2024:

• [March 2024]Our paper "CODER: Protecting Privacy in Image Retrieval with Differential Privacy" has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing.
• [February 2024]I have been awarded the distinction of Distinguished Member of the 2024 IEEE INFOCOM Technical Program Committee
• [January 2024]Our paper "PAGE: Equilibrate Personalization and Generalization in Federated Learning" has been accepted by WWW 2024.

2023:

• [December 2023]Congratulations Izabela Savic for winning Best Student Paper Award at the 4th International Conference on Emerging Information Security and Applications (EISA 2023).
• [December 2023]I have been awarded Exemplary Editor for The IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society (OJ-COMS).
• [November 2023]Our paper "Decentralized Threshold Signatures with Dynamically Private Accountability" has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security.
• [November 2023]Congratulations to Wenjing Zhang on a successful defense of her PhD dissertation "Machine Learning Approaches to Spatial-Temporal Density Release with Information-Theoretic Privacy"!
• [September 2023]Our paper "RECESS Vaccine for Federated Learning: Proactive Defense Against Model Poisoning Attacks" has been accepted by NeurIPS 2023.
• [August 2023]Our paper "Why Trick Me: The Honeypot Traps on Decentralized Exchanges" has been accepted by The 3rd ACM CCS Workshop on Decentralized Finance and Security (ACM DeFi 23).
• [July 2023]Our paper "ALIF: Low-Cost Adversarial Audio Attacks on Black-Box Speech Platforms Using Linguistic Features" has been accepted by IEEE S&P 2024.
• [June 2023]Our paper "Write Blocker for Internet of Things Flash Technologies" has been accepted by 20th Annual International Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust (PST 2023).
• [April 2023]I have been awarded the distinction of Distinguished Member of the 2023 IEEE INFOCOM Technical Program Committee
• [February 2023]Our paper "Class Attention Transfer Based Knowledge Distillation" has been accepted by CVPR 2023.
• [February 2023]Our paper "Automatic Evasion of Machine Learning-Based Network Intrusion Detection Systems" has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing.
• [February 2023]Our paper "Blockchain-based Fair and Fine-grained Data Trading with Privacy Preservation" has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Computers.

2022:

• [December 2022]Our paper "Blockchain-Based Public Integrity Verification for Cloud Storage against Procrastinating Auditors" won the the runner-up for the 2021 Best Paper Award for IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing.
• [November 2022]Our paper "FedDual: Pair-wise gossip helps Federated Learning in large decentralized networks" has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security.
• [September 2022]Congratulations to Liang Xue on a successful defense of her PhD dissertation "Privacy-Preserving and Regulation-Enabled Mechanisms for Blockchain-based Financial Services".
• [July 2022]Our paper "TokenAware: Accurate and Efficient Bookkeeping Recognition for Token Smart Contracts" has been accepted by ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology.
• [July 2022]Our paper "Understanding Flash-Loan-based Wash Trading" has been accepted by ACM Advances in Financial Technologies (ACM AFT 2022).
• [April 2022]Our paper "ARCANE: An Efficient Architecture for Exact Machine Unlearning" has been accepted by IJCAI 2022.
• [March 2022]Our paper "Heterogeneous Computation and Resource Allocation for Wireless Powered Federated Edge Learning Systems" has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Communications.
• [March 2022]Our paper "BlackFeather: A framework for Background Noise Forensics" has been accepted by DFRWS USA 2022.
• [February 2022]I have been awarded the distinction of Distinguished Member of the 2022 IEEE INFOCOM Technical Program Committee
• [February 2022]Our paper "Privacy-Preserving Aggregate Mobility Data Release: An Information-Theoretic Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach" has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security.
• [January 2022]Our paper "Blockchain-Cloud Transparent Data Marketing: Consortium Management and Fairness" has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Computers.
• [January 2022]Our paper "Enabling Strong Privacy Preservation and Accurate Task Allocation for Mobile Crowdsensing" won the 2020 Best Paper Award for IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.
• [January 2022]Our paper "Enabling Regulatory Compliance and Enforcement in Decentralized Anonymous Payment" has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing.

