2025

• Can You Trust What You See? Alpha Channel No-Box Attacks on Video Object Detection
  Ariana Yi, Ce Zhou, Liyang Xiao, and Qiben Yan
  3rd EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Cyber-Physical Systems and Smart Vehicles (SmartSP 2025) December 1-2, 2025.
• Privacy-Preserving Multimodal Fall Detection in Smart Homes Using Dynamic Confidence-Weighted Fusion
  Collins Otieno, Muhammed Salih Kayhan, and Qiben Yan
  3rd EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Cyber-Physical Systems and Smart Vehicles (SmartSP 2025) December 1-2, 2025.
• Speaker Verification System Using Ultrasound Energy in Human Speech
  Qiben Yan, Hanqing Guo, and Li Xiao
  U.S. Patent No. 12,347,440. July 1, 2025.
• High-Efficiency Fuzzing Technique Using Hooked I/O System Calls for Targeted Input Analysis
  Wenju Sun, Xi Xiao, Qiben Yan, Guangwu Hu, Chuan Chen and Qing Li
  30th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS) 2025, September, 2025. [BibTex]
• ClearMask: Noise-Free and Naturalness-Preserving Protection Against Voice Deepfake Attacks
  Yuanda Wang, Bocheng Chen, Hanqing Guo, Guangjing Wang, Weikang Ding, Qiben Yan
  ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM ASIACCS 2025), August, 2025. [BibTex]
• Breaking the Charge: Exploiting State Manipulation in EV Charging
  Ce Zhou, Qiben Yan, Zhiyuan Yu, Eshan Dixit, Ning Zhang, Huacheng Zeng, and Alireza Safdari Ghanhdari
  3rd USENIX Symposium on Vehicle Security and Privacy (VehicleSec 2025), August, 2025.[BibTex]
• Poster: Angular Exploitation of FMCW Radars in Autonomous Driving
  Liyang Xiao, Ce Zhou, and Qiben Yan
  3rd USENIX Symposium on Vehicle Security and Privacy (VehicleSec 2025), August, 2025.[BibTex]
• Poster: Robustness Analysis of Camera-Radar Sensor Fusion Algorithms under Adversarial Attacks in Autonomous Driving
  Ce Zhou, Khang Nguyen, Liyang Xiao, and Qiben Yan
  3rd USENIX Symposium on Vehicle Security and Privacy (VehicleSec 2025), August, 2025.[BibTex]
• RadEye: Tracking Eye Motion Using FMCW Radar
  Shichen Zhang, Qijun Wang, Kunzhe Song, Qiben Yan, Huacheng Zeng
  CHI, 2025. [BibTex] Best Paper Honorable Mention Award
• Audio Watermark: Dynamic and Harmless Watermark for Black-box Voice Dataset Copyright Protection
  Hanqing Guo, Junfeng Guo, Bocheng Chen, Yuanda Wang, Xun Chen, Heng Huang, Qiben Yan, Li Xiao
  USENIX Security, 2025. [BibTex]

