Shangqing Zhao
Ph.D., Assistant Professor
School of Computer Science
University of Oklahoma
Norman Campus: 110 W. Boyd St., DEH 210D, Norman, OK 73019
Tulsa Campus: 4502 E 41st St, 4303, Tulsa, OK 74135
Email: shangqing@ou.edu | Phone: (918) 660-3292


Multiple Ph.D. openings are available in our group. Self-motivated students who have strong interests in mobile system design, network security, wireless security, IoT design, machine learning, are always welcome to join us.

Short Bio

Shangqing Zhao is an Assistant Professor in School of Computer Science, University of Oklahoma. He received his Ph.D. degree under Dr. Zhuo Lu at University of South Florida in 2021. He currently leads the Mobile Intelligent Network and Security (MINTS) lab at the University of Oklahoma. Shangqing Zhao's research primarily focuses on the network and mobile system design and security. His research results have been published in top-tier conferences and journals. He also served as a reviewer for multiple top academic journals and conferences.

News

  • [Aug 2026] I will serve on the program committees of NDSS and AAAI 2027.
  • [July 2026] Our proposal on the zero trust based security training on O-RAN has been awared by NSF Cybertraining. Thanks to NSF!
  • [May 2026] Our proposal on the AI platform for health literacy and behavior change has been awarded by OU ICAST Seed Grant. Thanks to ICAST!
  • [May 2026] Our proposal on the hidden wireless cameral localization design has been awarded by NSF ART:InTRO. Thanks to NSF!
  • [May 2026] Our proposal on the AI-Client simulations in counselor training has been awarded by ACES 2026 Small Grants. Thanks to ACES!
  • [Apr 2026] Congrats to Yanyan on receiving the PhD Recruitment Excellence Fellowship.
  • [Apr 2026] Honored to receive the NSF CAREER Award for domain specific AI model designs towards wireless security. Thanks to NSF!
  • [Dec 2024] Our paper on RFID attack has been accepcted by INFOCOM 2025
  • [Apr 2024] Our proposal on Capsule Forensics has been funded by OU DISC Seed Grant. Thanks to DISC!
  • [Dec 2023] Our paper on defending adversary machine learning on spectrum attack has been accepcted by INFOCOM 2024
  • [Oct 2023] Our proposal on adversal driven physical layer security has been funded by NSF SaTC. Thanks to NSF!
  • [Aug 2023] Our education proposal on AI related 5G security has been funded by NSF. Thanks to NSF!
  • [Aug 2023] Our paper on the efficient attacks of physical layer authentication has been accepted by IEEE S&P 2024.
  • [July 2023] Our paper on adaptive mmWave AP design won IEEE ICCCN 2023 Best Paper Award.

    • Research Interests

    • Novel data-driven mobile/IoT system design
    • Mobile and network security
    • Machine learning for mobile network and security applications
    • LLM in Mobile Systems and Security 

    Publications

  • Full Conference Papers:

    1. Bimal Adhikari, Xinyu Cao, Shangqing Zhao, Jingxian Wu, Yanjun Pan, "Environment-Agnostic RF Fingerprinting through Protocol-Compliant IQ Imbalance Estimation ," in Proc. of IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS), Accepted.

    1. Yu Cai, Ziang He, Yanyan Luo, Ziyue Zhang, Jie Cao, Yuchen Liu, Zhengping Luo and Shangqing Zhao "LLM-Powered Multi-Agent Attacks on Cooperative Spectrum Sensing," in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), July 2026. Paper  BibTex

    1. Naeem Shahabi Sani, Shayan Shafaei, Shangqing Zhao, Qi Li, Dean F. Hougen, Chao Lan, "One-Shot Federated Low-Rank Matrix Factorization," in Proc. of International Conference on Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence (ITAI), March 2026.

    1. Lucas J Powers, Reza Babaei, Elnaz Aghdaei, Joseph P Havlicek, Samuel Cheng, Shangqing Zhao, Christopher G Kanakry, Peter Choyke, Sara Vesely, Jennifer Holter Chakrabarty, Kirsten M Williams, "VerSe Data Augmentation Enables per Vertebral Body Instance Segmentation in HSCT Patient Scans," in Proc. of IEEE 25th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE), November 2025. Paper  BibTex

    1. Xinyu Cao, Bimal Adhikari, Shangqing Zhao, Jingxian Wu, Yanjun Pan, "An Adversarial-Driven Experimental Study on Deep Learning for RF Fingerprinting," in Proc. of IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), October 2025. (The first two authors are co-primary authors) Paper  BibTex

    1. Guanchong Huang, Yan He, Shangqing Zhao, Yi Wu, Song Fang, "MotionDecipher: General Video-assisted Passcode Inference In Virtual Reality," in Proc. of International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID), October 2025. BibTex

