Prakash Shrestha wins the Dean’s Award for Outstanding Graduating PhD Student at the Honors Convocation. Congratulations!
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Runner Up, The Mark Weiser Best Paper Award
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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Paper accepted to Percom 2019
Quantifying the Breakability of Mobile Assistants
Maliheh Shirvanian, Summer Vo and Nitesh Saxena
International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom), March 2019.
Paper accepted to NDSS 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.
Paper accepted to ACSAC 2018
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
Journal paper accepted to IEEE TMC
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 Honored with the Dean's Award
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!
Paper accepted to WiSec 2018
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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Journal paper accepted to TDSC
Noisy Vibrational Pairing of IoT Devices
Abhishek Anand, and Nitesh Saxena
In IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), Special Issue on Emerging Attacks and Solutions for Secure Hardware in the Internet of Things, 2018.
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Paper accepted to CNS 2018
Home Alone: The Insider Threat of Unattended Wearables and A Defense using Audio Proximity.
Prakash Shrestha, Babins Shrestha and Nitesh Saxena
In IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS), May/June 2018..
