Department of Computer Science
City University of Hong Kong
August, 2025:
I will serve on the program committee of USENIX Security'26.
August, 2025:
I won the Best Presentation Award at Rising Star Forum of AIoTSys'25.
July, 2025:
I am excited to be selected as an AIoTSys Rising Star.
July, 2025:
I am excited to receive the Outstanding Research Thesis Award from the City University of Hong Kong.
July, 2025:
One paper was accepted by ACM UIST'25.
July, 2025:
One extension paper was accepted by IEEE TMC.
June, 2025:
One paper was conditionally accepted by MobiCom'25.
May, 2025:
One paper was accepted by ICML'25.
April, 2025:
I will serve on the technical program committee of NDSS'26.
November, 2024:
Our first XR security paper, VRecKey, was accepted by NDSS'25.
September, 2024:
Invited to join the Youth Editorial Board of Journal of Information and Intelligence.
September, 2024:
Our CCS'23 paper was awarded Cybersecurity Best Practical Paper Award 2024.
August, 2024:
Our battery-free wireless sensing paper, REHSense, was accepted by MobiHoc'24.
June, 2024:
Our poster wins the People's Choice ASSET Poster Award in SIGMOBILE Asian Student Symposium on Emerging Technologies (ASSET), Co-located with MobiSys'24 in Tokyo, Japan.
May, 2024:
Invited to join the Youth Editorial Board of Journal of Cybersecurity.
April, 2024:
I was selected as an ACM MobiSys Rising Star 2024.
March, 2024:
I successfully defended my thesis and completed my Ph.D. degree!
March, 2024:
One paper was accepted by MobiSys'24.
February, 2024:
One paper was accepted by MobiCom'24.
September, 2023:
FPLogger was accpeted by CCS'23.
August, 2023:
BankSnoop and XPorter were accepted by MobiCom'23.
January, 2023:
One paper was accepted by IPSN'23.
December, 2022:
WISERS was accepted by IEEE S&P'23.
July, 2022:
AppListener was accepted by USENIX Security'23.
July, 2022:
One paper was accepted by UbiComp'22.
Non-intrusive and Unconstrained Keystroke Inference in VR Platforms via Infrared Side Channel
Tao Ni, Yuefeng Du, Qingchuan Zhao, Cong Wang
Proceedings of the 32nd Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS)
San Diego, CA, USA, February 2025.
Acceptance Rate: 211/1311 (16.1%)
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Recovering Fingerprints from In-Display Fingerprint Sensors via Electromagnetic Side Channel
Tao Ni, Xiaokuan Zhang, Qingchuan Zhao
Proceedings of the 30th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS)
Copenhagen, Denmark, November 2023.
Acceptance Rate: 235/1222 (19.2%)
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Uncovering User Interactions on Smartphones via Contactless Wireless Charging Side Channels
Tao Ni, Xiaokuan Zhang, Chaoshun Zuo, Jianfeng Li, Zhenyu Yan, Wubing Wang, Weitao Xu,
Xiapu Luo, Qingchuan Zhao
Proceedings of the 44th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE S&P)
San Francisco, CA, May 2023.
Acceptance Rate: 195/1147 (17.0%)
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Eavesdropping Mobile App Activity via Radio-Frequency Energy Harvesting
Tao Ni, Guohao Lan, Jia Wang, Qingchuan Zhao, Weitao Xu
Proceedings of the 32nd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security)
Anaheim, CA, USA, Auguest 2023.
Acceptance Rate: 422/1444 (29.2%)
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Exploiting Contactless Side Channels in Wireless Charging Power Banks for User Privacy Inference via Few-shot Learning
Tao Ni, Jianfeng Li, Xiaokuan Zhang, Chaoshun Zuo, Wubing Wang,
Weitao Xu, Xiapu Luo, Qingchuan Zhao
Proceedings of the 29th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom)
Madrid, Spain, October 2023.
Acceptance Rate: 92/377 (24.4%)
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XPorter: A Study of the Multi-Port Charger Security on Privacy Leakage and Voice Injection
Tao Ni, Yongliang Chen, Weitao Xu, Lei Xue, Qingchuan Zhao
Proceedings of the 29th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom)
Madrid, Spain, October 2023.
Acceptance Rate: 92/377 (24.4%)
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