Conference:

• LiveGuard: Voice Liveness Detection via Wavelet Scattering Transform and Mel Spectrogram Scaling. Liqun Shan, Xingli Zhang, Md Imran Hossen, and Xiali Hei. Accepted by The 55th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2025). Acceptance rate 20.2%.
• Deep Learning Aided Software Vulnerability Detection: A Survey. Md Nizam Uddin, Yihe Zhang, and Xiali Hei. Accepted by the 12th International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology (CSIT 2025). paper

Journal:

• DP-SGD-Global-Adapt-V2-S: Triad Improvements of Privacy, Accuracy and Fairness via Step Decay Noise Multiplier and Step Decay Upper Clipping Threshold. Sai Venkatesh Chilukoti, Md Imran Hossen, Liqun Shan, Vijay Srinivas Tida, and Xiali Hei. Published by Elsevier Electronic Commerce Research and Applications. Impact factor: 5.9
• Generative Design of Thermoset Shape Memory Polymers Driven by Chemical Group: A Conditional Variational Autoencoder Approach. Borun Das, Andrew Peters, Guoqiang Li, and Xiali Hei. Published by Journal of Polymer Science.

Preprint:

• TBD

Conference:

• From Virtual Touch to Tesla Command: Unlocking Unauthenticated Control Chains From Smart Glasses for Vehicle Takeover. Xiangli Zhang, Yazhou Tu, Yan Long, Liqun Shan, Mohamed A Elsaadani, Kevin Fu, Zhiqiang Lin, and Xiali Hei. Accepted by the 2024 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland). Acceptance rate: 17.8%. This paper won the 1st STEM Paper at the UL Lafayette competition in Spring 2024 and the Distinguished Paper Award of Oakland 2024. Link
• Can’t say cant? Measuring and Reasoning of Dark Jargons in Large Language Models. Xu Ji, Jianyi Zhang, Ziyin Zhou, Zhangchi Zhao, Qianqian Qiao, Kaiying Han, Md Imran Hossen and Xiali Hei. Accepted by EAI SecureComm 2024. Link
• Practitioner Paper: Decoding Intellectual Property: Acoustic and Magnetic Side-channel Attack on a 3D Printer. Amirhossein Jamarani, Yazhou Tu, and Xiali Hei. Published by EAI SmartSP’24. Link
• IdentityKD: Class-wise Cross-modal Knowledge Distillation for Identity Recognition via mmWave Radar Sensors. Liqun Shan, Rujun Zhang, Sai Venkatesh Chilukoti, Xingli Zhang, Insup, Lee, and Xiali Hei. Accepted by ACM Asia MM 2024. Link
• Paa-Tee: A Practical Adversarial Attack on Thermal Infrared Detectors with Temperature and Pose Adaptability. Zhangchi Zhao, Jianyi Zhang, Liqun Shan, Ziyin Zhou, Kaiying Han and Xiali Hei. Accepted to EAI TrustCom 2024.
• Ethical considerations and policy implications for large language models: guiding responsible development and deployment. Jianyi Zhang, Xu Ji, Zhangchi Zhao, Xiali Hei, Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo. Accepted by EAI SmartSP’24, 2024. paper

Journal:

• A Reliable Diabetic Retinopathy Grading via Transfer Learning and Ensemble Learning with Quadratic Weighted Kappa Metric. Sai Venkatesh Chilukoti, Liqun Shan, Vijay Srinivas Tida, Anthony S. Maida, and Xiali Hei. Published by BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making. paper

Preprint:

• On the Adversarial Robustness of Instruction-Tuned Large Language Models for Code. Md Imran Hossen and Xiali Hei. paper
• “Assessing Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities in Code Large Language Models“. Md Imran Hossen, Jianyi Zhang, Yinzhi Cao, and Xiali Hei. paper
• Auto DP-SGD: Dual Improvements of Privacy and Accuracy via Automatic Clipping Threshold and Noise Multiplier Estimation. Sai Venkatesh Chilukoti, Md Imran Hossen, Liqun Shan, Vijay Srinivas Tida, Xiai Hei. paper
• Facebook Report on Privacy of fNIRS data. Md Imran Hossen, Sai Venkatesh Chilukoti, Liqun Shan, Vijay Srinivas Tida, Xiali Hei. paper

Conference:

