Xintao Huan is an Assistant Professor at the School of Cyberspace Science and Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, China. He received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering and electronics from the University of Liverpool, UK, in 2021, and the B.Sc. degree and the M.Sc. degree in computer engineering from the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, in 2013 and 2017. He received the stipend of “Stipendium für hervorragende Leistungen des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen” for his study at University of Duisburg-Essen. He worked as a research assistant at Prof.Marrón’s Networked Embedded Systems (NES) Group of University of Duisburg-Essen from 2012 to 2016. He is a recipient of the Beijing Young Elite Scientist Sponsorship Program.

His major reserach work centers around time synchronization & network security of Internet-of-Things low-power wireless networks such as wireless sensor network and LoRa; he also investigates wireless sensing based on artificial intelligence.

He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Sensors Journal, an Editorial Board Member of Journal of Cybersecurity and a Guest Editor of Journal of BIT and Electronics. He is an Executive Member of CCF Pervasive Computing Committee. He serves as a Session Chair / TPC member for international conferences including ICC’23,24, GLOBECOM’23,24, ISAS’23 and VTC’23,24. He also serves as a reviewer for top journals including ACM Computing Surveys, IEEE TCOM, TWC, TMC, TVT, IOTJ, SJ, etc., more please find on publons.

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• 04/09/2024 Our paper, ‘‘P^3ID: A Privacy-Preserving Person Identification Framework Towards Multi-Environments Based on Transfer Learning’’ has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.
• 22/05/2024 Our paper, ‘‘Kerra: An Internet-of-Things Wireless Key Generation Resistant to Replay Attacks’’ has been accepted by IEEE Internet of Things Journal.
• 06/02/2024 Our paper, ‘‘Secure Node Identification Through Covert Clock Feature Extraction’’ has been accepted by IEEE INFOCOM 2024 DeepWireless.
• 28/11/2023 Our paper, ‘‘A Microsecond Energy-Efficient LoRa Time Synchronization Based on Low-Layer Timestamping and Asymmetric Time Translation’’ has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.
• 24/10/2023 Our paper, ‘‘Carrier Frequency Offset in Internet-of-Things Radio Frequency Fingerprint Identification: An Experimental Review’’ has been accepted by IEEE Internet of Things Journal.
• 12/10/2023 Our paper, ‘‘基于自主舍弃与校准的鲁棒物联网设备无线密钥生成方法’’ has been accepted by 《信息网络安全》 (中文核心期刊).
• 17/08/2023 Deliver a talk at Western University, Canada, titled ‘‘From Time Synchronization to Wireless Security: An Interdisciplinary Research’’, sponsored by IEEE ComSoc London Section Joint Chapter. (https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/369822)
• 07/08/2023 Our paper, ‘‘A One-Way Time Synchronization Scheme for Practical Energy-Efficient LoRa Network Based on Reverse Asymmetric Framework’’ has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Communications.
• 04/08/2023 Our paper, ‘‘AI Generated Signal for Wireless Sensing’’ has been accepted by IEEE GLOBECOM 2023.
• 01/06/2023 - 15/01/2024 Serve as Guest Editor for Special Issue ‘‘Precise Timing and Security in Internet of Things’’ in Electronics journal, welcome submissions! (Link)
  
• 24/06/2023 Serve as Session Chair for Session ‘‘Consensus Problem in Autonomous System’’ in 2023 6th International Symposium on Autonomous Systems, ISAS 2023.
  
• 06/07/2022 Our paper, ‘‘A Timestamp-Free Time Synchronization Scheme Based on Reverse Asymmetric Framework for Practical Resource-Constrained Wireless Sensor Networks’’ has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Communications.
• 10/06/2021 Our paper, ‘‘Improving multi-hop time synchronization performance in wireless sensor networks based on packet-relaying gateways with per-hop delay compensation’’ has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Communications.
• 29/03/2021 Our paper, ‘‘NISA: Node identification and spoofing attack detection based on clock features and radio information for wireless sensor networks’’ has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Communications.
• 12/06/2020 Our paper, ‘‘Per-hop delay compensation in time synchronization for multi-hop wireless sensor networks based on packet-relaying gateways’’ has been accepted by IEEE Communications Letters.
• 2020 Computer and Communication Networks (CCN) Module of University of Birmingham recommended our BATS paper.
  
• 05/12/2019 Our paper, ‘‘A beaconless asymmetric energy-efficient time synchronization scheme for resource-constrained multi-hop wireless sensor networks’’ has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Communications.
• 23/07/2019 @University of Sheffield, Symposium on New Trends in Communication Engineering
  

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