2024

• A Comprehensive Survey on Pretrained Foundation Models: A History from BERT to ChatGPT
  Ce Zhou, Qian Li, Chen Li, Jun Yu, Yixin Liu, Guangjing Wang, Kai Zhang, Cheng Ji, Qiben Yan, Lifang He, Hao Peng, Jianxin Li, Jia Wu, Ziwei Liu, Pengtao Xie, Caiming Xiong, Jian Pei, Philip S. Yu, Lichao Sun
  International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics, 2024. [BibTex]
• ClearAI: AI-Driven Speech Enhancement for Hypophonic Speech
  Yuanda Wang, Qiben Yan, Thea Knowles, Daryn Cushnie-Sparrow
  2024 IEEE International Conference on E-health Networking, Application & Services (IEEE HealthCom), November 18-20, 2024. [BibTex]
• Distributed System for Optimization of Carbon Emitting Resource Consumption in Supply
  Salman Ali, Cedric Gondro, Qiben Yan, and Wolfgang Banzhaf
  The 2024 International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications (ISNCC), October 22-25, 2024. [BibTex] Best Paper Award
• End-to-End Decentralized Tracking of Carbon Footprint using Internet of Things and Distributed Databases
  Salman Ali, Wolfgang Banzhaf, Cedric Gondro, and Qiben Yan
  IEEE/IFIP Conference on Cloud and Internet of Things 2024 CIoT Conference, October 29-31, 2024. [BibTex]
• Transient Adversarial 3D Projection Attacks on Object Detection in Autonomous Driving
  Ce Zhou, Qiben Yan, Sijia Liu
  EAI SmartSP 2024, November 7-8, 2024. [BibTex]
• Optical Lens Attack on Deep Learning Based Monocular Depth Estimation
  Ce Zhou, Qiben Yan, Daniel Kent, Guangjing Wang, Ziqi Zhang, Hayder Radha
  EAI SecureComm 2024, October 28-30, 2024. [BibTex]
• Protecting Activity Sensing Data Privacy Using Hierarchical Information Dissociation
  Guangjing Wang, Hanqing Guo, Yuanda Wang, Bocheng Chen, Ce Zhou, Qiben Yan
  IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (IEEE CNS), Sep. 30 - Oct. 3, 2024. [BibTex]
• WavePurifier: Purifying Audio Adversarial Examples via Hierarchical Diffusion Models
  Hanqing Guo, Guangjing Wang, Bocheng Chen, Yuanda Wang, Xiao Zhang, Xun Chen, Qiben Yan, Li Xiao
  ACM MobiCom 2024, Nov. 18-22, 2024. Website, Code [BibTex]
• TBP: Temporal Beam Prediction for Mobile Millimeter-Wave Networks
  Shichen Zhang, Qiben Yan, Tianxing Li, Li Xiao, Huacheng Zeng
  IEEE Internet of Things Journal, April, 2024. [BibTex]
• SoilCares: Towards Low-cost Soil Macronutrients and Moisture Monitoring Using RF-VNIR Sensing
  Juexing Wang, Yuda Feng, Guangjing Wang, Qiben Yan, Qingxu Jin, Robert C. Ferrier, Xiong Jie, Tianxing Li
  ACM MobiSys 2024, June, 2024. [BibTex]
• Multi-Turn Hidden Backdoor in Large Language Model-powered Chatbot Models
  Bocheng Chen, Nikolay Ivanov, Guangjing Wang, Qiben Yan
  ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM ASIACCS 2024), July, 2024. [BibTex]
• Sync-Millibottleneck Attack on Microservices Cloud Architecture
  Xuhang Gu, Qingyang Wang, Qiben Yan, Jianshu Liu, Calton Pu
  ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM ASIACCS 2024), July, 2024. [BibTex]
• A Practical Survey on Emerging Threats from AI-driven Voice Attacks: How Vulnerable are Commercial Voice Control Systems
  Yuanda Wang, Qiben Yan, Nikolay Ivanov, Xun Chen
  Arxiv Preprint, 2024. [BibTex]
• Beyond Boundaries: A Comprehensive Survey of Transferable Attacks on AI Systems
  Guangjing Wang, Ce Zhou, Yuanda Wang, Bocheng Chen, Hanqing Guo, Qiben Yan
  Arxiv Preprint, 2024. [BibTex]

