Shucheng Yu
Associate Professor
Shucheng Yu
Associate Professor
Associate Department Chair
Associate Department Chair
IEEE Fellow · AAIA Fellow
Yeshiva University
IEEE Fellow · AAIA Fellow
Yeshiva University
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Associate Professor
Yeshiva University
My current research interests broadly include AI security, privacy, applied cryptography, distributed trust, wireless networking and sensing. I am also interested in practical security and privacy in IoT systems, and security & privacy issues in the context of LLM.
My current research interests broadly include AI security, privacy, applied cryptography, distributed trust, wireless networking and sensing. I am also interested in practical security and privacy in IoT systems, and security & privacy issues in the context of LLM.
Professional Activities, Services and Leadership
Professional Activities, Services and Leadership
Professinal Membership:
Fellow, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Fellow, Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA)
The IEEE Communications Society (IEEE ComSoc)
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)
Conference Organizing Committee:
Technical Program Co-Chair, IEEE International Conference on E-health Networking, Application & Services (IEEE Healthcom 2026). October 19 - 21, 2026, New York City, USA. Please consider to submit your paper (link)! [Submission deadline: June 8, 2026]
Techical Track Co-Chair, The 35th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2026). July 27 - 30, 2026, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. Please consider to submit your paper (link)! [Submission deadline: February 13, 2026]
Technical Program Co-Chair, IEEE INFOCOM 2026 Workshop on Integrated Sensing and Communication in FutureG Wireless Technologies (ISAC-FutureG 2026). May 18, 2026, Tokyo, Japan
Local Co-Chair, IEEE The IEEE/ACM Conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems and Engineering Technologies (CHASE) 2025
General Chair, The 1st Symposium on Emerging Topics in Networks, Systems, and Cybersecurity, 2024.
Local Co-Chair, IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) 2023
Symposium Co-Chair, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2023
Publicity Co-Chair, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) 2021
Invited Talks Co-Chair, IEEE International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC) 2019
Technical Program Co-Chair, International Workshop on Distributed Ledger of Things (DLoT), 2019, 2018
Workshop Co-Chair, EAI International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (Mobiquitous) 2018
Technical Program Co-Chair, First IEEE/ACM International Workshop on BlockChain Technology in Connected Health, 2018
Symposium Co-Chair, IEEE International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC) 2018
Symposium Co-Chair, IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) 2016
Technical Program Chair, International Symposium on Digital Forensics and Security (ISDFS) 2016
Track Chair, EAI International Conference on Body Area Networks (BodyNets) 2014, 2015, 2016
Track Chair, CSS 2014
Web Co-Chair, IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) 2013
PC Vice Chair / Track Chair, EAI International Conference on Body Area Networks (BodyNets) 2013
Publicity Chair, IEEE ICDCS-SPCC 2012
Session Chair, IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) 2016
Session Chair, ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec) 2012
Session Chair, IEEE IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM)2011
Journal Editorship:
Editor, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2021 - 2023
Editor, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Communications, 2020-2023
Editor, IEEE Internet of Things (IoT) Journal, 2020 -2023
Editor, IEEE Blockchain Technical Briefs, 2018 – present
Editor, Journal of Platform Technology, 2013 – present
Editor, KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (2012 – 2019)
Guest Editor, International Journal of Distributed Sensor Network (2014 – 2016)
Editor, International Journal of Security and Networks (2015 – 2016)
NSF Panelist: 2010, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022
NIH Proposal Reviewer: 2015
Board Member, WOCC (2018 - present)
Honors and Awards
Honors and Awards
Outstanding Service Award, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Stevens Institute of Technology, 2024
Fellow of Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA), class of 2023
Fellow of IEEE, for contributions to information and network security, class of 2023
Strengthened Reputation, Increased Prestige Award, Stevens Institute of Technology, 2021
Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship Program (SFFP) Fellowship, Summer 2021-2023
Test of Time Paper Award, IEEE INFOCOM 2020
Distinguished TPC member of INFOCOM 2020
Outstanding Teaching Award, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Stevens Institute of Technology, 2019
Air Force Visiting Faculty Research Program (VFRP) Fellowship, Summer 2018/2020
The Faculty Excellence in Research, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 2016.
