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• [Jun 2026] One paper has been accepted by ACM CCS 2026. Congratulations to Yan and Guanchong!
• [May 2026] I am invited to serve on the TPC of INFOCOM 2027.
• [April 2026] I am honored to receive the William H. Barkow Presidential Professorship at the 2026 OU Faculty Awards and Honors event. I thank OU for this recognition. This honor is shared with my mentors, collaborators, and students.
• [Mar/April 2026] I am invited to serve on the TPCs of RAID 2026, ACSAC 2026, and NDSS 2027.
• [Sep 2025] I am invited to serve on the TPC of ACM CCS 2026.
• [Aug 2025] Our work on IoT (smart camera) security has been accepted by NDSS 2026. Congratulations to Yan and Guanchong!
• [Aug 2025] Congratulations to Lyndsey for being selected to receive the Engineering Research Fellowship from the Gallogly College of Engineering (GCoE) for Fall 2025 ($3,000)!
• [Aug 2025] Our work on VR security has been accepted by RAID 2025. Congratulations to Guanchong and Yan!
• [July 2025] Our work on a new side-channel attack for video identification has been accepted by PETS 2026. Congratulations to Guanchong!
• [July 2025] I am invited to serve on the TPC of IEEE EuroS&P 2026.
• [April 2025] I am invited to serve on the TPCs of NDSS 2026 and MILCOM 2025 Track 3 - Cyber Security and Trusted Computing.
• [Feb 2025] I have joined IEEE TDSC's Editorial Board as an Associate Editor.
• [Feb 2025] I am invited to serve on the TPCs of RAID 2025 and IEEE CNS 2025.
• [Dec 2024] Yan Zhou successfully defended her MS thesis. Congratulations to Yan!
• [Oct 2024] I am invited to serve on the TPC of IEEE EuroS&P 2025.
• [Aug 2024] Our work on a new GPS-based in-vehicle message dissemination scheme is to appear in IEEE CNS 2024.
• [Aug 2024] Our work on defenses agaist wireless breath and crowd inference has been accepted to IEEE/ACM ToN.
• [July 2024] I am invited to serve on the TPC of ACM AsiaCCS 2025.
• [April 2024] Congratulations to Qiuye, who has been selected to receive a Gallogly College of Engineering (GCoE) Dissertation Excellence Award ($5,000)!
• [Mar 2024] I will be promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure in the School of Computer Science, starting from July 1, 2024.
• [Mar 2024] Congratulations to our lab member Qiuye, who will join University of Missouri - Kansas City as a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Fall 2024!
• [Feb 2024] Our survey paper on wireless inference against privacy has been accepted to IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials (COMST).
• [Dec 2023] I am invited to serve on the TPC of ACM CCS 2024.
• [Nov 2023] Our work on camera localization has been accepted to IEEE TMC.
• [Aug 2023] Our work on smart camera security has been accepted by ACM CCS 2023. Congratulations to Yan and Qiuye!
• [July 2023] Our work on wireless liveness detection has been accepted by RAID 2023. Congratulations to Qiuye!
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[Dec 2022] Yan He successfully defended his MS thesis. Congratulations to Yan! He will stay in our group and pursue his Ph.D. degree!
[Nov 2022] Our paper "HoneyBreath: An Ambush Tactic Against Wireless Breath Monitoring" won EAI MobiQuitous 2022 Best Paper Award!
[Oct 2022] Qiuye He and Edwin Yang both won the ACM CCS travel grant. Congratulations to both!
[Sep 2022] Thanks for the support of NSF to our project "Exploiting Stimulus-response Correlation for Wireless Hidden Device Localization"!
[Sep 2022] Edwin Yang won the IEEE CNS travel grant and the CS Alumni Graduate Fellowship. Congratulations to Edwin!
[Sep 2022] Our work on proactive defenses against wireless breath inference is to appear in EAI MobiQuitous 2022. Congratulations, Qiuye and Edwin!
[Aug 2022] Our work on driving-assisted key establishment is to appear in IEEE CNS 2022. Congratulations, Edwin!
[April 2022] Our work on inferring numerical keystrokes is to appear in ACM CCS 2022. Congratulations, Edwin and Qiuye!
[April 2022] I received the Faculty Investment Program award from the Office of the Vice President for Research and Partnerships (OVPRP) at OU. Thanks to OU OVPRP for the support!
[Jan 2022] Our work on keystroke eavesdropping attack and defense has been accepted to IEEE/ACM ToN.
[Jan 2022] Our work on a proactive anti-eavesdropping scheme has been accepted to IEEE TDSC.
[Aug 2021] Our work on a new attack against ASR systems is to appear in ACSAC 2021. Congratulations, John and Edwin!
[Jun 2021] I receive an REU supplement for the NSF CRII project. Thanks to NSF for the support!
[May 2021] Our work on pinpointing wireless hidden cameras is to appear in ACM MobiSys 2021. Congratulations, Yan and Qiuye!
[April 2021] I am invited to serve on the TPCs of IEEE CNS 2021 and IEEE INFOCOM 2022.
[Mar 2021] I received the FY 21 Junior Faculty Fellowship Program award from the Office of the Vice President for Research and Partnerships (OVPRP) at OU. Thanks to OU OVPRP for the support!
[Sep 2020] Our work on virtual step PIN pad is to appear in IEEE MASS 2020.
[Jun 2020] I am invited to serve on the TPC of IEEE INFOCOM 2021.
[Mar 2020] My CRII proposal is funded by NSF. Thanks to NSF for the support!
[Mar 2020] I received the FY20 Junior Faculty Fellowship Program award from the Office of the Vice President for Research and Partnerships (OVPRP) at OU. Thanks to OU OVPRP for the support!
[Oct 2019] I am invited to serve on the TPC of IEEE CNS 2020.
[Aug 2019] Our work on wireless-assisted key establishment has been accepted to IEEE TMC.
[Nov 2018] Our work on eavesdropper entrapment is to appear in IEEE INFOCOM 2019.
[July 2018] Our work on training-agnostic keystroke inference is to appear in ACM CCS 2018.

