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SAFARI: Speech-Associated Facial Authentication for AR/VR Settings via Robust VIbration Signatures
Tianfang Zhang, Qiufan Ji, Zhengkun Ye, Md Mojibur Rahman Redoy Akanda, Ahmed Tanvir Mahdad, Cong Shi, Yan Wang, Nitesh Saxena and Yingying Chen
In the ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), October 2024.

• Dual Study of Canvas Fingerprinting based Authentication: A Novel Spoofing Attack and the Countermeasure
  Zengrui Liu and Nitesh Saxena
  In the 44^th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, July 2024

Congratulations to Mashari Alatawi for defending his PhD dissertation. On the pertinent topic of end-to-end encryption security, including authentication ceremonies and client-side scanning. Recent pretty good papers at CODASPY’24, WiSec’23 and more. He will be taking on a tenure-track assistant professor position at King Saud University, a top-tier school in his home country Saudi Arabia

The 16th PhD graduate of the SPIES Lab@TAMU. 🥂

• Automating Key Fingerprint Comparisons in Secure Mobile Messaging Apps: A Case Study of Signal
  Mashari Alatawi and Nitesh Saxena
  In the 14^th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY), June 2024.

Dr. Saxena will be part of the pivotal initiative on Texas A&M’s engagement in the U.S. AI Safety Institute Consortium with NIST, a collaboration that brings together over 200 of America’s top AI stakeholders to promote the development of AI that is safe, secure, and trustworthy.

For more information about the program, please visit the TAMIDS website.

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!