Dr. Saxena to co-lead a new project funded by NSA. We will be focusing on developing advanced AI techniques for malware detection.
https://engineering.tamu.edu/news/2022/10/national-security-agency-awards-grant-to-texas-am-researchers.html
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Dr. Saxena appointed as a Dean’s Research Fellow
Dr. Saxena has been appointed as a College of Engineering Dean’s Research Fellow. He will be leading the effort towards strengthening the College’s research portfolio in Data Science and Cybersecurity initiatives.
The College of Engineering at A&M ranks 10th globally among all graduate programs. It houses 15 strong academic departments, of which Computer Science and Engineering is one.
Dr. Saxena to lead a new SaTC Medium project on Election Security
Dr. Saxena will be leading a newly-funded $1.2M SaTC Medium project on election security. He, in collaboration with researchers from Rice and UAB, will be building “Bubble-Aid”, an assistive AI tool to accurately read bubble marks on paper ballots and detect potential voter fraud.
SPIES Lab’s 12th PhD Graduate — Anuradha Mandal
Anuradha Mandal defends her PhD dissertation. Concrete investigation of the privacy threats of human brain interfaces. Great work, intriguing insights.
SPIES Lab’s 12th PhD graduate!
SPIES Lab’s 11th PhD Graduate – Payton Walker
Payton Walker defended his PhD. Real impactful work, even including hard negative results. 3 years in the PhD program 10+ papers, including several top-tiers @ EuroS&P, Mobicom, ACSAC, ASIACCS, etc. Will next be at MITRE’s National Security Accelerator Program. He is SPIES Lab’s 11th PhD graduate. Congratulations! Who is next?
Two papers accepted to PST 2022
- Human Brains Can’t Detect Fake News: A Neuro-Cognitive Study of Textual Disinformation Susceptibility
Cagri Arisoy, Anuradha Mandal and Nitesh Saxena
In the International Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust (PST), 2022
[pdf] - Mobile Mental Health Apps: Alternative Intervention or Intrusion?
Shalini Saini, Dhiral Panjwani, Nitesh Saxena
In the International Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust (PST), 2022
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Paper accepted to ICDCS 2022
- Defending against Thru-barrier Stealthy Voice Attacks via Cross-Domain Sensing on Phoneme Sounds
Cong Shi, Tianming Zhao, Wenjin Zhang, Ahmed Tanvir Mahdad, Zhengkun Ye, Yan Wang, Nitesh Saxena and Yingying Chen
In the 42nd IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), July 2022
Paper accepted CHIL 2022
- Predatory Medicine: Exploring and Measuring the Vulnerability of Medical AI to Predatory Science
Shalini Saini, Nitesh Saxena.
In The Conference on Health, Inference, and Learning (CHIL), April 2022.
2 papers accepted to WiSec 2022
- SoK: Your Mind Tells a Lot About You: On the Privacy Leakage via Brainwave Devices
Anuradha Mandal and Nitesh Saxena
In the 15th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec), May 2022 - BiasHacker: Voice Command Disruption by Exploiting Speaker Biases in Automatic Speech Recognition
Payton Walker, Nathan McClaran, Zihao Zheng, Nitesh Saxena and Guofei Gu
In the 15th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec), May 2022
Paper accepted to EuroS&P 2022
- Laser Meager Listener: A Scientific Exploration of Laser-based Speech Eavesdropping in Commercial User Space
Payton Walker and Nitesh Saxena
In the 7th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P), June 2022.