Short Bio

Dr. Song Fang is an Associate Professor in the Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences at Florida International University. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor (2018-2024) and Associate Professor (2024-2026) at the University of Oklahoma, where he held the University's William H. Barkow Presidential Professorship. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of South Florida under the supervision of Dr. Yao Liu in July 2018. He received his B.Eng. from the South China University of Technology and M.Eng. from the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications.

Research Interests

• Wireless and Mobile System Security
• Cyber Physical Systems and IoT Security
• Mobile Computing
• Application of Machine Learning in Cybersecurity

Selected Papers

• CameraBlinder: Blinding Wireless Security Cameras Using a Low-Power Laser
  Yan He*, Guanchong Huang*, Yao Liu, and Song Fang (The first two authors are co-primary authors)
  ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM CCS 2026), Nov. 2026. (Acceptance Rate: 15.8%=191/1,206)
   
• The Danger of Convenience: Understanding the Security Risks Posed by Third-Party JavaScript Inclusion and Caching
  Shengping Bi, Lang Zhou, Tao Wang, Tao Hou, Mingkui Wei, Zhuo Lu, Yao Liu, and Song Fang
  ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (TOPS), 2026.
   
• PhantomMotion: Laser-Based Motion Injection Attacks on Wireless Security Surveillance Systems
  Yan He*, Guanchong Huang*, and Song Fang
  The Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS 2026), pp. 1-18, 2026. (Acceptance Rate: 17.49%=113/646)
   
• SilhouetteTell: Practical Video Identification Leveraging Blurred Recordings of Video Subtitles (pdf, BibTex)
  Guanchong Huang* and Song Fang
  The 26th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS 2026), pp. 470-485, 2026. (Acceptance Rate: 23.56%=53/225)
   
• MotionDecipher: General Video-assisted Passcode Inference In Virtual Reality (BibTex)
  Guanchong Huang*, Yan He*, Shangqing Zhao, Yi Wu, and Song Fang
  The 28th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID 2025), pp. 298-313, 2025. (Acceptance Rate: 22.06%=62/281)
   
• CommanderGPS: Practical Hidden Command Dissemination Through Pedal Operations (pdf, BibTex)
  Edwin Yang*, Guanchong Huang*, and Song Fang
  IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (IEEE CNS 2024), 2024. (Acceptance Rate: 29.4%=35/119)
   
• Revisiting Wireless Breath and Crowd Inference Attacks with Defensive Deception (BibTex)
  Qiuye He*, Edwin Yang*, Song Fang, and Shangqing Zhao
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), vol. 32, no. 6, pp. 4976-4988, Dec. 2024.
   