    1. Haiyun Liu, Jiahao Xue, Shangqing Zhao, Yao Liu and Zhuo Lu, "The Dual Role of Large Language Models in Network Security: Survey and Research Trends," in Proc. of ACM Workshop on Wireless Security and Machine Learning (WiseML), June 2025. Paper  BibTex

    1. Jiaohao Xue, Xiao Han, Shangqing Zhao, Yao Liu, and Zhuo Lu, "An Active Identification Overriding Attack against RFID: Attack Strategy and Defense Design," in Proc. of IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), May 2025. Paper  BibTex

    1. Reza Babaei, Huong Pham, Samuel Cheng, Shangqing Zhao, "EADR: Entropy Adjusted Dynamic Routing Capsule Networks," in Proc. of 59th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), March 2025. Paper  BibTex

    1. Hamidah Alanazi, Shengping Bi, Tao Wang, Tao Hou and Shangqing Zhao, "Adaptive Feature Engineering Against Adversarial Learning," in Proc. of IEEE Secure Development Conference (Poster) (SecDev), Oct 2024.

    1. Xinyu Cao, Shangqing Zhao, Yanjun Pan, Yuchen Liu, "Secure Parameter Sharing in Federated Learning via Over-the-Air Computing," in Proc. of IEEE Secure Development Conference (Poster) (SecDev), Oct 2024. Poster 

    1. Zhengping Jay Luo, Tyler Stewart, Mourya Narasareddygari, Rui Duan, Shangqing Zhao, "Quantum Machine Learning: Performance and Security Implications in Real-World Applications," in Proc. of IEEE Secure Development Conference (Poster) (SecDev), Oct 2024. Paper  BibTex

    1. Wenwei Zhao, Xiaowen Li, Shangqing Zhao, Jie Xu, Yao Liu, and Zhuo Lu, "Detecting Adversarial Spectrum Attacks via Distance to Decision Boundary Statistics," in Proc. of IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), May 2024. Paper  BibTex

    1. Jinmiao Chen, Zhengping Luo, Yuchen Liu, and Shangqing Zhao "MMP: A Dynamic Routing Protocol Design to Proactively Defend against Wireless Network Inference Attacks," in Proc. of ACM Workshop on Moving Target Defense (MTD), Nov. 2023. Paper  BibTex

    1. Zhe Qu, Rui Duan, Xiao Han, Shanqing Zhao, Yao Liu, and Zhuo Lu, "Guessing on Dominant Paths: Understanding the Limitation of Wireless Authentication Using Channel State Information," in Proc. of IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), May 2024. Paper  BibTex

    1. Yuchen Liu, Mingzhe Chen, Donghuan Xu, Shangqing Zhao, "E-App: Adaptive mmWave Access Point Planning with Environmental Awareness in Wireless LANs," in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), July 2023. (Best Paper) Paper  BibTex

    1. Jiahao Xue, Zhe Qu, Shangqing Zhao, Yao Liu, Zhuo Lu, "Data-Driven Next-Generation Wireless Networking: Embracing AI for Performance and Security," in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), July 2023. Paper  BibTex

    1. Jinmiao Chen, Zhaohe Zhang, Shangqing Zhao, Song Fang, Thomas M. Peters, Evan L. Floyd, Changjie Cai, "Short: A Data-Driven Respirator Fit Test Model via Human Speech Signal," in Proc. of IEEE Conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems and Engineering Technologies (CHASE), June 2023. Paper  BibTex

    1. Jinmiao Chen, Zhaohe Zhang, Shangqing Zhao, Song Fang, Thomas M. Peters, Evan L. Floyd, Changjie Cai, "Noninvasive Respirator Fit Factor Inference by Semi-Supervised Learning," in Proc. of IEEE Conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems and Engineering Technologies (Poster) (CHASE), June 2023. Paper  BibTex

    1. Zhengping Luo, Will A. Pitera, Shangqing Zhao, Zhuo Lu, Yalin Sagduyu, "How Can the Adversary Effectively Identify Cellular IoT Devices Using LSTM Networks?" in Proc. of ACM Workshop on Wireless Security and Machine Learning (WiseML), May 2023. Paper  BibTex

    1. Qiuye He, Edwin Yang, Song Fang, Shangqing Zhao, "Honey Breath: An Ambush Tactic Against Wireless Breath Inference" in Proc. of EAI Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (MobiQuitous), Nov 2022 (Best Paper). BibTex

    1. Rui Duan, Zhe Qu, Shanqing Zhao, Leah Ding, Yao Liu, and Zhuo Lu, "Perception-Aware Attack: Creating Adversarial Music via Reverse-Engineering Human Perception," in Proc. of ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), Nov 2022. Paper  BibTex

