I am a researcher specializing in AIoT (Artificial Intelligence of Things), with a Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science at City University of Hong Kong, advised by Prof. Weitao Xu. My work has been recognized through several prestigious accolades, including Best Paper Awards at IEEE PerCom 2023 and ACM EIFCom 2024, and a Cover Article in IEEE JBHI.
My research focuses on the following areas:
- • LLM Agent for System Automation
- • Generative AI for Sensing
- • Physical Layer Security
News
- 2025.7 ChirpKey has been accepted by IEEE TMC.
- 2025.5 Invited as the TPC member of BodySys'25. Welcome to submit papers.
- 2025.5 Successfully defended my PhD oral defense.
- 2025.5 Check out our survey on RF Sensing Security.
- 2024.12 iRadar has been accepted by INFOCOM 2025.
- 2024.11 TransCompressor won the Best Paper Award in EIFCom 2024.
- 2024.8 m2vision has been accepted by IEEE TMC.
- 2024.6 Vehicle-Key has been accepted by IEEE TMC.
- 2024.5 InaudibleKey2.0 has been accepted by IEEE/ACM ToN.
- 2024.5 Our book chapter Physical Layer Key Generation for LoRa-Enabled Networks is now published.
- 2024.4 LLMTrack and XSolar will be featured in workshops at CPS-IoT Week 2024 and MobiSys 2024.
- 2024.4 Serve as ACM MobiCom'24, ACM MobiSys'24, ACM CCS'24 Artifact Evaluation Committee.
- 2024.1 FLoRa+ has been accepted by ACM ToSN.
- 2023.9 XGait has been accepted by SenSys 2023.
- 2023.7 W4S has been accepted by MobiHoc 2023.
- 2023.6 mmSign has been accepted by ACM ToSN.
- 2023.3 EMGSense won the Best Paper Award in PerCom 2023.
- 2023.2 FLoRa has been accepted by IPSN 2023.
- 2022.12 EMGSense has been accepted by PerCom 2023.
- 2022.12 ChirpKey has been accepted by INFOCOM 2023.
- 2022.12 WashRing has been accepted by IEEE TMC.
- 2022.7 Received ICDCS 2022 travel grant.
- 2022.6 A LoRa Survey has been accepted by ACM ToSN.
- 2022.4 Vehicle-Key has been accepted by ICDCS 2022.
- 2021.7 ULECGNet has been accepted by IEEE JBHI.
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EmbedGenius: Towards Automated Software Development for Generic Embedded IoT Systems
Huanqi Yang, Mingzhe Li, Mingda Han, Zhenjiang Li, Weitao Xu (2024).
Preprint.
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XGait: Cross-Modal Translation via Deep Generative Sensing for RF-based Gait Recognition
Huanqi Yang, Mingda Han, Mingda Jia, Zehua Sun, Pengfei Hu, Yu Zhang, Tao Gu, and Weitao Xu (2023).
In Proceedings of the 21st ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), Istanbul, Turkiye, November 2023.
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Wave-for-Safe: Multisensor-based Mutual Authentication for Unmanned Delivery Vehicle Services
Huanqi Yang, Mingda Han, Shuyao Shi, Zhenyu Yan, Guoliang Xing, Jianping Wang, and Weitao Xu (2023).
In Proceedings of the 2023 International Symposium on Theory, Algorithmic Foundations, and Protocol Design for Mobile Networks and Mobile Computing (MobiHoc), Washington D.C., USA, October 2023.
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Vehicle-Key: A Secret Key Establishment Scheme for LoRa-enabled IoV Communications
Huanqi Yang, Hongbo Liu, Yuezhong Wu, Chengwen Luo, Wei Li, Albert Zomaya, Linqi Song, and Weitao Xu (2022).
In Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Bologna, Italy, July 2022.
