2025

• [Apr. 2025] Our SEIT Lab's Bocheng Chen will join University of Mississippi as a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor! Congratulations, Bocheng!
• [Apr. 2025] Dr. Yan is invited to serve on the Program Committee of 47th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE S&P 2026).
• [Apr. 2025] 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!
• [Mar. 2025] Dr. Yan was invited to serve as IEEE INFOCOM 2026 TPC Vice-Chair for Information Systems!
• [Mar. 2025] 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!
• [Jan. 2025] Our paper "Audio Watermark: Dynamic and Harmless Watermark for Black-box Voice Dataset Copyright Protection" is accepted to USENIX Security 2025. Congratulations, Team!

2024

• [Oct. 2024] Dr. Yan was invited to serve in the Workshop Chair of USENIX VehicleSec 2025.
• [Oct. 2024] 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.
• [Aug. 2024] Our Spartans team led by Dr. Yan won the second place in Mcity Autonomous Vehicle Challenge! Congratulations, Spartans!
• [Aug. 2024] Our paper "Protecting Activity Sensing Data Privacy Using Hierarchical Information Dissociation" is accepted to IEEE CNS 2024! Congratulations to all!
• [Aug. 2024] 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 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 conditionally 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!
• [Mar. 2024] Check out our Preprint paper on privacy-preserving diffusion model: Privacy-Preserving Diffusion Model Using Homomorphic Encryption, Web Link, Source code.
• [Mar. 2024] 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)!
• [Jan. 2024] Our paper "Sync-Millibottleneck Attack on Microservices Cloud Architecture" is accepted to ACM AsiaCCS 2024!
• [Jan. 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?.

2023

• [Nov. 2023] Check out our preprint survey on Transferable Attacks: Beyond Boundaries: A Comprehensive Survey of Transferable Attacks on AI Systems.
• [Oct. 2023] Dr. Yan has been interviewed by CBS Detroit about data breach.
• [Oct. 2023] Dr. Yan was invited to serve in the Organizing Committee of VehicleSec 2024.
• [Oct. 2023] Dr. Yan delivered an invited talk at EAI SmartSP 2023.
• [Oct. 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!!!
• [Aug. 2023] 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!!!
• [Aug. 2023] Guangjing's research on "Addressing Security Vulnerabilities in Smart Homes" has been highlighted by MSU Institute for Cyber-Enabled Research (ICER)!
• [Aug. 2023] Our paper "MASTERKEY: Practical Backdoor Attack Against Speaker Verification Systems" is accepted to ACM MobiCom 2023! Congratulations, Hanqing and all!
• [Jul. 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!
• [Jun. 2023] Our paper on "DynamicFL: Balancing Communication Dynamics and Client Manipulation for Federated Learning" is accepted to IEEE SECON 2023! Congratulations, Bocheng and all!
• [Apr. 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!
• [Mar. 2023] Dr. Yan is the publicity co-chair of IEEE CNS 2023! Please consider submitting your papers to CNS!
• [Mar. 2023] 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.
• [Feb. 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!
• [Feb. 2023] Check out our preprint paper on "A Comprehensive Survey on Pretrained Foundation Models: A History from BERT to ChatGPT"!
• [Feb. 2023] Our paper on ""Security Threat Mitigation For Smart Contracts: A Survey" is conditionally accepted to ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)! Congratulations, Nick!
• [Jan. 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!
• [Jan. 2023] Our paper "Devils in the Clouds: An Evolutionary Study of Telnet Bot Loaders" is accepted to IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2023!
• [Jan. 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!
• [Jan. 2023] Our project "Building AI-Driven Smart Home IoT Platforms" has been funded by Cisco Research! Thank you, Cisco!

