[11/2025] Invited to serve as associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM)
[10/2025] Our paper on a lightweight edge backdoor defense has been accepted at the SEC'25/EdgeSP'25.
[10/2025] Our paper on investigating resource utilization on edge distributed AI infrastructure has been accepted at SEC'25/EdgeIntelligence'25.
[10/2025] Our paper on a pruning-based edge backdoor defense has been accepted for poster presentation at the Tenth ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC'25).
[09/2025] Honored to be one of the contributors for the LEVEL UP AI full report, which details challenges, opportunities, and strategies for building AI education capacity across U.S. higher education.
[07/2025] Invited to serve as the reviewer for ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE TC'2026)
[06/2025] Invited to serve as the student travel grant chair for the IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2026)
[06/2025] Congratulations to our lab students, Mr. Gabriel Taveira and Mr. Zijian Zhang, for presenting research work on the ACM SIGMETRICS 2025 poster session.
[05/2025] Invited to serve as a panelist for an NSF OAC Proposal Review Panel.
[04/2025] Invited to participate in the NSF LEVEL UP AI Roundtable Discussion on AI Education hosted by the Computing Research Association.
[04/2025] Invited to serve as a panelist for NSF CISE Proposal Review Panel.
[01/2025] Congratulations to our lab students, Mr. Liang Wu (NMDSI Student Scholar Award recipient in 2025 Spring) and Mr. Jagger Vicente and Mr. Jack Harmer (UWM SURF Award recipient in 2025 Spring)! Thanks, NMDSI and UWM OUR!
[11/2024] SIDC lab has been invited to attend MIT Lincoln Lab's sixth annual Recent Advances in AI for National Security (RAAINS) Workshop. We sent the lab Ph.D. student Ms. Isra Elsharef to represent our team at this event.
[10/2024] Hosted a workshop session for 31 high school students focused on hands-on cybersecurity practice using the cybersecurity playground developed by our lab — Hack, Learn, Secure! [Picture]
[10/2024] Invited to serve as the student travel grant chair for the IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2025).
[10/2024] Congratulations to our lab Ph.D. student Ms. Isra Elsharef, UWM Webb Fellowship recipient, 2024-25 Fall/Spring!
[09/2024] Congratulations to our lab Ph.D. students Mr. Zijian Zhang and Ms. Isra Elsharef, UWM Graduate Student Travel Award recipients. Zijian presented our research "Unveiling Neural Network Data Free Backdoor Threats in Industrial Control Systems" at the ACM CCS Workshop on Re-Design Industrial Control Systems with Security, Salt Lake City, UT in Oct. 2024.
[09/2024] Congratulations to our lab members, Mr. Liang Wu (NMDSI Student Scholar Award recipient in 2024 Fall) and Mr. Jagger Vicente (UWM SURF Award recipient in 2024 Fall)! Looking forward to more impactful work ahead.
[08/2024] Receiving a funding award from UWM Research Foundation for the project on improving cybersecurity for advanced manufacturing systems. Thanks, UWMRF!
[06/2024] Receiving a funding award from Rockwell Automation for the project on threat intelligence. Thanks, Rockwell Automation!
[06/2024] Receiving a funding award from Rockwell Automation for the project on secure product development. Thanks, RA!
[06/2024] Invited to serve as a panelist for an NSF Proposal Review Panel.
[06/2024] Invited to serve as a PC member for the CCS 2024 workshop on Adaptive and Autonomous Cyber Defense (AACD 2024).
[06/2024] Invited to serve as a panelist for Summerfest Tech 2024.
[05/2024] Received "The Teacher Excellence Award" from the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at UWM. Thank you, our excellent IntroSec24Sping class students!
[05/2024] Invited to attend the 2024 NSF CAREER Workshop Mock Panel.
[05/2024] Invited to attend the 2024 NSF Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) Aspiring PI Workshop.
[04/2024] Invited to serve as a panelist for an NSF Proposal Review Panel (a different program).
[04/2024] Invited to attend NSF Workshop on Sustainable Computing for Sustainability (virtual).
[04/2024] Invited to serve as a panelist for an NSF Proposal Review Panel.
[03/2024] Invited to talk at the American Mathematical Society (AMS) Spring Central Sectional Meeting Special Session on Mathematical Aspects of Cryptography and Cybersecurity in April 2024.
[02/2024] One paper titled "Facilitating Threat Modeling by Leveraging Large Language Models" has been accepted and presented in the Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium workshop on AI system with Confidential Computing, San Diego, CA, Feb. 2024.
[11/2023] Invited to attend NSF workshop on Directions for Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) EDU, 2023.
[11/2023] Invited to attend CRA Early & Mid Career Mentoring Workshop, 2023
[11/2023] Invited to serve as a social media chair for the IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E 2024).
[10/2023] Invited to serve as a PC member for the Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium Workshop on AI System with Confidential Computing (AISCC 2024).
[10/2023] Invited to attend UW System Alliance for Inclusion, Diversity, Equity & Advancement in STEM workshop, Oct. 2023
[10/2023] Invited to talk at the 2023 Southeast Wisconsin Transportation Symposium, Oct. 2023.
[09/2023] Receiving a SURF (Support for Undergraduate Research Fellows) award at UWM. Welcome our undergraduate researchers!
[08/2023] Invited to serve as a faculty mentor for the WiscAMP STEM-Inspire Program at UWM.
[07/2023] One paper titled "ILLATION: Improving Vulnerability Risk Prioritization By Learning From Network" has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), 2023.
[06/2023] Invited to attend NSF BETTER workshop, June-July, 2023.
[06/2023] Invited to serve as a PC member for ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) Workshop on Moving Target Defense (MTD 2023).
[03/2023] Joined UWM as a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Computer Science.