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Our Minta Martin proposal has been selected for funding.
August 2025
Our paper "MetaHeart: Spoofing Vibrational Biometrics via Dynamic Metasurfaces" has been accepted to the IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS'25)
July 2025
Congratulations to our intern, Mahmoud Al-Madi, whose start-up has been accepted to Y Combinator for Summer 2025.
July 2025
Presented a demo of our work "Fooling Eavesdroppers via On-Phone Metasurface and Spoofed Audio Information" at the ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec'25) in Arlington, Virginia.
June 2025
Presented our paper "Spoofing Eavesdroppers with Audio Misinformation" at IEEE S&P'25 in San Francisco, California.
May 2025
Invited talk on "Next-Generation Wireless Security Threats and Capabilities" at the Laboratory for Telecommunication Sciences (LTS), part of the National Security Agency (NSA) research enterprise.
April 2025
We have been awarded the Northrop Grumman Seed Grant
April 2025
Our paper "Spoofing Eavesdroppers with Audio Misinformation" has been accepted to IEEE S&P'25 (Oakland)
March 2025
Attended the NSF CNS: Networking Technology and Systems (NeTS) Early Career Workshop at NSF Headquarters
January 2025
Our paper "Downlink Multi-user sub-THz Communication with a Programmable Metasurface" has been accepted to IEEE INFOCOM'25.
December 2024
Our work "HeatPulse: Thermal Attacks on Air Pollution Sensors" received the Best Paper Runner-up Award at SPICES @ International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks.
December 2024
Visited GWU for the Inaugural IEEE INFOCOM Distinguished Lecture Series, where our work was featured in the keynote talk.
November 2024
Served as a panelist on the University of Maryland ECE Graduate Student Association (ECEGSA) Panel on Academic Careers
October 2024
Served as a session chair at the Terahertz Communications, Sensing, and Security Workshop at IEEE MILCOM'24
October 2024
Our paper "HeatPulse: Thermal Attacks on Air Pollution Sensors" has been accepted to the SPICES @ International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks.
September 2024
Joined the University of Maryland, College Park, as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
August 2024
Our security work, unveiling vulnerabilities in wireless backhaul networks for 5G and beyond, is featured in Rice Media.
June 2024
Contribute to the NSF erVa event: Strategic Engineering for Next-Generation Wireless Competitiveness
June 2024
Presented our paper "MetaFly: Wireless Backhaul Interception via Aerial Wavefront Interception" at IEEE S&P'24 in San Francisco, California.
May 2024
Hosted Intel wireless CTO Carlos Cordeiro at Rice Networking Group.
December 2023
Our paper "MetaFly: Wireless Backhaul Interception via Aerial Wavefront Interception" has been accepted to IEEE S&P'24
November 2023
Our paper "Toward Accurate Environmental Mapping using Balloon-based UAVs" has been accepted to IEEE CCNC'24
October 2023
Our paper "RMDM: Using Random Meta-Atoms to Send Directional Misinformation to Eavesdroppers" has been accepted to IEEE CNS'23
August 2023
We have been awarded $1.8M from the U.S. Army Research Office to enhance security against "MetaSurface-in-the-Middle" attacks.
July 2023
Gave a talk on "Towards 6G Wireless: Security Threats from Adversarial MetaSurfaces" at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI).
May 2023
Our paper "Remotely Positioned MetaSurface-Drone Attack" has been accepted to ACM HotMobile'23.
December 2022
Our "Metasurface-in-the-Middle" attacks security work has been featured in Futurity. (article)
May 2022
Presented our paper "MetaSurface-in-the-Middle Attack: from Theory to Experiment" at ACM WiSec'22 in San Antonia, Texas. (video)
May 2022
We won the Best Demo Award at the ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks. (ACM WiSec'22)!
May 2022
Our security work was highlighted in several media outlets: Futurity, Brown University, ScienceDaily, and Rice University.
May 2022
Our paper "FALCON: A Networked Drone System for Sensing, Localizing, and Approaching RF Targets" has been accepted to the IEEE Internet of Things Journal.
February 2022
Demonstrated our security work to Dr. Patrick J. Baker, Director of the U.S. Army Research, and many other US Army Research members.
September 2021
Our paper "ASTRO: A System for Off-grid Networked Drone Sensing Missions" has been accepted to the ACM Transactions on the Internet of Things.
May 2021
Presented our paper "Autonomous Drone Networks for Sensing, Localizing and Approaching RF Targets" at IEEE VNC'20.
December 2020
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