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Yanni Yang

Assistant Professor

School of Computer Science and Technology

Shandong University, Qingdao, China

Email: yanniyang@sdu.edu.cn
yan-ni.yang@connect.polyu.hk

Current Openings

  • I am looking for 【Master students】 【Undergraduate research assistants】 with strong self-motivation.
    Requirements: Skillful in mathematics and coding (C++, Python, Java, Matlab); Meanwhile, welcome students with backgrounds in signal processing, electronic communications, and a passion for hands-on hardware to join us.
    Benefits: Provide opportunities to visit well-known researchers and attend academic conferences worldwide;
    Email me if you are interested!

About Me

Dr. Yanni Yang obtained her Ph.D. degree from the Department of Computing at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2021 and worked as a postdoctoral fellow at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University from 2021 to 2022. During 2019-2020, she visited Media Lab at MIT.

Research Interests

【Intelligent Sensing, Wireless Sensing】【Pervasive Computing】【Mobile Computing】

Selected Projects: Get your hands dirty!

Liquid fraud detection using your own speaker and microphone!

Exercise and respiration monitoring using RFID!

Contactless respiration monitoring during sleep using WiFi!

Multi-point vibration monitoring using mmWave!

Selected Publications (* corresponding author)

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    Book

  1. Jiannong Cao, Yanni Yang, "Wireless Sensing: Principles, Techniques and Application", Springer, ISBN: 978-3-031-08344-0, Aug 2022.

    2. Journal / Conference paper

  2. Yanni Yang, Pengfei Hu, Jiaxing Shen, Haiming Cheng, Zhenlin An, Xiulong Liu, "Privacy-preserving human activity sensing: A survey", High-Confidence Computing, Jan 2024.
  3. Yanni Yang, Zhenlin An, Jiannong Cao, Yanwen Wang, Pengfei Hu, Guoming Zhang, Xiuzhen Cheng, "Jump out of Resonance: A Practical NFC Tag Fingerprinting Scheme", IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Jan 2024.
  4. Yanni Yang, Genglin Wang, Zhenlin An, Pengfei Hu, Xiuzhen Cheng, Guoming Zhang, "RF-Parrot: Wireless Eavesdropping on Wired Audio", IEEE INFOCOM, May 2024.
  5. Yanni Yang, Jiannong Cao, Zhenlin An, Yanwen Wang, Pengfei Hu, Guoming Zhang, "NFChain: A Practical Fingerprinting Scheme for NFC Tag Authentication", IEEE INFOCOM, May 2023.
  6. Yanni Yang, Huafeng Xu, Qianyi Chen, Jiannong Cao, Yanwen Wang, "Multi-Vib: Precise Multi-point Vibration Monitoring Using mmWave Radar", ACM IMWUT/UbiComp, Jan 2023.
  7. Yanni Yang, Yanwen Wang, Jiannong Cao, Jinlin Chen, "HearLiquid: Non-intrusive Liquid Fraud Detection Using Commodity Acoustic Devices", IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Jan 2022.
  8. Yanni Yang, Jiannong Cao, Yanwen Wang, "Robust RFID-based Respiration Monitoring in Dynamic Environments", IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Aug 2021.
  9. Yanni Yang, Jiannong Cao, Xiulong Liu, Xuefeng Liu, “Door-Monitor: Counting In-and-out Visitors with COTS WiFi Devices”, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Dec 2019.
  10. Yanni Yang, Jiannong Cao, Xiulong Liu, “ER-Rhythm: Coupling Exercise and Respiration Rhythm Using Lightweight COTS RFID”, ACM IMWUT/UbiComp, Dec 2019.
  11. Yanni Yang, Jiannong Cao, Xiulong Liu, Xuefeng Liu, “Multi-Breath: Separate Respiration Monitoring for Multiple Persons with UWB Radar”, IEEE COMPSAC, 2019.
  12. Yanni Yang, Jiannong Cao, Xuefeng Liu, Xiulong Liu, “Wi-Count: Passing People Counting with COTS WiFi Devices”, IEEE ICCCN, 2018.
  13. Yanni Yang, Jiannong Cao, Xuefeng Liu, Xiulong Liu, “Multi-person Sleeping Respiration Monitoring with COTS WiFi Devices”, IEEE MASS, 2018.
  14. Juncen Zhu, Jiannong Cao, Yanni Yang*, Wei Ren, Huizi Han, "mmDrive: Fine-Grained Fatigue Driving Detection Using mmWave Radar", ACM Transactions on Internet of Things, July 2023.
  15. Haiming Cheng, Wei Lou, Yanni Yang, Yi-pu Chen, Xinyu Zhang, "TwinkleTwinkle: Interacting with Your Smart Devices by Eye Blink", ACM IMWUT/UbiComp, Jun 2023.
  16. Shan Jiang, Jiannong Cao, Hanqing Wu, Yanni Yang, "Fairness-based packing of industrial IoT data in permissioned blockchains", IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Dec 2020.
  17. Xiulong Liu, Jiannong Cao, Yanni Yang, Wenyu Qu, Xibin Zhao, Keqiu Li, Didi Yao, "Fast RFID Sensory Data Collection: Trade-off Between Computation and Communication Costs", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, May 2019.
  18. Hanqing Wu, Jiannong Cao, Yanni Yang, Cheung Leong Tung, Shan Jiang, Bin Tang, Yang Liu, Xiaoqing Wang, Yuming Deng, "Data Management in Supply Chain Using Blockchain: Challenges and A Case Study", IEEE ICCCN, 2019.
  19. Shan Jiang, Jiannong Cao, Hanqing Wu, Yanni Yang, Mingyu Ma, Jianfei He, "BlocHIE: a BLOCkchain-based platform for Healthcare Information Exchange", IEEE SMARTCOMP, 2018.

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