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Yanjun Pan

Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, AR 72701

Office: JBHT 520
Email: yanjunp (at) uark.edu

Biography

Yanjun Pan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Arkansas. She received her Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Arizona. Yanjun Pan's current research interests include cybersecurity, wireless communications, wireless sensing, and network optimization, with an emphasis on wireless security, 5G-and-beyond communications, mmWave sensing, and cross-layer optimization.

I am looking for Ph.D. and M.S. students who are committed to research. If you are interested, please send me your CV/resume, transcripts, GRE and TOEFL scores, and publications (if any) in one email. Visiting scholars/students are also welcome.

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Book Chapters

  1. Enhance Physical Layer Security via Channel Randomization with Reconfigurable Antennas
    Yanjun Pan, Ming Li, Yantian Hou, Ryan Gerdes, Bedri Cetiner
    Proactive and Dynamic Network Defense, pp. 115-137, Springer, 2019.

Journal Papers

  1. CP-free ODDM over General Doubly-selective Fading Channels
    Yanjun Pan, Jeremiah Wimer, Jingxian Wu, Hai Lin, and Jinhong Yuan
    IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC), accepted, Dec. 2025.

  2. Optimum Scheduling of Truck-Based Mobile Energy Couriers (MEC) Using Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient
    Yaze Li, Jingxian Wu, and Yanjun Pan
    Intelligent and Converged Networks , accepted, Sept. 2025.

  3. SideSense: Robust Physiological Motion Detection via mmWave Joint Communication and Sensing Systems With Multiple Beams
    Mohammad Shadman Ishrak, Jannatun Noor Sameera, Alvin Yang, Yanjun Pan, Yao Zheng, Olga Borić-Lubecke, and Victor M. Lubecke
    IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques (T-MTT), accepted, July 2025.

  4. Harvesting Physical-layer Randomness in Millimeter Wave Bands
    Ziqi Xu, Jingcheng Li, Yanjun Pan, Ming Li, Loukas Lazos
    IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), accepted, Nov. 2024.

  5. Detection of Overshadowing Attack in 4G and 5G Networks
    Jiongyu Dai, Usama Saeed, Ying Wang, Yanjun Pan, Haining Wang, Kevin T Kornegay, Lingjia Liu
    IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), accepted, Oct. 2024.

  6. Deep Reinforcement Learning for Online Scheduling of Photovoltaic Systems with Battery Energy Storage systems
    Yaze Li, Jingxian Wu, Yanjun Pan
    Intelligent and Converged Networks, accepted, March 2024.

  7. Low-latency Attack Detection with Dynamic Watermarking for Grid-connected Photovoltaic Systems
    Yaze Li, Nan Lin, Jingxian Wu, Yanjun Pan, Yue Zhao
    IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics (JESTIE), accepted, Nov. 2023.

  8. Cross-Modality Continuous User Authentication and Device Pairing with Respiratory Pattern
    Shekh Md Mahmudul Islam, Yao Zheng, Yanjun Pan, Marionne Millan, Willy Chang, Ming Li, Olga Borić-Lubecke, Victor Lubecke, Wenhai Sun
    IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoTJ), accepted, Apr. 2023.

  9. Physiological Motion Sensing via mmWave Channel State Information in NextG Millimeter-Wave Communication Systems
    Khaldoon Ishmael, Yanjun Pan, Denny Landika, Yao Zheng, Victor Lubecke, Olga Borić-Lubecke
    IEEE Journal of Microwaves, accepted, Nov. 2022.

  10. Online Learning Based Reconfigurable Antenna Mode Selection Exploiting Channel Correlation
    Tianchi Zhao, Ming Li, Yanjun Pan
    IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC), accepted, Apr. 2021.

  11. Message Integrity Protection over Wireless Channel: Countering Signal Cancellation via Channel Randomization
    Yanjun Pan, Yantian Hou, Ming Li, Ryan Gerdes, Kai Zeng, Md Asaduzzaman Towfiq, Bedri Cetiner
    IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), Sept. 2017.

Conference Papers

  1. Lightweight and Robust RF Fingerprinting for IoT Device Identification
    Amaya Westman-Forbes, Bimal Adhikari, Yanjun Pan, and Jingxian Wu
    2026 IEEE Military Communications Conference (IEEE MILCOM), National Capital Region, USA, Oct. 12 - 16, 2026.

  2. Environment-Agnostic RF Fingerprinting through Protocol-Compliant IQ Imbalance Estimation (Best Paper Runner-up)
    Bimal Adhikari, Xinyu Cao, Shangqing Zhao, Jingxian Wu, and Yanjun Pan
    2026 IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (IEEE CNS), Newark, Delaware, Sept. 14 - 17, 2026.

  3. Delay-Doppler Domain Channel Estimations for OTFS Systems with Time-Domain Pilots
    Amaya Westman-Forbes, Jeremiah Wimer, Yanjun Pan, and Jingxian Wu
    2026 IEEE Global Communications Conference (IEEE GLOBECOM), Macau S.A.R., China, Oct. 7 - 11, 2026.

