Publications | Yuchen Zhao

2025

Knowledge Routing in Decentralized Learning

Ahmed M. Abdelmoniem, and Yuchen Zhao

IEEE Intelligent Systems, 2025

@article{Abdelmoniem2024,
  author = {Abdelmoniem, Ahmed M. and Zhao, Yuchen},
  journal = {IEEE Intelligent Systems},
  title = {{Knowledge Routing in Decentralized Learning}},
  year = {2025},
  volume = {40},
  number = {1},
  pages = {38--44},
  doi = {10.1109/MIS.2024.3505543}
}

2024

Low-Energy On-Device Personalization for MCUs

Yushan Huang, Ranya Aloufi, Xavier Cadet, and 3 more authors

In Proceedings of 2024 IEEE/ACM Symposium on Edge Computing, Rome, Italy, 2024

DOI Bib

@inproceedings{Huang2024sec,
  author = {Huang, Yushan and Aloufi, Ranya and Cadet, Xavier and Zhao, Yuchen and Barnaghi, Payam and Haddadi, Hamed},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of 2024 IEEE/ACM Symposium on Edge Computing},
  title = {{Low-Energy On-Device Personalization for MCUs}},
  year = {2024},
  pages = {45--58},
  location = {Rome, Italy},
  doi = {10.1109/SEC62691.2024.00012}
}

Towards Low-Energy Adaptive Personalization for Resource-Constrained Devices

Yushan Huang, Josh Millar, Yuxuan Long, and 2 more authors

In Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Machine Learning and Systems, Athens, Greece, Apr 2024

DOI Bib

@inproceedings{Huang2024euromlsys,
  author = {Huang, Yushan and Millar, Josh and Long, Yuxuan and Zhao, Yuchen and Haddadi, Hamed},
  title = {{Towards Low-Energy Adaptive Personalization for Resource-Constrained Devices}},
  year = {2024},
  month = apr,
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  address = {New York, NY, USA},
  doi = {10.1145/3642970.3655826},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Machine Learning and Systems},
  pages = {73--80},
  numpages = {8},
  keywords = {Low-Energy, Machine Learning, Personalization},
  location = {Athens, Greece}
}

Analyzing Entropy Features in Time-Series Data for Pattern Recognition in Neurological Conditions

Yushan Huang, Yuchen Zhao, Alexander Capstick, and 3 more authors

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Apr 2024

DOI Bib

@article{Huang2024aim,
  title = {{Analyzing Entropy Features in Time-Series Data for Pattern Recognition in Neurological Conditions}},
  journal = {Artificial Intelligence in Medicine},
  pages = {102821},
  year = {2024},
  issn = {0933-3657},
  doi = {10.1016/j.artmed.2024.102821},
  author = {Huang, Yushan and Zhao, Yuchen and Capstick, Alexander and Palermo, Francesca and Haddadi, Hamed and Barnaghi, Payam},
  keywords = {Entropy, Time-series data, Pattern recognition, Neurological conditions}
}

2023

Auditing AI Systems: A Metadata Approach

Carl Adams, Mohsen Eslamnejad, Anita Khadka, and 3 more authors

In Artificial Intelligence XL, Apr 2023

DOI Bib

@inproceedings{Adams2023,
  address = {Cham},
  series = {Lecture {Notes} in {Computer} {Science}},
  title = {Auditing {AI} {Systems}: {A} {Metadata} {Approach}},
  isbn = {978-3-031-47994-6},
  shorttitle = {Auditing {AI} {Systems}},
  doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-47994-6_22},
  language = {en},
  booktitle = {Artificial {Intelligence} {XL}},
  publisher = {Springer Nature Switzerland},
  author = {Adams, Carl and Eslamnejad, Mohsen and Khadka, Anita and M’manga, Andrew and Shaw, Heather and Zhao, Yuchen},
  editor = {Bramer, Max and Stahl, Frederic},
  year = {2023},
  keywords = {Auditing AI, Metadata, Testing AI},
  pages = {241--246},
  file = {Full Text PDF:/home/yuchen/Zotero/storage/28JDJCDT/Adams et al. - 2023 - Auditing AI Systems A Metadata Approach.pdf:application/pdf}
}

(Poster) Effective Abnormal Activity Detection on Multivariate Time Series Healthcare Data

Mengjia Niu, Yuchen Zhao, and Hamed Haddadi

In Proceedings of the 29th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, Madrid, Spain, Oct 2023

DOI Bib

@inproceedings{Niu2023mobicom,
  title = {{(Poster) Effective Abnormal Activity Detection on Multivariate Time Series Healthcare Data}},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 29th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking},
  author = {Niu, Mengjia and Zhao, Yuchen and Haddadi, Hamed},
  articleno = {134},
  numpages = {3},
  year = {2023},
  month = oct,
  location = {Madrid, Spain},
  doi = {10.1145/3570361.3615741}
}