Selected Publications
Selected Publications
(underlined are my current or former students)
Book Chapters :
Jiawei Yuan and Shucheng Yu, “Third Party Providers Integrity Assurance for Data Outsourcing”, in Cloud Computing Security: Foundations and Challenges (1st Ed.), chapter 24, edited by John R. Vacca, CRC Press, 2016. ISBN 9781482260946.
Shucheng Yu, Ming Li, and Lu Shi, “Trust Establishment in Wireless Body Area Networks”, in Wearable Sensors: Fundamentals, Implementation and Applications (1st Ed.), chapter 6.4, edited by Edward Sazonov and Michael R Neuman, Academic Press, 2014. ISBN: 978-0124186620.
Shucheng Yu, Wenjing Lou, and Kui Ren, “Data Security in Cloud Computing”, in Handbook on Securing Cyber-Physical Critical Infrastructure (1st Ed.), chapter 15, edited by Sajal K. Das, Krishna Kant and Nan Zhang, Morgan Kaufmann, 2012. ISBN: 978-0124158153.
Shucheng Yu, Wenjing Lou, and Kui Ren, “Privacy-Preserving User Authentication in Wireless Access Networks”, in Encyclopedia of Cryptography and Security (2nd Ed.), H. Tilborg and S. Jajodia Ed., Springer, 2011.
Journal Papers:
Moh Khalid Hasan, Shucheng Yu, and Min Song, "Channel-Adaptive Privacy Enhancement for NOMA-Based Antagonistic Overlay Cognitive Networks", IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, September 2025.
Moh Khalid Hasan, Xiaochan Xue, Shucheng Yu, and Min Song, “Cooperative NOMA-Based Spectrum Leasing with Multiple Secondary Users”, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, June 2023.
Zhuosheng Zhang, Jiarui Li, Shucheng Yu, and Christian Makaya, “SAFELearning: Secure Aggregation in Federated Learning with Backdoor Detectability”, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, May 2023.
Jiarui Li, Zhuosheng Zhang, Shucheng Yu, and Jiawei Yuan, “Improved Secure Deep Neural Network Inference Offloading with Privacy-Preserving Scalar Product Evaluation for Edge Computing”, Applied Sciences, 12(18), 2022.
Marco Rasori, Pericle Perazzo, Gianluca Dini, and Shucheng Yu, “Indirect Revocable KP-ABE with Revocation Undoing Resistance”, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 2021.
Yifan Tian, Laurent Njilla, Jiawei Yuan, and Shucheng Yu, “Low Latency Privacy-preserving Outsourcing of Deep Neural Network Inference”, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, June 2020.
Yantian Hou, Ming Li and Shucheng Yu, “Making Body Area Networks Robust against Cross-Technology Interference,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC), Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 429-440, Jan. 2017.
Wenhai Sun, Shucheng Yu, Wenjing Lou, Y. Thomas Hou, and Hui Li, “Protecting Your Right: Verifiable Attribute-based Keyword Search with Fine-grained Owner-enforced Search Authorization in the Cloud”, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), vol. 27, issue 4, pp. 1187-1198, April 2016.
Jiawei Yuan and Shucheng Yu, “Public Integrity Auditing for Dynamic Data Sharing with Multi-User Modification,” IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security (TIFS), vol. 10, no. 8, pp. 1717-1726, August 2015.
Lu Shi, Jiawei Yuan, Shucheng Yu, and Ming Li, “MASK-BAN: Movement-Aided Authenticated Secret Key Extraction Utilizing Channel Characteristics in Body Area Networks,” IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol.2, no.1, pp: 52-62, February 2015.
Jiawei Yuan and Shucheng Yu, “Privacy Preserving Back-Propagation Neural Network Learning Made Practical with Cloud Computing”, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), vol.25, issue.1, pp:212 - 221, January 2014.
Lu Shi, Ming Li, Shucheng Yu, and Jiawei Yuan, “BANA: Body Area Network Authentication Exploiting Channel Characteristics”, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), vol. 31, issue 9, pp:1803 - 1816, September 2013.
Ming Li, Shucheng Yu, Kui Ren, Wenjing Lou, and Y. Thomas Hou, "Toward Privacy-Assured Searchable Cloud Data Storage Services", IEEE Network, vol.27, issue 4, 1-0, July - August 2013.
Ming Li, Shucheng Yu, Ning Cao, and Wenjing Lou, "Privacy-Preserving Distributed Profile Matching in Proximity-based Mobile Social Networks", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC), vol.12, no.5, May 2013.