2023

• Jailbreaker in Jail: Moving Target Defense for LLMs
  Bocheng Chen, Advait Paliwal, and Qiben Yan
  ACM CCS 2023, MTD Workshop, November, 2023. [BibTex]
• ResNeXt+: Attention Mechanisms Based on ResNeXt for Malware Detection and Classification
  Yuewang He, Xiangui Kang, Qiben Yan, and Enping Li
  IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics Security, , October, 2023. [BibTex]
• MASTERKEY: Practical Backdoor Attack Against Speaker Verification Systems
  Hanqing Guo, Xun Chen, Junfeng Guo, Li Xiao, and Qiben Yan
  ACM MobiCom 2023 , October 2-6, 2023. Madrid, Spain. Website [BibTex]
• Understanding Multi-Turn Toxic Behaviors in Open-Domain Chatbots
  Bocheng Chen, Guangjing Wang, Hanqing Guo, Yuanda Wang, and Qiben Yan
  The 26th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID 2023) , October, 2023. Hong Kong. [BibTex]
(Acceptance ratio: 23.5%)
• PhantomSound: Black-Box, Query-Efficient Audio Adversarial Attack via Split-Second Phoneme Injection
  Hanqing Guo, Guangjing Wang, Yuanda Wang, Bocheng Chen, Qiben Yan, and Li Xiao
  The 26th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID 2023) , October, 2023. Hong Kong. [BibTex]
(Acceptance ratio: 23.5%)
• DynamicFL: Balancing Communication Dynamics and Client Manipulation for Federated Learning
  Bocheng Chen, Nikolay Ivanov, Guangjing Wang and Qiben Yan
  2023 20th Annual IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking (SECON), September, 2023. Madrid, Spain. [BibTex]
(Acceptance ratio: 23.6%)
• VSMask: Defending Against Voice Synthesis Attack via Real-Time Predictive Perturbation
  Yuanda Wang, Hanqing Guo, Guangjing Wang, Bocheng Chen, and Qiben Yan
  16th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (ACM WiSec), May, 2023. Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom. [BibTex]
• Motif-level Anomaly Detection in Dynamic Graphs
  Zirui Yuan, Minglai Shao, Qiben Yan
  IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics Security, May 03, 2023. [BibTex]
• A Comprehensive Survey on Pretrained Foundation Models: A History from BERT to ChatGPT
  Ce Zhou, Qian Li, Chen Li, Jun Yu, Yixin Liu, Guangjing Wang, Kai Zhang, Cheng Ji, Qiben Yan, Lifang He, Hao Peng, Jianxin Li, Jia Wu, Ziwei Liu, Pengtao Xie, Caiming Xiong, Jian Pei, Philip S. Yu, Lichao Sun
  Arxiv Preprints, Feb. 2023. [BibTex]
• Security Defense For Smart Contracts: A Comprehensive Survey
  Nikolay Ivanov, Chenning Li, Qiben Yan, Zhiyuan Sun, Zhichao Cao, Xiapu Luo
  ACM Computing Surveys (ACM CSUR), Feb. 2023. [BibTex]
• TxT: Real-Time Transaction Encapsulation for Ethereum Smart Contracts
  Nikolay Ivanov, Qiben Yan, Anurag Kompalli
  IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics Security, Volume 18, 13 January 2023. [BibTex]
• Devils in the Clouds: An Evolutionary Study of Telnet Bot Loaders
  Yuhui Zhu, Zhenxiang Chen, Qiben Yan, Shanshan Wang, Alberto Giaretta, Enlong Li, Lizhi Peng, Chuan Zhao, Mauro Conti
  IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2023, May, 2023. Rome, Italy. [BibTex]
• FacER: Contrastive Attention based Expression Recognition via Smartphone Earpiece Speaker
  Guangjing Wang, Qiben Yan, Shane Patrarungrong, Juexing Wang, Huacheng Zeng
  IEEE INFOCOM 2023, May, 2023. New York, USA. [BibTex]
(Acceptance ratio: 19.2%)
• Graph Learning for Interactive Threat Detection in Heterogeneous Smart Home Rule Data
  Guangjing Wang, Nikolay Ivanov, Bocheng Chen, Qi Wang, ThanhVu Nguyen, Qiben Yan
  ACM SIGMOD 2023, June, 2023. Seattle metropolitan area, Washington, USA. [BibTex]
• Federated IoT Interaction Graph Analysis
  Guangjing Wang, Hanqing Guo, Anran Li, Xiaorui Liu, Qiben Yan
  IEEE ICDE 2023, April, 2023. Anaheim, California, USA. [BibTex]

2022

• SpecPatch: Human-In-The-Loop Adversarial Audio Spectrogram Patch Attack on Speech Recognition
  Hanqing Guo, Yuanda Wang, Nikolay Ivanov, Li Xiao, Qiben Yan
  ACM CCS 2022, July, 2022. Website [BibTex] Best Paper Honorable Mention Award
• AuthIoT: A Transferable Wireless Authentication Scheme for IoT Devices without Input Interface
  Shichen Zhang, Pedram Kheirkhah Sangdeh, Hossein Pirayesh, Huacheng Zeng, Qiben Yan, Kai Zeng
  IEEE Internet of Things Journal, June, 2022. [BibTex]
• AutoThing: A Secure Transaction Framework for Self-Service Things
  Nikolay Ivanov, Qiben Yan
  IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, June, 2022. [BibTex]
• IoTCOM: Dissecting Interaction Threats in IoT Systems
  Mohannad Alhanahnah, Clay Stevens, Bocheng Chen, Qiben Yan, Hamid Bagheri
  IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, May, 2022. [BibTex] [GitHub Code]
• NEC: Speaker Selective Cancellation via Neural Enhanced Ultrasound Shadowing
  Hanqing Guo, Chenning Li, Lingkun Li, Zhichao Cao, Qiben Yan, Li Xiao
  2022 52nd Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), June 27 - June 30, 2022. [BibTex]
(Acceptance ratio: 49/262=18.7%)
• SUPERVOICE: Text-Independent Speaker Verification Using Ultrasound Energy in Human Speech
  Hanqing Guo, Qiben Yan, Nikolay Ivanov, Ying Zhu, Li Xiao, Eric J. Hunter
  ACM AsiaCCS 2022, May 30 - June 3, 2022. [BibTex]
(Acceptance ratio: 18.4%)
• URadio: Wideband Ultrasound Communication for Smart Home Applications
  Qiben Yan, Qi Xia, Yuanda Wang, Pan Zhou, Huacheng Zeng
  IEEE Internet of Things Journal, January, 2022. [BibTex]
• GhostTalk: Interactive Attack on Smartphone Voice System Through Power Line
  Yuanda Wang, Hanqing Guo, and Qiben Yan
  NDSS Symposium 2022 , San Diego, CA, USA, Feb. 27 - Mar. 3, 2022. Website [BibTex]
• DoubleStar: Long-Range Attack Towards Depth Estimation based Obstacle Avoidance in Autonomous Systems
  Ce Zhou, Qiben Yan, Yan Shi, and Lichao Sun
  31th USENIX Security Symposium, August 10–12, 2022, Boston, MA, USA. Website [BibTex]

