Curriculum Vitae

Guanxiong Shen

Associate Professor, Southeast University

Doctoral SupervisorZijin Young ScholarWorld's Top 2% Scientist (2026)

Career

Associate Professor

Dec 2023 – Present

Southeast University, School of Cyber Science and Engineering · Nanjing, China

Lecturer

Sept 2023 – Dec 2023

Southeast University, School of Cyber Science and Engineering · Nanjing, China

Education

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Electronics

2019 – 2023

University of Liverpool · Liverpool, United Kingdom

  • Thesis: Deep learning enhanced radio frequency fingerprint identification for LoRa
  • Supervisors: Dr. Junqing Zhang and Prof. Alan Marshall

B.Eng. in Telecommunication Engineering

2015 – 2019

Heriot-Watt University · Edinburgh, United Kingdom

  • Honours of the First Class
  • Thesis Topic: Deep learning for wireless channel estimation
  • Supervisor: Dr. Muhammad R.A. Khandaker

B.Eng. in Telecommunication Engineering

2015 – 2019

Xidian University · Xi'an, China

Honors & Awards

  • World's Top 2% Scientists List (Stanford University & Elsevier), 2026
  • Zijin Young Scholar, Southeast University

Research Interests

I focus on cutting-edge research at the intersection of wireless communications, artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity. My current research interests include but are not limited to:

Machine Learning-aided Radio Frequency FingerprintingInformation Hiding in Wireless SystemsMachine Learning Applications at Wireless PHY LayerWireless Sensing

Publications

Journal Publications

(18)
  1. [J1]

    Guanxiong Shen, Hailang Jia, Junqing Zhang, Linning Peng, Liquan Chen, Aiqun Hu*, Jun Luo, “Secrets in Radio Waves: Towards Practical and Protocol-Agnostic PHY Information Hiding,” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2026.CCF AJCR Q1

  2. [J2]

    Xinyu Qi, Guyue Li, Xinyue Lin, Guanxiong Shen, “Wi-Fi Radio Frequency Fingerprint Identification Enhanced by Out-of-Band Features and Orthogonality Regularization,” IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2026.CCF AJCR Q1

  3. [J3]

    Jie Ma, Junqing Zhang*, Guanxiong Shen, Alan Marshall, Chip-Hong Chang, “Adversarial Attacks Against Deep Learning-Based Radio Frequency Fingerprint Identification,” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 25, no. 6, pp. 7831–7844, 2026.CCF AJCR Q1

  4. [J4]

    Xinyu Li†, Long Chen†, Guanxiong Shen†*, Kezhan Zhao, Ze Gu, Qian Ma, Jian Wei You*, Tie Jun Cui*, “Protocol-Agnostic Meta Key Distribution Enabled by Space-Time Metasurface for Encrypted Wireless Communications,” Advanced Science, 2025 (IF=14.1).JCR Q1

  5. [J5]

    Jie Ma, Junqing Zhang*, Guanxiong Shen, Linning Peng, Alan Marshall, “Towards Channel-Robust and Receiver-Independent Radio Frequency Fingerprint Identification,” IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2025.CCF AJCR Q1

  6. [J6]

    Junqing Zhang*, Francesco Ardizzon, Mattia Piana, Guanxiong Shen, Stefano Tomasin, “Physical Layer-Based Device Fingerprinting For Wireless Security: From Theory To Practice,” IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2025 (Survey Paper).CCF AJCR Q1

  7. [J7]

    Rui Pan, Hui Chen, Guanxiong Shen, Hongyang Chen, “Residual Channel Boosts Contrastive Learning for Radio Frequency Fingerprint Identification,” IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, 2025.JCR Q1

  8. [J8]

    Pengcheng Yin, Linning Peng*, Guanxiong Shen, Junqing Zhang, Ming Liu, Hua Fu, Aiqun Hu, Xianbin Wang, “Multi-channel CNN-based Open-set RF Fingerprint Identification for LTE Devices,” IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, 2024.JCR Q1

  9. [J9]

    Guanxiong Shen, Junqing Zhang*, Xuyu Wang, Shiwen Mao, “Federated Radio Frequency Fingerprint Identification Powered by Unsupervised Contrastive Learning,” IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2024.CCF AJCR Q1

  10. [J10]

    Guanxiong Shen, Junqing Zhang*, Alan Marshall, Roger Woods, Joseph Cavallaro, Liquan Chen, “Towards Receiver-Agnostic and Collaborative Radio Frequency Fingerprint Identification,” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2024.CCF AJCR Q1

  11. [J11]

    Guanxiong Shen, Junqing Zhang*, “Exploration of Transferable Deep Learning-Aided Radio Frequency Fingerprint Identification Systems,” Security and Safety, 2024.