(Preprint) Information Theory Inspired Pattern Analysis for Time-series Data

Yushan Huang, Yuchen Zhao, Alexander Capstick, and 3 more authors

Oct 2023

Bib

@misc{Huang2023,
  title = {{(Preprint) Information Theory Inspired Pattern Analysis for Time-series Data}},
  author = {Huang, Yushan and Zhao, Yuchen and Capstick, Alexander and Palermo, Francesca and Haddadi, Hamed and Barnaghi, Payam},
  year = {2023},
  eprint = {2302.11654},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  primaryclass = {cs.AI},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.11654}
}

PRISM: Privacy Preserving Healthcare Internet of Things Security Management

Savvas Hadjixenophontos, Anna Maria Mandalari, Yuchen Zhao, and 1 more author

In Proceedings of the 2023 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, Gammarth, Tunisia, Jul 2023

DOI Bib

@inproceedings{Hadjixenophontos2023,
  title = {PRISM: Privacy Preserving Healthcare Internet of Things Security Management},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2023 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications},
  pages = {919-924},
  author = {Hadjixenophontos, Savvas and Mandalari, Anna Maria and Zhao, Yuchen and Haddadi, Hamed},
  year = {2023},
  month = jul,
  location = {Gammarth, Tunisia},
  doi = {10.1109/ISCC58397.2023.10218268}
}

2022

Using Entropy Measures for Monitoring the Evolution of Activity Patterns

Yushan Huang, Yuchen Zhao, Hamed Haddadi, and 1 more author

In Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things, Yokohama, Japan, Oct 2022

DOI Bib

@inproceedings{Huang2022,
  title = {{Using Entropy Measures for Monitoring the Evolution of Activity Patterns}},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things},
  pages = {1-6},
  author = {Huang, Yushan and Zhao, Yuchen and Haddadi, Hamed and Barnaghi, Payam},
  year = {2022},
  month = oct,
  location = {Yokohama, Japan},
  doi = {10.1109/WF-IoT54382.2022.10152050}
}

Multimodal Federated Learning on IoT Data

Yuchen Zhao, Payam Barnaghi, and Hamed Haddadi

In Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE/ACM 7th International Conference on Internet-of-Things Design and Implementation, Milan, Italy, May 2022

DOI Bib Code

@inproceedings{Zhao2022iotdi,
  title = {{Multimodal Federated Learning on IoT Data}},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE/ACM 7th International Conference on Internet-of-Things Design and Implementation},
  pages = {43-54},
  author = {Zhao, Yuchen and Barnaghi, Payam and Haddadi, Hamed},
  month = may,
  year = {2022},
  location = {Milan, Italy},
  series = {IoTDI '22},
  doi = {10.1109/IoTDI54339.2022.00011},
}

Towards Battery-Free Machine Learning and Inference in Underwater Environments

Yuchen Zhao, Sayed Saad Afzal, Waleed Akbar, and 5 more authors

In Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications, Tempe, Arizona, Mar 2022

DOI Bib

@inproceedings{Zhao2022hotmobile,
  title = {{Towards Battery-Free Machine Learning and Inference in Underwater Environments}},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications},
  pages = {29–34},
  numpages = {6},
  author = {Zhao, Yuchen and Afzal, Sayed Saad and Akbar, Waleed and Rodriguez, Osvy and Mo, Fan and Boyle, David and Adib, Fadel and Haddadi, Hamed},
  month = mar,
  year = {2022},
  location = {Tempe, Arizona},
  series = {HotMobile '22},
  doi = {10.1145/3508396.3512877}
}

Using Metrics Suites to Improve the Measurement of Privacy in Graphs

Yuchen Zhao, and Isabel Wagner

IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), Jan 2022

(first published on 13 Mar 2020)

DOI Bib

@article{Zhao2022tdsc,
  author = {Zhao, Yuchen and Wagner, Isabel},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC)},
  title = {{Using Metrics Suites to Improve the Measurement of Privacy in Graphs}},
  year = {2022},
  month = jan,
  volume = {19},
  number = {1},
  pages = {259--274},
  note = {(first published on 13 Mar 2020)},
  doi = {10.1109/TDSC.2020.2980271}
}

2021

(Preprint) Semi-supervised Federated Learning for Activity Recognition

Yuchen Zhao, Hanyang Liu, Honglin Li, and 2 more authors

Jan 2021

arXiv:2011.00851

Bib

@misc{Zhao2021ssfl,
  title = {{(Preprint) Semi-supervised Federated Learning for Activity Recognition}},
  author = {Zhao, Yuchen and Liu, Hanyang and Li, Honglin and Barnaghi, Payam and Haddadi, Hamed},
  year = {2021},
  eprint = {2011.00851},
  primaryclass = {cs.LG},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  note = {arXiv:2011.00851},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.00851}
}

