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TAMU SPIES Lab Wins CCS 2025 Distinguished Paper Award!

Posted on October 20, 2025 by nsaxena

We are delighted to share that our paper, “Harnessing Vital Sign Vibration Harmonics for Effortless and Inbuilt XR User Authentication,” has received the Distinguished Paper Award at the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) 2025.

This recognition highlights the impact and innovation of our collaborative work, which introduces a novel authentication mechanism leveraging vibration harmonics derived from users’ vital signs within extended reality (XR) systems to enable continuous, effortless, and built-in user verification.

The acceptance rate for CCS 2025 was 13.9% (316 accepted out of 2,278 submissions), and only about 1% of all submitted papers received a Distinguished Paper Award.

Congratulations to the entire team for this outstanding achievement!

#ACMCCS2025 #CyberSecurity #XR #Authentication

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