Xiang Cheng

PhD Candidate

Email: xiangcheng@vt.edu

About Me

I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Computer Science Department at Virginia Tech since 09/2018. I am advised by Prof. Yaling Yang and co-advised by Prof. Young (Yang) Cao. My research covers a range of topics in Security and Privacy, Secure Localization, and Mobile Networks.

I received my bachelor's degree as the top 1 student (among 240) from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) in 2018. I also received a bachelor's degree with First-Class Honors from University of Glasgow (UoG) through the UESTC-UoG Joint Program in 2018. I was awarded the excellent graduate title from Sichuan Province Government and UESTC. I was a visiting scholar at Michigan State University during the 2017 summer, advised by Prof. Jiayu Zhou.

News

15 Feb 2021 — Our paper about GPS spoofing detection is accepted to appear in USENIX Security 2021. Shout out to Shinan, Hanchao, Yuanchao, Xiaoran, Ping, Curtis, Prof. Wang, and Prof. Yang!
12 Dec 2020 — Our digital contact tracing paper is out!
23 Oct 2020 — I have passed the qualifying process!

Publications

[USENIX Security 2021] Stars Can Tell: A Robust Method to Defend against GPS Spoofing Attacks using Off-the-shelf Chipset
Shinan Liu, Xiang Cheng(co-first author), Hanchao Yang, Yuanchao Shu, Xiaoran Weng, Ping Guo, Kexiong (Curtis) Zeng, Gang Wang, Yaling Yang
[PDF] [Code] [Website]
[arXiv] KHOVID: Interoperable Privacy Preserving Digital Contact Tracing
Xiang Cheng, Hanchao Yang, Archanaa S Krishnan, Patrick Schaumont, Yaling Yang
[PDF]
[IEEE Access] Stratified Feature Sampling for Semi-Supervised Ensemble Clustering
Jialin Tian, Yazhou Ren, Xiang Cheng
[PDF]

Teaching

Spring 2020 — Computer Organization II, CS2506 Teaching Assistant
Fall 2019 — Computer Organization I, CS2505 Teaching Assistant
Spring 2019 — Security Analytics, CS5984 Teaching Assistant