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

Texas A&M University College of Engineering

Research

Our current research has been externally supported by NSF (multiple grants and multiple programs), NIJ, Google (2 Faculty Research Awards), Microsoft Research, Comcast, Cisco, Intel, Nokia, and Research in Motion. Thanks to all of our sponsors!

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Following is a list of our active projects (with links), broadly scoped and focusing on systems-oriented as well as theoretical aspects:

  1. Authentication

    • Voice Authentication: All Your Voices are Belong to Us

    • Multi-Factor Authentication

      • Mix Bandwidth TFA
      • DE-PAKE: Device-Enhanced Password Protocols with Optimal Online-Offline Protection
      • Sound-Danger: Dangers of Second-Factor Login based on Ambient Audio
    • Behavioral Biometrics

      • ZEBRA Attack: Pitfalls in Designing Zero-Effort Deauthentication
      • Gametrics: Towards Attack-Resilient Behavioral Authentication with Simple Cognitive Games
      • Tap Biometrics: Transparently Authenticating NFC Users with Tapping Gesture Biometrics
      • VibWrite: Towards Finger-input Authentication on Ubiquitous Surfaces via Physical Vibration
      • YELP: Masking Sound-based Opportunistic Attacks in Zero-Effort Deauthentication
    • Password Management

      • SPHINX: A Password Store that Perfectly Hides Passwords from Itself
    • The Comprehensive Survey on the Security of Wearable Computing

  1. End-to-End Encryption

    • Wiretapping via Mimicry

    • Cyrpto Phones Security and Usability

    • E2E App Study

    • CCCP: Closed Caption Crypto Phones to Resist MITM Attacks, Human Errors and Click-Through

  2. Side Channels, Information Leakage, Privacy

    • Speechless: Analyzing the Threat to Speech Privacy from Smartphone Motion Sensors

    • Keystroke Emanations

    • Vibrational Emanations

    • YELP: Masking Sound-based Opportunistic Attacks in Zero-Effort Deauthentication

    • Slogger: Defense against Smartphone Keyloggers

    • The Comprehensive Survey on the Security of Wearable Computing

  3. Neuro Security and Brainwave Privacy

    • fMRI Study of Phishing and Malware Warnings

    • EEG + Eye Tracking Study of Phishing and Malware Warnings

    • fNIRS Study of Phishing

    • PEEP: Learning Passwords from Brainwaves

  4. Next Generation CAPTCHAs

    • DCG: Investigation of Dynamic Cognitive Game CAPTCHAs

    • EI-DCG: Emerging Image Game CAPTCHAs for Resisting Automated and Human-Solver Relay Attacks

    • EI-Nu: Emerging-Image Motion CAPTCHAs: Vulnerabilities of Existing Designs, and Countermeasures

Recent News

  • Paper accepted to ACM CCS 2023 September 2, 2023
  • Paper accepted to PETS 2024 August 31, 2023
  • Paper accepted to CNS 2023 August 13, 2023
  • Paper accepted to MobiCom 2023 August 6, 2023
  • Presenting SPIES’ 13th PhD Graduate — Shalini Saini June 20, 2023
  • Dr. Saxena appointed as Associate Director of Cybersecurity Institute June 7, 2023
  • Saxena and team awarded $6M DOD grant on cognitive security May 3, 2023
  • Dr. Saxena appointed as the Vice Chair of EFAC May 3, 2023
  • Paper accepted to MobiSys 2023 May 2, 2023
  • Paper accepted to ICDCS 2023 April 11, 2023
  • Journal paper accepted to ACM Computing Surveys April 2, 2023
  • 3 full papers accepted to WiSec 2023 March 28, 2023
  • Paper accepted to Oakland 2023 March 10, 2023
  • Paper accepted to USENIX Security 2023 February 21, 2023
  • Cybersecurity Program Led By Dr. Saxena Ranks Best! January 25, 2023
  • EarSpy in Media January 25, 2023
  • Dr. Saxena is a Co-PI on Thematic AI Lab November 28, 2022
  • Paper accepted to ICISC 2022 November 28, 2022
  • Paper accepted to PMC 2022 November 28, 2022
  • A New Grant from NSA October 17, 2022

Contact Info

Nitesh Saxena

PETR 238

435 Nagle Street

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

RSS SPIES Lab, Computer Science and Engineering

  • Paper accepted to CCS 2023
  • Paper accepted to PETS 2024
  • Paper accepted to CNS 2023
  • Paper accepted to MobiCom 2023
  • Presenting SPIES’ 13th PhD Graduate — Shalini Saini
  • Dr. Saxena appointed as Associate Director of Cybersecurity Institute
  • Saxena and team awarded $6M DOD grant on cognitive security
  • Dr. Saxena appointed as the Vice Chair of EFAC
  • Paper accepted to MobiSys 2023
  • Paper accepted to ICDCS 2023

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