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Recent Publications Full List in Google Scholar »
Preprint
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RF Sensing Security and Malicious Exploitation: A Comprehensive Survey
Mingda Han, Huanqi Yang, Wenhao Li, Weitao Xu, Xiuzhen Cheng, Prasant Mohapatra, and Pengfei Hu,
arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.10969, April 2025. PDF -
EmbedGenius: Towards Automated Software Development for Generic Embedded IoT Systems
Huanqi Yang, Mingzhe Li, Mingda Han, Zhenjiang Li, and Weitao Xu,
arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.09058, December 2024. PDF Project
Conference
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[INFOCOM 2025] iRadar: Synthesizing Millimeter-Waves from Wearable Inertial Inputs for Human Gesture Sensing
Huanqi Yang, Mingda Han, Xinyue Li, Di Duan, Tianxing Li, and Weitao Xu,
Proceedings of the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications,
London, United Kingdom, May. 2025. PDF Slides -
[SenSys 2023] XGait: Cross-Modal Translation via Deep Generative Sensing for RF-based Gait Recognition
Huanqi Yang, Mingda Han, Mingda Jia, Zehua Sun, Pengfei Hu, Yu Zhang, Tao Gu, and Weitao Xu,
Proceedings of the 21th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems,
Istanbul, Turkiye, November, 2023. PDF Slides -
[MobiHoc 2023] Wave-for-Safe: Multisensor-based Mutual Authentication for Unmanned Delivery Vehicle Services
Huanqi Yang*, Mingda Han*, Shuyao Shi, Zhenyu Yan, Guoliang Xing, Jianping Wang, and Weitao Xu,
Proceedings of the 2023 International Symposium on Theory, Algorithmic Foundations, and Protocol Design for Mobile Networks and Mobile Computing,
Washington DC, USA, October, 2023. PDF Slides -
[INFOCOM 2023] ChirpKey: A Chirp-level Information-based Key Generation Scheme for LoRa Networks via Perturbed Compressed Sensing
Huanqi Yang, Zehua Sun, Hongbo Liu, Xianjin Xia, Yu Zhang, Tao Gu, Gerhard Hancke, and Weitao Xu,
Proceedings of the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications,
New York area, USA, May. 2023. PDF Slides -
[IPSN 2023]FLoRa: Energy-Efficient, Reliable, and Beamforming-Assisted Over-The-Air Firmware Update in LoRa Networks
Zehua Sun, Tao Ni, Huanqi Yang, Kai Liu, Yu Zhang, Tao Gu and Weitao Xu,
Proceedings of the 2023 International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks,
San Antonio, USA, May. 2023. PDF -
[PerCom 2023]EMGSense: A Low-Effort Self-Supervised Domain Adaptation Framework for EMG Sensing
Di Duan, Huanqi Yang, Guohao Lan, Tianxing Li, Xiaohua Jia, and Weitao Xu,
Proceedings of the 21th International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications,
Atlanta, USA, March. 2023. PDF Best Paper Award -
[ICDCS 2022] Vehicle-Key: A Secret Key Establishment Scheme for LoRa-enabled IoV Communications
Huanqi Yang, Hongbo Liu, Yuezhong Wu, Chengwen Luo, Wei Li, Albert Zomaya, Linqi Song and Weitao Xu,
Proceedings of the 42th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
Bologna, Italy, July 2022. PDF Slides
Journal
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[TMC] Chirp-level Information-based Collaborative Key Generation for LoRa Networks via Perturbed Compressed Sensing
Huanqi Yang, Zehua Sun, Hongbo Liu, Xianjin Xia, Yu Zhang, Tao Gu, Gerhard Hancke, and Weitao Xu,
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Early Access, July 2025. PDF -
[TMC] Seeing the Invisible: Recovering Surveillance Video with COTS mmWave Radar
Mingda Han, Huanqi Yang, Mingda Jia, Weitao Xu, Yanni Yang, Zhijian Huang, Jun Luo, Xiuzhen Cheng, and Pengfei Hu,
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing PDF -
