Keynote Speakers

Security and Privacy of Integrated Sensing and Communication Systems


Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is considered as an emerging technology for 6th-generation (6G) wireless and mobile networks. It is expected to enable a wide variety of vertical applications, ranging from the detection of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for protecting critical infrastructure to physiological sensing for mobile healthcare. Despite its significant socioeconomic benefits, ISAC technology also raises critical and unique challenges in system security and user privacy. Being aware of the security and privacy challenges, understanding the trade-off between security and communication performance, and exploring potential countermeasures in real systems are critical to the wide adoption of this technology in various application scenarios. This talk will discuss various security and privacy threats in the emerging ISAC systems as well as potential technical approaches to securing ISAC systems and protecting user privacy at the physical and data layers.

Kai Zeng
George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA

Dr. Kai Zeng is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at George Mason University (GMU). He is the director of the Wireless Cyber Center and Wireless Innovation and Cybersecurity Lab at GMU. He earned his Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). Dr. Zeng received an NSF CAREER award in 2012, the Excellence in Postdoctoral Research award from the University of California, Davis in 2011, and the Sigma Xi Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation award at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 2008. He has broad interests in cybersecurity and wireless communications with emphasis on generative AI security, physical layer security, cyber physical systems/IoT security, spectrum sharing, and machine learning applications. His research has been supported by NSF, DARPA, ARO, ONR, NIWC, NSA, MITRE, and Commonwealth Cyber Initiative (CCI). He has served as associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, and IEEE Transactions on Machine Learning in Communications and Networking.