Ming Li, Shucheng Yu, Joshua D. Guttman, Wenjing Lou, and Kui Ren, “Secure Ad-Hoc Trust Initialization and Key Management in Wireless Body Area Networks”, ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN), vol. 9, issue 2, no. 18, March 2013.
Ming Li, Shucheng Yu, Yao Zheng, Kui Ren, and Wenjing Lou, “Scalable and Secure Sharing of Personal Health Records in Cloud Computing using Attribute-based Encryption”, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), vol. 24, issue 1, pp:131-143, January 2013. (Spotlight paper of the issue; Received > 1586 citations as of November 2024)
Zhenyu Yang, Shucheng Yu, Wenjing Lou and Cong Liu, “P2: Secure and Privacy-preserving Communication and Precise Reward Architecture for V2G Networks in Smart Grid”, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid (TSG), vol.2, no.4, pp:697-706, December 2011.
Qian Wang, Kui Ren, Shucheng Yu, and Wenjing Lou, “Dependable and Secure Sensor Data Storage with Dynamic Integrity Assurance,” ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN), vol. 8, issue 1, no. 9, August 2011.
Shucheng Yu, Kui Ren, and Wenjing Lou, “FDAC: Toward Fine-grained Distributed Data Access Control in Wireless Sensor Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), vol. 22, issue 4, pp:673 - 686, April 2011.
Conference/Workshop Papers:
Xiaochan Xue, Shucheng Yu, Saurabh Parkar, and Jiarui Li, "Waveform Design for ISAC: Trends and Future Directions", IEEE ICNC 2026, Maui, Hawaii, February 16-19, 2026
Xiaochan Xue, Saurabh Parkar, Shucheng Yu, and Yao Zheng, "AI-assisted Composite ISAC for mmWave Respiration Pattern Recognition", IEEE AIoT 2025, Osaka, Japan, Dec 3-5, 2025
Xiaochan Xue, Shucheng Yu, Saurabh Parkar, and Yao Zheng, "ROISD: RIS and O-RAN Assisted Intelligent Sensing for UAV Detection", IEEE AIoT 2025, Osaka, Japan, Dec 3-5, 2025
Moh Khalid Hasan, Shucheng Yu, and Min Song, "Uplink Secrecy in RIS-Aided MIMO-NOMA Networks with User-Centric Artificial Noise", IEEE ICC 2025, Montreal, QC, Canada, June 8-12 2025
Jiarui Li and Shucheng Yu, “Integrity Verifiable Privacy-preserving Federated Learning for Healthcare-IoT”, IEEE Healthcom 2024, Nara, Japan, November 18-20, 2024.
Jiarui Li and Shucheng Yu, “Efficient Multi-Authority ABE From Learning with Errors Over Rings”, IEEE Milcom’24, Washington D.C., October 28 – November 1, 2024.
Jiarui Li, Nan Chen, Shucheng Yu, and Thitima Srivatanakul, “Efficient and Privacy-Preserving Integrity Verification for Federated Learning with TEEs”, IEEE Milcom’24, Washington D.C., October 28 – November 1, 2024.
Ruoyang Guo, Jiarui Li, Shucheng Yu. “GridSE: Towards Practical Secure Geographic Search via Prefix Symmetric Searchable Encryption”, USENIX Security 2024, Philadelphia, PA, August 14-16, 2024. (Acceptance rate: 18.32% = 417/2276)
Zhuosheng Zhang, Noor Ahmed, Shucheng Yu, “QE-DBA: Query-Efficient Decision-Based Adversarial Attacks via Bayesian Optimization”, IEEE ICNC 2024, Big Island, HI, February 19-22, 2024.
Moh Khalid Hasan, Shucheng Yu, Min Song, “Secured Full-Duplex UAV-Aided Spectrum-Sharing Network Based on NOMA”, IEEE MASS 2023, Toronto, Canada, September 25-27, 2023.
Xiaochan Xue, Moh Khalid Hasan, Shucheng Yu, Laxima Niure Kandel, Min Song, “Over-the-Air Federated Learning with Enhanced Privacy”, IEEE ICC 2023, Rome, Italy, May 28 – June 1, 2023.
