Ming Gao

Professor

School of Computer Science

Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (NJUPT)

Email: gaomingppm [at] njupt.edu.cn

Ming Gao is currently a Professor of the School of Computer Science at Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications. He obtained the Ph.D. degree from the school of cyber science and technology, Zhejiang University (ZJU), advised by Prof. Jinsong Han and co-advised by Prof. Feng Lin.

His research interests include Mobile Sensing, Pervasive Computing, IoT Security and Privacy Protection.

Awards And Honors

• ACM SenSys 2024 Best Paper Honorable Mentions, 2024
• CCF TCIoT Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award, 2024
• ACM SIGMOBILE Research Highlight, 2022
• ACM SenSys 2021 Best Paper Award Nomination, 2021
• China National Scholarship, 2015, 2023

Publication

2025

• [C9] Exploring Acoustic Reverse Nonlinearity Against Speech Forgery in Real-time Voice Applications
  Ming Gao, Lingfeng Zhang, Yike Chen, Sifeng He, Feng Qian, Lei Yang, Fu Xiao, Jinsong Han
  IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2025)
  
• [J6] Microphone Jamming against Eavesdropping on Chinese Based on Ultrasonic Non-linearity
  Ming Gao, Yike Chen, Jiatong Chen, Fu Xiao, Jinsong Han
  accepted by Chinese Journal of Electronics.

2024

• [C8] Eternity in a Second: Quick-pass Continuous Authentication Using Out-ear Microphones PDF
  Ming Gao, Xin Tong, Jiatong Chen, Yike Chen, Fu Xiao, Jinsong Han
  ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2024)
  Best Paper Honorable Mentions
• [J5] Practical EMI Attacks on Smartphones with Users’ Commands Cancelled
  Ming Gao, Fu Xiao, Wentao Guo, Lin Zixin, Weiran Liu, Jinsong Han
  IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC). 21(4):2327-2343.
• [J4] Exploring Practical Acoustic Transduction Attacks on Inertial Sensors in MDOF Systems
  Ming Gao, Lingfeng Zhang, Leming Shen, Xiang Zou, Jinsong Han, Feng Lin, Kui Ren
  IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC). 23(5): 3539-3557.
• [J3] A Resilience Evaluation Framework on Ultrasonic Microphone Jammers
  Ming Gao, Yike Chen, Yimin Li, Lingfeng Zhang, Jianwei Liu, Li Lu, Feng Lin, Jinsong Han, Kui Ren
  IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC). 23(2): 1914-1929.

2023

• [C7] Cancelling Speech Signals for Speech Privacy Protection against Microphone Eavesdropping PDF
  Ming Gao, Yike Chen, Yajie Liu, Jie Xiong, Jinsong Han, Kui Ren
  Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom 2023)
• [C6] Expelliarmus: Command Cancellation Attacks on Smartphones using Electromagnetic Interference PDF
  Ming Gao, Fu Xiao, Weiran Liu, Wentao Guo, Yangtao Huang, Yajie Liu, Jinsong Han
  IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2023)
• [J2] Mobile Communication Among COTS IoT Devices via a Resonant Gyroscope with Ultrasound
  Feng Lin, Ming Gao (Co-first), Lingfeng Zhang, Yimin Li, Weiye Xu, Jinsong Han, Xian Xu, Wenyao Xu, Kui Ren
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON). 20(4): 3144-3157.
• [J1] Device-independent Smartphone Eavesdropping Jointly using Accelerometer and Gyroscope
  Ming Gao, Yajie Liu, Yike Chen, Yimin Li, Zhongjie Ba, Xian Xu, Jinsong Han, Kui Ren
  IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC). 31(3): 1026-1041

Before

• [C5] KITE: Exploring the Practical Threat from Acoustic Transduction Attacks on Inertial Sensors PDF
  Ming Gao, Lingfeng Zhang, Xiang Zou, Jinsong Han, Feng Lin, Kui Ren
  ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2022)
• [C4] InertiEAR: Automatic and Device-independent IMU-based Eavesdropping on Smartphones PDF
  Ming Gao, Yajie Liu, Yike Chen, Yimin Li, Zhongjie Ba, Xian Xu, Jinsong Han
  IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2022)
• [C3] Big Brother is Listening: An Evaluation Framework on Ultrasonic Microphone Jammers PDF
  Yike Chen, Ming Gao (Co-first), Yimin Li, Lingfeng Zhang, Li Lu, Feng Lin, Jinsong Han, Kui Ren
  IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2022)
• [C2] Wavoice: A Noise-resistant Multi-modal Speech Recognition System Fusing mmWave and Audio Signals PDF
  Tiantian Liu, Ming Gao, Feng Lin, Chao Wang, Zhongjie Ba, Jinsong Han, Wenyao Xu, Kui Ren
  ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2021)
  Best Paper Award Candidate, SIGMOBILE Research Highlights
• [C1] Deaf-Aid: Mobile IoT Communication Exploiting Stealthy Speaker-to-gyroscope Channel PDF
  Ming Gao, Feng Lin, Weiye Xu, Muertikepu Nuermaimaiti, Jinsong Han, Wenyao Xu, Kui Ren
  The 26th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom 2020)

Services

Conference Organizer: Session Chair in IEEE MSN 2024.

TPC member in IEEE MSN 2024， WoWMoM 2025.

Reviewer for IEEE TMC, IEEE TDSC, IEEE TIFS, IEEE TWC, IEEE TVT, IEEE TOSN, IEEE Network, Computer Networks

Conference Reviewer for ACM CHI 2024

Students

I am pleased to work together with these excellent students.

Joint-supervised PhD students

• Yichen Dai (戴熠辰), 2024 - present
• Jiaxin Jiang (蒋嘉欣), 2024 - present
• Ayijiaken Amantai (阿依佳肯), 2024 - present

Master students

• Jia Lv (吕佳), 2025 - present

Undergraduates

• Xin Tong (佟昕) @ZJU
• Ruitong Ye (叶睿彤) @NJUPT