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Multiple Research Assistant positions available at SEIT Lab @ MSU! If you are interested in Internet-of-Things (IoT), AI Applications, Blockchain, Cyber Security, Mobile Systems, Wireless Systems, please email your CV, Transcripts, and Publications (if any) to Prof. Yan. Visiting / exchange scholars and students are also welcome to contact us.

Apr. 2025	Our SEIT Lab's Bocheng Chen will join University of Mississippi as a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor! Congratulations, Bocheng! Dr. Yan is invited to serve on the Program Committee of 47th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE S&P 2026). Dr. Yan is invited to serve on the Program Committee of NDSS 2026.
Mar. 2025	Our paper "RadEye: Tracking Eye Motion Using FMCW Radar" has been selected for the Honorable Mention Award at CHI 2025! Congratulations to all authors! Dr. Yan was invited to serve as IEEE INFOCOM 2026 TPC Vice-Chair for Information Systems! Our SEIT Lab's Ce Zhou will join Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T) as a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor! Congratulations, Ce!
Jan. 2025	Our paper "RadEye: Tracking Eye Motion Using FMCW Radar" is accepted to CHI 2025! Our paper "Audio Watermark: Dynamic and Harmless Watermark for Black-box Voice Dataset Copyright Protection" is accepted to USENIX Security 2025. Congratulations, Team!
Oct. 2024	Dr. Yan was invited to serve in the Workshop Chair of USENIX VehicleSec 2025. Dr. Yan was invited to serve as the General Co-Chair of EAI SmartSP 2025.
Aug. 2024	Dr. Yan is invited to serve on the Program Committee of NDSS 2025. Our Spartans team led by Dr. Yan won the second place in Mcity Autonomous Vehicle Challenge! Congratulations, Spartans! Our paper "Protecting Activity Sensing Data Privacy Using Hierarchical Information Dissociation" is accepted to IEEE CNS 2024! Congratulations to all! Our paper "ClearAI: AI-Driven Speech Enhancement for Hypophonic Speech" is accepted to IEEE HealthCom! Our paper "Transient Adversarial 3D Projection Attacks on Object Detection in Autonomous Driving" is accepted to EAI SmartSP 2024. Our paper "End-to-End Decentralized Tracking of Carbon Footprint using Internet of Things and Distributed Databases" is accepted to IEEE Conference on Cloud and Internet of Things 2024 (CIoT 2024). Congratulations to all!
Jun. 2024	Our paper "WavePurifier: Purifying Audio Adversarial Examples via Hierarchical Diffusion Models" is accepted to ACM MobiCom 2024! Congratulations, Hanqing and all!
May 2024	Dr. Yan is invited to serve on the Program Committee of 46th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE S&P 2025)!
Apr. 2024	Our SEIT Lab's Guangjing Wang will join University of South Florida as a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor! Congratulations, Guangjing!
Mar. 2024	Our paper "Multi-Turn Hidden Backdoor in Large Language Model-powered Chatbot Models" is accepted to ACM AsiaCCS 2024! Congratulations, Bocheng! Check out our Preprint paper on privacy-preserving diffusion model: Privacy-Preserving Diffusion Model Using Homomorphic Encryption, Web Link, Source code. Dr. Yan is invited to give a talk at the University of Central Florida on "Trustworthy AI in Autonomous Cyber Physical Systems"!
Feb. 2024	Our SEIT Lab's Hanqing Guo will join University of Hawaii at Mānoa as a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor! Congratulations, Hanqing!
Jan. 2024	Dr. Yan is invited to serve on the Program Committee of 31st ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) (ACM CCS 2024)! Our paper "Sync-Millibottleneck Attack on Microservices Cloud Architecture" is accepted to ACM AsiaCCS 2024! Check out our preprint survey on AI-driven Voice Attacks: A Practical Survey on Emerging Threats from AI-driven Voice Attacks: How Vulnerable are Commercial Voice Control Systems?.
