He Fang
Fujian Normal University, China
He Fang received her Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Western University, Canada, in 2020, and her Ph.D. degree in Applied Mathematics from Fujian Normal University, China, in 2018. She is currently a Full Professor at Fujian Normal University, China. Her research expertise includes intelligent security provisioning, trust management, distributed learning and optimization techniques. She has authored or co-authored over 60 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers. She serves as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security and China Communications, and has served as a Guest Editor for several journals, including IEEE Wireless Communications and IEEE IoT Magazine. She also served as the Vice-Chair of the Communication/Broadcasting Chapter, IEEE London Section, Canada, from September 2019 to August 2021. She has been actively involved in many IEEE conferences, including IEEE ICC, GLOBECOM, VTC, and ICCC, in roles such as Track Chair, Symposium Chair, Workshop Chair, and TPC member. She has received several awards, including two Best Paper Awards from IEEE GLOBECOM.
The rapid expansion of intelligent IoT systems has connected an enormous number of resource-constrained wireless terminals across sensing, control, and actuation applications. Due to limited computation, memory, and energy, these terminals often possess weak security capabilities and are vulnerable to identity impersonation, credential abuse, data tampering, and message interception. Identity authentication of wireless terminals is therefore the cornerstone of secure wireless communication and reliable data exchange in IoT. Existing authentication solutions, however, often suffer from excessive latency and high communication/computation overhead, which severely limits their applicability in next-generation IoT. This talk presents a series of lightweight and continuous identity authentication schemes for wireless terminals to achieve strong security with minimal resource consumption. By integrating these schemes into lightweight secure communication architectures, the talk aims to empower intelligent IoT systems with scalable, resilient, and resource-efficient security for diverse vertical applications.