Yao Liu

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
75 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Yao Liu is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Artificial Intelligence and Computer Networks and Communications. According to data from OpenAlex, Yao Liu has authored 75 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 36 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 29 papers in Computer Networks and Communications. Recurrent topics in Yao Liu's work include Wireless Communication Security Techniques (19 papers), Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting (10 papers) and Network Security and Intrusion Detection (10 papers). Yao Liu is often cited by papers focused on Wireless Communication Security Techniques (19 papers), Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting (10 papers) and Network Security and Intrusion Detection (10 papers). Yao Liu collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Australia. Yao Liu's co-authors include Kebina Manandhar, Xiaojun Cao, Fei Hu, Haojin Zhu, Zhuo Lu, Peng Ning, Yan Meng, Xiaohui Liang, Zhe Qu and Mengyuan Li and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Sensors and Machine Learning.

In The Last Decade

Yao Liu

69 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

1 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Detection of Faults and Attacks Including False Data Injection Attack in Smart Grid Using Kalman Filter

2014 609 citations Kebina Manandhar, Xiaojun Cao et al. IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yao Liu United States	18	758	706	607	559	236	75	1.7k
Zhuo Lu United States	20	1.1k 1.4×	865 1.2×	984 1.6×	723 1.3×	421 1.8×	92	2.2k
Michail Maniatakos United States	20	561 0.7×	500 0.7×	698 1.1×	660 1.2×	369 1.6×	121	1.9k
Shin‐Ming Cheng Taiwan	22	1.1k 1.5×	834 1.2×	184 0.3×	375 0.7×	186 0.8×	96	1.7k
Jonathan Petit Netherlands	18	710 0.9×	1.4k 1.9×	294 0.5×	608 1.1×	340 1.4×	54	1.7k
Cliff Wang United States	20	1.3k 1.7×	594 0.8×	315 0.5×	470 0.8×	455 1.9×	76	2.0k
Yuancheng Li China	21	387 0.5×	695 1.0×	433 0.7×	437 0.8×	382 1.6×	112	1.5k
Weiqing Sun United States	19	1.4k 1.9×	301 0.4×	471 0.8×	1.1k 1.9×	288 1.2×	56	1.9k
Adriano Valenzano Italy	24	1.5k 2.0×	578 0.8×	482 0.8×	268 0.5×	224 0.9×	188	2.2k
György Dán Sweden	27	2.0k 2.6×	1.1k 1.6×	1.0k 1.7×	538 1.0×	488 2.1×	158	2.9k
Xiaojun Cao United States	26	1.6k 2.1×	1.9k 2.7×	656 1.1×	274 0.5×	187 0.8×	156	3.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Yao Liu

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yao Liu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yao Liu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yao Liu based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Yao Liu. Yao Liu is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Zhao, Shangqing, et al.. (2025). The Dual Role of Large Language Models in Network Security: Survey and Research Trends. 20–25.

Xiong, Jinhui, et al.. (2025). Invisible Prompts, Visible Threats: Malicious Font Injection in External Resources for Large Language Models. 7133–7147.

Lu, Zhuo, et al.. (2024). Warmonger Attack: A Novel Attack Vector in Serverless Computing. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. 32(6). 4826–4841. 2 indexed citations

Shen, Wenbo, et al.. (2024). The Perils of Wi-Fi Spoofing Attack Via Geolocation API and Its Defense. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. 21(5). 4343–4359. 1 indexed citations

Qu, Zhe, et al.. (2023). Bandwidth Allocation for Federated Learning With Wireless Providers and Cost Constraints. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. 23(6). 7470–7482. 4 indexed citations

Liu, Yao, et al.. (2023). Precise Wireless Camera Localization Leveraging Traffic-Aided Spatial Analysis. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. 23(6). 7256–7269. 1 indexed citations

Shen, Wenbo, Xingkai Wang, Yao Liu, et al.. (2023). Ambush From All Sides: Understanding Security Threats in Open-Source Software CI/CD Pipelines. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. 21(1). 403–418. 9 indexed citations

Liu, Yao, et al.. (2023). Phase Transitions for a Class of Time-Inhomogeneous Diffusion Processes. Journal of Statistical Physics. 190(3). 1 indexed citations

Liu, Yao, et al.. (2022). Wireless Training-Free Keystroke Inference Attack and Defense. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. 30(4). 1733–1748. 6 indexed citations

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Wang, Tao, et al.. (2022). Proactive Anti-Eavesdropping With Trap Deployment in Wireless Networks. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. 20(1). 637–649. 7 indexed citations

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Liu, Yao. (2022). The Current Situation and Development of Dance Education in Universities from the Perspective of Arts Education. Journal of Education and Educational Research. 1(2). 52–55.

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Qu, Zhe, Xingyu Li, Jie Xu, et al.. (2022). On the Convergence of Multi-Server Federated Learning With Overlapping Area. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. 22(11). 6647–6662. 14 indexed citations

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Qu, Zhe, Rui Duan, Lixing Chen, et al.. (2022). Context-Aware Online Client Selection for Hierarchical Federated Learning. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. 33(12). 4353–4367. 63 indexed citations

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Liu, Yao, et al.. (2022). Context-responsive ASL Recommendation for Parent-Child Interaction. 1–5. 8 indexed citations

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Li, Xingyu, Zhe Qu, Shangqing Zhao, et al.. (2021). LoMar: A Local Defense Against Poisoning Attack on Federated Learning. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. 20(1). 437–450. 87 indexed citations

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Wang, Tao, et al.. (2021). Combating Adversarial Network Topology Inference by Proactive Topology Obfuscation. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. 29(6). 2779–2792. 10 indexed citations

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Qu, Zhe, Shangqing Zhao, Jie Xu, Zhuo Lu, & Yao Liu. (2021). How to Test the Randomness From the Wireless Channel for Security?. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. 16. 3753–3766. 5 indexed citations

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Gottesman, Omer, et al.. (2019). Combining Parametric and Nonparametric Models for Off-Policy Evaluation. arXiv (Cornell University). 2366–2375. 3 indexed citations

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Liu, Yao & Omar Galárraga. (2016). Do national drug policies influence antiretroviral drug prices? Evidence from the Southern African Development community. Health Policy and Planning. 32(2). czw107–czw107. 5 indexed citations

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Manandhar, Kebina, Xiaojun Cao, Fei Hu, & Yao Liu. (2014). Detection of Faults and Attacks Including False Data Injection Attack in Smart Grid Using Kalman Filter. IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems. 1(4). 370–379. 609 indexed citations breakdown →

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