News

  • 07/2023 [Outreach] Successfully organized 2023 IoT security high school summer camp.
  • 06/2023 [Service] Serve as TPC member for IEEE ISGC’23, please consider submitting!
  • 04/2023 [Paper] “PAROS: The Missing “Puzzle” in Smart Home Router Operating Systems” paper got accepted to (the 32nd) IEEE ICCCN’23.
  • 04/2023 [Student] My PhD student-Qi was selected as 2023 CPS Rising Star by the University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA).
  • 04/2023 [Students] Carson and Dhruva presented their research at Mines Undergraduate Research Symposium 2023.
  • 04/2023 [Teaching] I will be teaching a new course – IoT Security and Privacy in Fall’23!
  • 04/2023 [Service] Serve as TPC member for ACM BuildSys’23, please consider submitting!
  • 04/2023 [Service] Serve as panelist for Mines Virtual Workshop on the NSF CAREER program !
  • 03/2023 [Service] Serve as TPC member for IEEE BigData’23, please consider submitting!
  • 02/2023 [Paper] SolarDetector paper got accepted to ACM/IEEE IoTDI’23, part of  CPS-IoT week 2023.
  • 02/2023 [Media] IoT privacy work is covered  in the news.
  • 01/2023 [Outreach] Qi and Keyang presented research posters at C-MAPP (Computing-Mines Affiliates Partnership Program) annual activity.
  • 01/2023 [Grant & Award] I received the NSF CAREER Award (CAREER: Safeguarding Smart Homes: A Foundation for Building User Privacy-Enhancing IoT Systems) from the Computer Systems Research program in the Division of Computer and Network Systems! Thank you for the tremendous support ($586,381) of the National Science Foundation.
  • 11/2022 [Service] Serve as TPC member for (43rd) ICDCS’23, Edge Computing Track, please consider submitting!
  • 09/2022 [Outreach] High School CS/Cyber Advisory Board – Warren Technical School.
  • 08/2022 [Paper] TrafficSpy paper accepted at CNS’22 (Regular Paper Acceptance Rate:  35.25%, 43 out of 122).
  • 07/2022 [Service] Serve as TPC member for eEnergy’22, WPES’22, Data’22, please consider submitting!
  • 04/2022 [Grant] Receive two 2022 Nexus Seed Grants (1 PI, 1 Co-PI) to explore building and cybersecurity research with NREL.
  • 03/2022 [Service] Serve as TPC member for IEEE ISGC’22, please consider submitting!
  • 03/2022 [Service] Serve as TPC member for ACM BuildSys’22, please consider submitting!
  • 02/2022 [Service] Serve as TPC member for IEEE BigData’22, please consider submitting!
  • 01/2022 Join Mines as tenure-track assistant professor of computer science department!
  • 10/2021 [Service] Serve as TPC member for ACM e-Energy’22, please consider submitting!
  • 09/2021 [Service] Serve as TPC member for ACM/IEEE IoTDI’22, part of CPS-IoT Week 2022, please consider submitting!
  • 08/2021 [Paper] iAttackGen paper accepted at CNS’21 (Regular Paper Acceptance Rate:  28.32%).
  • 07/2021 [Service] Organize the 3rd IEEE Workshop on BigDataCPS’21, colocated with IGSC’21, Please consider submitting!.
  • 07/2021 [Grant] Co-PI Grant: “Automated Risk Detection and Mitigation of Devices and Apps in Smart Settings” is funded by NSA ($750K, My Share 12%).
  • 06/2021 [Service] Serve as Session Chair (Disaggregation & NILM) for ACM e-Energy’21.
  • 05/2021 [Service] Serve as TPC member for IGSC’21, please consider submitting!
  • 04/2021 [Paper] BIoTA paper will appear at IEEE SECON’21 (Acceptance Rate: 26.42%).
  • 04/2021 [Service] Serve on Organizing Committee (Publication Chair) for ACM BuildSys’21, please consider submitting!
  • 03/2021 [Service] Attend ASEE (American Society for Engineering Education) DELTA Junior Faculty Institute.
  • 03/2021 [Student] My second PhD student: Keyang has passed his PhD qualifying exam.
