Assistant Professor of Cybersecurity
Yan He.
Securing the systems
that shape our physical world.
Park University / Joined August 2026
Bio
I am an Assistant Professor of Cybersecurity at Park University, where I joined in August 2026. My work explores security and privacy in cyber-physical, embedded, and vision systems. I earned my Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Oklahoma, and my B.Eng. from OU.
Research interests
Latest updates
Joined Park University as Assistant Professor of Cybersecurity
Our latest laser-based research was accepted to ACM CCS 2026 in the Netherlands
PhantomMotion accepted to NDSS 2026
MotionDecipher accepted to RAID 2025
I served as a committee member for CANSec 2024
Publications
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Accepted NDSS 2026 Conference 17.49% ARPhantomMotion: Laser-Based Motion Injection Attacks on Wireless Security Surveillance Systems
The Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS 2026), pp. 1-18, 2026.
(Acceptance Rate: 17.49%=113/646)
, Guanchong Huang, Song Fang
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Published RAID 2025 Conference 22.06% ARMotionDecipher: General Video-assisted Passcode Inference In Virtual Reality
The 28th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID 2025), pp. 298-313, 2025.
(Acceptance Rate: 22.06%=62/281)
Guanchong Huang, , Shangqing Zhao, Yi Wu, Song Fang
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Published IEEE TMC 2023 JournalPrecise wireless camera localization leveraging traffic-aided spatial analysis
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), vol. 23, no. 6, pp. 7256-7269, June 2024.
, Qiuye He, Song Fang, Yao Liu
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Published CCS 2023 Conference 19.1% ARWhen free tier becomes free to enter: Identifying security cameras with no cloud subscription
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM CCS 2023), Nov. 2023.
(Acceptance Rate: 19.1%=234/1222)
, Qiuye He, Song Fang, Yao Liu
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Published MobiSys 2021 Conference 21.7% ARMotionCompass: Pinpointing wireless cameras via motion-activated traffic
ACM MobiSys, Mars, Solar System, Milky Way, Jun. 2021.
(Acceptance Rate: 21.7%=36/166)
, Qiuye He, Song Fang, Yao Liu
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Published MASS 2020 Conference 29.7% ARVirtual Step PIN Pad: Towards foot-input authentication using geophones
IEEE MASS, Dec. 2020.
(Acceptance Rate: 29.7%=65/219)
, Hanyan Zhang, Edwin Yang, Song Fang
Patents
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US Patent Provisional 63/356,211
Method and Apparatus for Determining Locations of Wireless Cameras
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US Patent Provisional Invention Disclosure No. 2024-042
A Non-Intrusive Way to Identify Security Cameras with no Cloud Subscription
Courses
Park University · 2026, with previous teaching at the University of Oklahoma.
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Secure Programming
Fall 2026 · Park University -
Computer Networking
Fall 2026 · Park University -
Introduction to Cybersecurity
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Embedded Systems
Fall 2022Guided RTOS labs, peripheral drivers, timing analysis, and deploy-on-hardware checkouts.
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Operating Systems
SP 2023 · Fall 2022, 2023Led recitations on CPU scheduling, synchronization primitives, paging/segmentation, and kernel tracing labs.
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Computer Security
Fall 2020, 2021, 2024 · SP 2024, 2025Ran labs on threat modeling, packet analysis, web/app hardening, and guided secure coding/code review sessions.
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Machine Learning
SP 2021Supported students on model training workflows, validation/metrics, hyperparameter tuning, and project mentorship.
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Database Management
Fall 2025Taught SQL labs, schema design and normalization, indexing strategies, and query plan performance tuning.
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Computer Organization
SP 2020Facilitated logic design labs, pipelined CPU walkthroughs, and ISA fundamentals with hands-on simulation exercises.
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