2021

• A Systematical Study on Application Performance Management Libraries for Apps
  Yutian Tang, Hao Wang, Xian Zhan, Xiapu Luo, Yajin Zhou, Hao Zhou, Qiben Yan, Yulei Sui, Jacky Wai Keung
  IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, [BibTex] May 2021.
• Osprey: A fast and accurate patch presence test framework for binaries
  Peiyuan Sun, Qiben Yan, Haoyi Zhou, Jianxin Li
  Computer Communications, Volume 173, 1 May 2021. [BibTex]
• Security and Privacy in the Emerging Cyber-Physical World: A Survey
  Zhiyuan Yu, Zack Kaplan, Qiben Yan, and Ning Zhang
  IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, May 2021. [BibTex]
• Scalable Privacy-Preserving Geo-Distance Evaluation for Precision Agriculture IoT Systems
  Qiben Yan, Jianzhi Lou, Mehmet C. Vuran, and Suat Irmak
  ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, Volume 17, Issue 4, November 2021. [BibTex]
• DM-COM: Combining Device-to-Device and MU-MIMO Communications for Cellular Networks
  Pedram Kheirkhah Sangdeh, Hossein Pirayesh, Qiben Yan, and Huacheng Zeng
  IEEE Internet of Things Journal, March, 2021. [BibTex]
• NELoRa: Towards Ultra-low SNR LoRa Communication with Neural-enhanced Demodulation
  Chenning Li, Hanqing Guo, Shuai Tong, Xiao Zeng, Zhichao Cao, Mi Zhang, Qiben Yan, Li Xiao, Jiliang Wang, Yunhao Liu
  The 19th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (ACM SenSys ’21), November 15–17, 2021, Coimbra, Portugal. [BibTex] Source Code
Acceptance ratio: 25/139=18.0%, Best Paper Award (1/139)
• EthClipper: A Clipboard Meddling Attack on Hardware Wallets with Address Verification Evasion
  Nikolay Ivanov, and Qiben Yan
  IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS) 2021, Oct. 2021, Cyberspace. [BibTex]
• System-Wide Security for Offline Payment Terminals
  Nikolay Ivanov, and Qiben Yan
  EAI SecureComm 2021, Sep. 2021, Cyberspace. [BibTex]
• Rectifying Administrated ERC20 Tokens
  Nikolay Ivanov, Hanqing Guo, and Qiben Yan
  The 2021 International Conference on Information and Communications Security (ICICS) Sep. 2021, Chongqing, China. [BibTex]
• SoundFence: Securing Ultrasonic Sensors in Vehicles Using Physical-Layer Defense
  Jianzhi Lou, Qiben Yan, Qing Hui, and Huacheng Zeng
  IEEE SECON 2021
  Virtual Conference, July 6 - July 9, 2021. [BibTex]
(Acceptance ratio: 26.4%)
• JammingBird: Jamming-Resilient Communications for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks
  Hossein Pirayesh, Pedram Kheirkhah Sangdeh, Shichen Zhang, Qiben Yan, and Huacheng Zeng
  IEEE SECON 2021
  Virtual Conference, July 6 - July 9, 2021. [BibTex]
(Acceptance ratio: 26.4%)
• UD-MIMO: Uplink Distributed MIMO for Wireless LANs
  Hossein Pirayesh, Pedram Kheirkhah Sangdeh, Qiben Yan, and Huacheng Zeng
  IEEE SECON 2021
  Virtual Conference, July 6 - July 9, 2021. [BibTex]
(Acceptance ratio: 26.4%) Best Paper Award
• Blockumulus: A Scalable Framework for Smart Contracts on the Cloud
  Nikolay Ivanov, Qiben Yan, and Qingyang Wang
  41st IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (IEEE ICDCS 2021)
  Virtual Conference, July 7 - July 10, 2021. [BibTex]
(Acceptance ratio: 19.8%)
• Targeting the Weakest Link: Social Engineering Attacks in Ethereum Smart Contracts
  Nikolay Ivanov, Jianzhi Lou, Ting Chen, Jin Li, Qiben Yan
  The 16th ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM ASIACCS 2021)
  Virtual Conference, June 7-11, 2021. [BibTex]
(Acceptance ratio: 18.9%)
• Privacy-Preserving Polynomial Evaluation over Spatio-Temporal Data on An Untrusted Cloud Server
  Wei Song, Mengfei Tang, Qiben Yan, Yuan Shen, Yang Cao, Qian Wang, Zhiyong Peng
  The 26th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2021)
  Hybrid Conference, April 11-14, 2021. [BibTex]

