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SPIES Lab’s 16th PhD Graduate – Mashari Alatawi

Posted on March 4, 2024 by Jimmy Dani

Congratulations to Mashari Alatawi for defending his PhD dissertation. On the pertinent topic of end-to-end encryption security, including authentication ceremonies and client-side scanning. Recent pretty good papers at CODASPY’24, WiSec’23 and more. He will be taking on a tenure-track assistant professor position at King Saud University, a top-tier school in his home country Saudi Arabia

The 16th PhD graduate of the SPIES Lab@TAMU. 🥂

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Paper accepted to CODASPY 2024

Posted on February 27, 2024 by Jimmy Dani

  • Automating Key Fingerprint Comparisons in Secure Mobile Messaging Apps: A Case Study of Signal
    Mashari Alatawi and Nitesh Saxena
    In the 14th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY), June 2024.

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Dr. Saxena Joins U.S. AI Safety Consortium Effort

Posted on February 11, 2024 by Jimmy Dani

Dr. Saxena will be part of the pivotal initiative on Texas A&M’s engagement in the U.S. AI Safety Institute Consortium with NIST, a collaboration that brings together over 200 of America’s top AI stakeholders to promote the development of AI that is safe, secure, and trustworthy.

For more information about the program, please visit the TAMIDS website.

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Two SPIES graduates starting as Professors…

Posted on January 12, 2024 by nsaxena

Zengrui Liu and Cagri Arisoy, the latest PhD graduates from the SPIES lab, are both starting as tenure-track assistant professors this Spring. Zengrui will be joining the College of Information Engineering at the Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, China. Cagri will be joining the College Engineering Computer Engineering department at the Yozgat Bozok University. Turkey.

Congratulations to both! They will be applying their unique education, research and teaching skills to serve their home countries!

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3 new PhD students join the lab

Posted on January 10, 2024 by nsaxena

A warm welcome to the three new members of the SPIES Lab, starting their PhD degrees in Spring 2024.

Sonjoy Kumar Paul

  1. Kalyan Nakka
  2. Sonjoy Paul
  3. Md Shahidur Rahman

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Journal paper accepted to ACM TOPS 2023

Posted on November 2, 2023 by nsaxena

  • Sound-based Two-Factor Authentication: Vulnerabilities and Redesign
    Prakash Shrestha, Ahmed Tanvir Mahdad and Nitesh Saxena.

In ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (TOPS), 2023.

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SPIES Lab’s 15th PhD Graduate — Cagri Arisoy

Posted on October 12, 2023 by Zengrui Liu

Cagri Arisoy just defended his PhD dissertation.

A comprehensive study of “cognitive security”, with many new insights dissecting the weakest link in the security chain.

Cagri Arisoy will soon be starting as a tenure-track assistant professor in Turkey, continuing to break new grounds in the field.

Congratulations! The 15th PhD graduate of the lab.

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SPIES Lab’s 14th PhD Graduate — Zengrui Liu

Posted on October 4, 2023 by Zengrui Liu

Zengrui Liu just defended his PhD dissertation. Solid work on browser fingerprint spoofing (aka “Gummy Browsers“), and the measurement of regulatory compliance (aka “opted out yet tracked“) and the use of fingerprinting in tracking.

SPIES Lab’s 14th PhD graduate! Congratulations!

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Paper accepted to CCS 2023

Posted on September 2, 2023 by nsaxena

FaceReader: Unobtrusively Mining Vital Signs and Vital Sign Embedded Sensitive Info via AR/VR Motion Sensors
Tianfang Zhang, Zhengkun Ye, Ahmed Tanvir Mahdad, Md Mojibur Rahman Redoy Akanda, Cong Shi, Yan Wang, Nitesh Saxena and Yingying Chen
In the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), November 2023.

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Paper accepted to PETS 2024

Posted on August 31, 2023 by nsaxena

Opted Out, Yet Tracked: Are Regulations Enough to Protect Your  Privacy?
Zengrui Liu, Umar Iqbal and Nitesh Saxena
Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS)/Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PoPETs). July 2024.
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Recent News

  • Paper accepted to ACM CCS 2025 July 2, 2025
  • News: Security and Accessibility Gaps in Web Authentication for Blind and Visually Impaired Users June 30, 2025
  • Paper accepted to ICME 2025 June 24, 2025
  • SPIES Lab’s Browser Fingerprinting Work in the News June 23, 2025
  • Journal paper accepted to IEEE TIFS June 19, 2025
  • SPIES Lab’s Browser Fingerprinting Work Features in News June 18, 2025
  • Paper Accepted to USENIX Security 2025 June 6, 2025
  • 2 Papers Accepted to PST 2025 June 6, 2025
  • AI Spies News — BPSniff (IEEE S&P 2025) Paper News Story May 12, 2025
  • Launching the AI Spies News Channel May 12, 2025
  • Paper accepted to WiSec 2025 May 11, 2025
  • SPIES Lab’s Secure Messaging Work Features in News May 3, 2025
  • SPIES Lab Student to Start as an Assistant Professor April 18, 2025
  • Dr. Saxena’s Primer on Secure Communications in News Media March 31, 2025
  • Dr. Saxena recognized with the Dean’s Excellence Award! February 14, 2025
  • Dr. Saxena appointed as the Senior Area Editor, IEEE TIFS February 6, 2025
  • 2 Full Papers Accepted to WWW 2025 January 20, 2025
  • Journal paper accepted to IEEE TMC December 18, 2024
  • New post-doctoral researcher joins the lab December 11, 2024
  • Paper Accepted to ACM Computing Surveys 2024 November 30, 2024

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