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Zengrui Liu and Cagri Arisoy, the latest PhD graduates from the SPIES lab, are both starting as tenure-track assistant professors this Spring. Zengrui will be joining the College of Information Engineering at the Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, China. Cagri will be joining the College Engineering Computer Engineering department at the Yozgat Bozok University. Turkey.

Congratulations to both! They will be applying their unique education, research and teaching skills to serve their home countries!

• Sound-based Two-Factor Authentication: Vulnerabilities and Redesign
  Prakash Shrestha, Ahmed Tanvir Mahdad and Nitesh Saxena.                                                                                                                       In ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (TOPS), 2023.

Zengrui Liu just defended his PhD dissertation. Solid work on browser fingerprint spoofing (aka “Gummy Browsers“), and the measurement of regulatory compliance (aka “opted out yet tracked“) and the use of fingerprinting in tracking.

SPIES Lab’s 14th PhD graduate! Congratulations!

FaceReader: Unobtrusively Mining Vital Signs and Vital Sign Embedded Sensitive Info via AR/VR Motion Sensors
Tianfang Zhang, Zhengkun Ye, Ahmed Tanvir Mahdad, Md Mojibur Rahman Redoy Akanda, Cong Shi, Yan Wang, Nitesh Saxena and Yingying Chen
In the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), November 2023.

Opted Out, Yet Tracked: Are Regulations Enough to Protect Your  Privacy?
Zengrui Liu, Umar Iqbal and Nitesh Saxena
Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS)/Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PoPETs). July 2024.
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• Speaker Anonymity and Voice Conversion Vulnerability: A Speaker Recognition Analysis
  Shalini Saini, Nitesh Saxena.
  In Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS), October 2023.

• Breaking Mobile Notification-based Authentication with Concurrent Attacks Outside of Mobile Devices
  Tanvir Ahmed Mahdad, Mohammed Jubir and Nitesh Saxena
  In the 29th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (Mobicom), October 2023.

Presenting SPIES Lab‘s 13th PhD graduate (5th woman PhD graduate), Shalini Saini. Shalini did some really important work in the domain of S&P of healthcare tech: medical AI, mobile apps (including reproductive health apps in light of Roe vs. Wade overturn) and voice privacy.

Many congratulations!