(Poster) Designing A Clinically Applicable Deep Recurrent Model to Identify Neuropsychiatric Symptoms in People Living with Dementia Using In-Home Monitoring Data

Francesca Palermo, Honglin Li, Alexander Capstick, and 6 more authors

In NeurIPS ’21 Workshop - Bridging the Gap: From Machine Learning Research to Clinical Practice, Jan 2021

arXiv:2110.09868

Bib

@inproceedings{Palermo2021,
  title = {{(Poster) Designing A Clinically Applicable Deep Recurrent Model to Identify Neuropsychiatric Symptoms in People Living with Dementia Using In-Home Monitoring Data}},
  booktitle = {NeurIPS '21 Workshop - Bridging the Gap: From Machine Learning Research to Clinical Practice},
  author = {Palermo, Francesca and Li, Honglin and Capstick, Alexander and Fletcher-Lloyd, Nan and Zhao, Yuchen and Kouchaki, Samaneh and Nilforooshan, Ramin and Sharp, David and Barnaghi, Payam},
  year = {2021},
  note = {arXiv:2110.09868},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.09868}
}

2020

Privacy-Preserving Activity and Health Monitoring on Databox

Yuchen Zhao, Hamed Haddadi, Severin Skillman, and 2 more authors

In Proceedings of the Third ACM International Workshop on Edge Systems, Analytics and Networking, Heraklion, Greece, Apr 2020

DOI Bib

@inproceedings{Zhao2020edgesys,
  author = {Zhao, Yuchen and Haddadi, Hamed and Skillman, Severin and Enshaeifar, Shirin and Barnaghi, Payam},
  title = {{Privacy-Preserving Activity and Health Monitoring on Databox}},
  year = {2020},
  month = apr,
  isbn = {9781450371322},
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  address = {New York, NY, USA},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3378679.3394529},
  doi = {10.1145/3378679.3394529},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Third ACM International Workshop on Edge Systems, Analytics and Networking},
  pages = {49--54},
  numpages = {6},
  location = {Heraklion, Greece},
  series = {EdgeSys '20}
}

Understanding the Use of Narrative Patterns by Novice Data Storytellers

Tom Blount, Laura Koesten, Yuchen Zhao, and 1 more author

In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications, Apr 2020

DOI Bib

@inproceedings{Blount2020,
  author = {Blount, Tom and Koesten, Laura and Zhao, Yuchen and Simperl, Elena},
  title = {{Understanding the Use of Narrative Patterns by Novice Data Storytellers}},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications},
  year = {2020},
  pages = {128--138},
  doi = {10.5220/0010121601280138}
}

2019

Structured and Uncertainty-Aware Data Storytelling

Yuchen Zhao, Tom Blount, Laura Koesten, and 1 more author

In CHI ’19 Workshop on HCI for Accurate, Impartial and Transparent Journalism: Challenges and Solutions, Glasgow, UK, May 2019

Bib

@inproceedings{Zhao2019chi-workshop,
  location = {Glasgow, UK},
  author = {Zhao, Yuchen and Blount, Tom and Koesten, Laura and Simperl, Elena},
  booktitle = {CHI '19 Workshop on HCI for Accurate, Impartial and Transparent
                 Journalism: Challenges and Solutions},
  title = {{Structured and Uncertainty-Aware Data Storytelling}},
  month = may,
  year = {2019},
  url = {https://bit.ly/3bSkuVh}
}

On the Strength of Privacy Metrics for Vehicular Communication

Yuchen Zhao, and Isabel Wagner

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), Feb 2019

(first published on 03 May 2018)

DOI Bib

@article{Zhao2019tmc,
  author = {Zhao, Yuchen and Wagner, Isabel},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC)},
  title = {{On the Strength of Privacy Metrics for Vehicular Communication}},
  year = {2019},
  volume = {18},
  number = {2},
  pages = {390--403},
  month = feb,
  note = {(first published on 03 May 2018)},
  doi = {10.1109/TMC.2018.2830359}
}

2018

Poster: Evaluating Privacy Metrics for Graph Anonymization and De-Anonymization

Yuchen Zhao, and Isabel Wagner

In Proceedings of the 2018 on Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Incheon, Republic of Korea, Feb 2018

DOI Bib

@inproceedings{Zhao2018asiaccs,
  author = {Zhao, Yuchen and Wagner, Isabel},
  title = {{Poster: Evaluating Privacy Metrics for Graph Anonymization and De-Anonymization}},
  year = {2018},
  isbn = {9781450355766},
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  address = {New York, NY, USA},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3196494.3201586},
  doi = {10.1145/3196494.3201586},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2018 on Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security},
  pages = {817--819},
  numpages = {3},
  keywords = {graph anonymization, graph de-anonymization, privacy metrics, privacy, privacy-enhancing technologies, monotonicity},
  location = {Incheon, Republic of Korea},
  series = {ASIACCS '18}
}

