Zhankai Ye
Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science
Florida State University
I am a Computer Science Ph.D. candidate at Florida State University, advised by Dr. Xin Liu. My research lies at the intersection of trustworthy AI, wireless/RF sensing, edge intelligence, and secure large language model deployment. I develop privacy-preserving and resource-efficient AI systems that enable machines to perceive, understand, and protect human-centered physical environments.
News
May 2026
Our paper Fresco: A Permissioned Blockchain Framework for Securing Model Context Protocol has been accepted at ICCCN 2026!
Apr 2026
Passed the Ph.D. Preliminary Exam and officially advanced to Ph.D. Candidate!
Apr 2026
Received Student Travel Grant from IEEE S&P 2026.
Apr 2026
Received Honorable Mention Presentation Award at FSU CS Expo 2026.
Apr 2026
Our paper ARiSE: Efficient Mesh-Based Action Recognition from Wi-Fi Sensing on Edge Devices has been accepted at IEEE FG 2026!
Apr 2026
Our paper HyperEdit: Unlocking Instruction-based Text Editing in LLMs via Hypernetworks has been accepted at ACL Findings 2026!
Sep 2025
Our paper 2FiA: Towards WiFi Sensing-Based Authentication with Unique Biometrics has been accepted at IEEE S&P 2026!
Sep 2024
Personal website launched!
Publications
The 47th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P) 2026
Accepted
Distinguished Artifact Award
The 20th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG) 2026
Published
Fresco: A Permissioned Blockchain Framework for Securing Model Context Protocol
The 35th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN) 2026
Accepted
Findings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL Findings) 2026
Accepted
ACL Rolling Review (ARR), March 2026 cycle
Under Review
Teaching
2026 Spring
CIS-5930 Future Edge Networks and Distributed Intelligence (Teaching Assistant) — FSU
2025 Fall
COP-5725 Advanced Database Systems (Teaching Assistant) — FSU
2025 Fall
CIS-5930 Computer Vision (Teaching Assistant) — FSU
2023 Fall
COP-3363 Introduction to Programming (with C++ and Unix) (Recitation Teaching Assistant) — FSU
Service
Reviewer
International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (IEEE BIBM) 2025
Education
Florida State University
Ph.D. in Computer Science · Advisor: Dr. Xin Liu
2022 – Present · Tallahassee, FL
University of Southern California
M.S. in Computer Science
2021 – 2022 · Los Angeles, CA
Texas Christian University
B.S. in Computer Science
2018 – 2020 · Fort Worth, TX
Purdue University
B.S. in Computer Science
2016 – 2018 · Fort Wayne, IN