Yidan Hu Assistant Professor Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, NY 14623 Email: yidan.hu@rit.edu Office: GOL-3707

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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

1. 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)


2. 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.


3. 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.


4. 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.


5. 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.


6. 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.


7. 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.


8. 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%).


9. 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%).


10. 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).


11. 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.


12. 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%).


13. 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

1. "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


2. 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


3. 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.


4. 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.


5. 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.


6. 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.


7. 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.