2022

• [Dec. 2022] 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).
• [Dec. 2022] Our paper "FacER: Contrastive Attention based Expression Recognition via Smartphone Earpiece Speaker" is accepted to IEEE INFOCOM 2023! Congratulations to Guangjing!
• [Nov. 2022] Our paper "Graph Learning for Interaction Analysis in Smart Home Rule Data" is accepted to ACM SIGMOD 2023! Congratulations to Guangjing!
• [Nov. 2022] Our paper "Federated IoT Interaction Graph Analysis" is accepted to IEEE ICDE 2023! Congratulations to Guangjing!
• [Nov. 2022] Our paper "SpecPatch: Human-In-The-Loop Adversarial Audio Spectrogram Patch Attack on Speech Recognition" won ACM CCS 2022 Best Paper Honorable Mention Award!
• [Oct. 2022] Hanqing Guo won the ACM CCS travel grant. Congratulations to Hanqing!
• [Oct. 2022] Dr. Yan is invited to serve as the Track Co-Chair of The 31st International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2023). Please consider submitting to ICCCN 2023 Track 3: IoT and Cyber-Physical Systems!
• [Aug. 2022] Our NEC work has been reported by New Scientist and ACM TechNews! In this work, we present a system that can protect a speaker's voice without impacting other normal conversations in the same space! Check it out: NEC paper!
• [Jul. 2022] Our paper "SpecPatch: Human-In-The-Loop Adversarial Audio Spectrogram Patch Attack on Speech Recognition" has been accepted to ACM CCS 2022! Congratulations, Hanqing, Nick, Yuanda!
• [Jun. 2022] Our paper "AuthIoT: A Transferable Wireless Authentication Scheme for IoT Devices without Input Interface" has been accepted to IEEE Internet of Things Journal!
• [Jun. 2022] Our paper "AutoThing: A Secure Transaction Framework for Self-Service Things" has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Services Computing!
• [May. 2022] Our paper "IoTCOM: Dissecting Interaction Threats in IoT Systems”" has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering!
• [Apr. 2022] Our paper "NEC: Speaker Selective Cancellation via Neural Enhanced Ultrasound Shadowing" has been accepted to IEEE DSN 2022, with acceptance rate 18.7%! Congrats, Hanqing! !
• [Feb. 2022] Congratulations to our Nikolay Ivanov, who is awarded MSU outstanding graduate student award!
• [Feb. 2022] Our paper "SUPERVOICE: Text-Independent Speaker Verification Using Ultrasound Energy in Human Speech" has been accepted to AsiaCCS 2022, with acceptance rate 18.4%! Congrats, Hanqing!
• [Jan. 2022] Our USENIX Security research "DoubleStar" has received wide recognition and reports from media: MSU Today! Please contact me for a chat if interested! Here is the list of media who has reported our work: techregister, thehardware, reviewgeek, nationalcybersecurity, 24htech, UAS Vision, National Cybersecurity news.

2021

• [Dec. 2021]Our paper "GhostTalk: Interactive Attack on Smartphone Voice System Through Power Line" is accepted in NDSS 2022! Congratulations, Yuanda, Hanqing!
• [Dec. 2021]Our paper "URadio: Wideband Ultrasound Communication for Smart Home Applications" is accepted in IEEE Internet of Things Journal!
• [Nov. 2021]Our paper "NELoRa: Towards Ultra-low SNR LoRa Communication with Neural-enhanced Demodulation" wins the Only Best Paper Award in ACM SenSys 2021! Congratulations, Chenning, Hanqing! Access our Source Code!
• [Aug. 2021]Our paper "A Systematical Study on Application Performance Management Libraries for Apps" is appeared on IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering!
• [Aug. 2021]Our paper "DoubleStar: Long-Range Attack Towards Depth Estimation based Obstacle Avoidance in Autonomous Systems" is accepted to USENIX Security 2022! Congratulations, Ce! Visit our website here!
• [Aug. 2021]Guangjing is awarded MSU Cloud Computing Fellow ! Congratulations!
• [Aug. 2021]Our paper "EthClipper: A Clipboard Meddling Attack on Hardware Wallets with Address Verification Evasion" is accepted to IEEE CNS 2021!
• [Jul. 2021]Our IEEE SECON paper "UD-MIMO: Uplink Distributed MIMO for Wireless LANs" won the Best Paper Award in IEEE SECON 2021!
• [Jun. 2021]Nick has two papers accepted: "Rectifying Administrated ERC20 Tokens" in ICICS 2021, and "System-Wide Security for Offline Payment Terminals" in SecureComm 2021.
• [May 2021]Our CPS survey paper on "Security and Privacy in the Emerging Cyber-Physical World: A Survey" appears in IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials!
• [Apr. 2021]Our paper on "Scalable Privacy-Preserving Geo-Distance Evaluation for Precision Agriculture IoT Systems" is accepted to ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks! This paper studies privacy issues in precision agriculture!
• [Apr. 2021]Three papers on "SoundFence: Securing Ultrasonic Sensors in Vehicles Using Physical-Layer Defense", "JammingBird: Jamming-Resilient Communications for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks", "UD-MIMO: Uplink Distributed MIMO for Wireless LANs" are accepted to IEEE SECON 2021! Acceptance Rate: 37/140=26.4%! Congratulations, Jianzhi!
• [Mar. 2021]Our paper on "Blockumulus: A Scalable Framework for Smart Contracts on the Cloud" is accepted to IEEE ICDCS 2021! Acceptance Rate: 19.8%! Congratulations, Nick!
• [Feb. 2021]Dr. Yan is elevated to the grade of IEEE Senior Member!
• [Feb. 2021]Our paper on "Targeting the Weakest Link: Social Engineering Attacks in Ethereum Smart Contracts" is accepted to ACM ASIA CCS 2021! Acceptance Rate: 70/370=18.9%!
• [Feb. 2021]SSS (Secret State of Survival) Team is founded! We are welcoming MSU students to join the team!
• [Jan. 2021] Our paper on "Privacy-Preserving Polynomial Evaluation over Spatio-Temporal Data on An Untrusted Cloud Server" is accepted to The 26th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2021)!

