"Spoofing Eavesdroppers with Audio Misinformation"

Zhambyl Shaikhanov, Mahmoud Al-Madi, Hou-Tong Chen, Chun-Chieh Chang, Sadhvikas Addamane, Daniel M. Mittleman, and Edward W. Knightly, "Spoofing Eavesdroppers with Audio Misinformation," in Proceedings of the 46th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, May 2025.  

[IEEE S&P; Oakland'25] [PAPER] [Webpage]   

"MetaFly: Aerial "MetaSurface-in- The-Middle" Attacks on Wireless Backhaul Links"

Zhambyl Shaikhanov, Fahid Hassan,  Sherif Badran, Hichem Guerboukha, Josep M. Jornet, Daniel M. Mittleman, and Edward W. Knightly, "MetaFly: Aerial "MetaSurface-in- The-Middle" Attacks on Wireless Backhaul Links," ACM GetMobile: Mobile Computing and Communications, 2025

[GetMobile'25]     [PAPER] 🏆 Invited Research Highlight

"Downlink Multi-user sub-THz Communication with a Programmable Metasurface"

Fahid Hassan, Zhambyl Shaikhanov, Jeffrey Lei, Hichem Guerboukha, Hou-Tong Chen, Chun-Chieh Chang, Sadhvikas Addamane, Michael P. Lilly, Daniel M. Mittleman, and Edward W. Knightly, "Downlink Multi-user sub-THz Communication with a Programmable Metasurface," in Proceedings of the  IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications, 2025

[INFOCOM'25]     [PAPER]   

"Full-Duplex Beamforming Optimization for Near-Field ISAC"

Ahsan Nazar, Zhambyl Shaikhanov, and Sennur Ulukus, "Full-Duplex Beamforming Optimization for Near-Field ISAC," IEEE Military Communications Conference, 2025

[MILCOM'25]     [PAPER]

"MetaHeart: Spoofing Vibrational Biometrics via Dynamic Metasurfaces"

Dora Zivanovic, Jy-Chin Liao, Zhambyl Shaikhanov, Hou-Tong Chen, Chun-Chieh Chang, Sadhvikas Addamane, Daniel M. Mittleman, and Edward W. Knightly, "MetaHeart: Spoofing Vibrational Biometrics via Dynamic Metasurfaces," in Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS), September 2025.  

[IEEE CNS'25] [PAPER]   

"Demo: Fooling Eavesdroppers via On-Phone Metasurface and  Spoofed Audio Information"

Zhambyl Shaikhanov, Mahmoud Al-Madi, Jy-Chin Liao, Hou-Tong Chen, Chun-Chieh Chang, Sadhvikas Addamane, Daniel M. Mittleman, and Edward W. Knightly, "Demo: Fooling Eavesdroppers via On-Phone Metasurface and  Spoofed Audio Information," in Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks, July 2025.  

[ACM WiSec'25] [PAPER]   

"Poster: Joint RF-Gas Sensing for Victim Localization using UAV Networks" 

Guillermo Benito-Calvino, Ahmed Boubrima, Hervé Rivano, Alessandro Renzaglia, and Zhambyl Shaikhanov, "Poster: Joint RF-Gas Sensing for Victim Localization using UAV Networks" in Proceedings of the 23rd ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services, June 2025.

[ACM MobiSys'25]     [PAPER]

"Physical Layer Security for THz Communications in Massive IoT"

*Vitaly Petrov, *Hichem Guerboukha, *Zhambyl Shaikhanov, Edward W. Knightly, Daniel M. Mittleman, and Josep M. Jornet, "Physical Layer Security for THz Communications," to appear in Book “Security and Privacy for 6G Massive IoT,” Wiley, 2025, *co-primary authors. 

[Book Chapter'25]     [PAPER]

"Audio misinformation encoding via an on-phone sub-terahertz metasurface"

Zhambyl Shaikhanov, Mahmoud Al-Madi, Hou-Tong Chen, Chun-Chieh Chang, Sadhvikas Addamane, Daniel M. Mittleman, and Edward W. Knightly, "Audio misinformation encoding via an on-phone sub-terahertz metasurface," Optica Memoranda, August 2024.  