• Auditory Eyesight: Demystifying micros-Precision Keystroke Tracking Attacks on Unconstrained Keyboard Inputs. Yazhou Tu, Liqun Shan, Md Imran Hossen, Sara Rampazzi, and Xiali Hei. Accepted by USENIX Security 2023. Acceptance rate: 1.24 % (acceptance without major revision). paper
• A First Look at the Security of EEG-based Systems and Intelligent Algorithms under Physical Signal Injections. Md Imran Hossen, Yazhou Tu, and Xiali Hei. Accepted by The inaugural AsiaCCS 2023 Workshop on Secure and Trustworthy Deep Learning Systems (SecTL 2023). paper
• A Small Leak Will Sink Many Ships: Vulnerabilities Related to Mini Programs Permissions. Jianyi Zhang, Leixin Yang, Yuyang Han, Zixiao Xiang, and Xiali Hei. Accepted by the 2023 IEEE Computer Society Signature Conference on Computers, Software, and Applications (COMPSAC 2023). Acceptance rate: 26%. paper
• Towards Adversarial Process Control on Inertial Sensor Systems with Physical Feedback Side Channels. Yazhou Tu, Sara Rampazzi, and Xiali Hei. Accepted by The 5th Joint Workshop on CPS & IoT Security and Privacy (CPSIoTSec’23), In conjunction with the ACM CCS 2023. paper
• Securing the Future: Exploring Privacy Risks and Security Questions in Robotic Systems. Diba Afroze, Yazhou Tu, and Xiali Hei. Accepted by The inaugural EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Cyber-Physical Systems and Smart Vehicles (SmartSP’23). paper
• ADC-Bank: Detecting Acoustic Out-of-Band Signal Injection on Inertial Sensors. Jianyi Zhang, Yuchen Wang, Yazhou Tu, Sara Rampazzi, Zhiqiang Lin, Insup Lee, and Xiali Hei. Accepted by The inaugural EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Cyber-Physical Systems and Smart Vehicles (SmartSP’23). paper

Journal:

• XMAM:X-raying Models with A Matrix to Reveal Backdoor Attacks for Federated Learning. Jianyi Zhang, Fengjiao Zhang, Qichao Jin, Zhiqiang Wang, Kang Xie, and Xiali Hei. Published by Digital Communications and Networks. paper
• A Unified Training Process for Fake News Detection based on Fine-Tuned BERT Model. Vijay Srinivas Tida, Sonya Hsu, and Xiali Hei. Accepted by Big Data. paper
• Physics-informed Neural Networks Based on Long Short-term Memory and Attention Mechanism for Solving Partial Differential Equations in Porous Media. Liqun Shan, Chengqian Liu, Yanchang Liu, Yazhou Tu, Linyu Lin, and Xiali Hei. Published by Advances in Geo-Energy Research. Impact Factor: 6.96.

Conference:

• aaeCAPTCHA: The Design and Implementation of Audio Adversarial CAPTCHA Md Imran Hossen, Xiali Hei Accepted by IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy 2022. paper bibtex
• Privacy-Preserving Deep Learning Model for Covid-19 Disease Detection Vijay Srinivas Tida, Sai Venkatesh Chilukoti, Sonya Hsu, and Xiali Hei. Accepted by HICSS-56: Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2023
• Kernel-Segregated Transpose Convolution Operation Vijay Srinivas Tida, Sai Venkatesh Chilukoti, Sonya Hsu, and Xiali Hei. Accepted by HICSS-56: Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2023. paper

Journal:

• Rock CT Image Super-Resolution Using Residual Dual-Channel Attention Generative Adversarial Network.

Liqun Shan, Chengqian Liu, Yanchang Liu, Weifang Kong, and Xiali Hei. Published by MDPI Energies. paper bibtex

Conference:

• Transduction Shield: A Low-Complexity Method to Detect and Correct the Effects of EMI Injection Attacks on Sensors.
  Yazhou Tu, Vijay Srinivas Tida, Zhongqi Pan, and Xiali Hei.
  In Proc. of ACM ASIACCS 2021. paper bibtex
• A Low-Cost Attack against the hCaptcha System. Md Imran Hossen, Xiali Hei Accepted by WOOT 2021 conjunction with IEEE S&P 2021. paper bibtex

Journal:

• Stacked LSTM Based Deep Recurrent Neural Network with Kalman Smoothing for Blood Glucose Prediction. Md Fazle Rabby, Yazhou Tu, Md Imran Hossen, Insup Lee, Anthony S Maida, Xiali Hei. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making. paper bibtex

Conference:

• An Object Detection based Solver for Google’s Image reCAPTCHA v2.
  Md Imran Hossen, Yazhou Tu, Md Fazle Rabby, Md Nazmul Islam, Hui Cao, and Xiali Hei.
  In Proc. of USENIX RAID 2020. paper  bibtex
• Model and Strategies on Reopening Lockdown Societies due to COVID-19. Binheng Song, Xiali Hei. paper bibtex

Journal:

1. Maximized Privacy-Preserving Outsourcing on Support Vector Clustering.
   Yuan Ping, Bin Hao, Xiali Hei, Jie Wu, Baocang Wang.
   Electronics. 2020. paper bibtex