2020

• Nick Ivanov is awarded MSU Cloud Computing Fellow! Congratulations!
• Our paper on "SDR Receiver Using Commodity WiFi via Physical-Layer Signal Reconstruction" is accepted to MobiCom 2020, acceptance rate: 16.1%! Congratulations, Yuanda and the team!
• [Jun. 2020] Our paper on "Cyber Threat Intelligence Modeling Based on Heterogeneous Graph Convolutional Network" is accepted to RAID 2020, acceptance rate: 31/121=25.6%!
• [Jun. 2020] Our paper on "SmartWiFi: Universal and Secure Smart Contract-Enabled WiFi Hotspot" is accepted to SecureComm 2020! Congratulations, Nick!
• [May 2020] Our paper on "TIMiner: Automatically Extracting and Analyzing Categorized Cyber Threat Intelligence from Social Data" is accepted to Computers & Security!
• [Apr. 2020] Zhiqiang Li successfully defended his dissertation on "Advanced Techniques to Detect Complex Android Malware". Congratulations, Dr. Li!
• [Apr. 2020] Dr. Yan is awarded as Distinguished TPC member of INFOCOM 2020!
• [Apr. 2020] Our paper on "Generating Robust Audio Adversarial Examples with Temporal Dependency" is accepted to top AI conference: IJCAI2020, acceptance rate: 592/4717=12.6%!
• [Apr. 2020] Two journal papers accepted to Information Sciences, and Neurocomputing!
• [Mar. 2020] Our research SurfingAttack has been reported by media globally: Scientific American, Science Daily, Futurity, BBC Radio, Forbes, Popular Mechanics, Inverse, Gizmodo, FastCompany, Hackster, Techworm, CISOMAG, Android Authority, ACM TechNews, Security Affairs, The Register, Extreme Tech, TechXplore, Apple Insider, MediaPost, NewsBreak, Techradar, Twitter #surfingattack, MSU Engineering, MSU Today, We live security, 钛媒体, 凤凰新闻, 新浪, 腾讯, 搜狐, cnbeta, 每日头条, ... ...
• [Feb. 2020] Our paper on "DINA: Detecting Hidden Android Inter-App Communication in Dynamic Loaded Code" is accepted to IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics Security!
• [Feb. 2020] Our paper on "SurfingAttack: Interactive Hidden Attack on Voice Assistants Using Ultrasonic Guided Waves" is accepted to NDSS 2020! This research exposes a new type of attacks on voice assistants using ultrasonic guided wave! Check out our project website!
• [Jan. 2020] Our paper on "A Practical Downlink NOMA Scheme for Wireless LANs" is accepted to IEEE Transactions on Communications (TCOM)!
• [Jan. 2020] Our paper on "Private Trajectory Tracking" is accepted to IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC)!

2019

• [Dec. 2019] Mohannad Alhanahnah defended his dissertation on security analysis of IoT software platforms. Congratulations, Dr. Alhanahnah!
• [Nov. 2019] One paper accepted to IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering!
• [Sep. 2019] One paper accepted to IEEE/ACM ASE 2019!
• [Mar. 2019] One paper accepted to IEEE ICDCS 2019!
• [Feb. 2019] One paper accepted to IEEE CNS 2019! Congrats to Boyang, Qicheng!