2021:

• [December 2021]I have been awarded Exemplary Editor for The IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society (OJ-COMS).
• [December 2021]Our paper "Dual-Anonymous Off-Line Electronic Cash for Mobile Payment" has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.
• [November 2021]Our paper "Voxstructor: Voice Reconstruction from Voiceprint" won the Best Paper Award at ISC 2021.
• [September 2021]Our paper "Voxstructor: Voice Reconstruction from Voiceprint" has been accepted by ISC 2021.
• [July 2021]I was honored with the prestigious 2021 Communications and Information Security (CISTC) Technical Recognition Award from IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) for "his contribution to security field".
• [May 2021]Our paper "Understanding and Detecting Mobile Ad Fraud Through the Lens of Invalid Traffic" has been accepted by ACM CCS 2021.
• [March 2021]I have been promoted to the rank of full professor, effective from July 1, 2021!
• [February 2021]Our paper "A Comprehensive Survey on Smart Contract Construction and Execution: Paradigms, Tools and Systems" has been published by Cell Patterns.

2020:

• [December 2020]Congratulations to Mohammad Khan on his successful defense of Master's thesis "An effective positive-unlabeled learning method for detecting a large scale of malware variants"!
• [December 2020]I was honored with the 2020 Communications and Information Security (CISTC) Outstanding Service Award from IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) for "his excellent contribution to security field, to ComSoc and to CISTC, where he has been Secretary, Vice-Chair and Chair".
• [December 2020]Our paper "A Deep Learning Framework Supporting Model Ownership Protection and Traitor Tracing" won the Best Paper Award at The 26th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2020)!
• [December 2020]Our paper "ShadowPLCs: A Novel Scheme for Remote Detection of Industrial Process Control Attacks" has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing.
• [September 2020]Our paper "Enabling Efficient, Secure and Privacy-preserving Mobile Cloud Storage" has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing.
• [August 2020]Our paper "Practical and Secure SVM Classification for Cloud-based Remote Clinical Decision Services" has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Computers.
• [July 2020]I serve as Program Co-Chair for DFRWS USA 2020.
• [January 2020]Our paper "SODA: A Generic Online Detection Framework for Smart Contracts" has been accepted by NDSS 2020.

2019:

• [December 2019]Our paper "iFinger: Intrusion Detection in Industrial Control Systems via Register-Based Fingerprinting" has been accepted by IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC).
• [July 2019]I serve as Program Vice Chair for DFRWS USA 2019.
• [June 2019]Our paper "Efficient and Secure Decision Tree Classification for Cloud-Assisted Online Diagnosis Services" has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing.
• [April 2019]Congratulations to Amal Alahmadi on her successful defense of Master's thesis "Towards Secure and Fair IIoT-Enabled Supply Chain Management via Blockchain-based Smart Contracts"!

2018:

• [August 2018]Our book "Privacy-Enhancing Fog Computing and Its Applications" will be published by Springer.
• [August 2018]My computer forensics textbook "Introductory Computer Forensics: A Hands-on Practical Approach" will be published by Springer.
• [August 2018]Congratulations to Sultan Basudan on a successful defense of his PhD dissertation "Secure and privacy-preserving fog-assisted vehicular crowdsensing"!
• [July 2018]Our paper "Enabling Efficient and Geometric Range Query with Access Control over Encrypted Spatial Data" is accepted for publication by IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security.
• [July 2018]Congratulations to Jianbing Ni on a successful defense of his PhD dissertation "Security and Privacy Preservation in Mobile Crowdsensing"!
• [May 2018]Our paper "MARP: A Distributed MAC Layer Attack Resistant Pseudonym Scheme for VANET" is accepted for publication by IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing.
• [April 2018]Our paper "Understanding Ethereum via Graph Analysis" won the Best Paper Award at IEEE INFOCOM 2018.
• [March 2018]Our paper "Automated Forensic Analysis of Mobile Applications on Android Devices" has been accepted by DFRWS USA 2018.
• [March 2018]Congratulations to Abdulrahman Alamer on a successful defense of his PhD dissertation "A Secure and Privacy-preserving Incentive Scheme for Vehicular Cloud"!