• A Survey on Human Profile Information Inference via Wireless Signals (pdf, BibTex)
  Qiuye He*, Edwin Yang*, and Song Fang
  IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials (COMST), vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 2577-2610, Fourthquarter 2024.
   
• Precise Wireless Camera Localization Leveraging Traffic-aided Spatial Analysis (BibTex)
  Yan He*, Qiuye He*, Song Fang, and Yao Liu
  IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), vol. 23, no. 6, pp. 7256-7269, June 2024.
   
• When Free Tier Becomes Free to Enter: A Non-Intrusive Way to Identify Security Cameras with no Cloud Subscription
  Yan He*, Qiuye He*, Song Fang, and Yao Liu (The first two authors are co-primary authors)
  ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM CCS 2023), Nov. 2023. (Acceptance Rate: 19.1%=234/1222)
   
• Phantom-CSI Attacks against Wireless Liveness Detection (pdf, BibTex)
  Qiuye He* and Song Fang
  The 26th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID 2023), Oct. 2023. (Acceptance Rate: 23.5%=50/213)
   
• A Data-Driven Respirator Fit Test Model via Human Speech Signal
  Jinmiao Chen, Zhaohe (John) Zhang*, Shangqing Zhao, Song Fang, Thomas M. Peters, Evan L. Floyd, and Changjie Cai
  IEEE/ACM international conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems and Engineering Technologies (CHASE), Jun. 2023.
   
• Proactive Anti-Eavesdropping With Trap Deployment in Wireless Networks (pdf, BibTex)
  Qiuye He*, Song Fang, Tao Wang, Yao Liu, Shangqing Zhao, and Zhuo Lu
  IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 637-649, 1 Jan.-Feb. 2023.
   
• HoneyBreath: An Ambush Tactic Against Wireless Breath Monitoring
  Qiuye He*, Edwin Yang*, Song Fang, and Shangqing Zhao
  EAI International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (EAI MobiQuitous 2022), 2022. (*Best Paper Award*)
   
• DASK: Driving-Assisted Secret Key Establishment (pdf, BibTex)
  Edwin Yang*, Song Fang, and Dakun Shen
  IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (IEEE CNS 2022), Oct. 2022.
   
• WINK: Wireless Inference of Numerical Keystrokes via Zero-Training Spatiotemporal Analysis (pdf, version with appendices, BibTex)
  Edwin Yang*, Qiuye He*, and Song Fang
  ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM CCS 2022), Nov. 2022. (Acceptance Rate: 17.9%=58/324)
   
• GPSKey: GPS based Secret Key Establishment for Intra-Vehicle Environment (pdf)
  Edwin Yang* and Song Fang
  Fourth International Workshop on Automotive and Autonomous Vehicle Security (AutoSec), co-located at NDSS 22, 2022.
   
• Wireless Training-free Keystroke Inference Attack and Defense (BibTex)
  Edwin Yang*, Song Fang, Ian Markwood, Yao Liu, Shangqing Zhao, Zhuo Lu, and Haojin Zhu
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 1733-1748, Aug. 2022.
   
• CommanderGabble: A Universal Attack Against ASR Systems Leveraging Fast Speech (pdf, BibTex)
  Zhaohe (John) Zhang*, Edwin Yang*, and Song Fang
  ACSAC, Dec. 2021. (Acceptance Rate: 24.5%=80/326)
   
• MotionCompass: Pinpointing Wireless Camera Via Motion-activated Traffic (pdf, slides, BibTex)
  Yan He*, Qiuye He*, Song Fang, and Yao Liu
  ACM MobiSys, Mars, Solar System, Milky Way, Jun. 2021. (Acceptance Rate: 21.7%=36/166)
   
• Wireless-Assisted Key Establishment Leveraging Channel Manipulation (pdf, BibTex)
  Song Fang, Ian Markwood, and Yao Liu
  IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 263-275, Jan. 2021.
   
