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

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A $550,000 supplement on NSF Scholarship for Service (SFS) Grant

Posted on October 5, 2019 by Zengrui Liu

We have a $550,000 supplement on our ongoing grant NSF Scholarship for Service (SFS) Grant, 2016/17. This funding expands our program, and adds more students and admin support.

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Research grant funded from Microsoft Research

Posted on September 10, 2019 by Zengrui Liu

SPIES lab has a research grant funded from Microsoft Research to study security warnings via the Neuro Security methodology introduced at the SPIES lab, September 2019

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Two papers accepted to ACSAC 2019

Posted on August 23, 2019 by Zengrui Liu

  • Challenge-Response Behavioral Mobile Authentication: A Comparative Study of Graphical Patterns and Cognitive Games
    • Manar Mohamed, Prakash Shrestha and Nitesh Saxena. In Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC)
  • Defeating Hidden Audio Channel Attacks on Voice Assistants via Audio-Induced Surface Vibrations
    • Chen Wang, Abhishek Anand, Jian Liu, Payton Walker, Yingying Chen and Nitesh Saxena. In Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC)

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Paper accepted to ISPEC 2019

Posted on August 2, 2019 by Zengrui Liu

CATCHA: When Cats  Track Your Movements OnlinePrakash Shrestha, Nitesh Saxena, Ajaya Neupane and Kiavash SatvatInternational Conference on Information Security Practice and Experience (ISPEC), November, 2019

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4 papers accepted to PST 2019

Posted on June 21, 2019 by Zengrui Liu

  • Stethoscope: Crypto Phones with Transparent & Robust Fingerprint Comparisons using Inter Text-Speech Transformations
    • Maliheh Shirvanian, and Nitesh Saxena International Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust (PST), August, 2019 [pdf]
  • ZEMFA: Zero-Effort Multi-Factor Authentication based on Multi-Modal Gait Biometrics
    • Babins Shrestha, Manar Mohamed and Nitesh Saxena International Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust (PST), August, 2019 [pdf]
  • Compromising Speech Privacy under Continuous Masking in Personal Spaces
    • S Abhishek Anand, Payton Walker and Nitesh Saxena International Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust (PST), August, 2019 [pdf]
  • Brain Hemorrhage: When Brainwaves Leak Sensitive Medical Conditions and Personal Information
    • Ajaya Neupane, Kiavash Satvat, Mahshid Hosseini and Nitesh Saxena International Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust (PST), August, 2019 [pdf]

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Runner Up, The Mark Weiser Best Paper Award

Posted on March 15, 2019 by Zengrui Liu

The SPIES lab’s paper at Percom 2019 was a runner up for the prestigious Mark Weiser Best Paper Award: Quantifying the Breakability of Mobile Assistants
Maliheh Shirvanian, Summer Vo and Nitesh Saxena
International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom)
, March 2019. [pdf]

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Hello world!

Posted on September 22, 2016 by coems

Welcome to CoE WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!

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Prof. Saxena Co-Leads CIA-JFR’s Information Assurance Pillar

Posted on July 25, 2013 by Zengrui Liu

Prof. Saxena will be serving as the co-leader of the Information Assurance/Security Pillar of UAB’s CIA-JFR Center.

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Cisco funds a research project on VoIP Security

Posted on July 7, 2013 by Zengrui Liu

Prof. Saxena (PI) awarded $150,000 in research funding from Cisco Systems to launch a new project on Voice-over-IP secure communications, specifically “Establishing Peer-to-Peer Secure VoIP Connections.” This is a joint project with Prof. Bangalore (Co-PI) @CCL lab.
UAB Press Release
 
 

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Prof. Saxena to serve as AE for IEEE TIFS

Posted on July 7, 2013 by Zengrui Liu

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security is a flagship journal within the Security community, likely one of the best.
Information on Forensics and Security

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Recent News

  • Dr. Saxena drives a new MS Cybersecurity degree at Texas A&M (anticipated to launch Fall 2026) February 7, 2026
  • Paper accepted to WiSec 2025 January 13, 2026
  • Paper accepted to EACL 2026 January 5, 2026
  • Paper accepted to USENIX Security 2026 December 17, 2025
  • SPIES Lab Research Cited in News Coverage on AI Security Breach December 14, 2025
  • SPIES Lab Research Featured in TAMU College of Engineering Spotlight December 5, 2025
  • Paper accepted to IJCNLP-AACL October 25, 2025
  • TAMU SPIES Lab Wins CCS 2025 Distinguished Paper Award! October 20, 2025
  • 6 out of 7 PhD graduates in past 4 years are in faculty positions October 4, 2025
  • Dr. Saxena joins the Editorial Board of ACM AILET September 29, 2025
  • Paper accepted to eCrime 2025 September 9, 2025
  • Paper accepted to IEEE S&P (Magazine) August 24, 2025
  • Another recent SPIES graduate to take up faculty position August 21, 2025
  • Paper accepted to CSCML 2025 August 13, 2025
  • SPIES graduate to start as Assistant Professor July 22, 2025
  • Paper accepted to ACM CCS 2025 July 2, 2025
  • Paper accepted to ICME 2025 June 24, 2025
  • SPIES Lab’s Browser Fingerprinting Work in the News June 23, 2025
  • Journal paper accepted to IEEE TIFS June 19, 2025
  • SPIES Lab’s Browser Fingerprinting Work Features in News June 18, 2025

Contact Info

Nitesh Saxena

PETR 238

435 Nagle Street

College Station, Tx 77843-3112
email: nsaxena[at]tamu.edu (best way to reach me)

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  • Dr. Saxena drives a new MS Cybersecurity degree at Texas A&M (anticipated to launch Fall 2026)
  • Paper accepted to WiSec 2026
  • Paper accepted to EACL 2026
  • Paper accepted to USENIX Security 2026
  • SPIES Lab Research Cited in News Coverage on AI Security Breach
  • SPIES Lab Research Featured in TAMU College of Engineering Spotlight
  • Paper accepted to IJCNLP-AACL 2025
  • TAMU SPIES Lab Wins CCS 2025 Distinguished Paper Award!
  • Paper accepted to eCrime 2025
  • Paper accepted to IEEE S&P (Magazine)

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