[TMC] Scenario-Adaptive Key Establishment Scheme for LoRa-enabled IoV Communications
Huanqi Yang, Di Duan, Hongbo Liu, Chengwen Luo, Yuezhong Wu, Wei Li, Albert Y. Zomaya, Linqi Song, and Weitao Xu,
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing PDF -
[ToN] InaudibleKey2.0: Deep Learning-empowered Mobile Device Pairing Protocol based on Inaudible Acoustic Signals
Huanqi Yang, Zhenjiang Li, Chengwen Luo, Bo Wei, Weitao Xu,
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking PDF -
[ToSN] FLoRa+: Energy-efficient, Reliable, Beamforming-assisted, and Secure Over-the-air Firmware Update in LoRa Networks
Zehua Sun, Tao Ni, Huanqi Yang, Kai Liu, Yu Zhang, Tao Gu and Weitao Xu,
ACM Transactions on Sensor Network PDF -
[ToSN] mmSign: mmWave-based Few-Shot Online Handwritten Signature Verification
Mingda Han, Huanqi Yang, Tao Ni, Di Duan, Mengzhe Ruan, Yongliang Chen, Jia Zhang, Weitao Xu,
ACM Transactions on Sensor Network PDF -
[TMC] WashRing: An Energy-efficient and Highly Accurate Handwashing Monitoring System via Smart Ring
Weitao Xu, Huanqi Yang, Jiongzhang Chen, Chengwen Luo, Jia Zhang, Yuliang Zhao, Wen Jung Li,
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing PDF -
[ToSN] Recent Advances in LoRa: A Comprehensive Survey
Zehua Sun, Huanqi Yang, Kai Liu, Zhimeng Yin, Zhenjiang Li, Weitao Xu,
ACM Transactions on Sensor Network PDF -
[JBHI]ULECGNet: An ultra-lightweight end-to-end ECG classification neural network
Jianbiao Xiao, Jiahao Liu, Huanqi Yang, Qingsong Liu, Ning Wang, Zhen Zhu, Yulong Chen, Yu Long, Liang Chang, Liang Zhou, Jun Zhou,
IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
PDF Cover Article of the Issue
Short Papers
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[DeepWireless 2025] LLMKey: LLM-Powered Wireless Key Generation Scheme for Next-Gen IoV Systems
Huanqi Yang and Weitao Xu,
Proceedings of The 3rd Workshop on Deep Learning for Wireless Communications, Sensing, and Security, PDF -
[DeepWireless 2025] NERecon: Neural-Enhanced Reconciliation for Secure Physical Layer Key Generation
Aochen Jiao, Huanqi Yang, and Weitao Xu,
Proceedings of The 3rd Workshop on Deep Learning for Wireless Communications, Sensing, and Security, PDF -
[EIFCom 2024] TransCompressor: LLM-Powered Multimodal Data Compression for Smart Transportation
Huanqi Yang, Rucheng Wu, and Weitao Xu,
Proceedings of the 1th ACM International Workshop on Mobile Computing with Efficient and Interactive Foundation Models, PDF Best Paper Award -
[BodySys 2024] XSolar: A Generative Framework for Solar-based Human Gesture Sensing via Wearable Signals
Rucheng Wu, Huanqi Yang, and Weitao Xu,
Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Body-centric Computing Systems PDF -
[CSCAIoTSys 2024] Are You Being Tracked? Discover the Power of Zero-Shot Trajectory Tracing with LLMs!
Huanqi Yang, Sijie Ji, Rucheng Wu, and Weitao Xu,
Proceedings of Workshop on Coupling of Sensing & Computing in AIoT Systems PDF -
[UbiComp CPD 2022] MobileKey: A Fast and Robust Key Generation System for Mobile Devices
Keqi Song, Zimeng Zhu, Huanqi Yang, Tao Ni, and Weitao Xu,
Proceedings of Workshop on Coupling of Sensing & Computing in AIoT Systems PDF
Book Chapter
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Physical layer key generation for LoRa-enabled networks
Huanqi Yang, Zehua Sun, Weitao Xu,
In IET Book Physical Layer Security for 6G Networks PDF
Awards
- Best Paper Award, ACM EIFCom, 2024
- Institutional Research Tuition Scholarship, CityU, 2022~2025
- Outstanding Academic Performance Award, CityU, 2023
- MarkWeiser Best Paper Award, IEEE PerCom, 2023
- Student Travel Grant Award, IEEE ICDCS, 2022