2023
- I’m so proud of my first Ph.D. student, Habiba Farrukh, who successfully defended her thesis. Habiba will join UC Irvine as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science. Congratulations Habiba!
- Excited to be a part of the new NSF AI Institute for Agent-based Cyber Threat Intelligence and OperatioN (ACTION) (led by Giovanni Vigna) with a great team of colleagues.
- Excited to be part of the multi-university transportation center focusing on cybersecurity sponsored by the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT).
- Congratulations to Raymond Muller on receiving the Graduate Teaching Award from Purdue Computer Science Department.
- Congratulations to Raymond Muller on receiving the X-Force Fellowship through the National Security Innovation Network to solve national security problems in collaboration with the U.S. military.
- [USENIX Security 23] Discovering Adversarial Driving Maneuvers against Autonomous Vehicles
- [USENIX Security 23] LocIn: Inferring Semantic Location from Spatial Maps in Mixed Realitys
- [USENIX Security 23] ZBCAN: A Zero-Byte CAN Defense System
- [USENIX Security 23] That Person Moves Like A Car: Misclassification Attack Detection for Autonomous Systems using Spatiotemporal Consistency
- [USENIX Security 23] PatchVerif: Discovering Faulty Patches in Robotic Vehicles
- [IEEE S&P 23] One Key to Rule Them All: Secure Group Pairing for Heterogeneous IoT Devices
- [PETS 23] iStelan: Disclosing Sensitive User Information by Mobile Magnetometer from Finger Touches
- [NDSS 23] Evasion Attacks and Defenses on Smart Home Physical Event Verification
- [VehicleSec 23] Rethinking Secure Pairing in Drone Swarms (Position Paper)
- [CFP] Workshop Co-chair - Call for Papers: IEEE/ACM Workshop on the Internet of Safe Things 2023. SafeThings will happen with CPS-IoT Week at San Antonio on May 9, 2023
- [CFP] Workshop Co-chair - Call for Papers: Inaugural Symposium on Vehicle Security and Privacy (VehicleSec) 2023. VehicleSec will happen with NDSS at San Diego on Feb 27, 2023 (Hybrid) Follow @VehicleSec2023
2022
- [2022] I and Prof. Xu received funding with the CISCO
- [Google ASPIRE 2022] Our team lead by I and Prof. Bianchi won Google ASPIRE Award
- [CCS 22] Discovering IoT Physical Channel Vulnerabilities
- [CCS 22] Physical Hijacking Attacks against Object Trackers
- Two papers and two demos are accepted to AutoSec 22
- Two journal papers are accepted to ACM Transcations on Internet of Things (TIOT) 22
- [IEEE S&P 22] PGPatch: Policy-Guided Logic Bug Patching for Robotic Vehicles
- [USENIX Security 22] SARA: Secure Android Remote Authorization
- The AutoSec (Automotive & Autonomous Vehicle Security) Workshop will be hosted with NDSS again in 2022! Follow @autosec_conf
- I’ve earned NSF CAREER Award
- [USENIX Security 22] Behind the Tube: Exploitative Monetization of Content on YouTube
2021
- I’ve received funding with the Rolls-Royce Cybersecurity Technology Research Network
- [Google ASPIRE 2021] Our team lead by I and Prof. Bianchi won Google ASPIRE Award
- [SafeThings 21] On the Safety Implications of Misordered Events and Commands in IoT Systems
- [PETS 21] Real-time Analysis of Privacy-(un)aware IoT Applications
- [NDSS 21] PGFUZZ: Policy-Guided Fuzzing for Robotic Vehicles
- [USENIX Security 21] Exposing New Vulnerabilities of Error Handling Mechanism in CAN
- [USENIX Security 21] ATLAS: A Sequence-based Learning Approach for Attack Investigation
- [KDD 21] What do you see? Evaluation of XAI Interpretability through Neural Backdoors
- [ICML-FL 21] New Metrics to Evaluate the Performance and Fairness of Personalized FL
- [IEEE SecDev 21] Towards Improving Container Security by Preventing Runtime Escapes
- [NDSS 21] Evading Voltage-Based Intrusion Detection on Automotive CAN
- [UbiComp 21] S3: Side-channel Attack on Stylus Pencil Through Sensors
- [IoTDI 21] Sentinel: A Robust IDS for IoT Networks Using Kernel-Level System Information