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Yan Long

Assistant Professor, Computer Science (starting July 2025)
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Yan Long will join the Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia in July 2025. His research is mainly in the area of embedded systems security with a focus on protecting the security and privacy of analog and digital sensing in various forms of cyber-physical systems using hardware-software co-design. He also develops novel sensing systems to facilitate healthcare and security applications. His previous publications appeared at top international venues such as IEEE Security and Privacy, ACM CCS, NDSS, UbiComp, and SenSys. His works received the IEEE Security and Privacy Distinguished Paper award, CPS Rising Stars recognition, IEEE HOST Best PhD Thesis award, and CSAW Applied Research Competition Finalist. He has been a TPC member of USENIX Security, ACM CCS, ACM MobiSys, etc., and is the guest editor of the Sensors in Hardware Security special issue for the Sensors Journal. 

Education

Ph.D. University of Michigan, 2024

B.S. Zhejiang University, 2019

Research Interests

Cyber Physical Systems
Artificial Intelligence
Security
Computer Systems, Architecture, and Networks

Selected Publications

"EM Eye: Characterizing Electromagnetic Side-channel Eavesdropping on Embedded Cameras", NDSS 2024 Yan Long, Qinhong Jiang, Chen Yan, Tobias Alam, Xiaoyu Ji, Wenyuan Xu, Kevin Fu
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“Side Eye: Characterizing the Limits of POV Acoustic Eavesdropping from Smartphone Cameras with Rolling Shutters and Movable Lenses”, IEEE S&P 2023 Yan Long, Pirouz Naghavi, Blas Kojusner, Kevin Butler, Sara Rampazzi and Kevin Fu
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“Private Eye: On the Limits of Textual Screen Peeking via Eyeglass Reflections in Video Conferencing”, IEEE S&P 2023
Yan Long, Chen Yan, Shilin Xiao, Shivan Prasad, Wenyuan Xu, and Kevin Fu
ABS
“The Catcher in the Field: A Fieldprint based Spoofing Detection for Text-Independent Speaker Verification”, ACM CCS 2019 Chen Yan*, Yan Long*, Xiaoyu Ji, and Wenyuan Xu
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Awards

Distinguished Paper Award of IEEE S&P 2024
IEEE HOST Best PhD Competition Award 2024
CPS Rising Stars 2024
SenSys Best Poster Runner-up Award 2020