Publications

# : corresponding author

* : equal contribution

2026

• [NDSS '26] Hiding an Ear in Plain Sight: On the Practicality and Implications of Acoustic Eavesdropping with Telecom Fiber Optic Cables
  • Youqian Zhang*, Zheng Fang*, Huan Wu, Sze Yiu Chau, Chao Lu, and Xiapu Luo
  • The Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium 2026
  • paper
    
• [USENIX Sec '26] SoK: Security of Cyber-physical Systems Under Intentional Electromagnetic Interference Attacks
  • Qinhong Jiang*, Yan Long*, Youqian Zhang*, Chen Yan, Xiaoyu Ji, Xiapu Luo, Kevin Fu, Jiannong Cao, and Wenyuan Xu
  • The 35th USENIX Security Symposium 2026
  • [to appear]

2025

• [MM '25] One Size Fits All? A Modular Adaptive Sanitization Kit (MASK) for Customizable Privacy-Preserving Phone Scam Detection
  • Kangzhong Wang, Zitong Shen, Youqian Zhang# , Michael MK Cheung, Xiapu Luo, Grace Ngai, and Eugene Yujun Fu
  • ACM International Conference on Multimedia
  • paper, preprint
    
• [CHI '25] "It Warned Me Just at the Right Moment": Exploring LLM-based Real-time Detection of Phone Scams
  • Zitong Shen, Sineng Yan, Youqian Zhang#, Xiapu Luo, Grace Ngai, and Eugene Yujun Fu
  • Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • paper
    
• [AAAI '25] Is Your Autonomous Vehicle Safe? Understanding the Threat of Electromagnetic Signal Injection Attacks on Traffic Scene Perception
  • Wenhao Liao, Sineng Yan, Youqian Zhang#, Xinwei Zhai, Yuanyuan Wang, and Eugene Yujun Fu
  • Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • paper
    
• [AAAI '25] Combating Phone Scams with LLM-based Detection: Where Do We Stand? (Student Abstract)
  • Zitong Shen, Kangzhong Wang, Youqian Zhang#, Grace Ngai, and Eugene Yujun Fu
  • Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • paper
    
• [SiPS '25] Rainbow Artifacts from Electromagnetic Signal Injection Attacks on Image Sensors [Accepted]
  • Youqian Zhang, Xinyu Ji, Zhihao Wang, and Qinhong Jiang
  • 2025 IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Systems (SiPS)
  • paper, preprint
    
• [MoMM '25] Anti-ESIA: Analyzing and Mitigating Impacts of Electromagnetic Signal Injection Attacks on Image Sensing
  • Denglin Kang, Youqian Zhang#, Wai Cheong Tam, Xiapu Luo, and Eugene Yujun Fu
  • International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia Intelligence
  • paper
    

2024

• Modeling Electromagnetic Signal Injection Attacks on Camera-based Smart Systems: Applications and Mitigation
  • Youqian Zhang, Michael Cheung, Chunxi Yang, Xinwei Zhai, Zitong Shen, Xinyu Ji, Eugene Yujun Fu, Sze Yiu Chau, and Xiapu Luo
  • prepint
    
• [ICME '24] Understanding Impacts of Electromagnetic Signal Injection Attacks on Object Detection
  • Youqian Zhang*, Chunxi Yang*, Eugene Yujun Fu, Qinhong Jiang, Chen Yan, Sze Yiu Chau, Grace Ngai, Hong-Va Leong, Xiapu Luo, and Wenyuan Xu
  • IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo
  • paper
    

2023

• [MM '23] Unveiling Subtle Cues: Backchannel Detection Using Temporal Multimodal Attention Networks
  • Kangzhong Wang, MK Michael Cheung, Youqian Zhang#, Chunxi Yang, Peter Q Chen, Eugene Yujun Fu, and Grace Ngai
  • Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Multimedia
  • paper
    
• [MM '23] Multimediate 2023: Engagement Level Detection Using Audio and Video Features
  • Chunxi Yang, Kangzhong Wang, Peter Q Chen, MK Michael Cheung, Youqian Zhang, Eugene Yujun Fu, and Grace Ngai
  • Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Multimedia
  • paper
    
• [ASIACCS '23] Electromagnetic Signal Injection Attacks on Differential Signaling
  • Youqian Zhang, and Kasper Rasmussen
  • The 18th ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security
  • paper

2022

• [RAID '22] Detection of Electromagnetic Signal Injection Attacks on Actuator Systems
  • Youqian Zhang, and Kasper Rasmussen
  • Proceedings of the 25th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses
  • paper
    

2020

• [S&P '20] Detection of Electromagnetic Interference Attacks on Sensor Systems
  • Youqian Zhang, and Kasper Rasmussen
  • IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
  • paper
    

2019

• [ESORICS '19] A Framework for Evaluating Security in the Presence of Signal Injection Attacks
  • Ilias Giechaskiel, Youqian Zhang, and Kasper Rasmussen
  • 24th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security
  • paper