About Me

Junqing Zhang is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics, the University of Liverpool, UK. His work mainly involves designing innovative and practical physical layer security solutions for future wireless technologies with ultra-low energy requirements but high security standards. He has also been exploring novel wireless sensing using WiFi and mmwave radars. He has been investigating wireless security and sensing solutions for a number of Internet of Things techniques, including IEEE 802.11a/g/ax, LoRa/LoRaWAN, Bluetooth, ZigBee, etc, with a focus on the physical and MAC layers.

Dr Zhang was a Postdoc Research Fellow at Queen’s University Belfast, UK from Feb. 2016 to Jan. 2018. He received the PhD degree in Electronics and Electrical Engineering from Queen’s University Belfast, UK in Jan. 2016. His detailed education background and work experience can be found in Education and Work.

Dr Zhang is a Senior Area Editor of IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security and an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. He was the TPC symposium co-chair of ICNC 2025 and ICC 2023. He was also the TPC co-chair of IEEE INFOCOM 2023-2025 DeepWireless Workshops, IEEE GLOBECOM/ICC 2024-2025 Wireless Security Workshop, and IEEE WCNC 2025 Physical Layer Security Workshop. He was a co-recipient of Best Workshop Paper Award from IEEE WCNC 2025.

Please find more information from his

• Google Scholar
• dblp publication list
• IEEE publication list
• Web of Science profile

Highlights

We have made some datasets and codes publicly available. Please visit this link for the details.

Please consider submit your papers to the following workshops.

• IEEE PIMRC Second Workshop on Physical Layer Security for Wireless Communications. Submission deadline: June 15, 2025. Please visit this link for more information.

Research Area

Internet of Things

Wireless security

• Physical layer security
• Key generation from wireless channel
• Device authentication
• Radio frequency fingerprint identification
• Physical layer CSI authentication

Wireless sensing

• WiFi sensing
• mmWave radar sensing

Research Expertise

• Wireless communication techniques, such as OFDM, spread spectrum, etc
• Wireless communication protocols, such as IEEE 802.11, ZigBee, LoRa/LoRaWAN, Bluetooth, etc, in particular physical and MAC layers
• Wireless channel modelling
• Software defined radios including USRP, Zedboard + FMCOMMS2, and WARP
• Machine learning and deep learning applications in the wireless communications, sensing and security

Research Demonstration

We are always keen to apply our knowledge to practical applications. Hence we have created several demonstration videos to present our applied research.

Radio Frequency Fingerprint Identification

• WiFi RFFI Demonstration
• Deep Learning-Powered Radio Frequency Fingerprint Identification for LoRa

Key Generation

• WiFi Key Generation Demonstration using WARP
• WiFi Key Generation Demonstration using Raspberry Pi
• Heartbeat Key Generation Demonstration Using PPG Sensors

Internet of Things (IoT)

• LoRaWAN Demonstration using Pycom FiPy

Contact

Email: junqing.zhang at liverpool.ac.uk
Web: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/electrical-engineering-and-electronics/staff/junqing-zhang/ Tel: 0151 79 57790
Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics
University of Liverpool
Brownlow Hill
Liverpool L69 3GJ
United Kingdom