Our Cybersecurity Mission

SEIT Lab (SEcure and Intelligent Things Lab) in Computer Science and Engineering department at Michigan State University is directed by Prof. Qiben Yan. Our mission is to develop and integrate Secure and Intelligent Things in human lives to enrich living experience and foster creative connections for a better world. The lab conducts research on Physical AI technologies, security and privacy issues of Internet-of-Things (IoT), Cyber-Physical, and AI Systems. We build secure systems, we provide security guarantee for the modern IoT/CPS/AI systems under cyber/physical threats, and we safeguard physical systems, AI models and blockchain infrastructure.

Security Posts

Representative Papers

[USENIX Security 2025] Audio Watermark: Dynamic and Harmless Watermark for Black-box Voice Dataset Copyright Protection

[ACM Mobicom 2023] MASTERKEY: Practical Backdoor Attack Against Speaker Verification Systems.

[IJMLC 2025] A Comprehensive Survey on Pretrained Foundation Models: A History from BERT to ChatGPT.

[ACM CSUR 2023] Security Defense For Smart Contracts: A Comprehensive Survey.

[RAID 2023] Understanding Multi-Turn Toxic Behaviors in Open-Domain Chatbots.

[ACM SIGMOD 2023] Graph Learning for Interactive Threat Detection in Heterogeneous Smart Home Rule Data.

[ACM CCS 2022] SpecPatch: Human-In-The-Loop Adversarial Audio Spectrogram Patch Attack on Speech Recognition.

[ACM AsiaCCS 2022] SUPERVOICE: Text-Independent Speaker Verification Using Ultrasound Energy in Human Speech

[NDSS 2022] GhostTalk: Interactive Attack on Smartphone Voice System Through Power Line.

[USENIX 2022] DoubleStar: Long-Range Attack Towards Depth Estimation based Obstacle Avoidance in Autonomous Systems

[ACM Sensys 2021] NELoRa: Towards Ultra-low SNR LoRa Communication with Neural-enhanced Demodulation

[NDSS 2020] SurfingAttack: Interactive Hidden Attack on Voice Assistants Using Ultrasonic Guided Wave