Nov. 2023	Check out our preprint survey on Transferable Attacks: Beyond Boundaries: A Comprehensive Survey of Transferable Attacks on AI Systems. Dr. Yan has been interviewed by CBS Detroit about data breach. Dr. Yan was invited to serve in the Organizing Committee of VehicleSec 2024. Dr. Yan delivered an invited talk at EAI SmartSP 2023. Our paper "ResNeXt+: Attention Mechanisms Based on ResNeXt for Malware Detection and Classification" is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security (TIFS)!
Aug. 2023	Our NSF SaTC project "SaTC: CORE: Robust Speaker and Speech Recognition Under AI-Driven Physical and Digital Attacks" is funded! Thank you, NSF!!! Our NSF CPS project "CPS: Medium: Robust Sensing and Learning for Autonomous Driving Against Perceptual Illusion" is funded! This is a collaborative project with Virginia Tech. Thank you, NSF!!! Guangjing's research on "Addressing Security Vulnerabilities in Smart Homes" has been highlighted by MSU Institute for Cyber-Enabled Research (ICER)! Our paper "MASTERKEY: Practical Backdoor Attack Against Speaker Verification Systems" is accepted to ACM MobiCom 2023! Congratulations, Hanqing and all!
July 2023	Two papers on "PhantomSound: Black-Box, Query-Efficient Audio Adversarial Attack via Split-Second Phoneme Injection" and "Understanding Multi-Turn Toxic Behaviors in Open-Domain Chatbots" are accepted to RAID 2023! Acceptance rate: 23.5%. Congratulations, Hanqing and Bocheng, and all!
June 2023	Our paper on "DynamicFL: Balancing Communication Dynamics and Client Manipulation for Federated Learning" is accepted to IEEE SECON 2023! Congratulations, Bocheng and all!
April 2023	Our paper on "VSMask: Defending Against Voice Synthesis Attack via Real-Time Predictive Perturbation" is accepted to ACM WiSec 2023! Congratulations, Yuanda and all!
March 2023	Dr. Yan is the publicity co-chair of IEEE CNS 2023! Please consider submitting your papers to CNS! Dr. Yan is appointed as Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS)! TIFS is the highest-ranked security journal based on h5-index.
February 2023	Congratulations to Nick for passing the PhD Dissertation Defense! Dr. Nick Ivanov will be joining Rowan University in New Jersey as a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Fall 2023! Check out our preprint paper on "A Comprehensive Survey on Pretrained Foundation Models: A History from BERT to ChatGPT"! Our paper on "Security Threat Mitigation For Smart Contracts: A Survey" is conditionally accepted to ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)! Congratulations, Nick!
January 2023	Our paper on "TxT: Real-Time Transaction Encapsulation for Ethereum Smart Contracts" is accepted to IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics Security! Congratulations, Nick, Anurag! Our paper "Devils in the Clouds: An Evolutionary Study of Telnet Bot Loaders" is accepted to IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2023! Our project "Speech Amplification Devices and Speech Clarity: Application to Parkinson’s disease and hypophonia" has been awarded Trifecta Initiative Facilitating Funds (TIFF) Award! Our project "Building AI-Driven Smart Home IoT Platforms" has been funded by Cisco Research! Thank you, Cisco! Dr. Yan was invited to be a Workshop Chair of the EAI SmartSP 2023 (EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Cyber-Physical Systems and Smart Vehicles).
November 2022	Our paper "FacER: Contrastive Attention based Expression Recognition via Smartphone Earpiece Speaker" is accepted to IEEE INFOCOM 2023! Congratulations to Guangjing! Our paper "Graph Learning for Interaction Analysis in Smart Home Rule Data" is accepted to ACM SIGMOD 2023! Congratulations to Guangjing! Our paper "Federated IoT Interaction Graph Analysis" is accepted to IEEE ICDE 2023! Congratulations to Guangjing! Our paper "SpecPatch: Human-In-The-Loop Adversarial Audio Spectrogram Patch Attack on Speech Recognition" won ACM CCS 2022 Best Paper Honorable Mention Award!

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