    1. Chengbin Hu, Yao Liu, Zhuo Lu, Shangqing Zhao, Xiao Han and Junjie Xiong, "Smartphone Location Spoofing Attack in Wireless Networks," in Proc. of EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm), Sept, 2021. Paper  BibTex

    1. Zhengping Luo, Shangqing Zhao, Rui Duan, Zhuo Lu, Yalin E. Sagduyu, and Jie Xu, "Low-cost Influence-Limiting Defense against Adversarial Machine Learning Attacks in Cooperative Spectrum Sensing," in Proc. of ACM Workshop on Wireless Security and Machine Learning (WiSec-WiseML), July, 2021. Paper  BibTex

    1. Zhengping Luo, Shangqing Zhao, Zhuo Lu, Yalin E. Sagduyu, and Jie Xu, "Adversarial Machine Learning based Partial-model Attack in IoT," in Proc. of ACM Workshop on Wireless Security and Machine Learning (WiSec-WiseML), July. 2020. Paper  Slide  BibTex

    1. Shangqing Zhao, Zhe Qu, Zhengping Luo, Zhuo Lu, Yao Liu "Comb Decoding towards Collision-Free WiFi," in Proc. of USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), Feb. 2020. (Acceptance Rate: 17.45%) Paper  Slide  BibTex

    1. Shangqing Zhao, Zhe Qu, Zhuo Lu, Cliff Wang "Vulnerability Analysis, Attack Strategies and Countermeasures Design in Network Tomography," in Proc. of Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) (Poster), Dec. 2019. Paper  Poster  BibTex

    1. Shangqing Zhao, Zhe Qu, Zhuo Lu, Tao Wang "Spectrum Tomography Attacks: Inferring Spectrum Allocation Mechanisms in Multicarrier Systems," in Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (DySPAN) (Poster), Nov. 2019. Paper  Poster  BibTex

    1. Shangqing Zhao, Zhuo Lu, Zhengping Luo, Yao Liu, "Orthogonality-Sabotaging Attacks against OFDMA-based Wireless Networks," in Proc. of IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Apr. 2019. (Acceptance Rate: 19.7%) Paper  Slide  BibTex

    1. Song Fang, Tao Wang, Yao Liu, Shangqing Zhao, Zhuo Lu, "Entrapment for Wireless Eavesdroppers," in Proc. of IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Apr. 2019. (Acceptance Rate: 19.7%) Paper  Slide  BibTex

    1. Song Fang, Ian Markwood, Yao Liu, Shangqing Zhao, Zhuo Lu, and Haojin Zhu, "No Training Hurdles: Fast Training-Agnostic Attacks to Infer Your Typing," in Proc. of ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), Oct. 2018. (Acceptance Rate: 16.6%) Paper  BibTex

    1. Shangqing Zhao, Zhengpin Luo, Zhuo Lu, Xiang Lu, and Yao Liu, "Stateful inter-packet signal processing for wireless networking," in Proc. of ACM Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom), Oct. 2017 . (Acceptance Rate: 18.83%) Paper  Slide  BibTex

    1. Shangqing Zhao, Zhuo Lu and Cliff Wang, "When seeing isn't believing: on feasibility and detectability of scapegoating in network tomography," in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Jun. 2017. (Acceptance Rate: 16.9%) Paper  Slide  BibTex

  • Journal Papers:

    1. Haiyun Liu, Shangqing Zhao, Yao Liu, and Zhuo Lu, "When to Use Wireless Challenge-Response Physical Layer Authentication: Design of a Measurable Guideline for OFDM," IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, To Appear.

    1. Esparham, Ali, Reza Babaei, Samuel Cheng, Shangqing Zhao, and Zhamak Khorgami, "Prediction of venous thromboembolism after metabolic and bariatric surgery using machine learning approach: a MBSAQIP study," Surgical Endoscopy, pp. 1 - 11, Apr 2026.

    1. Rui Duan, Zhe Qu, Shangqing Zhao, Leah Ding, Yao Liu, Zhuo Lu, "Perception-Aware Attack Against Music Copyright Detection: Impacts and Defenses," IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, vol. 22, pp. 2959 - 2977, Jun. 2025.

    1. Qiuye He, Edwin Yang, Song Fang, Shangqing Zhao, "Revisiting Wireless Breath and Crowd Inference Attacks With Defensive Deception," IEEE Transactions on Networking, vol. 32, pp. 4976 - 4988, Sep. 2024.

    1. Dong Han, Reza Babaei, Shangqing Zhao, Samuel Cheng, "Exploring the Efficacy of Learning Techniques in Model Extraction Attacks on Image Classifiers: A Comparative Study," Applied Sciences, vol. 14, pp. 3785, Apr. 2024.

