Current Role Postdoctoral Researcher, Zhejiang Lab
Research Focus Autonomous penetration testing, wireless body area networks, and reliable scientific computing

Autonomous cyber agents and intelligent networked systems.

I build learning and game-theoretic methods for autonomous cyber agents, wireless body area networks, and reliable scientific computing, with a focus on systems that make robust decisions under uncertainty.

About

I am a postdoctoral researcher at Zhejiang Lab, working across cyber security, wireless systems, and learning-based control. My research has moved from resource allocation and channel prediction in wireless body area networks toward autonomous security agents that can operate in uncertain, changing environments.

Beyond my main work on penetration testing and networked systems, I collaborate on reliable scientific computing, especially numerical precision and error compensation in large-scale simulation models.

News

Homepage redesigned around autonomous cyber agents, wireless body area networks, and reliable scientific computing.

Behaviour-diverse automatic penetration testing paper published in Frontiers of Computer Science.

New collaborations on numerical reliability for scientific computing models.

Selected Publications

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2025

Behaviour-Diverse Automatic Penetration Testing: A Coverage-Based Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach

Yizhou Yang, Longde Chen, Sha Liu, Lanning Wang, Haohuan Fu, Xin Liu, and Zuoning Chen

Frontiers of Computer Science, 19(3), 193309

2023

SetTron: Towards Better Generalisation in Penetration Testing with Reinforcement Learning

Yizhou Yang, Mengxuan Chen, Haohuan Fu, and Xin Liu

IEEE GLOBECOM 2023, pp. 4662-4667

2020

Power Control for Body Area Networks: Accurate Channel Prediction by Lightweight Deep Learning

Yizhou Yang, David Smith, Jathushan Rajasegaran, and Suranga Seneviratne

IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 8(5), pp. 3567-3575

2025

Enhancing Single Precision with Quasi-Double Precision: Achieving Double-Precision Accuracy in MPAS-A Version 8.2.1

Jiayi Lai, Lanning Wang, Qizhong Wu, Yizhou Yang, and Fang Wang

Geoscientific Model Development, 18(4), pp. 1089-1102

Selected Projects

Wireless channel prediction visualization
05/2020

Wireless Channel Prediction via Deep Learning

Learning temporal channel behavior for transmit power control and adaptive resource allocation in wireless body area networks.

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Autonomous penetration testing agent overview
06/2022 - Developing

Deep Reinforcement Learning Enabled Autonomous Penetration Testing

Reinforcement learning agents that explore attack paths, diversify behavior, and improve generalization across network security scenarios.

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Blog & Notes

I plan to use this space for research notes, reading reflections, technical thoughts, and occasional personal writing that does not need to be as formal as a publication or project page.

Possible topics include autonomous penetration testing, reinforcement learning generalization, wireless channel prediction, research workflow, and lessons from doctoral/postdoctoral work.

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