2020

• Automatically Predicting Cyber Attack Preference with Attributed Heterogeneous Attention Networks and Transductive Learning
  JunZhao, Xudong Liu, Qiben Yan, Bo Li, Minglai Shao, Hao Peng, and Lichao Sun
  Computers & Security, December 2020. [BibTex]
• TIMiner: Automatically Extracting and Analyzing Categorized Cyber Threat Intelligence from Social Data
  Jun Zhao, Qiben Yan, Jianxin Li, Minglai Shao, Zuti He, and Bo Li
  Computers & Security, Vol. 95, August 2020. [BibTex]
• Tree Decomposition Based Anomalous Connected Subgraph Scanning for Detecting and Forecasting Events in Attributed Social Media Networks
  Minglai Shao, Peiyuan Sun, Jianxin Li, Qiben Yan, and Zhirui Feng
  Neurocomputing, Vol. 407, September 2020. [BibTex]
• Multi-Attributed Heterogeneous Graph Convolutional Network for Bot Detection
  Jun Zhao, Xudong Liu, Qiben Yan, Bo Li, Minglai Shao, and Hao Peng
  Information Sciences, Vol. 537, October 2020. [BibTex]
• DINA: Detecting Hidden Android Inter-App Communication in Dynamic Loaded Code
  Mohannad Alhanahnah, Qiben Yan, Hamid Bagheri, Hao Zhou, Yutaka Tsutano, Witty Srisa-an, and Xiapu Luo
  IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics Security, Feb. 2020. [BibTex]
• Structured Sparsity Model Based Trajectory Tracking Using Private Location Data Release
  Minglai Shao, Jianxin Li, Qiben Yan, Feng Chen, Hongyi Huang, Xunxun Chen
  IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing Jan. 2020. [BibTex]
• A Practical Downlink NOMA Scheme for Wireless LANs
  Pedram Kheirkhah Sangdeh, Hossein Pirayesh, Qiben Yan, Kai Zeng, Wenjing Lou, Huacheng Zeng
  IEEE Transactions on Communications Jan. 2020. [BibTex]
• SDR Receiver Using Commodity WiFi via Physical-Layer Signal Reconstruction
  Woojae Jeong, Jinhwan Jung, Yuanda Wang, Shuai Wang, Seokwon Yang, Qiben Yan, Yung Yi, Song Min Kim
  International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom 2020)
  London, United Kingdom, September 21-25, 2020. [BibTex]
(Acceptance ratio: 16.1%)
• Cyber Threat Intelligence Modeling Based on Heterogeneous Graph Convolutional Network
  Jun Zhao, Qiben Yan, Xudong Liu, Bo Li, Guangsheng Zuo
  The 23rd International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID 2020)
  Cyberspace, October 14-16, 2020. [BibTex]
(Acceptance ratio: 31/121=25.6%)
• SmartWiFi: Universal and Secure Smart Contract-Enabled WiFi Hotspot
  Nikolay Ivanov, Jianzhi Lou, Qiben Yan
  The 16th EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm 2020)
  Cyberspace, October 21-23, 2020. [BibTex]
• Generating Robust Audio Adversarial Examples with Temporal Dependency
  Hongting Zhang, Qiben Yan, Pan Zhou, and Xiaoyang Liu
  IJCAI2020 (International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence)
  Yokohama, Japan, July 11-17, 2020. [BibTex]
(Acceptance ratio: 592/4717=12.6%)
• SurfingAttack: Interactive Hidden Attack on Voice Assistants Using Ultrasonic Guided Wave
  Qiben Yan, Kehai Liu, Qin Zhou, Hanqing Guo, and Ning Zhang
  NDSS 2020
  San Diego, CA, USA, Feb. 23-26, 2020. Project Website. [BibTex]
(Acceptance ratio: 88/506=17.4%)
Reported by media globally: Scientific American, Science Daily, Futurity, BBC Radio, Popular Mechanics, Inverse, Gizmodo ...

