Junqing Zhang is a Reader (Associate Professor) in the School of Computer Science and Informatics at the University of Liverpool, UK. He received the PhD degree in Electronics and Electrical Engineering from Queen’s University Belfast, UK in Jan. 2016. His research interests span wireless security, physical-layer security, key generation, radio-frequency fingerprint identification, and wireless sensing. He has authored or co-authored more than 100 peer-reviewed publications, including over 70 journal articles.

His work focuses on developing innovative and practical physical layer security solutions for next-generation wireless systems, aiming for ultra-low energy consumption alongside strong security guarantees. He also explores novel wireless sensing applications using Wi-Fi and mmWave radars. His research leverages a wide range of Internet of Things technologies, including IEEE 802.11a/g/n/ac/ax, LoRa/LoRaWAN, Bluetooth, and IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee, with particular emphasis on the physical and MAC layers.

Dr. Zhang was a co-recipient of the Best Workshop Paper Award at IEEE WCNC 2025. He serves as a Senior Area Editor for IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security and an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. He has also taken on key leadership roles, including TPC Symposium Co-Chair of ICNC 2025, ICNC 2026, ICC 2023, and ICC 2027. In addition, he has served as TPC Co-Chair for several specialized workshops, such as the IEEE INFOCOM 2023–2025 DeepWireless Workshops, the IEEE GLOBECOM/ICC 2024–2025 Wireless Security Workshops, and the IEEE WCNC/PIMRC 2025 Physical Layer Security Workshop.

Research Area

Internet of Things

Wireless Security

Wireless sensing

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Selected Publications

  1. 2026
    S. Gao, J. Zhang, L. Mei, S. Wang, and X. Wang, “Exploring Spatial-Temporal Representation via Star Graph for mmWave Radar-based Human Activity Recognition,” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 25, no. 4, pp. 5700–5715, 2026, doi: 10.1109/tmc.2025.3634221.
    DOI arXiv
    @article{gao2025exploring,
      title = {Exploring Spatial-Temporal Representation via Star Graph for mmWave Radar-based Human Activity Recognition},
      author = {Gao, Senhao and Zhang, Junqing and Mei, Luoyu and Wang, Shuai and Wang, Xuyu},
      journal = {IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing},
      volume = {25},
      number = {4},
      pages = {5700--5715},
      year = {2026},
      doi = {10.1109/tmc.2025.3634221},
      arxiv = {2512.12013},
      keywords = {mmwave-radar}
    }
    
  2. 2025
    Y. Guo, J. Zhang, and Y.-W. P. Hong, “Practical Physical Layer Authentication for Mobile Scenarios Using a Synthetic Dataset Enhanced Deep Learning Approach,” IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, vol. 20, pp. 9305–9317, 2025, doi: 10.1109/tifs.2025.3602265.
    DOI arXiv Data
    @article{guo2025practical,
      title = {Practical Physical Layer Authentication for Mobile Scenarios Using a Synthetic Dataset Enhanced Deep Learning Approach},
      author = {Guo, Yijia and Zhang, Junqing and Hong, Y-W Peter},
      journal = {IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security},
      volume = {20},
      pages = {9305 - 9317},
      year = {2025},
      doi = {10.1109/tifs.2025.3602265},
      arxiv = {2508.20861},
      keywords = {phy-auth, wifi, data_code}
    }
    
  3. 2024
    G. Yin, J. Zhang, G. Shen, and Y. Chen, “FewSense, Towards a Scalable and Cross-Domain Wi-Fi Sensing System Using Few-Shot Learning,” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 453–468, 2024, doi: 10.1109/tmc.2022.3221902.
    DOI arXiv Code
    @article{yin2022fewsense,
      title = {{FewSense}, Towards a Scalable and Cross-Domain {Wi-Fi} Sensing System Using Few-Shot Learning},
      author = {Yin, Guolin and Zhang, Junqing and Shen, Guanxiong and Chen, Yingying},
      journal = {IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing},
      volume = {23},
      number = {1},
      pages = {453 - 468},
      year = {2024},
      doi = {10.1109/tmc.2022.3221902},
      arxiv = {2203.02014},
      keywords = {wifi-sensing, data_code}
    }
    
  4. 2022
    G. Shen, J. Zhang, A. Marshall, and J. R. Cavallaro, “Towards scalable and channel-robust radio frequency fingerprint identification for LoRa,” IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, vol. 17, pp. 774–787, 2022, doi: 10.1109/tifs.2022.3152404.
    DOI arXiv Code Data
    @article{shen2022scalable,
      title = {Towards scalable and channel-robust radio frequency fingerprint identification for {LoRa}},
      author = {Shen, Guanxiong and Zhang, Junqing and Marshall, Alan and Cavallaro, Joseph R},
      journal = {IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security},
      volume = {17},
      pages = {774--787},
      year = {2022},
      doi = {10.1109/tifs.2022.3152404},
      arxiv = {2107.02867},
      keywords = {rffi,lora,data_code}
    }
    
  5. 2021
    J. Zhang, R. Woods, M. Sandell, M. Valkama, A. Marshall, and J. Cavallaro, “Radio frequency fingerprint identification for narrowband systems, Modelling and classification,” IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, vol. 16, pp. 3974–3987, 2021, doi: 10.1109/tifs.2021.3088008.
    DOI
    @article{zhang2021radio,
      title = {Radio frequency fingerprint identification for narrowband systems, Modelling and classification},
      author = {Zhang, Junqing and Woods, Roger and Sandell, Magnus and Valkama, Mikko and Marshall, Alan and Cavallaro, Joseph},
      journal = {IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security},
      volume = {16},
      pages = {3974--3987},
      year = {2021},
      doi = {10.1109/tifs.2021.3088008},
      keywords = {rffi}
    }
    

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Contact

Email: junqing.zhang at liverpool.ac.uk
Web: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/people/junqing-zhang
Tel: 0151 79 57790
School of Computer Science and Informatics
University of Liverpool
Liverpool, L69 3DR
United Kingdom

Junqing Zhang

Junqing Zhang

Reader (Associate Professor)

University of Liverpool