  4. Towards Robust LLM-Enabled Fuzzing: Enhancing Test Generation Prompts via Execution Feedback
    Marie Louise Uwibambe, Qinghua Li, Yanjun Pan
    2026 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience (IEEE CSR), Lisbon, Portugal, Aug. 3 - 5, 2026.

  5. CP-Free ODDM: Modeling and Design
    Yanjun Pan, Jeremiah Wimer, Jingxian Wu, Hai Lin, and Jinhong Yuan
    2026 IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC), Signal Processing for Communications Symposium, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, May 24 - 28, 2026.

  6. An Adversarial-Driven Experimental Study on Deep Learning for RF Fingerprinting
    Xinyu Cao*, Bimal Adhikari*, Shangqing Zhao, Jingxian Wu, and Yanjun Pan (*: co-first authors)
    2025 IEEE Military Communications Conference (IEEE MILCOM), Los Angeles, California, Oct. 6 - 10, 2025.

  7. Low Complexity OTFS Detection with a Delay-Doppler Domain CMC-MMSE Receiver
    Yanjun Pan, Jingxian Wu, Jinhong Yuan
    2024 IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC), Signal Processing for Communications Symposium, June 2024.

  8. Fuzzing for Power Grids: A Comparative Study of Existing Frameworks and a New Method for Detecting Silent Crashes in Control Devices
    Marie Louise Uwibambe, Yanjun Pan, Qinghua Li
    2023 IEEE Design Methodologies Conference (IEEE DMC), Sept. 2023.

  9. On the Performance of Practical Pulse-Shaped OTFS with Analog Receivers
    Andong Zhou, Yanjun Pan, Jingxian Wu, Hai Lin, Jinhong Yuan
    IEEE ICC 2023 Workshop on OTFS and Delay-Doppler Multicarrier Communications for 6G, May 2023.

  10. Critical Element First: Enhance C-V2X Signal Coverage using Power-Efficient Liquid Metal-Based Intelligent Reflective Surfaces
    Saige J Dacuycuy, ZacharyDela Cruz, Yanjun Pan, Yao Zheng, Aaron T. Ohta, Wayne A. Shiroma
    Demo, IEEE INFOCOM 2023 (IEEE INFOCOM 2023), New York area, May 17 - 20, 2023.

  11. 5G RRC Protocol and Stack Vulnerabilities Detection via Listen-and-Learn
    Jingda Yang, Ying Wang, Tuyen X Tran, Yanjun Pan
    2023 IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC 2023), Las Vegas, NV, January 8 - 11, 2023.

  12. PoF: Proof-of-Following for Vehicle Platoons
    Ziqi Xu, Jingcheng Li, Yanjun Pan, Loukas Lazos, Ming Li, Nirnimesh Ghose
    The 29th Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS 2022), San Diego, CA, February 27 - March 03, 2022.

  13. Insider-Resistant Context-Based Pairing for Multimodality Sleep Apnea Test
    Yao Zheng, Shekh Md Mahmudul Islam, Yanjun Pan, Marionne Millan, Samson Aggelopoulos, Brian Lu, Alvin Yang, Thomas Yang, Stephanie Aelmore, Willy Chang, Ming Li, Olga Borić-Lubecke, Victor Lubecke, Wenhai Sun
    2021 IEEE Global Communications Conference (IEEE GLOBECOM 2021), Hybrid, December 7 - 11, 2021.

  14. Man-in-the-Middle Attack Resistant Secret Key Generation via Channel Randomization
    Yanjun Pan, Ziqi Xu, Ming Li, Loukas Lazos
    The 22nd International Symposium on Theory, Algorithmic Foundations, and Protocol Design for Mobile Networks and Mobile Computing (ACM MobiHoc 2021), Hybrid, July 26, 2021. (Acceptance rate: 20%)

  15. Data Inference from Encrypted Databases: A Multi-dimensional Order-Preserving Matching Approach
    Yanjun Pan, Alon Efrat, Ming Li, Boyang Wang, Hanyu Quan, Joseph Mitchell, Esther Arkin, Jie Gao
    The 21st International Symposium on Theory, Algorithmic Foundations, and Protocol Design for Mobile Networks and Mobile Computing (ACM MobiHoc 2020), Virtual, October 11-14, 2020. (Acceptance rate: 15%)

  16. ROBin: Known-Plaintext Attack Resistant Orthogonal Blinding via Channel Randomization
    Yanjun Pan, Yao Zheng, Ming Li
    IEEE INFOCOM 2020 (IEEE INFOCOM 2020), Virtual, July 6-9, 2020. (Acceptance rate: 19.8%)

  17. iJam with Channel Randomization
    Jordan Melcher, Yao Zheng, Dylan Anthony, Matthew Troglia, Thomas Yang, Alvin Yang, Samson Aggelopoulos, Yanjun Pan, Ming Li
    Demo, 13th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (ACM WiSec 2020), Virtual, July 8-10, 2020.

  18. On the Throughput Limit of Multi-Hop Wireless Networks with Reconfigurable Antennas
    Yanjun Pan, Ming Li, Neng Fan, Yantian Hou
    15th Annual IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking (IEEE SECON 2018), Hong Kong, China, June 11-13, 2018. (Acceptance rate: 23.2%)

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Last updated: September 2026