2019

• Deep and Broad URL Feature Mining for Android Malware Detection
  Shanshan Wang, Zhenxiang Chen, Qiben Yan, Ke Ji, Lizhi Peng, Bo Yang, Mauro Conti
  Information Sciences, Nov. 2019. [BibTex]
• Jamsa: A Utility Optimal Contextual Online Learning Framework for Anti-jamming Wireless Scheduling Under Reactive Jamming Attack
  Pan Zhou, Qiben Yan, Kehao Wang, Menglan Hu, Shouling Ji, Kaigui Bian
  IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, Nov. 2019. [BibTex]
• Privacy-Preserving and Residential Context-Aware Online Learning for IoT-Enabled Energy Saving with Big Data Support in Smart Home Environment
  P. Zhou, G. Zhong, M. Hu, R. Li, Q. Yan, Kun. Wang, S. Ji, D. Wu
  IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Vol. 6, No. 5, Oct. 2019. [BibTex]
• Demystifying Application Performance Management Libraries for Android
  Yutian Tang, Zhan Xian, Hao Zhou, Xiapu Luo, Zhou Xu, Yajin Zhou, and Qiben Yan
  IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2019)
  San Diego, CA, USA, November 11-15, 2019. [BibTex]
• Obfusifier: Obfuscation-resistant Android Malware Detection System
  Zhiqiang Li, Jun Sun, Qiben Yan, Witawas Srisa-An, and Yutaka Tsutano
  15th International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm 2019)
  Orlando, FL, USA, October 23-25, 2019. [BibTex]
• Tail Amplification in n-Tier Systems: A Study of Transient Cross-Resource Contention Attacks
  Shungeng Zhang, Huasong Shan, Qingyang Wang, Jianshu Liu, Qiben Yan, and Jinpeng Wei
  IEEE ICDCS 2019
  Dallas, Texas, USA, July 2019. [BibTex]
• Characterizing Location-based Mobile Tracking in Mobile Ad Networks
  B. Hu, Q. Lin, Y. Zheng, Q. Yan, M. Troglia, and Q. Wang
  IEEE CNS 2019
  Washington D.C., USA, June 2019. [BibTex](Acceptance ratio: 32/115=27.8%)
• DART: Detecting Unseen Malware Variants Using Adaptation Regularization Transfer Learning
  H. Li, Z. Chen, R. Spolaor, Q. Yan, C. Zhao, L. Peng, and B. Yang
  IEEE ICC 2019
  Shanghai, China, May 2019. [BibTex]
• Detecting Vulnerable Android Inter-App Communication in Dynamically Loaded Code
  M. Alhanahnah, Q. Yan, H. Bagheri, H. Zhou, Y. Tsutano, W. Srisa-an, and X. Luo
  IEEE INFOCOM 2019
  Paris, France, April 2019. [BibTex](Acceptance ratio: 19.7%)
• On User Selective Eavesdropping Attacks in MU-MIMO: CSI Forgery and Countermeasure
  S. Wang, Z. Chen, Y. Xu, Q. Yan, C. Xu, and X. Wang
  IEEE INFOCOM 2019
  Paris, France, April 2019. [BibTex](Acceptance ratio: 19.7%)

