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(2023) A paper with Students Alvin Kuruvilla and Rojanaye Daley, titled "Spotting Fake Profiles in Social Networks via Keystroke Dynamics," was accepted for publication at IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC 2024). This is Alvin's and Ro's first-ever research publication. My heartiest congratulations to both as this distinguished journey starts for them! Average accept rate--24.4% [paper][code][video]
(2023) Received Outstanding Reviewer Award from The IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB 2023) is the premier international forum for biometrics and related technologies research. Six reviewers of 230 reviewers were recognized for their outstanding effort in making IJCB 2023 a great success, Outstanding Reviewers – IEEE IJCB 2023 (ieee-biometrics.org)
(2023) Hung Ngo was awarded Second prize in the ACM Student Research Competition at The Richard Tapia Conference 2023 for his research on "A Touchless Typing Approach Using Apple Augmented Reality Kit and Sequence-to-Sequence Learning." Winners, SRC 2023-2024 (acm.org) [pdf]
(2023) A paper on the security of IMU-based gait titled, "Dictionary Attack on IMU-based Gait Authentication", was accepted for publication at AISec'23 colocated with ACM CCS, Copenhagen and will be presented in November 2023 at ACM CCS 2023
(2023) Work with my undergraduate student Jun H. Mo titled, "iCTGAN--An Attack Mitigation Technique for Random-vector Attack on Accelerometer-based Gait Authentication Systems", featured among the best-reviewed papers at IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB 2022) [pdf]
(2023) A paper titled "Synthesizing Human Gaze Feedback for Improved NLP Performance", was accepted at the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2023); congratulations to the co-authors, especially Varun and Yaman!
(2022) A paper titled "GANTouch: An Attack-Resilient Framework for Touch-based Continuous Authentication System" was accepted for publication at IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science (T-BIOM Sept 2022); congratulations to the co-authors Mohit Agrawal; Pragyan Mehrotra; and Rajiv Ratn Shah.
(2022) A paper titled "iCTGAN–An Attack Mitigation Technique for Random-vector Attack on Accelerometer-based Gait Authentication Systems", was accepted at the International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB 2022) for ORAL presentation; congratulations to Jun Mo on his first research paper as an undergraduate student!
(2021) Work with M Agrawal and P Mehrotra, and Rajiv R Shah, titled "Defending Touch-based Continuous Authentication Systems from Active Adversaries Using Generative Adversarial Networks", featured among the best-reviewed papers at IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB), 2021 [pdf]
(2021) Best Reviewer Award from International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB 2021)
(2021) A paper titled "Defending Touch-based Continuous Authentication Systems from Active Adversaries Using Generative Adversarial Networks" got accepted at the International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB) 2021 for an ORAL presentation!
(2021) I will work with Sorelle Friedler, Sara Mathieson, and Alvin Grissom at Haverford College, Seny Kamara at Brown University, and Suresh Venkatasubramanian at U. Utah on the Spread and Scale Stage (Stage II) of the Responsible Computer Science Challenge Research project. January 25th, 2021
(2020) A journal paper titled "Treadmill Assisted Gait Spoofing (TAGS): An Emerging Threat to Wearable Sensor-based Gait Authentication", was accepted at ACM Journal of Digital Threats: Research and Practice, December 8th, 2020
(2018) The paper titled "Context-aware Active Authentication Using Smartphone Accelerometer Measurement", published at IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPRW), 2014, received the Highest Impact Award at CVPRW 2018.
(2017) Popular Choice Award, 3 MT Thesis Competition
(2017) Recognition for Distinguished Service to the Board of Trustees, Syracuse University, NY
(2016) Doctoral Consortium Award by IEEE Biometrics Council, at the 7th IEEE International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications, and Systems (BTAS 2016)
(2015) GSO Travel Grant Award for attending the 6th IEEE International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications, and Systems (BTAS 2015)

Research in News

(2023) Bucknell student claims second in competition | Local News | standard-journal.com
(2023) Hung Pham was among the award winners. Bucknell: Trustworthiness of EEG-based emotion recognition at the 2023 Susquehanna Valley Undergraduate Research Symposium (SVURS), svurs.scholar.bucknell.edu
(2023) Engineering Summer 2023 Research Update: Hung Ngo ’26 « Bucknell College of Engineering
(2023) Amanda Agambire '26 is collaborating with Professor Rajesh Kumar, computer science, to investigate if gait recognition systems are biased. Photo by Emily Paine, Communications A Summer of Discovery (bucknell.edu)
(2016) https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/53dd3q/lego-driven-robot-programmed-to-hack-touch-screen-authentication-systems
(2016) https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/05/hacking_gesture.html
(2015) https://n4bb.com/blackberrys-picture-password-stops-hacking-tactic/
(2015) https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-ny/news/2015/07/27/su-researchers-can-detect-your-cellphone-password-through-hand-movements
(2015) http://blogs.blackberry.com/2015/07/blackberrys-picture-password-automatically-protects-you-from-new-hacking-tactic/
(2015) https://www.techworm.net/2015/04/hackers-using-startling-new-ways-to-steal-your-passwords.html
(2015) https://www.wishtv.com/news/local-news/researchers-warn-of-new-way-hackers-can-access-your-passwords
(2015) https://finance.yahoo.com/news/an-alarming-new-way-to-steal-your-passwords-135027327.html
(2015) http://dailyorange.com/2015/04/team-of-su-professors-conduct-pioneering-research-in-personal-cyber-security-field/

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