2018

• [Dec. 2018] Dr. Yan's research on ultrasonic smart home communication was featured in UNL Nebraska Today and UNL Office of Research & Economic Development!
• [Nov. 2018] Two papers accepted to IEEE INFOCOM 2019! Congrats to Mohannad for his very first IEEE INFOCOM paper!
• [Sep. 2018] NSF awarded Dr. Yan's project on developing Ultrasonic-RF radio for smart home communication: URadio: Towards Secure Smart Home IoT Communication Using Hybrid Ultrasonic-RF Radio! Thank you, NSF!
• [Apr. 2018] Dr. Yan is awarded UNL Department of Computer Science and Engineering Student Choice Outstanding Teaching Award - Graduate Level!
• [Apr. 2018] Dr. Yan is invited to serve on INFOCOM 2019 TPC!
• [Apr. 2018] Our demo "High-Bandwidth Ultrasonic Communication Using Graphene-based Radio" won the Best Demo Award in IEEE INFOCOM 2018.
• [Mar. 2018] Our paper "Uplink MU-MIMO in Asynchronous Wireless LANs" is accepted by the Nineteenth International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc 2018)!
• [Feb. 2018] Two papers are accepted by the 6th IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (IEEE CNS 2018)! Congratulations, Mohannad, Boyang!

2017

• [Sep. 2017] Submit your paper to Wiley Security and Privacy Journal www.wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/spy!
• [Aug. 2017] Our paper "Black Penguin: On the Feasibility of Detecting Intrusion with Homogeneous Memory" is accepted to IEEE CNS 2017 Network Forensics Workshop!
• [Aug. 2017] NSF awarded Dr. Yan's project on Cooperative Interference-Embracing Communication in Multi-Hop Wireless Networks! Thank you, NSF!
• [Jul. 2017] Our paper “Very Short Intermittent DDoS Attacks in an Unsaturated System” is accepted by SECURECOMM 2017!
• [Jun. 2017] Two papers are accepted by the 5th IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (IEEE CNS 2017)!
• [Apr. 2017] Dr. Yan is is invited to serve on INFOCOM 2018 TPC!
• [Jan. 2017] Dr. Yan is awarded as one of the 100 Distinguished TPC Members of IEEE INFOCOM 2017!
• [Jan. 2017] Our papers “Design and Analysis of Elastic Handoff in Cognitive Cellular Networks” and “Identity Management using Blockchain for Cognitive Cellular Networks” are accepted to ICC 2017!

2016

• [Sep. 2016] Our paper “SigPID: Significant Permission Identification for Android Malware Detection” is accepted to [MALWARE 2016]!
• [Aug. 2016] NSF awarded Dr. Yan’s project on Towards Non-Intrusive Detection of Resilient Mobile Malware and Botnet using Application Traffic Measurement!
• [Aug. 2016] Our paper “DroidClassifier: Efficient Adaptive Mining of Application-Layer Header for Classifying Android Malware” is accepted to SECURECOMM 2016!
• [Jun. 2016] Our paper “Achieving 5As in Cloud Centric Cognitive Cellular Networks” is accepted to Globecom 2016!
• [Apr. 2016] Dr. Yan is awarded UNL Department of Computer Science and Engineering Student Choice Outstanding Teaching Award – Graduate Level!
• [Apr. 2016] Dr. Yan is appointed as Guest Editor of Hindawi Mobile Information Systems Special issue on Enabling Technologies towards 5G Mobile Networks!
• [Apr. 2016] Our paper “TrafficAV: An Effective and Explainable Detection of Mobile Malware Behavior using Network Traffic” is accepted to IWQoS 2016!
• [Apr. 2016] Dr. Yan is invited to serve on INFOCOM 2017 TPC!
• [Mar. 2016] Dr. Yan is appointed as Guest Editor of Elsevier Future Generation Computer Systems Special issue on Internet of Things: Security and Privacy in a Connected World!
• [Feb. 2016] Our paper “Jamming Resilient Communication using MIMO Interference Cancellation” is accepted to IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics Security!
• [Feb. 2016] Dr. Yan is invited to serve on SECRYPT 2016 TPC!

2015

• [Oct. 2015] Dr. Yan is invited to give a talk on “A Data Driven Mobile Malware and Botnet Detection Framework” at University of Arizona!
• [Oct. 2015] Dr. Yan is selected to participate in the 2015-2016 UNL Research Development Fellows Program.
• [Jul. 2015] Dr. Yan is selected to participate in 2015 NSF NeTS Early Career Workshop.
• [Jun. 2015] Dr. Yan is appointed as an Editor for KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems!
• [May. 2015] Dr. Yan is invited to serve on INFOCOM 2016 TPC!