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Nitesh Saxena - Raytheon Professor, Computer Science and Engineering; Associate Director, Global Cyber Research Institute; Dean's Research Fellow 2022-23

Texas A&M University College of Engineering

TAMU SPIES Lab Wins CCS 2025 Distinguished Paper Award!

Posted on October 20, 2025 by nsaxena

We are delighted to share that our paper, “Harnessing Vital Sign Vibration Harmonics for Effortless and Inbuilt XR User Authentication,” has received the Distinguished Paper Award at the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) 2025.

This recognition highlights the impact and innovation of our collaborative work, which introduces a novel authentication mechanism leveraging vibration harmonics derived from users’ vital signs within extended reality (XR) systems to enable continuous, effortless, and built-in user verification.

The acceptance rate for CCS 2025 was 13.9% (316 accepted out of 2,278 submissions), and only about 1% of all submitted papers received a Distinguished Paper Award.

Congratulations to the entire team for this outstanding achievement!

#ACMCCS2025 #CyberSecurity #XR #Authentication

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  • Paper accepted to BHI 2026
  • SPIES Lab Student Named Future Faculty Fellow (F3)
  • 2 Papers Accepted to ISC 2026
  • Dr. Saxena appointed as the Raytheon Professor!
  • Two SPIES graduates joining industry and academia
  • Dr. Saxena to Co-Lead a New $2M NSF SFS (Cyber AI) Program
  • Introducing Dr. Huq, SPIES Lab’s 19th PhD Graduate
  • Introducing Dr. Dani, SPIES Lab’s 18th PhD Graduate
  • SPIES Lab Student Wins the Future Faculty Fellowship
  • SPIES Lab PhD Student Received NSF Fellowship to Make AI More Secure

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