Zhuolin Yang | University of Chicago

About Me

I am a 5th year CS Ph.D. student at SAND Lab, University of Chicago, co-advised by Prof. Ben Y. Zhao and Prof. Heather Zheng.

Research Interests

My research focuses on both exploring how human motion can disclose private/sensitive information during interactions with everyday computing devices, and designing interactive systems that leverage human motions as a means to safeguard user privacy.

News

[Mar. 2024] Our work on inception-style attack is covered in MIT Tech Review. A preprint of the work can be found here.
[Nov. 2023] Our work on VR keystroke inference is covered in New Scientist.
[Oct. 2023] Our paper on keystroke inference attack in shared VR environments is accepted to USENIX 2024.
[Aug. 2023] Presented our work “Towards a General Video-based Keystroke Inference Attack” in USENIX 2023.
[Oct. 2022] Invited talk at Stanford Security Lunch Speaking.
[Sept. 2022] Our paper on utilizing self-supervised learning for keystroke inference attack is accepted to USENIX 2023.
[May. 2021] Our paper on user authentication via electrical muscle stimulation is presented at CHI 2021.

Selected Publications

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

Proceedings of USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX), 2024.

arXiv 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

Proceedings of USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX), 2023.

PDF Slide Video Project Page

CHI

User Authentication via Electrical Muscle Stimulation

Yuxin Chen, Zhuolin Yang, Pedro Lopes, Ben Y. Zhao, Haitao Zheng

Proceedings of ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2021.

PDF Video Project Page

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.

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