Yantian Hou, Ph.D.

Bio

I am an assistant professor in Computer Science Department at Boise State University.

Education

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.

Research Areas

AI-based Security in Augmented Reality, Cloud Computing Security, Wireless Network Coexistence, Wireless Security, Social Network Privacy

Opening Positions

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.

Students

Yi Xie (M.S., Co-advised with Dr. Jyh-haw Yeh, 2019 – )

Aakash Shrestha (M.S., 2021 – )

Alumni

Anil Acharya (M.S., 2017 – 2019)

Qingqing Xie (visiting student)

You Zhou (visiting student)

Zhendong Yang (visiting student)

Ke Cheng (visiting student)

Grants

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

Services

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.

Journals

• Ke Cheng, Yantian Hou, Liangmin Wang, “Secure Similar Sequence Query over Multi-source Genomic Data on Cloud”, IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC), 2022.

• Boyang Wang, Yantian Hou, Ming Li, ”QuickN: Practical and Secure Nearest Neighbor Search on Encrypted Large-Scale Data”, IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC), 2020
• Yifan Tian and Jiawei Yuan and Yantian Hou, ”CPAR: Cloud-Assisted Privacy-preserving Image Annotation with Randomized k-d Forest”, SESA, 2020
• Yanjun Pan, Yantian Hou, Ming Li, Ryan Gerdes, Kai Zeng, Md Asaduzzaman Towfiq, Bedri Cetiner, “Message Integrity Protection over Wireless Channel: Countering Signal Cancellation via Channel Randomization”, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), accepted, pp. 1-14, Sept. 2017.
• Yantian Hou, Ming Li and Shucheng Yu, “Making Body Area Networks Robust against Cross-Technology Interference”, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC), 2016.
• Yantian Hou, Ming Li, Xu Yuan, Y. Thomas Hou, and Wenjing Lou, “Cooperative Interference Mitigation for Heterogeneous Multi-hop Networks Coexistence”, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC), 2016.

Book Chapters

• Yanjun Pan, Ming Li, Yantian Hou, Ryan Gerdes, Bedri Cetiner, ”Enhance Physical Layer Security via Channel Randomization with Reconfigurable Antennas”, invited chapter in book Proactive and Dynamic Network Defense, Springer, Cliff Wang and Zhuo Lu (Editors), ISBN: 978-3-030-10596-9, 2019.

Conferences

• 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.

