March 2024

• On research, "ticks and Stones May Break My Bones, But Words Will Never Hurt Me! — Navigating the Cybersecurity Risks of Generative AI" has been accepted for publications in AI & Society: Knowledge, Culture and Communication Journal. Read the paper here.

• Our research, "Towards Sustainable SecureML: Quantifying Carbon Footprint of Adversarial Machine Learning", has been accepted at GreenNet@IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC) 2024, one of the most prestigious conference in communication field! Read our work here.

February 2024

• Our research, "Context-Aware Spatiotemporal Poisoning Attacks on Wearable-Based Activity Recognition", has been accepted at IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM) 2024, one of the most prestigious conference in communication field!

• Our research " The Environmental Price of Intelligence: Evaluating the Social Cost of Carbon in Machine Learning" has been accepted to  the IEEE Conference on Technologies for Sustainability (SusTech 2024)! Big congratulations to Syed Hasan for his first paper!

• Our collaborative research "Generative AI-Based Land Cover Classification via Federated Learning CNNs: Sustainable Insights from UAV Imagery" has been accepted to the IEEE Conference on Technologies for Sustainability (SusTech 2024)! 

• Welcome Malithi Mithsara (advised with Dr. Ning Yang) to the lab!

January 2024

• Our Research "Securing User Privacy in Cloud-Based Whiteboard Services Against Health Attribute Inference Attacks" Accepted at IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence! Read our work here.

November 2023

• Our research "FLID: Intrusion Detection and Defense Mechanism for Federated Learing-Empowered Connected Autonomous Vehicles" has been accepted to IEEE Conference on Depdendable and Secure Computing (IEEE DSC)'23!

August 2023

• Welcome Syed Mhamudul Hasan to the lab!

May 2023

• Our paper, "Assessing Wearable Human Activity Recognition Systems Against Data Poisoning Attacks in Differentially-Private Federated Learning", has been accepted to IEEE SmartSys@ IEEE SmartComp' 23 !

February 2023

• Our paper, Leveraging Blockchain Interoperability for Interdependent Networks, has been accepted by IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine! 

September 2022

• Our paper, A Multidimensional Blockchain Framework For Mobile Internet of Things, has been accepted to IEEE TrustCom, 2022!

• Our paper, Label Flipping Data Poisoning Attack on Human Activity Recognition (HAR) systems, has been accepted by IEEE SSCI, 2022!

May 2022

• Dr. Shahid is serving as a CO-PI of NSF CIS Cyber Scholars Program Award Read detail 

April 2022

• Our research on Location-Privacy Preserving Mechanism for Blockchain has been accepted as a book chapter by Principles and Practice of Blockchains, Springer! 

January 2022

• Dr. Shahid is awarded the Faculty Enrichment Fund award to develop a smart robot testbed for Internet of Mobile Things (IoMT) Security, Privacy, and Scalability Research.

August 2021

• Our papers on Application on Differentially Private Machine Learning at The Conference on Innovations and Applications in Intelligent Systems (ASYU) conference.

April 2021

• Congratulations to the undergraduate researchers, Melinda Goda, for winning the 2nd best poster prize at the Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges — Northeastern Region, 2021. Her research topic was: Differentially Private Machine Learning for Breast Cancer Classification.