Tianya Zhao

Publications

Here are selected publications. Full list: Google Scholar.

Selected Conference Publications

  1. Jingzhou Shen, Tianya Zhao, and Xuyu Wang, "A Geometric Algebra-Informed 3DGS Framework for Wireless Channel Prediction", Proc. IEEE/CVF CVPR 2026, Denver, CO, June 2026. (Acceptance rate: 25.4%)
  2. Haowen Xu, Tianya Zhao, Xuyu Wang, Lei Ma, Jun Dai, Alexander Wyglinski, and Xiaoyan Sun, "EMPalm: Exfiltrating Palm Biometric Data via Electromagnetic Side-Channel", Proc. ACM SenSys 2026, Saint-Malo, France, May 2026. (Acceptance rate: 52/263=19.8%)
  3. Tianya Zhao and Xuyu Wang, "Data-Free Backdoor Attacks on Self-Supervised Human Activity Recognition Models," Proc. IEEE MASS 2025, Chicago, IL, Oct. 2025.
  4. Tianya Zhao, Ningning Wang, and Xuyu Wang, "Membership Inference Against Self-supervised IMU Sensing Applications", Proc. ACM SenSys 2025, Irvine, CA, May 2025. (Acceptance rate: 46/245=18.8%)
  5. Ningning Wang, Tianya Zhao, Shiwen Mao, and Xuyu Wang, "Privacy-Preserving Wi-Fi Data Generation via Differential Privacy in Diffusion Models", Proc. IEEE INFOCOM 2025, London, UK, May 2025. (Acceptance rate: 272/1458=18.7%)
  6. Tianya Zhao, Ningning Wang, Junqing Zhang, and Xuyu Wang, "Protocol-agnostic and Data-free Backdoor Attacks on Pre-trained Models in RF Fingerprinting", Proc. IEEE INFOCOM 2025, London, UK, May 2025. (Acceptance rate: 272/1458=18.7%)
  7. Tianya Zhao, Ningning Wang, Guanqun Cao, Shiwen Mao, and Xuyu Wang, "Functional Data Analysis Assisted Cross-Domain Wi-Fi Sensing Using Few-Shot Learning," Proc. IEEE ICC 2024, Denver, CO, June 2024.
  8. Tianya Zhao, Xuyu Wang, Junqing Zhang, and Shiwen Mao, "Explanation-Guided Backdoor Attacks on Model-Agnostic RF Fingerprinting," Proc. IEEE INFOCOM 2024, Vancouver, Canada, May 2024. (Acceptance rate: 256/1307=19.6%)
  9. Tianya Zhao, Xuyu Wang, and Shiwen Mao, "Cross-domain, Scalable, and Interpretable RF Device Fingerprinting," Proc. IEEE INFOCOM 2024, Vancouver, Canada, May 2024. (Acceptance rate: 256/1307=19.6%)
  10. Tianya Zhao, Xuyu Wang, and Shiwen Mao, "Backdoor Attacks Against Deep Learning-based Massive MIMO Localization," Proc. IEEE GLOBECOM 2023, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Dec. 2023.
  11. Azhar Chara*, Tianya Zhao*, Xuyu Wang, and Shiwen Mao, "Respiratory Biofeedback Using Acoustic Sensing with Smartphones," Proc. IEEE/ACM CHASE 2023, Orlando, FL, June 2023. (Acceptance rate: 23/103=22%, *co-first author)

Journal Publications

  1. Tianya Zhao, Junqing Zhang, Jun Dai, Xiaoyan Sun, and Xuyu Wang, "Unveiling the Threat: Data-Free Backdoor Attacks on Pre-Trained Models for RF Fingerprinting," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol.25, no.4, pp.5421-5433, Apr. 2026. DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2025.3628527.
  2. Tianya Zhao, Junqing Zhang, Shiwen Mao, and Xuyu Wang, "Explanation-guided backdoor attacks against model-agnostic RF fingerprinting systems", IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol.24, no.3, pp.2029-2042, Mar. 2025. DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2024.3487967.