  • 03/2021 [Paper] Serve as TPC member for MASS’21, please consider submitting!
  • 03/2021 [Service] Guest Editor on Security, Privacy, and Multimodal Data Analysis for Social Media Call For Papers, please consider submitting!
  • 02/2021 [Grant] NSF RET in Engineering and Computer Science SITE: Research Experience for Teachers on Cyber-Enabled Technologies (Senior Personal).
  • 01/2021 [Paper] IoT device privacy paper will appear at ACM/IEEE IPSN’21 (Acceptance Rate: 24.76%), part of CPS-IoT Week 2021.
  • 12/2020 [Service] Serve as TPC member (Track: Distributed Operating Systems and Middleware) for ICDCS’21, please consider submitting!
  • 12/2020 [Student] Congratulations to my PhD student-Qi for receiving 2020 SCIS Annual Best Research Student Award!
  • 11/2020 [Paper] SolarTrader paper won the Best Paper Award at ACM BuildSys’20.
  • 11/2020 [Student] Congratulations to Qi for being selected as ACM SenSys’20 and BuildSys’20 Student Volunteer!
  • 10/2020 [Service] Receive Certificate of Appreciation from IGSC’20 Steering Committee.
  • 10/2020 [Student] PhD student: Qi received IGSC’20 participating grant to present our SolarDiagnostics work.
  • 09/2020 [Paper]  SolarTrader paper accepted at BuildSys’20 (Regular Paper Acceptance Rate:  24%).
  • 08/2020 [Paper] SolarDiagnostics paper accepted at IGSC’20 (Acceptance Rate: 23%).
  • 08/2020 [Service] Serve as TPC member and Session Chair for Privacy Program for IoTDI’21, part of CPS-IoT Week 2021, please consider submitting!
  • 06/2020 [Service] Organize BigDataCPS’20, please consider submitting!
  • 05/2020 [Service] Serve as TPC member for BuildSys’20, please consider submitting!
  • 05/2020 [Service] Serve as TPC member for MASS’20, please consider submitting!
  • 04/2020 [Service] Serve as TPC member for IGSC’20, please consider submitting!
  • 04/2020 [Service] Serve as TPC member for BigData’20, Atlanta, please consider submitting!
  • 04/2020 [Student] My first PhD student: Qi passed her Ph.D. qualifying exam.
  • 04/2020 [Grant] IoT security research: “Online Learning and Visualization for Intrusion Detection and Prevention in Privacy-Enhanced IoT Networks” is funded by Florida Collaborative Seed Program.
  • 03/2020 [Paper] SolarFinder source code and data are released on CPS GitHub.
  • 01/2020 [Paper] SolarFinder paper accepted at ACM/IEEE IPSN’20 (Acceptance Rate: 22.13%), part of CPS-IoT Week 2020.
  • 10/2019 [Service] Received Appreciation Certificate from IGSC Steering Committee.
  • 09/2019 [Service] Organize CPSBigData 2019 Workshop.
  • 08/2019 [Paper] Solar-TK paper is accepted at (the 16th) MASS 2019.
  • 08/2019 [Paper] IoT device identification paper is accepted at (the 38th) MilCom 2019.
  • 06/2019 [Service] Serve as TPC member for AIChallengeIoT 2019, New York.
  • 04/2019 [Service] Serve as Keynote Speaker at Cybersecurity in Florida Public Transportation Workshop.
  • 04/2019 Attend NSF CISE Career Workshop with travel grant.
  • 04/2019 [Service] Serve as TPC member for IEEE AICCSA’19, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
  • 03/2019 [Service] Serve as TPC member for IEEE BigData’19, Los Angeles, USA.
  • 01/2019 [Grant] Smart Building Image Processing Project is funded by Google Cloud $9,976.
  • 10/2018 [Talk] Talk at Sustainable Research Pathways (SRP) Workshop, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
  • 09/2018 [Paper] Sun paper is accepted to ACM BuildSys’18 (Acceptance Rate: 24.19%)
  • 08/2018 Join FIU CS department as tenure-track assistant professor!
  • 05/2018 PhD Defense – Hybrid Black-box Solar Analytics and their Privacy Implications!