Xiaochan Xue, Shucheng Yu, and Min Song, “Secure Device Trust Bootstrapping Against Collaborative Signal Modification Attacks”, IEEE INFOCOM 2023, New York Area, USA, May 17-19, 2023. (Acceptance rate: 19.2% = 252/1312)
Moh Khalid Hasan, Shucheng Yu, Min Song, “Uplink Secrecy Analysis for UAV-enabled PD-NOMA-based Underlay Spectrum Sharing Networks”, IEEE WCNC 2023, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, March 26-29, 2023.
Xiaochan Xue, Shucheng Yu, Min Song, and ChunSheng Xin, “K-Group Random Channel Hopping (K-RCH) Rendezvous for Cognitive Radio Networks”, the 55th IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2021), Montreal, Canada, June 14-23, 2021.
Laxima N. Kandel, Zhuosheng Zhang and Shucheng Yu, “Exploiting CSI-MIMO for Accurate and Efficient Device Identification”, 2019 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2019), Waikoloa, HI, USA, December 9-13, 2019.
Zhuosheng Zhang, Laurent Njilla, Shucheng Yu and Jiawei Yuan, “Edge-Assisted Learning for Real-time UAV Imagery via Predictive Offloading”, 2019 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2019), Waikoloa, HI, USA, December 9-13, 2019.
Laxima N. Kandel and Shucheng Yu, “VWAN: Virtual WiFi ANtennas for Increased Indoor Localization Accuracy”, 2019 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Internet (ICII 2019), Orlando, FL, USA, November 11-12, 2019.
Yifan Tian, Jiawei Yuan, Shucheng Yu, Yantian Hou and Houbing Song, “Edge-Assisted CNN Inference over Encrypted Data for Internet of Things”, 15th EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm 2019), Orlando, FL, USA, October 23-25, 2019.
Yifan Tian, Ashok Raja, Jiawei Yuan, Shucheng Yu, Alexander Steinbacher, Thaniel Tong and Jayson Tinsley. “Cost-Effective NLOS Detection for Privacy Invasion Attacks by Consumer Drones”, the 38th AIAA/IEEE Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC 2019), San Diego, CA, September 8-12, 2019. (Best Session Paper Award)
Qingqing Xie, Yantian Hou, Ke Cheng, Gaby G. Dagher, Liangmin Wang and Shucheng Yu. “Flexibly and Securely Shape Your Data Disclosed to Others”, the 14th ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM ASIACCS 2019), Auckland, New Zealand, July 7-12, 2019. (short paper)
Jiang Guo, Miao Wang, Bo Chen, Shucheng Yu, Hanwen Zhang and Yujun Zhang, “Enabling Blockchain Applications Over Named Data Networking”, the 53rd IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2019), Shanghai, China, May 20-24, 2019.
Laxima N. Kandel and Shucheng Yu, “Indoor Localization Using Commodity Wi-Fi APs: Techniques and Challenges”, IEEE ICNC 2019, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, February 18-21, 2019.
Yifan Tian, Jiawei Yuan and Shucheng Yu, "SBPA: Social Behavior Based Cross Social Network Phishing Attacks", in Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (IEEE CNS), Poster Paper, Philadelphia, PA USA, October 2016.
Mohammad Raashid Ansari, Shucheng Yu and Qiaoyan Yu, “IntelliCAN: Attack-resilient Controller Area Network (CAN) for secure automobiles”, in Proceedings of 2015 IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI and Nanotechnology Systems (DFTS), Amherst, MA USA, Oct. 2015.
Jiawei Yuan, Shucheng Yu, and Linke Guo, “SEISA: Secure and Efficient Encrypted Image Search with Access Control,” IEEE INFOCOM 2015, Hong Kong, China, April 26 - May 1, 2015. (Acceptance ratio: 316/1640 = 19.3%).
Jiawei Yuan and Shucheng Yu, “Efficient Public Integrity Checking for Cloud Data Sharing with Multi-User Modification”, IEEE INFOCOM 2014, Toronto, Canada, April 27 - May 2, 2014. (Acceptance ratio: 19.4%)
Bing Wang, Shucheng Yu, Wenjing Lou, and Thomas Hou, “Privacy-Preserving Multi-Keyword Fuzzy Search over Encrypted Data in the Cloud,” IEEE INFOCOM 2014, Toronto, Canada, April 27 - May 2, 2014. (Acceptance ratio: 19.4%)
Wenhai Sun, Shucheng Yu, Wenjing Lou, Thomas Hou, and Hui Li, “Protecting Your Right: Attribute-based Keyword Search with Fine-grained Owner-enforced Search Authorization in the Cloud,” IEEE INFOCOM 2014, Toronto, Canada, April 27 - May 2, 2014. (Acceptance ratio: 19.4%)
Jiawei Yuan and Shucheng Yu, “Flexible and Publicly Verifiable Aggregation Query for Outsourced Databases in Cloud”, IEEE CNS-SPCC 2013, in conjunction with IEEE CNS 2013, Washington D.C., October 14-16, 2013.
