Category Archives: Publications

2024

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 the International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ICCBR 2024). Link

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 Makingpaper

Preprint:

  • 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. paper
  • Assessing Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities in Code Large Language Models“. Md Imran Hossen, Jianyi Zhang, Yinzhi Cao, and Xiali Hei. paper

2023

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.

2022

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

2021 (3)

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

2020(3)

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

2019(7)

Conference:

  • Trick or Heat? Manipulating Critical Temperature-Based Control Systems Using Rectification Attacks. 
    Yazhou Tu, Sara Rampazzi, Bin Hao, Angel Rodriguez, Kevin Fu, and Xiali Hei.
    In Proc. of ACM CCS 2019. paper  bibtex (acceptance rate:73/724=10%)
  • A Quantitative Approach for Medical Imaging Device Security Assessment.
    Pingchuan Ma, Zhiqiang Wang, Xiali Hei, Xiaoxiang Zou, Jianyi Zhang, Qixu Liu, Xin Lyu, and Zihan Zhuo.
    2019 49th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks–Supplemental Volume (DSN-S). paper bibtex
  • Typer vs. CAPTCHA: Private information based CAPTCHA to defend against crowdsourcing human cheating.
    Jianyi Zhang, Xiali Hei, Zhiqiang Wang. paper bibtex

Journal:

  1. Feature Fusion and Voiceprint Based Access Control for Wireless Insulin Pump Systems.
    Yuan Ping, Bin Hao, Xiali Hei, Yazhou Tu, Xiaojiang Du, and Jie Wu.
    IEEE Access. 2019. Impact Factor: 4.098, paper bibtex
  2. An outlier detection scheme for dynamical sequential datasets.
    Shiliang Zhang, Hui Cao, Zonglin Ye, Yanbin Zhang, Xiali Hei.
    Journal Communications in Statistics-Simulation and Computation, 2018. Impact Factor: 0.66, paper bibtex
  3. Efficient Training Support Vector Clustering With Appropriate Boundary Information
    Yuan Ping, Bin Hao, Huina Li, Yuping Lai, Chun Guo, Hui Ma, Baocang Wang, Xiali Hei.
    IEEE Access. 2019. Impact Factor: 4.098, paper  bibtex

Book Chapter:

  1. Voice Liveness Detection for Medical Devices.
    Bin Hao, Xiali Hei.
    Design and Implementation of Healthcare Biometric Systems, 2019. paper bibtex

2018(5)

Conference:

  1. Injected and Delivered: Fabricating Implicit Control over Actuation Systems by Spoofing Inertial Sensors. 
    Yazhou Tu, Zhiqiang Lin, Insup Lee, and Xiali Hei.
    In Proc. of USENIX SECURITY 2018. paper bibtex news (acceptance rate:100/524=19%)
  2. A Voice Print based Access Control Scheme for Wireless Insulin Pump System.
    Bin Hao, Xiali Hei, Yazhou Tu, Xiaojiang Du, and Jie Wu.
    In Proc. of IEEE MASS 2018. paper bibtex
  3. A Visible Light Channel based Access Control Scheme for Wireless Insulin Pump Systems.
    Jian Zhao, Kam Kong, Xiali Hei, Yazhou Tu and Xiaojiang Du.
    In Proc. of IEEE ICC 2018. paper bibtex
  4. Enabling Fair Spectrum Sharing between Wi-Fi and LTE-Unlicensed.
    Kuo Chi, Longfei Wu, Xiaojiang Du, Guisheng Yin, Jie Wu, Bo Ji and Xiali Hei.
    In Proc. of IEEE ICC 2018. paper bibtex

Journal:

  1. Sequential Outlier Criterion for Sparsification of Online Adaptive Filtering.
    Shiliang Zhang, Hui Cao, Shuo Yang, Yanbin Zhang, Xiali Hei.
    IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems. 2018. Impact Factor: 6.108, paper bibtex

2017(4)

Conference:

  • SHipher: Families of Block Ciphers based on customized operator.
    Xiali Hei, Binheng Song, and Caijin Ling.
    In Proc. of IEEE ICC 2017 paper
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  • A Countermeasure Against Face-Spoofing Attacks Using Interaction Video Framework.
    Kam Kong, Xiali Hei, Caijin Ling, Mohsen Guizani, and Hui Cao.
    Published at 2017 IEEE 3rd Information Technology and Mechatronics Engineering Conference (ITOEC).paper
    bibtex

Journal

  1. Data-Driven Optimization Framework for Nonlinear Model Predictive Control.
    Shiliang Zhang, Hui Cao, Yanbin Zhang, Lixin Jia, Zonglin Ye, Xiali Hei.
    Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2017. Impact Factor: 0.802. paper bibtex
  2. Double outlyingness analysis in quantitative spectral calibration: Implicit detection and intuitive categorization of outliers.
    Hui Cao, Yajie Yu, Yanbin Zhou, Xiali Hei.
    Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems. Vol. 166: 23-36, 2017. Impact Factor:2.303. paper bibtex

2016(1)

Conference:

  • You Cannot Sense My PINs: A Side Channel Attack Deterrent Solution for Touch-enabled Devices.
    Caijin Ling, Xiali Hei, Kam Kong, Michael Peays, and Mohsen Guizani.
    In Proc. of GLOBECOM 2016: 1-7. paper bibtex

 

2015(2)

Conference

  • Musical examination to bridge audio data and sheet music.
    Xunyu Pan, Timothy J Cross, Liangliang Xiao, Xiali Hei.
    IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging. International Society for Optics and Photonics, 2015.
    paper
    bibtex
  • Energy-aware real-time scheduling on Heterogeneous Multi-Processor.
    Gang Wang, Wenming Li, Xiali Hei.
    In Proc. of Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), 49th, 2015.paper
    bibtex