CV

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General Information

Full Name Guolin Yin
Languages English, Mandarin

Work Experience

  • May 2025-Present
    Research Fellow
    Queen's University Belfast
    • Leading research on wireless sensing using Wi-Fi, with a focus on the IEEE 802.11bf protocol and Wi-Fi-based radio frequency fingerprinting (RFFI) for device authentication and physical-layer security.
  • July 2024-May 2025
    Research Associate
    University of Liverpool
    • Developed innovative wireless security solutions for Wi-Fi devices using advanced machine learning techniques as part of the HASC Future Communications Hub.
    • Designed RFFI algorithms achieving over 95% identification accuracy in cross-environment, NLOS, and mobile conditions.
    • Developed a noise-robust RFFI system using a diffusion model; published at WCNC 2025 and received the Best Workshop Paper Award.

Education

  • Oct 2020-Jul 2024
    Ph.D
    University of Liverpool
    • Device-Free Wireless Sensing
  • Sep 2018-Dec 2019
    M.Sc
    University of Manchester
    • Communication and Signal Processing
  • Sep 2016-Jun 2018
    B.Eng.
    Coventry University
    • Electronic Engineering

Research Experiences

  • Jan 2025-Present
    Domain Generalisable Wi-Fi-Based RFFI
    Queen's University Belfast
    • Developed a domain generalisable RFFI system capable of identifying Wi-Fi devices in previously unseen environments, addressing cross-environment robustness challenges caused by multipath propagation and channel-induced distortions.
    • Demonstrated the system live at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2026 Barcelona, processing over 52,000 inference packets in real-time and achieving 92% overall accuracy without prior exposure to the exhibition hall environment.
    • Built a real-time prototype using USRP N210 SDR and multiple Wi-Fi dongles (9 devices across 3 brands) with deep learning-based device classification.

Teaching Experience

  • 2025/26
    Guest Lecturer
    Queen's University Belfast
    • Delivered two teaching sessions for ECS4002 Wireless Sensor Systems (20-credit module), one in each semester.
  • 2020-2024
    Teaching Assistant
    University of Liverpool
    • Supported teaching over several years during my PhD in machine learning, statistics, electronic circuit design, and communication systems.

Professional Service

  • Technical programme committee member
    • 2024 — GLOBECOM 2024 Workshop, MLDLWS.
    • 2025 — ICNC ’25 AMCN; INFOCOM DeepWireless 2025; GC Wkshps 2025, MLDL WS; WS18 ICC 2025 Workshop, MLDLWiSec.
    • 2026 — ICNC ’26 AMCN; ICC 2026 WS-17, MLDL Security; WCNCW 2026, WS13.
  • Technical programme committee reviewer
    • IEEE WF-IoT 2025, AI/Machine Learning Technologies.
  • Journal reviewer
    • IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.
    • IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.
  • Upcoming accepted TPC membership
    • GC Wkshps 2026, MLDL WS, December 2026.

Honors and Awards

  • 2025
    • WCNC 2025 Best Workshop Paper Award
  • 2026
    • Live Demo at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2026 Barcelona

Academic Interests

  • Radio frequency fingerprint identification
    • Wi-Fi based fingerprint identification
    • Radio frequency identification
  • Wireless sensing
    • Wi-Fi based wireless sensing

Other Interests

  • Bodybuilding
  • Skydiving

Publications

  1. TNSE
    Quantum-Assisted Memory-Efficient Training for Parameter-Intensive Wi-Fi-Based Human Activity Recognition
    An Truong To, Jie Zhang, Guolin Yin, and 4 more authors
    IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, 2026
    Early access, 19 August 2026
  2. JSAC
    A Quantum-Optimized Training Framework for Radio Frequency Fingerprint Identification
    An Truong To, Guolin Yin, Junqing Zhang, and 3 more authors
    IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 2026
  3. ICC Workshops
    Towards Quantum Efficient Training for Radio Frequency Fingerprint Identification
    An Truong To, Guolin Yin, Junqing Zhang, and 3 more authors
    In 2026 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops), 2026
  4. arXiv
    Practical Wi-Fi-Based Motion Recognition Under Variable Traffic Patterns
    Guolin Yin, Junqing Zhang, Guanxiong Shen, and 1 more author
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.08308, 2026
    Submitted 8 May 2026
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    Evasion Attacks and Countermeasures in Deep Learning-Based Wi-Fi Gesture Recognition
    Guolin Yin, Junqing Zhang, Xinping Yi, and 1 more author
    IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2025
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    Noise-Robust Radio Frequency Fingerprint Identification Using Denoise Diffusion Model
    Guolin Yin, Junqing Zhang, Yuan Ding, and 1 more author
    In 2025 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), 2025
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    FewSense, Towards a Scalable and Cross-Domain Wi-Fi Sensing System Using Few-Shot Learning
    Guolin Yin, Junqing Zhang, Guanxiong Shen, and 1 more author
    IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2024