Jiawei Yuan and Shucheng Yu, “Secure and Constant Cost Public Cloud Storage Auditing with Deduplication”, IEEE CNS 2013, Washington D.C., October 14-16, 2013.
Yantian Hou, Ming Li, and Shucheng Yu, “Surviving the RF Smog: Making Body Area Networks Robust to Cross-Technology Interference”, IEEE SECON 2013, New Orleans, June 24-27, 2013. (Acceptance ratio: 51/280=18.2%)
Lu Shi, Jiawei Yuan, Shucheng Yu, and Ming Li, “ASK-BAN: Authenticated Secret Key Extraction Utilizing Channel Characteristics for Body Area Networks”, ACM WiSec 2013, Budapest, Hungary, April 17-19, 2013. (Full-paper acceptance ratio: 11/74=15%)
Jiawei Yuan and Shucheng Yu, “Efficient Privacy-Preserving Biometric Identification in Cloud Computing,” IEEE INFOCOM 2013, Turin, Italy, April 14-19, 2013. (Acceptance ratio = 280/1613 = 17%)
Lu Shi, Shucheng Yu, Wenjing Lou, and Thomas Hou, “SybilShield: An Agent-Aided Social Network-Based Sybil Defense among Multiple Communities,” IEEE INFOCOM 2013, Turin, Italy, April 14-19, 2013. (Acceptance ratio = 280/1613 = 17%)
Lu Shi, Ming Li, Shucheng Yu and Jiawei Yuan, “BANA: Body Area Network Authentication Exploiting Channel Characteristics”, ACM WiSec 2012, Tucson, Arizona, April 16-19, 2012.
Cong Wang, Kui Ren, Shucheng Yu, and Karthik Mahendra Raje Urs, “Achieving Usable and Privacy-assured Similarity Search over Outsourced Cloud Data”, IEEE INFOCOM 2012, Orlando, Florida, March 25-30, 2012.
Ning Cao, Shucheng Yu, Zhenyu Yang, Wenjing Lou, and Thomas Y. Hou, “LT Codes-based Secure and Reliable Cloud Storage Service”, IEEE INFOCOM 2012, Orlando, Florida, March 25-30, 2012.
Ming Li, Shucheng Yu, Ning Cao and Wenjing Lou, “Authorized Private Keyword Search over Encrypted Personal Health Records in Cloud Computing”, IEEE ICDCS 2011, Minnesapolis, MN, June 20-24, 2011.
Ming Li, Ning Cao, Shucheng Yu, and Wenjing Lou, “FindU: Privacy-Preserving Personal Profile Matching in Mobile Social Networks”, IEEE INFOCOM 2011, Shanghai, China, April 2011 (Acceptance ratio = 291/1823 = 16%).
Shucheng Yu, Kui Ren, and Wenjing Lou, “Attribute-Based Data Sharing with Attribute Revocation,” ACM ASIACCS 2010, Beijing, China, April 13-16, 2010 (Acceptance ratio: 15%)
Shucheng Yu, Cong Wang, Kui Ren, and Wenjing Lou, “Achieving Secure, Scalable, and Fine-grained Data Access Control in Cloud Computing,” IEEE INFOCOM 2010, San Diego, CA, March 15-19, 2010. (Acceptance ratio: 17.5%) (“Test of Time Paper Award” in 2020)
Ming Li, Shucheng Yu, Kui Ren, and Wenjing Lou, “Group Device Pairing Based Secure Sensor Association and Key Management for Body Area Sensor Networks,” IEEE INFOCOM 2010, San Diego, CA, March 15-19, 2010. (Acceptance ratio: 17.5%)
Shucheng Yu, Kui Ren, and Wenjing Lou, “FDAC: Toward Fine-grained Distributed Data Access Control in Wireless Sensor Networks,” IEEE INFOCOM 2009, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 19-25, 2009. (Acceptance ratio: 19.7%)
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