• Wenjia Zheng, Mike Tynes, Henry Gorelick, Ying Mao, Long Cheng, and Yantian Hou, FlowCon: Elastic Flow Configuration for Containerized Deep Learning Applications, The 48th IEEE International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP 2019), August, 2019 (Acceptance rate: 26%)
• Anil Acharya, Yantian Hou, Ying Mao, and Jiawei Yuan, Edge-Assisted Image Processing with Joint Optimization of Responding and Placement Strategy, The 5th Annual IEEE International Conference on Smart Data (SmartData 2019), Jul. 2019, Atlanta, USA (Acceptance rate: 25%)
• Yifan Tian, Jiawei Yuan, Yantian Hou: Privacy-Preserving Data Filtering for Distributed Data Streams in Cloud, The 5th Annual IEEE International Conference on Smart Data (SmartData 2019), Jul. 2019, Atlanta, USA, (Acceptance rate: 25%)
• Anil Acharya, Yantian Hou, Ying Mao, Min Xian, and Jiawei Yuan, “Workload-Aware Task Placement in Edge-Assisted Human Re-identification”, the 16th Annual IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking (IEEE SECON 2019), Jun. 2019, Boston, USA (Acceptance rate: 28.6%)
• Qingqing Xie, Yantian Hou, Ke Cheng, Gaby G. Dagher, Liangmin Wang, Shucheng Yu, Flexibly and Securely Shape Your Data Disclosed to Others, the 14th ACM ASIA Conference on Information, Computer and Communications Security (ACM ASIACCS 2019), Auckland, New Zealand, 2019. (Short Paper, Acceptance rate: 22.4%)
• Yanjun Pan, Ming Li, Neng Fan, and Yantian Hou, “On the Throughput Limit of Multi-Hop Wireless Networks with Reconfigurable Antennas”, the 15th Annual IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking (IEEE SECON 2018), Jun. 2018, Hong Kong, China (Acceptance rate: 23.2%)
• Ke Cheng, Yantian Hou, and Liangmin Wang, “Secure Similar Sequence Query on Outsourced Genomic Data”, the 13th ACM ASIA Conference on Information, Computer and Communications Security (ACM ASIACCS 2018), Incheon, Korea, 2018. (Acceptance ratio: 20%)
• Yifan Tian, Yantian Hou, and Jiawei Yuan, “CAPIA: Cloud Assisted Privacy-preserving Image Annotation”, in Proceedings of the 5th IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS), Las Vegas, NV USA, Oct., 2017.
• Hank H. Harvey, Ying Mao, Yantian Hou, Bo Sheng, “EDOS: Edge Assisted Offloading System for Mobile Devices”, The 26th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN’17), July 31 -August 3, 2017, Vancouver, Canada. (Acceptance ratio: 25%)
• Yantian Hou, Ming Li and Kai Zeng, “Throughput Optimization in Multi-hop Wireless Networks with Reconfigurable Antennas”, International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC’17), Jan. 26-29, 2017, Silicon Valley, USA. (Acceptance ratio: < 30%)
• Yantian Hou, Ming Li and Dejun Yang, “Game Theoretical Analysis of Coexistence in MIMO-Empowered Cognitive Radio Networks”, International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC’17), Jan. 26-29, 2017, Silicon Valley, USA. (Acceptance ratio: < 30%)
• Boyang Wang, Yantian Hou and Ming Li, “Practical and Secure Nearest Neighbor Search on Encrypted Large-Scale Data”, The 35th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communication (INFOCOM’16), San Francisco, CA, Apr. 2016. (Acceptance ratio: 18.25%)
• Yantian Hou, Ming Li and Dejun Yang, “A Game Theoretical Approach to Coexistence of Heterogeneous MIMO Wireless Networks with Interference Cancellation”, International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communication (ICNC’16), Feb. 15-18 2016, Kauai, HI. (Acceptance ratio: < 30%)
• Yantian Hou, Ming Li, Ruchir Chauhan, Ryan. M. Gerdes, and Kai Zeng, “Message Integrity Protection over Wireless Channel by Countering Signal Cancellation: Theory and Practice”, the 10th ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS’15),Singapore, Apr. 2015. (Acceptance ratio: 48/269=17.8%).
• Boyang Wang, Yantian Hou, Ming Li, Haitao Wang, Hui Li and Fenghua Li, “Tree-based Multi-Dimensional Range Search on Encrypted Data with Enhanced Privacy”, The 10th International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm’14), Sep. 24-26, 2014, Beijing, China.
• Boyang Wang, Yantian Hou, Ming Li, Haitao Wang and Hui Li, “Maple: Scalable Multi-Dimensional Range Search over Encrypted Cloud Data with Tree-based Index”, the 9th ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS’14), Kyoto, Japan, Jun 4-6, 2014 (Acceptance ratio: 52/260=20%).
• Yantian Hou, Ming Li, Xu Yuan, Y. Thomas Hou, and Wenjing Lou, “Cooperative Cross-Technology Interference Mitigation for Heterogeneous Multi-hop Networks”, The 33nd IEEE International Conference on Computer Communication (INFOCOM’14), Toronto, ON, Canada, Apr. 27 – May 2, 2014 (Acceptance ratio: 320/1645=19.4%).
• Yantian Hou and Ming Li, “Enforcing Spectrum Access Rules in Cognitive Radio Networks through Cooperative Jamming”.International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications (WASA 2013), Zhangjiajie, Hunan, China, August 7-10, 2013.
• Yantian Hou, Ming Li and Shucheng Yu, “Surviving the RF Smog: Making Body Area Networks Robust to Cross-Technology Interference”, 10th Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON’13), New Orleans, Jun. 24-27, 2013.
• Yantian Hou, Ming Li, and Joshua. D. Guttman, “Chorus: Scalable In-band Trust Establishment for Multiple Constrained Devices over the Insecure Wireless Channel”, The sixth ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec’13), Budapest, Hungary, April 17-19, 2013. (Full-paper acceptance ratio: 11/74=15%)