Song Gao is among the very few (and the only one from Computer Science) winning the College of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Award. He was also awarded the outstanding graduating PhD student of Computer Science. Congratulations to Song on this honor! Who’s next? 🙂
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Paper accepted to ICME 2014
Top conference, accepted as a full paper for oral presentation, acceptance rate 13.7% (98/716). Congratulations to SPIES students Song and Manar.
Gaming the Game: Defeating a Game CAPTCHA with Efficient and Robust Hybrid Attacks. Song Gao, Manar Mohamed, Nitesh Saxena, and Chengcui Zhang. In Security and Forensics Track, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), 2014.
SPIES girls finish third at Facebook CTF
Manar Mohamed, Dibya Mukhopadhyay and Maliheh Shirvanian, SPIES PhD students, won the third prize at the Facebook Capture the Flag competition held at UAB last week. Congrats to the SPIES women power 🙂
Strong Presence at NDSS 2014
SPIES researchers had a blast at NDSS/USEC 2014, held last week in San Diego, with 3 papers and 1 distinguished paper award. Plus, lots of drinking 🙂
Distinguished paper award at NDSS
The Neural Signatures paper won the distinguished paper award at NDSS. Congratulations to Ajaya. 
UAB Reporter Reports on Song Gao's Entrepreneurship Award
Awards enable grad students to tackle big ideas, solve real problems , UAB Reporter, Feb 13, 2014
Paper accepted to ASIACCS 2014
A Three-Way Investigation of a Game-CAPTCHA: Automated Attacks, Relay Attacks and Usability. Manar Mohamed, Niharika Sachdeva, Michael Georgescu, Song Gao, Nitesh Saxena, Chengcui Zhang, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, Paul C. Van Oorschot and Wei-Bang Chen. In ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS), June 2014.
Paper accepted to USEC 2014
Dynamic Cognitive Game CAPTCHA Usability and Detection of Streaming-Based Farming. Manar Mohamed, Song Gao, Nitesh Saxena, and Chengcui Zhang. In the Workshop on Usable Security (USEC), co-located with NDSS, February 2014.
Our credit card fraud study paper accepted to a major Psychology conference
Consumer anxiety concerning credit/debit card fraud. Manasvee Godbole, Jacinta Cai, Michael Georgescu, Oliver Nick Harper, Nitesh Saxena, David Schwebel, and John Sloan. To be presented at the 122nd American Psychological Association (APA), August 2014.
Song Gao wins an entrepreneurship award
Song Gao is one of the only two winners of the College of Arts and Sciences Graduate Student Entrepreneurship Awards, 2014. The award is based on Song’s dissertation research on next generation CAPTCHAs.