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CATCHA: When Cats  Track Your Movements Online
Prakash Shrestha, Nitesh Saxena, Ajaya Neupane and Kiavash Satvat
International Conference on Information Security Practice and Experience (ISPEC), November, 2019

• Stethoscope: Crypto Phones with Transparent & Robust Fingerprint Comparisons using Inter Text-Speech Transformations
  Maliheh Shirvanian, and Nitesh Saxena
  International Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust (PST), August, 2019
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• ZEMFA: Zero-Effort Multi-Factor Authentication based on Multi-Modal Gait Biometrics
  Babins Shrestha, Manar Mohamed and Nitesh Saxena
  International Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust (PST), August, 2019
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• Compromising Speech Privacy under Continuous Masking in Personal Spaces
  S Abhishek Anand, Payton Walker and Nitesh Saxena
  International Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust (PST), August, 2019
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• Brain Hemorrhage: When Brainwaves Leak Sensitive Medical Conditions and Personal Information
  Ajaya Neupane, Kiavash Satvat, Mahshid Hosseini and Nitesh Saxena
  International Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust (PST), August, 2019
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Prakash Shrestha wins the Dean’s Award for Outstanding Graduating PhD Student at the Honors Convocation. Congratulations!

The SPIES lab’s paper at Percom 2019 was a runner up for the prestigious Mark Weiser Best Paper Award:
Quantifying the Breakability of Mobile Assistants
Maliheh Shirvanian, Summer Vo and Nitesh Saxena
International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom), March 2019.
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Quantifying the Breakability of Mobile Assistants
Maliheh Shirvanian, Summer Vo and Nitesh Saxena
International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom), March 2019.

Acceptance rate as low as 17% (89/521):
The Crux of Voice (In)Security: A Brain Study of Speaker Legitimacy Detection
Ajaya Neupane, Nitesh Saxena, Leanne Hirshfield and Sarah Bratt
In the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), February 2019.
 

Do Social Disorders Facilitate Social Engineering? A Case Study of Autism and Phishing Attacks.
Ajaya Neupane, Kiavash Satvat, Nitesh Saxena, Despina Stavrinos and Haley J. Bishop
In the 34th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), December 2018

Sensor-based Proximity Detection in the Face of Active Adversaries
Babins Shrestha, Nitesh Saxena, Hien Truong and N. Asokan.
In IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC),
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Maliheh Shirvanian received the College Dean’s Award for the outstanding graduating PhD student in the whole college and the outstanding graduating student in the CS department. Congratulations!
 

Listening Watch: Wearable Two-Factor Authentication using Speech Signals Resilient to Near-Far Attacks .
Prakash Shrestha, and Nitesh Saxena
In ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec), To appear in June 2018.
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