu, Pengfei Hu*, Jinyue Song, Trent Jaeger, Prasant Mohapatra
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2022
[TMC'22]
Towards Unconstrained Vocabulary Eavesdropping with mmWave Radar using GAN.
Pengfei Hu, Wenhao Li, Yifan Ma, Panneer Santhalingam, Parth Pathak, Hong Li, Huanle Zhang, Guoming Zhang, Xiuzhen Cheng, Prasant Mohapatra
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2022
[Oakland'22]
AccEar: Accelerometer Acoustic Eavesdropping with Unconstrained Vocabulary.
Pengfei Hu, Hui Zhuang, Panneer Santhalingam, Riccardo Spolaor, Parth Pathak, Guoming Zhang, Xiuzhen Cheng
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 2022
[INFOCOM'22]
MILLIEAR: Millimeter-wave Acoustic Eavesdropping with Unconstrained Vocabulary.
Pengfei Hu, Yifan Ma, Panneer Santhalingam, Parth H Pathak, Xiuzhen Cheng
IEEE INFOCOM, 2022
[TMC'21]
Jamming-Resilient Message Dissemination in Wireless Networks.
Yifei Zou, Dongxiao Yu*, Pengfei Hu*, Jiguo Yu, Xiuzhen Cheng, Prasant Mohapatra
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2021
[CCS'21]
Membership Inference Attacks Against Recommender Systems.
Minxing Zhang, Zhaochun Ren, Zihan Wang, Pengjie Ren, Zhunmin Chen, Pengfei Hu, Yang Zhang
ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 2021
[TMC'20]
Towards Automatic Detection of Nonfunctional Sensitive Transmissions in Mobile Applications.
Hao Fu, Pengfei Hu*, Zizhan Zheng, Aveek K Das, Parth H Pathak, Tianbo Gu, Sencun Zhu, Prasant Mohapatra
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2020
[INFOCOM'20]
IoTGAZE: IoT Security Enforcement via Wireless Context Analysis.
Tianbo Gu, Zheng Fang, Allaukik Abhishek, Hao Fu, Pengfei Hu, Prasant Mohapatra
IEEE INFOCOM, 2020
[TMC'19]
High Speed LED-to-Camera Communication using Color Shift Keying with Flicker Mitigation.
Pengfei Hu, Parth H Pathak, Huanle Zhang, Zhicheng Yang, Prasant Mohapatra
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2019
[SECON'17]
PCASA: Proximity based Continuous and Secure Authentication of Personal Devices.
Pengfei Hu, Parth H Pathak, Yilin Shen, Hongxia Jin, Prasant Mohapatra
IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking (SECON), 2017
[CoNEXT'15]
ColorBars: Increasing Data Rate of LED-to-Camera Communication using Color Shift Keying.
Pengfei Hu, Parth H Pathak, Xiaotao Feng, Hao Fu, Prasant Mohapatra
ACM Conference on Emerging Networking Experiments and Technologies (CoNEXT), 2015
[INFOCOM'15]
Dynamic Defense Strategy against Advanced Persistent Threat with Insiders.
Pengfei Hu, Hongxing Li, Hao Fu, Derya Cansever, Prasant Mohapatra
IEEE INFOCOM, 2015
[INFOCOM'14]
Information Leaks Out: Attacks and Countermeasures on Compressive Data Gathering in Wireless Sensor Networks.
Pengfei Hu, Kai Xing, Xiuzhen Cheng, Hao Wei, Haojin Zhu
IEEE INFOCOM, 2014