Education
Florida International University, Computer Science, Ph.D. Student
Miami, Florida
Carnegie Mellon University, Civil Engineering, Master of Science
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2022
Hunan University, Civil Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering
Changsha, Hunan, 2019
Internship
Research Assistant, Hunan University, 2021, Human behavior analysis in buildings.
Teaching Experience
Teaching Assistant, Machine Learning, Florida International University, Fall 2022 - Spring 2024
Research Experience
Research Interests
Wireless Sensing; Wireless Security; AIoT; Smart Health; Machine Learning
Award
- NSF Student Travel Award for IEEE INFOCOM 2024
- NSF Student Travel Award for IEEE/ACM CHASE 2023
Selected Publications
- Tianya Zhao, Ningning Wang, Guanqun Cao, Shiwen Mao, and Xuyu Wang, "Functional Data Analysis Assisted Cross-Domain Wi-Fi Sensing Using Few-Shot Learning," in Proc. IEEE ICC 2024, Denver, CO, June 2024.
- Tianya Zhao, Xuyu Wang, Junqing Zhang, and Shiwen Mao, "Explanation-Guided Backdoor Attacks on Model-Agnostic RF Fingerprinting," in Proc. IEEE INFOCOM 2024, Vancouver, Canada, May 2024. Acceptance rate: 256/1307=19.6%.
- Tianya Zhao, Xuyu Wang, and Shiwen Mao, "Cross-domain, Scalable, and Interpretable RF Device Fingerprinting," in Proc. IEEE INFOCOM 2024, Vancouver, Canada, May 2024. Acceptance rate: 256/1307=19.6%.
- Tianya Zhao, Xuyu Wang, and Shiwen Mao, "Backdoor Attacks Against Deep Learning-based Massive MIMO Localization," in Proc. IEEE GLOBECOM 2023, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Dec. 2023.
- Azhar Chara*, Tianya Zhao*, Xuyu Wang, and Shiwen Mao, “Respiratory Biofeedback Using Acoustic Sensing with Smartphones,” in Proc. IEEE/ACM CHASE 2023, Orlando, FL, June 2023. Acceptance rate: 23/103=22%. (*co-first author)