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Zhuolin Yang

杨卓琳

PhD Candidate
in Computer Science
University of Chicago
zhuoliny at uchicago dot edu



About Me

Hi! I’m Zhuolin (zh pronounces like j). I am a PhD candidate in Computer Science at SAND Lab, University of Chicago, co-advised by Prof. Ben Y. Zhao and Prof. Heather Zheng.

I study usable security, with a particular focus on the interaction between AI/ML and wearable devices. I investigate how advances in AI/ML and wearable systems are challenging traditional security assumptions, and I adapt these techniques to design attacks and defenses in a variety of security contexts.

I am on the academic job market for 2025 cycle!

News

  • [Nov. 2024] Honor to be one of the student panelists in Midwest Security Workshop.
  • [Oct. 2024] Honor to be in this year's Rising Stars.
  • [Sept. 2024] I gave a talk at CSIRO Data61.
  • [Aug. 2024] I presented our paper in USENIX'24.
  • [July. 2024] I gave a talk at Purdue. Thank Chunyi for hosting me!
  • [June. 2024] I gave a talk at UW-Madison. Thank Yohan for hosting me!
  • [Apr. 2024] I gave a talk at Columbia CS Security Seminar. Thank Xia for hosting me!
  • [Mar. 2024] Our work on inception-style attack is covered in MIT Tech Review. A preprint of the work can be found here.

Selected Publications

  1. Preprint
    Inception Attacks: Immersive Hijacking in Virtual Reality Systems
    Zhuolin Yang, Cathy Yuanchen Li, Arman Bhalla, Ben Y. Zhao, Haitao Zheng
    arXiv Press

    USENIX
    Can Virtual Reality Protect Users from Keystroke Inference Attacks?
    Zhuolin Yang, Zain Sarwar, Iris Hwang, Ronik Bhaskar, Ben Y. Zhao, Haitao Zheng
    USENIX Security Symposium, 2024.
    PDF Project Page Press

    USENIX
    Towards a General Video-based Keystroke Inference Attack
    Zhuolin Yang, Yuxin Chen, Zain Sarwar, Hadleigh Schwartz, Ben Y. Zhao, Haitao Zheng
    USENIX Security Symposium, 2023.
    PDF Slide Talk Project Page

    CHI
    User Authentication via Electrical Muscle Stimulation
    Yuxin Chen, Zhuolin Yang, Pedro Lopes, Ben Y. Zhao, Haitao Zheng
    Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2021.
    PDF Talk Project Page

  2. SenSys
    FerroTag: A Paper-based mmWave-Scannable Tagging Infrastructure
    Zhengxiong Li, Baicheng Chen, Zhuolin Yang, Huining Li, Chenhan Xu, Xingyu Chen, Kun Wang, Wenyao Xu
    Proceedings of ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), 2019.
    PDF Best paper award

    SenSys
    E-Eye: Hidden Electronics Recognition through mmWave Nonlinear Effects
    Zhengxiong Li, Zhuolin Yang, Chen Song, Changzhi Li, Zhengyu Peng, Wenyao Xu
    Proceedings of ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), 2018.
    PDF Best paper runner-up award

    IOTJ
    A Smart Environment-Adapting Timed-Up-and-Go System Powered by Sensor-Embedded Insoles
    Zhuolin Yang, Chen Song, Feng Lin, Jeanne Langan, Wenyao Xu
    IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2018.
    PDF Impact Factor: 10.238

Recorded Talks

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Conference/Journal Reviewers