2017:

• [December 2017]Our paper "Privacy-Preserving Data Forwarding in VANETs: A Personal-Social Behavior Based Approach" won the Best Paper Award at IEEE GLOBECOM 2017.
• [November 2017]Congratulations to Yanwen Zhou on a successful defense of Master's thesis "Genetic sun shadow positioning model for digital forensics"!
• [September 2017]Congratulations to Abel Bacchus on a successful defense of Master's thesis "Towards Secure e-Health Data Exchanges through Consent Based Access Control"!
• [March 2017]Congratulations to Yatian Gao on a successful defense of Master's thesis "Component-based Modeling for Android Application Testing"!
• [February 2017]Our paper "Differentially Private Smart Metering with Fault Tolerance and Range-Based Filtering" is accepted for publication by IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid .

2016:

• [December 2016]Congratulations to Khalid AlHarbi on a successful defense of his PhD dissertation "A Framework for Privacy-Preserving Data Sharing in Smart Grid"!
• [November 2016]Our paper "Cloud-Based Parallel Concolic Execution" is accepted for publication by 24th IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER 2017).
• [November 2016]I am elevated to IEEE Fellow for contributions in secure and privacy-preserving vehicular communications.
• [November 2016]Our paper "Light-weight and Robust Security-Aware D2D-assist Data Transmission Protocol for Mobile-Health Systems" is accepted for publication by IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security.
• [October 2016]Our paper "Cloud-Based Privacy-Preserving Parking Navigation through Vehicular Communications" won the Best Paper Award at SecureComm 2016.

2015:

• [December 2015]I was awarded as Distinguished Member of the IEEE INFOCOM 2015 Technical Program Committee (Top 25% TPCs).
• [December 2015]I am elected as chair of IEEE ComSoc Communications and Information Security Technical Committee (term 2016-2017).
• [April 2015]Congratulations to Likhith Areekkal for a successful defense of his Master's project! His presentation was titled "Garmin GPS Device Forensics".
• [March 2015]Our book "Vehicular Ad Hoc Network Security and Privacy" will be published by Wiley-IEEE Press.
• [February 2015]Our paper "White-Box Traceable Ciphertext-Policy Attribute-Based Encryption Supporting Flexible Attributes" is accepted for publication by IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security.
• [January 2015]Our paper "A Threshold Anonymous Authentication Protocol for VANETs" is accepted for publication by IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.
• [January 2015]The IFS lab got five papers accepted by IEEE ICC 2015.

2014:

• [December 2014]Our paper "User-Habit-Oriented Authentication Model: Toward Secure, User-Friendly Authentication for Mobile Devices" is accepted for publication by IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing.
• [November 2014]The IFS lab got two papers accepted by IEEE INFOCOM 2015.
• [September 2014]Congratulations to Christopher Carver for a successful defense of his Master's thesis! His thesis was titled "E-Fencing Detection: Mining Online Classified Ad Websites for Stolen Property"!
• [August 2014]The IFS lab got three papers accepted by IEEE ICCC 2014.
• [August 2014]Congratulations to Talal Elawad for a successful defense of his Master's project! His presentation was titled "Weaknesses and Attacks against Enterprise Wireless Network".
• [August 2014]Our paper "RCCA-Secure Multi-use Bidirectional Proxy Re-Encryption with Master Secret Security" is accepted for publication by ProvSec 2014.
• [July 2014]The IFS lab got three papers accepted by IEEE GLOBECOM 2014.
• [June 2014]Our paper "Large Universe Ciphertext-Policy Attribute-Based Encryption with White-Box Traceability" is accepted for publication by ESORICS 2014.

 

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