• Virtual Step PIN Pad: Towards Foot-input Authentication Using Geophones (pdf, slides, BibTex)
  Yan He*, Hanyan Zhang*, Edwin Yang*, and Song Fang
  IEEE MASS, Dec. 2020. (Acceptance Rate: 29.7%=65/219)
   
• Poster: PhotoLock: Autonomous Privacy-preserving Photo Sharing in Online Social Networks
  Edwin Yang*, Song Fang, Christan Grant, and Le Gruenwald
  The Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), Feb. 2020, San Diego, CA.
   
• Entrapment for Wireless Eavesdroppers (pdf, slides)
  Song Fang, Tao Wang, Yao Liu, Shangqing Zhao, and Zhuo Lu
  IEEE INFOCOM, 2019. (Acceptance Rate: 19.7%=288/1464)
   
• No Training Hurdles: Fast Training-Agnostic Attacks to Infer Your Typing (pdf, slides)
  Song Fang, Ian Markwood, Yao Liu, Shangqing Zhao, Zhuo Lu, and Haojin Zhu
  ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM CCS 2018), Oct. 2018. (Acceptance Rate: 16.6%=134/809)
   
• Signal Entanglement based Pinpoint Waveforming for Location-restricted Service Access Control (pdf, BibTex)
  Tao Wang, Yao Liu, Tao Hou, Qingqi Pei, and Song Fang
  IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), 2018.
   
• Manipulatable Wireless Key Establishment (pdf, BibTex)
  Song Fang, Ian Markwood, and Yao Liu
  IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (IEEE CNS 2017), 2017. (Acceptance Rate: 29.9%=41/137)
   
• Virtual Multipath Attack and Defense for Location Distinction in Wireless Networks (pdf, BibTex)
  Song Fang, Yao Liu, Wenbo Shen, Haojin Zhu, and Tao Wang
  IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), 2017.
   
• Mimicry Attacks against Wireless Link Signature and New Defense using Time-Synched Link Signature (pdf, BibTex)
  Song Fang, Yao Liu, and Peng Ning
  IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), 2016.
   
• Wireless Communications under Broadband Reactive Jamming Attacks (pdf, BibTex)
  Song Fang, Yao Liu, and Peng Ning
  IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), 2015.
   
• Where Are You From? Confusing Location Distinction Using Virtual Multipath Camouflage (pdf, slides)
  Song Fang, Yao Liu, Wenbo Shen, and Haojin Zhu
  ACM MobiCom, 2014. (Acceptance Rate: 16.4%=36/220) 

Professional Activities

• Journal Editorship

• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), Feb 2025 - present.
  

• Organizing Committee

• General Chair: the Central Area Networking and Security Workshop (CANSec 2024).
• Student Travel Committee Chair: IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 2022 and 2023.
• Publicity Chair: EAI International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (MobiQuitous), 2022.

• Proposal Review

• NSF Panelist, 2024.
  
• NSF Ad Hoc Reviewer, 2021.
  

• Session Chair

• NDSS 2026.
• RAID 2025.
• IEEE CNS 2022.
• IEEE INFOCOM 2021 and 2022.

• Technical Program Committee

• ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) 2024, and 2026.
• Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium 2026, and 2027.
• IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) 2021-2023, and 2027.
• IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P) 2025, and 2026.
• International Symposium on Research in Attack, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID) 2025, and 2026.
• Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) 2026.
• IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM) 2025, and 2026 (Track 3: Cyber Security and Trusted Computing).
• ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS) 2025.
• IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS) 2020-2026.
• IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Smart Systems (MASS) 2022, 2023, and 2025 (track: security and privacy).
• IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS) 2022.
• IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS) 2022.
• International Conference on Network and System Security (NSS) 2020-2022.
• Workshop on Security, Privacy, Trust, and Machine Learning for Internet of Things (IoTSPT-ML) 2020.
• Security and Privacy in Edge Computing Workshop (EdgeSP) 2018 and 2019.

Useful Links

• Google Scholar
• Computer Security Conference Ranking and Statistic
• Tracking Communications, Network, and Security Conferences
• PHD Comics