2018

• Deep and Broad Learning based Detection of Android Malware via Network Traffic
  S. Wang, Z. Chen, Q. Yan, K. Ji, L. Wang, B. Yang, and M. Conti
  IEEE/ACM IWQoS 2018 Short Paper
  Banff, Alberta, Canada, June 2018. [BibTex]
• GranDroid: Graph-based Detection of Malicious Network Behaviors in Android Applications
  Z. Li, J. Sun, Q. Yan, W. Srisa-an, and S. Bachala
  SecureComm 2018
  Singapore, Singapore, Aug. 2018. [BibTex]
• Lexical Mining of Malicious URLs for Classifying Android malware
  S. Wang, Q. Yan, Z. Chen, L. Wang, R. Spolaor, B. Yang, and M. Conti
  SecureComm 2018
  Singapore, Singapore, Aug. 2018. [BibTex]
• Perceptions of Smartphone App Data Security and Privacy Leakage
  E. Brank, Q. Yan, E. Marshall, and J. Groscup
  American Psychological Association's conference on Technology, Mind & Society
  Washington DC, April, 2018. [BibTex]
• Uplink MU-MIMO in Asynchronous Wireless LANs
  H. Zeng, H. Li, and Q. Yan
  Mobihoc 2018
  Los Angeles, USA, June, 2018. [BibTex]
• Efficient Signature Generation for Classifying Cross-Architecture IoT Malware
  M. Alhanahnah, Q. Lin, Q. Yan, N. Zhang, and Z. Chen
  IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (IEEE CNS) 2018
  Beijing, China, May, 2018. [BibTex]
• PSCluster: Differentially Private Spatial Cluster Detection for Mobile Crowdsourcing Applications
  B. Hu, B. Zhou. Q. Yan, A. Alim, F. Chen, and H. Zeng
  IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (IEEE CNS) 2018
  Beijing, China, May, 2018. [BibTex]
• Towards Best Secure Coding Practice for Implementing SSL/TLS
  M. Alhanahnah, and Q. Yan
  IEEE INFOCOM 2018 Workshop: MobiSec 2018
  Honolulu, HI, USA, Apr., 2018. [BibTex]
• High-Bandwidth Ultrasonic Communication Using Graphene-based Acoustic Devices
  Q. Xia, Q. Yan, and Q. Zhou
  IEEE INFOCOM 2018: Demo
  Honolulu, HI, USA, Apr., 2018. [BibTex] Best Demo Award
• Tracking Location Privacy Leakage of Mobile Ad Networks at Scale
  B. Hu, Q. Yan, and Y. Zheng
  IEEE INFOCOM 2018: Poster
  Honolulu, HI, USA, Apr., 2018. [BibTex]

2017

• Black Penguin: On the Feasibility of Detecting Intrusion with Homogeneous Memory
  N. Zhang, R. Zhang, Q. Yan, W. Lou, T. Hou, and D. Yao
  IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (IEEE CNS) 2017 Network Forensics Workshop
  Las Vegas, NV, USA, Oct., 2017. [BibTex]
• Very Short Intermittent DDoS Attacks in an Unsaturated System
  H. Shan, Q. Wang and Q. Yan
  International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SECURECOMM)
  Niagara Falls, Canada, Oct., 2017. [BibTex]
• SPRIDE: Scalable and Private Continual Geo-Distance Evaluation for Precision Agriculture
  Q. Yan, H. Yang, M. C. Vuran, and S. Irmak
  IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (IEEE CNS) 2017
  Las Vegas, NV, USA, Oct., 2017. [BibTex]
• Enabling Jamming-Resilient Communications in Wireless MIMO Networks
  H. Zeng, C. Cao, H. Li, and Q. Yan
  IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (IEEE CNS) 2017
  Las Vegas, NV, USA, Oct., 2017. [BibTex]
• TextDroid: Semantics-based Detection of Mobile Malware Using Network Flows
  S. Wang, Q. Yan, Z. Chen, B. Yang, C. Zhao, and M. Conti
  IEEE INFOCOM 2017 Workshop: MobiSec 2017
  Atlanta, GA, USA, May, 2017. [BibTex]
• Security Analysis of Internet-of-Things: A Case Study of August Smart Lock
  M. Ye, N. Jiang, H. Yang, and Q. Yan
  IEEE INFOCOM 2017 Workshop: MobiSec 2017
  Atlanta, GA, USA, May, 2017. [BibTex]
• Identity Management using Blockchain for Cognitive Cellular Networks
  S. Raju, S. Boddepalli, S. Gampa, Q. Yan and J. Deogun
  IEEE ICC 2017
  Paris, France, May, 2017. [BibTex]
• Design and Analysis of Elastic Handoff in Cognitive Cellular Networks
  S. Raju, S. Boddepalli, N. Choudhury, Q. Yan and J. Deogun
  IEEE ICC 2017
  Paris, France, May, 2017. [BibTex]