    1. Reza Babaei, Samuel Cheng, Theresa Thai, Shangqing Zhao, "Pancreatic Tumor Segmentation as Anomaly Detection in CT Images Using Denoising Diffusion Models," Arxiv.

    1. Xiao Han, Junjie Xiong, Wenbo Shen, Mingkui Wei, Shangqing Zhao, Zhuo Lu, and Yao Liu, "The Perils of Wi-Fi Spoofing Attack Via Geolocation API and its Defense," IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, vol. 21, pp. 4343 - 4359, Jan. 2024.

    1. Zhihao Zhao, Shangqing Zhao, Samuel Cheng, "Group ensemble block: subspace diversity improves coarse-to-fine image retrieval," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, vol. 4, pp. 60-70, Feb. 2023.

    1. Qiuye He, Song Fang, Tao Wang, Yao Liu, Shangqing Zhao, and Zhuo Lu, "Proactive Anti-Eavesdropping With Trap Deployment in Wireless Networks," IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, vol. 20, pp. 637-649, Jan. 2023.

    1. Xingyu Li, Zhe Qu, Shangqing Zhao, Bo Tang, Zhuo Lu, and Yao Liu (The first two authors are co-primary authors), "LoMar: A Local Defense Against Poisoning Attack on Federated Learning," IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, vol. 20, pp. 437-450, Jan. 2023.

    1. Edwin Yang, Song Fang, Ian Markwood, Yao Liu, Shangqing Zhao, Zhuo Lu, and Haojin Zhu, "Wireless Training-free Keystroke Inference Attack and Defense," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, , vol. 30, pp. 1733-1748, Aug. 2022.

    1. Zhengping Luo, Shangqing Zhao, Zhuo Lu, Jie Xu, and Yalin E Sagduyu, "When attackers meet AI: Learning-empowered attacks in cooperative spectrum sensing" IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 21, pp. 1892-1908, May. 2022.

    1. Zhe Qu, Shangqing Zhao, Jie Xu, Zhuo Lu, and Yao Liu, "How to Test the Randomness from the Wireless Channel for Security?" IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, vol. 16, pp. 3753-3766, June 2021.

    1. Shangqing Zhao, Zhuo Lu, Cliff Wang, "Measurement Integrity Attacks against Network Tomography: Feasibility and Defense," IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, vol. 18, no. 6, pp. 2617 - 2630, Nov.-Dec. 1 2021.

    1. Shangqing Zhao, Zhuo Lu, Cliff Wang, "How Can Randomized Routing Protocols Hide Flow Information in Wireless Networks," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 19, pp. 7224-7236, Nov, 2020.

    1. Zhuo Lu, Cliff Wang, Shangqing Zhao "Cyber Deception for Computer and Network Security: Survey and Challenges," arXiv:2007.14497,

    1. Hui Guo, Shangqing Zhao, Juan Xing, Zhen Wang, "Performance analysis of cognitive cooperative communication system with multiple antennas," Computer Engineering and Applications, vol. 51, no. 8, pp. 92-95, Apr. 2015.

    1. Shangqing Zhao, Hui Guo, Juan Xing, and Shilong Ji, "Performance Analysis of Cognitive Cooperative Communication System Based on Optimal Relay Selection Scheme," Journal of Communications, vol. 9, no. 7, pp. 548-555, July 2014.

    1. Hui Guo, Lihong Wang, and Shangqing Zhao, "Supplementary Proof of Upper and Lower Bounds of Two-Way Opportunistic Amplify-and-Forward Relaying Channels," IEEE Commun. Lett., vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 401-402, Mar. 2014.

    1. Shangqing Zhao, Hui Guo, Juan Xing, Zhen Wang, "Performance analysis of cognitive cooperative communication system based on multiuser," Computer Systems and Applications, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 53-56, Jan. 2014.

    Teaching

  • CS 4173/5173 Computer Security
  • CS 5183 Wireless and Mobile Networks
  • CS/DSAI 4413 Algorithm Analysis

    • Students

  • Current:
    • Jinmiao Chen; Ph.D. Student; 2022 - Present (Suspended due to visa issues)
    • Reza Babaei; Ph.D. Candidate; 2023 - Present
    • Xinyu Cao; Ph.D. Student; 2024 - Present
    • Yu Cai; Ph.D. Student; 2024 - Present
    • Ziyu Wang; Ph.D. Student; 2026 - Present
    • Yanyan Luo; Ph.D. Student; 2026 - Present
  • Alumni:
    • Boyu Qu; Ph.D. Student; 2025 - 2026
    • FNU Pratham; Master; 2025 - 2026

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