News & notes.

Welcome Ph.D. students Botun and Sharun to our research group!

I visited Yale Quantum Institute (YQI) for the HBCU QISE (Quantum Information Science and Engineering) Short Course.

I will be joining North Carolina A&T State University as an Assistant Professor this fall.

Our LLM Built Environment paper was accepted by the DSML workshop co-located with DSN 2025. Congratulations to undergraduate research student Andrew!

I gave a virtual guest talk on Human-Centered Cybersecurity for Louisiana State University.

Our team will present four posters at the Pembroke Undergraduate Research and Creativity Symposium!

AI Adoption in Agriculture was pre-awarded (PI, $85K).

Congratulations to Mohammad on receiving a MobiCom 2024 travel grant and attending the conference.

I was invited to serve on the technical program committees for PETS 2025 and ICNC 2025.

I gave a guest talk about Digital Privacy in the Thomas College of Business and Economics at UNC Pembroke.

Welcome Muhammad and Sam to my research group.

Najmul, Andrew, Kai, and Mushfique presented their poster at the UNC Pembroke PURC Symposium.

Welcome Mushfique Rahman, Andrew Cart, and Kai Anderson to our research team on the Neighborhood Microscope project!

Our UNC Pembroke team was selected to participate in Cohort II of the Capacity Building for Research at Minority-Serving Institutions: Infrastructure Research Readiness (CyBR-MSI: IRR) program.

Congratulations to Najmul Hasan on winning the Semester Long Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) for Spring 2024 ($2K).

Chathura Perera joined our lab.

The Cyber Escape Rooms proposal was funded by UNC Pembroke ($10K, Co-PI).

Our Neighborhood Microscope proposal was selected for funding ($86K, PI)!

Ruoyu Zhao joined our lab.

Najmul Hasan joined our lab.

Chunsheng Zhang joined our lab.

I will serve on the technical program committee for SmartWear 2023, in conjunction with MobiCom 2023.

I was invited to serve on the technical program committee for VTC 2023-Fall in Hong Kong.

I will join the faculty as a tenure-track assistant professor in the Computer Science department at UNC Pembroke this fall.

I defended and graduated. Cheers!

Our INSPIRE paper on pedestrian and vehicle privacy preservation was accepted to IEEE ICCCN 2023!

I will serve on the program committee for the DSN 2023 Doctoral Forum.

Our VoicePM paper on speech privacy preservation was accepted to WiSec 2023!

I gave a talk on “Web Privacy in the Digital World” at UNC Pembroke.

I will again serve on the Replicability Committee for WiSec 2023.

Our HeadTalk paper on thwarting the misactivation of voice assistants was accepted to IEEE DSN 2023!

I passed my oral preliminary exam!

I was awarded a HotMobile 2023 travel grant.

I am co-instructing CSC773 Advanced Internet Protocols with Dr. Harfoush in Spring 2023.

I received the College of Engineering Mentored Teaching Fellowship.

Our research proposal, Physical Context-aware Voice Assistant for Smart Homes (lead PI: Anupam Das), won $75K in research funding from Meta.

I will serve on the Artifact Review Committees for ACSAC 2023 and USENIX Security 2023.

I will serve on the Artifact Review Committee for PoPETs 2023.