Prior to 2017

• SigPID: Significant Permission Identification for Android Malware Detection
  L. Sun, Z. Li, Q. Yan, W. Srisa-An and Y. Pan
  The 11th International Conference on Malicious and Unwanted Software (MALWARE 2016)
  Puerto Rico, USA, October, 2016.
• DroidClassifier: Efficient Adaptive Mining of Application-Layer Header for Classifying Android Malware
  Z. Li, L. Sun, Q. Yan, W. Srisa-An and Z. Chen
  SECURECOMM 2016
  Guangzhou, China, October, 2016. (Acceptance ratio: 30/137=23.4%)
• Achieving 5As in Cloud Centric Cognitive Cellular Networks
  S. Raju, S. Boddepalli, Q. Yan, J. Deogun
  IEEE GLOBECOM 2016
  Washington DC, USA, December 2016.
• TrafficAV: An Effective and Explainable Detection of Mobile Malware Behavior using Network Traffic
  S. Wang, L. Zhang, Z. Chen, Q. Yan, B. Yang, L. Peng, Z. Jia
  2016 IEEE 24th International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS)
  Beijing, China, June 2016.
• PeerClean: Unveiling Peer-to-Peer Botnets through Dynamic Group Behavior Analysis
  Q. Yan, Y. Zheng, T. Jiang, W. Lou, Y.T. Hou
  IEEE INFOCOM 2015
  Hong Kong, Apr. 2015. (Acceptance ratio: 316/1640=19%)
• A First Look at Android Malware Traffic in First Few Minutes
  Z. Chen, H. Han, Q. Yan, B. Yang, L. Peng, L. Zhang, J. Li.
  IEEE TrustCom 2015
  Helsinki, Finland, Aug. 2015.
• MIMO-based Jamming Resilient Communication in Wireless Networks
  Q. Yan, H. Zeng, T. Jiang, M. Li, W. Lou, Y.T. Hou
  IEEE INFOCOM 2014
  Toronto, ON, Canada, Apr. 2014. (Acceptance ratio: 320/1645=19.4%)
• Proximity-based Security Using Ambient Radio Signals
  L. Xiao, Q. Yan, W. Lou, Y.T. Hou
  IEEE ICC 2013
  Budapest, Hungary, June 2013.
• Non-parametric Passive Traffic Monitoring in Cognitive Radio Networks
  Q. Yan, M. Li, F. Chen, T. Jiang, W. Lou, Y.T. Hou, C.T. Lu
  IEEE INFOCOM 2013
  Turin, Italy, Apr. 2013. (Acceptance ratio: 17%)
• Vulnerability and Protection for Distributed Consensus-based Spectrum Sensing in Cognitive Radio Networks
  Q. Yan, M. Li, T. Jiang, W. Lou, Y.T. Hou
  IEEE INFOCOM 2012
  Orlando, FL, USA, Mar. 2012. (Acceptance ratio: 18%)

Journal Papers Prior to 2019

• Significant Permission Identification for Machine Learning Based Android Malware Detection
  L. Sun, J. Li, Q. Yan, Z. Li, W. Srisa-an, H. Ye
  IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Jan. 2018. [BibTex]
• Detecting Android Malware Leveraging Text Semantics of Network Flows
  S. Wang, Q. Yan, Z. Chen, B. Yang, C. Zhao, M. Conti
  IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics Security, Nov. 2017. [BibTex]
• Machine Learning Based Mobile Malware Detection Using Highly Imbalanced Network Traffic
  Z. Chen, Q. Yan, H. Han, S. Wang, L. Peng, L. Wang, B. Yang
  Information Sciences April 2017. [BibTex]
• Jamming Resilient Communication using MIMO Interference Cancellation
  Q. Yan, H. Zeng, T. Jiang, M. Li, W. Lou, Y.T. Hou
  IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics Security, Vol. 11, No. 7, July 2016. [BibTex]
• SpecMonitor: Towards Efficient Passive Traffic Monitoring for Cognitive Radio Networks
  Q. Yan, M. Li , F. Chen, T. Jiang, W. Lou, Y.T. Hou, C.T. Lu
  IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 13, No. 10, July 2014. [BibTex]
• Proximity-based Security Techniques for Mobile Users in Wireless Networks
  L. Xiao, Q. Yan, W. Lou, G. Chen, Y.T. Hou
  IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics Security, Vol. 8, No. 12, Dec. 2013. [BibTex]
• On the Limitation of Embedding Cryptographic Signature for Primary Transmitter Authentication
  T. Jiang, H. Zeng, Q. Yan, W. Lou, Y.T. Hou
  IEEE Wireless Communication Letter, Vol. 1, No. 4, August 2012. [BibTex]
• Throughput Analysis of Cooperative Mobile Content Distribution in Vehicular Ad hoc Networks using Symbol Level Network Coding
  Q. Yan, M. Li, Z. Yang, W. Lou, H. Zhai
  IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), Special Issue on Cooperative Networking: Challenges and Applications, Vol. 30, No. 2, February 2012. [BibTex]

Technical Reports

• Throughput Analysis of Cooperative Mobile Content Distribution in Vehicular Ad hoc Networks using Symbol Level Network Coding
  Q. Yan, M. Li, Z. Yang, W. Lou, H. Zhai
  Technical Report, Dec. 2011.