Yidan Hu

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News

Oct., 2023 I am a recipient of Best Paper Award from IEEE CNS 2023.
April, 2023 I am serving as a Technical Program Committee (TPC) member for IEEE INFOCOM 2024.
Jan., 2023 I received the NSF CRII award. Thanks, NSF!
July, 2022 I won the Research Award from Meta 2022 Privacy Enhancing Technologies . Thanks, Meta!
May, 2022 One of our papers has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC)
March, 2022 Our work "Local Differential Privacy for the Data of Complex Types" has been selected for funding. Thanks SRS at RIT!

About me

Yidan Hu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computing Security at Rochester Institute of Technology. She received her Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Delaware in 2021, supervised by Dr. Rui Zhang. She received the B.E.degree and M.E. degree both in Computer Science from Hangzhou Dianzi University in 2013 and 2016, respectively.

Her primary research interests are data privacy and cybersecurity, with the current focus on security and privacy in network and distributed systems, including wireless networks, cognitive radio networks, mobile crowdsourcing, mobile edge computing, and cloud computing systems.

Publications [Google Scholar]

Conference Papers

Authenticating Outsourced Location-Based Skyline Queries under Shortest Path Distance
Yidan Hu, Yukun Dong, Wenxin Chen, Yingfei Dong, and Rui Zhang, IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS), Orlando, FL, USA, Oct. 2023. (Best Paper Award)

Byzantine-robust Federated Learning
Zheyuan Liu, Yidan Hu, Aisha Aseeri, Depeng Li, and Rui Zhang, IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), Honolulu, HI, July 2023.

Location Inference under Temporal Correlation
Yukun Dong, Yidan Hu, Aisha Aseeri, Depeng Li, and Rui Zhang, IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), Honolulu, HI, July 2023.

Sybil Detection in Connected Vehicle Systems via Angle-of-Arrival Estimation
Tianye Ma, Yidan Hu, Aisha Aseeri, Yunkun Dong, and Rui Zhang, IEEE International Conference on Mobility, Operations, Services and Technologies (MOST), Detroit, MI, May 2023.

Continuous Indoor Tracking via Differential RSS Fingerprinting
Yunzhi Li, Yidan Hu, Aisha Aseeri, Mark Nejad, and Rui Zhang, IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Smart Systems (MASS), Colorado, Denver, October 2022.

ImPos: An image-based indoor positioning system
Yunzhi Li, Rajeswari Kambhamettu, Yidan Hu, and Rui Zhang, IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC), Virtual, January 2022.

Secure Outsourced Top-k Selection Queries against Untrusted Cloud Service Providers
Xixun Yu, Yidan Hu, Rui Zhang, Zheng Yan, and Yanchao Zhang, the 29th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQOS), virtual conference, June 2021.

KV-Fresh: Freshness Authentication for Outsourced Multi-Version Key-Value Stores
Yidan Hu and Rui Zhang, the 39th Annual IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Virtual Conference, July 2020. (Acceptance rate: 268/1354=19.8%).

Differentially-Private Incentive Mechanism for Crowdsourced Radio Environment Map Construction
Yidan Hu and Rui Zhang, the 38th Annual IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Pair, France, April-May 2019. (Acceptance rate: 288/1464 =19.7%).

Secure indoor positioning against signal strength attacks via optimized multi-voting
Yunzhi Li, Yidan Hu, Rui Zhang, Yanchao Zhang, and Terri Hedgpeth, the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS), Phoenix, AZ, June 2019 (Best Paper Runner-up Award).

Secure RSS-Fingerprint-Based Indoor Positioning: Attacks and Countermeasures
Lizhou Yuan, Yidan Hu, Rui Zhang, Yanchao Zhang, and Terri Hedgpeth, IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS), Beijing, China, May-June 2018.

Secure crowdsourced Radio Environment Map construction
Yidan Hu and Rui Zhang, IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), Toronto, Canada, October 2017. (Acceptance rate: 18.66%).

BlueAer: A fine-grained urban PM2.5 3D monitoring system using mobile sensing
Yidan Hu, Guojun Dai, Jin Fan, Yifan Wu, and Hua Zhang, the 35th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), San Francisco, CA, April 2016. (Acceptance rate: 300/1644 =18.25%).

Journal Articles

"I can see your password": A case study about cybersecurity risks in mid-air interactions of mixed reality-based smart manufacturing applications
Wenhao Yang, Xiwen Dengxiong, Xueting Wang, Yidan Hu, and Yunbo Zhang, to appear at IJournal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering, 2024

Freshness Authentication for Outsourced Multi-Version Key-Value Stores
Yidan Hu, Xin Yao, Rui Zhang, and Yanchao Zhang, to appear at IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), 2022

A spatiotemporal approach for secure crowdsourced Radio Environment Map construction
Yidan Hu and Rui Zhang, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 1790-1803, Aug. 2020.

DisLoc: A Convex partitioning based approach for distributed 3D localization in wireless sensor networks
Jin Fan, Yidan Hu, Tom H. Luan, and Mianxiong Dong, IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 17, no. 24, pp. 8412-8423, Dec. 2017.

An estimated method of urban concentration distribution for a mobile sensing system
Yidan Hu, Jin Fan, Hua Zhang, Xinxin Chen, and Guojun Dai, Pervasive and Mobile Computing, vol. 25, pp. 88-103, Jan. 2016.

A mobile sensing system for urban PM2.5 monitoring with adaptive resolution
Hongjie Guo, Guojun Dai, Jin Fan,Yifan Wu, Fangyao Shen, and Yidan Hu, Journal of Sensors, vol. 2016, pp. 1-14, 2016.

Arm motion recognition and exercise coaching system for remote interaction
Hong Zeng, Yidan Hu, Jin Fan, Haiyang Hu, Zhigang Gao, and Qiming Fang, Mobile Information Systems, vol. 2016, 2016.

Honors and awards

Meta Research Award, Meta, 2022.
Frank A. Pehrson Graduate Student Award, University of Delaware, 2020.
Student Conference Award, IEEE INFOCOM, 2020.
Professional Development Award, University of Delaware, 2019.
Outstanding Graduate Student Award,University of Delaware, 2019.
Student Travel Grant, IEEE INFOCOM, 2019.
Student Travel Grant, IEEE ICNP, 2017.
Best-in-Session Presentation Award, IEEE INFOCOM, 2016.
National Scholarship, Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, 2015.
National Scholarship, Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, 2014.
First Prize, China Graduate Contest on Smart-city Technology and Creative Design, China Academic Degrees & Graduate Education Development Center (CDGDC), 2014.
The CCF Elite Collegiate Award (ECA), China Computer Federation (CCF), 2012.
Honorable Mention in Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling, Consortium for Mathematics and Its Application (COMAD), 2012.
National Scholarship, Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, 2011.

Professional service

Technical Program Committee
- IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications(INFOCOM) 2023, 2024
- IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS) 2022,2023
- IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN) 2023
- ACM Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES) 2022, 2023
- IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications(INFOCOM) Demo 2022
- IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Smart Systems (MASS) 2022
Journal Reviewer
- IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
- IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
- IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
- IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
- IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking
- Wireless Networks (WINET)
Organizing Committee
- Graduate Steering Committee member for Women in Engineering of UD.