Welcome! I am currently a PhD student in Computer Engineering at the University of Houston. My primary research interests focus on Audio Security and Audio Generation.

📖 Educations

• 2024.08 - Present, Ph.D. student, Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Houston, Houston.

  • Advisors: Miao Pan

• 2021.09 - 2024.06, Master, School of Computer Science and Engineering, UESTC, Chengdu.

  • Co-advisors: Xiong Li and Weina Niu

• 2017.09 - 2021.06, Bachelor, School of Computer Science and Technology, Xidian University, Xi’an.

🔥 News

📝 Selected Publications

For the full publication list, please see my Google Scholar. * denotes equal contribution.

PhysWave: Physics-Guided Latent Diffusion Models for Controllable Spatial Audio Generation

[Paper][Website][Data][Code]

Lingfeng Yao,Chenpei Huang,Xingke Yang,Ziye Geng,Changqing Luo,Hao Wang,Jiang Liu,Miao Pan

EMNLP 2026 Main

A Novel Semantic Manifold Alignment Attack against Embedding-to-Embedding Obfuscation in Privacy-Preserving LLMs

[Paper]

Sicong Li,Lingfeng Yao,Xingke Yang,Ke Tu,Chenhao Wu,Hao Wang,Jiang Liu,Phone Lin,Xin Fu,Miao Pan

EMNLP 2026 Main

EchoMark: Acoustic Environment Matching with Watermarked Room Impulse Response

[Paper]

Chenpei Huang*,Lingfeng Yao*,Lening Wang,Lan Zhang,Xun Chen,Kyu In Lee,Miao Pan

ICME 2026Best Student Paper Award Runner Up

Yours or Mine? Overwriting Attacks Against Neural Audio Watermarking

[Paper][Poster]

Lingfeng Yao*,Chenpei Huang*,Shengyao Wang,Junpei Xue,Hanqing Guo,Jiang Liu,Phone Lin,Tomoaki Ohtsuki,Miao Pan

AAAI 2026

iSeal: Encrypted Fingerprinting for Reliable LLM Ownership Verification

[Paper][Code]

Zixun Xiong,Gaoyi Wu,Qingyang Yu,Mingyu Derek Ma,Lingfeng Yao,Miao Pan,Xiaojiang Du,Hao Wang

AAAI 2026

MSVS: Multi-Shell Viewpoint Sampling for Comprehensive Evaluation of 3D Watermarking

[Paper][Demo][Code]

Tomoya Matsubara,Lingfeng Yao,Chenpei Huang,Miao Pan,Hideo Saito

ICASSP 2026

Audio Pirates: Black-box Audio Watermark Removal via Diffusion Priors

[Paper][Demo][Code]

Lingfeng Yao,Xincong Zhong,Chenpei Huang,Xuandong Zhao,Hanqing Guo,Aohan Li,Jiang Liu,Tomoaki Ohtsuki,Miao Pan

Preprint

SpeechVerifier: Robust Acoustic Fingerprint against Tampering Attacks via Watermarking

[Paper][Demo][Code]

Lingfeng Yao*,Chenpei Huang*,Shengyao Wang,Junpei Xue,Hanqing Guo,Jiang Liu,Xun Chen,Miao Pan

Preprint

Who's Wearing? Ear Canal Biometric Key Extraction for User Authentication on Wireless Earbuds

[Paper][Demo]

Chenpei Huang,Lingfeng Yao,Hui Zhong,Kyu In Lee,Lan Zhang,Xiaoyong Yuan,Tomoaki Ohtsuki,Miao Pan

Preprint

🎖 Honors and Awards

• 2026.06 NSF ACCESS Discover Allocation, PI, “Physics-Guided Text-to-Spatial Audio Generation” — 1,500,000 ACCESS Credits.
• 2024.06 Student Travel Grant for ICC 2024
• 2023.10 Outstanding Graduate

🏛 Professional Service

Reviewer:

• IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
• IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
• IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking
• Computer & Security
• Information Fusion
• AAAI 2026, AAAI 2027
• ICLR 2027