2017

Recommending Privacy Preferences in Location-sharing Services

Yuchen Zhao

University of St Andrews, Jun 2017

Bib HTML

@phdthesis{Zhao2017phdthesis,
  title = {{Recommending Privacy Preferences in Location-sharing Services}},
  author = {Zhao, Yuchen},
  year = {2017},
  month = jun,
  school = {University of St Andrews},
}

2016

A Robust Reputation-Based Location-Privacy Recommender System Using Opportunistic Networks

Yuchen Zhao, Juan Ye, and Tristan Henderson

In Proceedings of the 8th EAI International Conference on Mobile Computing, Applications and Services, Cambridge, Great Britain, Jun 2016

DOI Bib

@inproceedings{Zhao2016mobicase,
  author = {Zhao, Yuchen and Ye, Juan and Henderson, Tristan},
  title = {{A Robust Reputation-Based Location-Privacy Recommender System Using Opportunistic Networks}},
  year = {2016},
  isbn = {9781631901379},
  publisher = {ICST (Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering)},
  address = {Brussels, BEL},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.4108/eai.30-11-2016.2267031},
  doi = {10.4108/eai.30-11-2016.2267031},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 8th EAI International Conference on Mobile Computing, Applications and Services},
  pages = {62--73},
  numpages = {12},
  keywords = {location-based services, recommender systems, security, opportunistic networks, privacy, shilling attack},
  location = {Cambridge, Great Britain},
  series = {MobiCASE'16}
}

The Effect of Privacy Concerns on Privacy Recommenders

Yuchen Zhao, Juan Ye, and Tristan Henderson

In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Sonoma, California, USA, Mar 2016

DOI Bib

@inproceedings{Zhao2016iui,
  author = {Zhao, Yuchen and Ye, Juan and Henderson, Tristan},
  title = {{The Effect of Privacy Concerns on Privacy Recommenders}},
  year = {2016},
  month = mar,
  isbn = {9781450341370},
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  address = {New York, NY, USA},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/2856767.2856771},
  doi = {10.1145/2856767.2856771},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces},
  pages = {218--227},
  numpages = {10},
  keywords = {location-sharing services, privacy preferences, recommender systems, location-based services, user acceptance},
  location = {Sonoma, California, USA},
  series = {IUI '16}
}

Usable Privacy in Location-Sharing Services

Yuchen Zhao

In Companion Publication of the 21st International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Sonoma, California, USA, Mar 2016

DOI Bib

@inproceedings{Zhao2016iui-phd,
  author = {Zhao, Yuchen},
  title = {{Usable Privacy in Location-Sharing Services}},
  year = {2016},
  month = mar,
  isbn = {9781450341400},
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  address = {New York, NY, USA},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/2876456.2876458},
  doi = {10.1145/2876456.2876458},
  booktitle = {Companion Publication of the 21st International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces},
  pages = {110--113},
  numpages = {4},
  keywords = {recommender systems, usable privacy, location-based services},
  location = {Sonoma, California, USA},
  series = {IUI '16 Companion}
}

2014

Privacy-Aware Location Privacy Preference Recommendations

Yuchen Zhao, Juan Ye, and Tristan Henderson

In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services, London, United Kingdom, Dec 2014

DOI Bib

@inproceedings{Zhao2014mobiquitous,
  author = {Zhao, Yuchen and Ye, Juan and Henderson, Tristan},
  title = {{Privacy-Aware Location Privacy Preference Recommendations}},
  year = {2014},
  month = dec,
  isbn = {9781631900396},
  publisher = {ICST (Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering)},
  address = {Brussels, BEL},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.4108/icst.mobiquitous.2014.258017},
  doi = {10.4108/icst.mobiquitous.2014.258017},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services},
  pages = {120--129},
  numpages = {10},
  keywords = {privacy protection, recommender systems, location-based services, prediction},
  location = {London, United Kingdom},
  series = {MOBIQUITOUS '14}
}

(Poster) Recommending Location Privacy Preferences in Ubiquitous Computing

Yuchen Zhao, Juan Ye, and Tristan Henderson

In Proceedings of the 7th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks, Oxford, United Kingdom, Jul 2014

Bib

@inproceedings{Zhao2014wisec,
  author = {Zhao, Yuchen and Ye, Juan and Henderson, Tristan},
  title = {{(Poster) Recommending Location Privacy Preferences in Ubiquitous Computing}},
  url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10023/5075},
  year = {2014},
  month = jul,
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 7th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in
                 Wireless and Mobile Networks},
  location = {Oxford, United Kingdom},
  series = {WiSec '14}
}