Research Highlight

Research Areas

• IoT Security and Privacy: wireless physical-layer security; IoT device and platform security
• Mobile Security: mobile malware detection; mobile Apps security analysis; mobile privacy
• System Security: AI security, blockchain, cyber threat intelligence, differential privacy, malware and botnet
• Wireless Communication Networks: future-generation wireless networking, new Internet architecture

Open Data

• STM Registry for smart contract threat mitigation (Refer to our ACM Computing Surveys paper for details!)
• Cyber Threat Intelligence Data Collected From 73 Security Data Sources (Refer to our RAID2020 paper for details!)
• Labeled Cyber Threat Intelligence Data

Funded Research Projects

• SaTC: CORE: Small: Robust Speaker and Speech Recognition Under AI-Driven Physical and Digital Attacks, National Science Foundation, 10/1/2023-9/30/2026, PI. (Co-PI: Dr. Li Xiao, Dr. Arun Ross) (Project website)
• CPS: Medium: Collaborative Research: Robust Sensing and Learning for Autonomous Driving Against Perceptual Illusion, National Science Foundation, 7/1/2023-6/30/2026, Lead PI. (MSU Co-PI: Dr. Sijia Liu, Dr. Xiaoming Liu) (Project website)
• Speech Amplification Devices and Speech Clarity: Application to Parkinson’s disease and hypophonia, Trifecta Initiative Facilitating Funds (TIFF) Award, 2023-2024,, Co-PI (with PI: Dr. Thea Knowles).
• Building AI-Driven Smart Home IoT Platforms, Cisco Research, 2023-2024, $70,000, PI.
• Michigan State University IAC (Industrial Assessment Center), U.S. Department of Energy, 2021-2026, 2.25 million, Co-PI (Director: Dr. Kristen Cetin). Website: https://iac.msu.edu/
• A Multi-Sensor Integrated Blockchain Framework for Connected Vehicles, FORD summer project, FORD Motor Co., May 2020 – August 2020, $16,000. PI: Qiben Yan.
• REU: SaTC: CORE: Small: URadio: Towards Secure Smart Home IoT Communication Using Hybrid Ultrasonic-RF Radio, National Science Foundation, 9/1/2021-8/31/2023, PI. (Project website)
• SaTC: CORE: Small: URadio: Towards Secure Smart Home IoT Communication Using Hybrid Ultrasonic-RF Radio, National Science Foundation, 9/1/2018-8/31/2023, PI. (Project website)
• NeTS: Small: Collaborative Research: Cooperative Interference-Embracing Communication in Multi-Hop Wireless Networks, National Science Foundation, 9/1/2017-8/31/2020, PI. (Project website)
• SpecEES: Collaborative Research: CoSeC-RAN: Cognitive Secure Cloud RAN for Efficient Spectrum Sharing, National Science Foundation, 10/1/2017-9/30/2020, Co-PI (with PI Mehmet C. Vuran, Co-PI Demet Batur and Co-PI Jennifer Ryan).
• CRII: SaTC: Towards Non-Intrusive Detection of Resilient Mobile Malware and Botnet using Application Traffic Measurement, National Science Foundation, 08/01/2016-07/31/2018, PI. (Project website)
• Privacy Leakage and Policy Enforcement of Mobile System, UNL Social and Behavioral Sciences Research Consortium (SBSRC) Voucher Grant, 01/01/2016-07/31/2017, $4,800. PI.