[OPTICA'24]     [PAPER]

"MetaFly: Wireless Backhaul Interception via Aerial Wavefront Interception"

Zhambyl Shaikhanov, Sherif Badran, Hichem Guerboukha, Josep M. Jornet, Daniel M. Mittleman, and Edward W. Knightly, "MetaFly: Wireless Backhaul Interception via Aerial Wavefront Manipulation," in Proceedings of the 45th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, May 2024.  

[IEEE S&P; Oakland'24]     [PAPER]     [PRESS]   

"HeatPulse: Thermal Attacks on Air Pollution Sensors" 

Natsuki Morand, Ahmed Boubrima, Walid Bechkit, and Zhambyl Shaikhanov, "HeatPulse: Thermal Attacks on Air Pollution Sensors," The 3rd Workshop on Security and Privacy in Connected Embedded Systems, 2024

[SPICES@ EWSN'24]     [PAPER] 🏆 Best Paper Runner-up Award 

"Toward Accurate Environmental Mapping using Balloon-based UAVs" 

Ahmed Boubrima, Zhambyl Shaikhanov, and Edward W. Knightly, "Toward Accurate Environmental Mapping using Balloon-based UAVs," in Proceedings of the 21th IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, January 2024.

[IEEE CCNC'24]     [PAPER]

"Adversarial Aerial Metasurfaces"

Zhambyl Shaikhanov, Sherif Badran, Josep M. Jornet, Daniel M. Mittleman, and Edward W. Knightly,  "Adversarial Aerial Metasurfaces," in Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications, February 2023.

[ACM HotMobile'23]     [PAPER]     [PRESS] 🏆 Best Demo Award

"RMDM: Using Random Meta-Atoms to Send Directional Misinformation to Eavesdroppers"

Fahid Hassan, Zhambyl Shaikhanov, Hichem Guerboukha, Daniel M. Mittleman, Kaushik Sengupta, and Edward W. Knightly, "RMDM: Using Random Meta-Atoms to Send Directional Misinformation to Eavesdroppers," in Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security, October 2023. 

[IEEE CNS'23]     [PAPER]

"Remotely Positioned MetaSurface-Drone Attack"

Zhambyl Shaikhanov, Sherif Badran, Josep M. Jornet, Daniel M. Mittleman, and Edward W. Knightly, "Remotely Positioned MetaSurface-Drone Attack," to appear in Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications, February 2023. 

[ACM HotMobile'23]     [PAPER]

"Metasurface-in-the-Middle Attack: from Theory to Experiment"

Zhambyl Shaikhanov, Fahid Hassan, Hichem Guerboukha, Daniel M. Mittleman, and Edward W. Knightly, "Metasurface-in-the-Middle Attack: from Theory to Experiment," in Proceedings of the 15th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks, May 2022. 

[ACM WiSec'22]     [PAPER]     [PRESS]

"Adversarial Metasurfaces: Metasurface-in-the-Middle Attack"

Zhambyl Shaikhanov, Fahid Hassan, Hichem Guerboukha, Daniel M. Mittleman, and Edward W. Knightly, "Adversarial Metasurfaces: Metasurface-in-the-Middle Attack,"  in Proceedings of the 15th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks, May 2022. 

[ACM WiSec'22]     [PAPER]     [VIDEO]     [PRESS] 🏆 Best Demo Award

"FALCON: a Networked Drone System for Sensing, Localizing, and Approaching RF Targets"

Zhambyl Shaikhanov, Ahmed Boubrima, and Edward W. Knightly, "FALCON: a Networked Drone System for Sensing, Localizing, and Approaching RF Targets," IEEE Internet of Things Journal, June 2022. 

[IEEE IoT'22]     [PAPER]

"ASTRO: a System for Off-Grid Networked Drone Sensing Missions"

*Riccardo Petrolo, *Zhambyl Shaikhanov, Yingyan Lin, and Edward W. Knightly, "ASTRO: a System for Off-Grid Networked Drone Sensing Missions," ACM Transactions on Internet of Things, November 2021, *co-primary authors.

[ACM TiOT'21]     [PAPER]     [VIDEO]     [PRESS]

"Autonomous Drone Networks for Sensing, Localizing, and Approaching RF Targets"

Zhambyl Shaikhanov, Ahmed Boubrima, and Edward W. Knightly, "Autonomous Drone Networks for Sensing, Localizing, and Approaching RF Targets," in Proceedings of IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference, December 2020. 

[IEEE VNC'20]     [PAPER]