Bio
I am an assistant professor in Computer Science Department at Boise State University.
I am an assistant professor in Computer Science Department at Boise State University.
I received my Ph.D. degree from Department of Computer Science at Utah State University (USU) in 2016. I received my M.S. and B.S. from Beihang University, China in 2012 and 2009 respectively.
AI-based Security in Augmented Reality, Cloud Computing Security, Wireless Network Coexistence, Wireless Security, Social Network Privacy
Our lab has multiple Ph.D. TA/RA openings starting from Fall 2022 and Fall/Spring 2023. The successful candidates are expected to work on exciting research areas of: 1) mobile computing, 2) mobile/wireless network security, 3) AI based security control, and 4) privacy preserving cloud computing. A solid background in any one of the following will equally be a plus: 1) machine learning, 2) mobile computing, 3) network, and 4) cryptography. If you are interested, please send your CV/resume, transcripts, GRE and TOEFL scores (if tests already taken), and any other information that you believe is helpful for your application to (yantianhou@boisestate.edu). Visiting scholars/students are also welcomed.
Yi Xie (M.S., Co-advised with Dr. Jyh-haw Yeh, 2019 – )
Aakash Shrestha (M.S., 2021 – )
Anil Acharya (M.S., 2017 – 2019)
Qingqing Xie (visiting student)
You Zhou (visiting student)
Zhendong Yang (visiting student)
Ke Cheng (visiting student)
Idaho Cybersecurity Education Initiative: Building an Integrated, Interdisciplinary Curriculum for AI-based Wireless Network Defense, PI, 2021.
CAES Summer Visiting Faculty Program: Protection and Threat Mitigation of DER Wireless Infrastructure, PI, 2021.
GenCyber 2019 Teacher Camp, co-PI, 2019.
IGEM: Flexible Sensors Assisted Miniaturized Air Scrubber for Protecting Stored Produce, co-PI, 2017-2018.
GenCyber 2017 Teacher Camp, co-PI, 2017
Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering, guest editor.
IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2018, 2019, 2020), TPC member.
The 14th International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT 2017), TPC member.
IEEE ComSoc International Communications Quality and Reliability Workshop (CQR 2017), TPC member.
IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2018), TPC member
I am also reviewer for the journals of IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), IEEE Journal on Selected Areas on Communications (JSAC), IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), IEEE Transactions of Wireless Communications (TWC), IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC), IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM), IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT), Ad Hoc Networks, Wireless Networks, etc.
Ke Cheng, Yantian Hou, Liangmin Wang, “Secure Similar Sequence Query over Multi-source Genomic Data on Cloud”, IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC), 2022.
Aakash Shrestha, Yantian Hou, Min Long and Jiawei Yuan, “Virtual Curtain: A Communica- tive Fine-grained Privacy Control Framework for Augmented Reality”, International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC 2023), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, February 20-22, 2023.