Speakers

Prof. Hideyuki Uehara, Ph.D.

Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan

Device Identification Using Radio-Specific Physical Information to Enhance IoT Security

Abstract:

With the widespread adoption of the Internet of Things (IoT), enhancing the security of IoT devices has become a critical issue. We have developed a technology for identifying Wi-Fi devices, leveraging our proprietary technique for estimating RF circuit imperfections, developed through research on self-interference cancellers aimed at enabling in-band full-duplex radios. In this presentation, I will introduce some aspects of this technology.
Keywords: IoT security, authentication, nonlinear distortion, I/Q imbalance, orthogonal polynomial

Biography:
Hideyuki Uehara received B.E., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Keio University (Yokohama, Japan) in 1992, 1994, and 1997, respectively. Since 1997, he has been with Toyohashi University of Technology (Toyohashi, Japan), where he is currently a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Information Engineering, and a Special Advisor to the President (in charge of Education and Admissions). From 2002 to 2003, he was a Visiting Researcher at the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR) (Kyoto, Japan). His current research interests include wireless communications, wireless networks, wireless sensing, and their application systems. He is a Senior Member of both the IEICE and the IEEE.

He received the Distinguished Contributions Award from the IEICE Communications Society in 2002, 2006, 2011, 2012, and 2016, and the IEICE Communications Society Excellent Paper Award in 2024. He served as an Editor of the Editorial Committee for the IEICE Transactions on Communications from 2010 to 2011 and a Vice-Chair of the Editorial Board for the IEICE Communications Society from 2014 to 2015. He served as Treasurer of the IEEE Nagoya Section from 2017 to 2018 and as Chair of the Membership Development and Nominating Committee from 2021 to 2022. He currently serves as Chair of the IEEE Nagoya Section.