  12. [J12]

    Junqing Zhang*, Guanxiong Shen, Walid Saad, Kaushik Chowdhury, “Radio Frequency Fingerprint Identification for Device Authentication in the Internet of Things,” IEEE Communications Magazine, 2023.JCR Q1

  13. [J13]

    Guanxiong Shen, Junqing Zhang*, Alan Marshall, Mikko Valkama, Joseph Cavallaro, “Towards Length-Versatile and Noise-Robust Radio Frequency Fingerprint Identification,” IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2023.CCF AJCR Q1

  14. [J14]

    Guanxiong Shen, Junqing Zhang*, Alan Marshall, “Deep Learning-Powered Radio Frequency Fingerprint Identification: Methodology and Case Study,” IEEE Communications Magazine, 2023.JCR Q1

  15. [J15]

    Guolin Yin, Junqing Zhang*, Guanxiong Shen, Yingying Chen, “FewSense, Towards a Scalable and Cross-Domain Wi-Fi Sensing System Using Few-Shot Learning,” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2022.CCF AJCR Q1

  16. [J16]

    Henri Ruotsalainen, Guanxiong Shen, Junqing Zhang, Radek Fujdiak, “LoRaWAN Physical Layer-Based Attacks and Countermeasures, A Review,” Sensors, vol. 22, no. 9, pp. 3127, 2022.JCR Q2

  17. [J17]

    Guanxiong Shen, Junqing Zhang*, Alan Marshall, Joseph 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.CCF AJCR Q1

  18. [J18]

    Guanxiong Shen, Junqing Zhang*, Alan Marshall, Linning Peng, Xianbin Wang, “Radio Frequency Fingerprint Identification for LoRa Using Deep Learning,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 39, no. 8, pp. 2604–2616, 2021.CCF AJCR Q1

Conference Publications

(7)
  1. [C1]

    Shuo Wang, Junqing Zhang, Jiahuai Mao, Alessandro Brighente, Guanxiong Shen, Mauro Conti, “Triad-GAN: Feature-Level Generative Adversarial Network for Multi-Receiver Radio Frequency Fingerprint Identification,” Proc. IEEE ICC, 2026.CCF C

  2. [C2]

    Shang Xu, Guanxiong Shen*, Xinyu Li, “Ensemble Learning-Enhanced Radio Frequency Fingerprinting,” Proc. IEEE WCNC, 2025.CCF C

  3. [C3]

    Jie Ma, Junqing Zhang*, Guanxiong Shen, Linning Peng, Alan Marshall, “Towards Channel-Robust Radio Frequency Fingerprint Identification Using Contrastive Learning,” Proc. IEEE WCNC, 2025.CCF C

  4. [C4]

    Jie Ma, Junqing Zhang, Guanxiong Shen, Alan Marshall, Chip-Hong Chang, “White-Box Adversarial Attacks on Deep Learning-Based Radio Frequency Fingerprint Identification,” Proc. IEEE ICC, 2023.CCF C

  5. [C5]

    Guanxiong Shen, Junqing Zhang, Alan Marshall, Mikko Valkama, Joseph Cavallaro, “Radio Frequency Fingerprint Identification for Security in Low-Cost IoT Devices,” Proc. Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, 2021.

  6. [C6]

    Guanxiong Shen, Junqing Zhang*, Alan Marshall, Linning Peng, Xianbin Wang, “Radio Frequency Fingerprint Identification for LoRa Using Spectrogram and CNN,” Proc. IEEE INFOCOM, 2021.CCF A

  7. [C7]

    Guanxiong Shen, Muhammad R.A. Khandaker*, Faisal Tariq, “Learning the Wireless Channel: A Deep Neural Network Approach,” Proc. IEEE UCET, 2020.

Teaching Experience

Teacher

2024 / 2025

Southeast University · Nanjing, China

  • B5710312 Mobile Communication and Security (taught in English)
  • Undergraduate course

Lab Demonstrator

2020 / 2021

University of Liverpool · Liverpool, United Kingdom

  • ELEC431 Software Engineering and Programming
  • Instructed M.Sc. students to complete the Matlab course design

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China, Youth Funding

2024 – 2027

Principal Investigator

RF fingerprint identification for vehicle digital keys based on physical layer characteristics

Huawei University-Enterprise Cooperation Funding

2025 – 2026

Principal Investigator

RF fingerprint identification for Wi-Fi

Supervision

Ph.D. Students

2

Rui Pan · Hailang Jia

M.Phil. Students

9

Chenyang Wu · Xiangcong Li · Jiahua Zou · Jiamu Guo · Yang Song · Dacheng Shang · Wentao Xiao · Chenshuo Tang · Lu Yang

Undergraduate Students

6

Yuetong Wang · Jiamu Guo · Zhiyao Wu · Runheng Lu · Lu Li · Shang Xu

Professional Activities

Workshop Co-Chair

TPC Member

Reviewer

  • IEEE TIFS, IEEE TMC, IEEE JSAC, IEEE Communications Magazine, INFOCOM, ICC, GLOBECOM, etc.