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[2026.06] [Feature]: I was featured in Michigan Tech ECE's The Circuit for our research on secure and robust intelligent sensing systems for autonomous vehicles and robotics.
[2026.05] [Activity]: Welcome Jiageng Zhang, who joined our group as a Ph.D. student working on robotics and cybersecurity!
[2026.03] [Paper]: Our paper "Dynamic Deep Prompt Optimization for Defending Against Jailbreak Attacks on LLMs" has been published at AAAI 2026. Congratulations to Doniyorkhon Obidov!
[2026.02] [Paper]: Our paper "Silent Sabotage: Internal State Triggered Backdoor Attacks on LLM-Powered Robotic Systems" has been published in the proceedings of EAI SmartSP 2025. Congratulations to Doniyorkhon Obidov!
[2025.12] [Paper]: Our paper "SIAMESE: Stealing Fine-Tuned Visual Foundation Models via Diversified Prompting" has been published at the 10th ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC 2025).
[2025.10] [Paper]: Our paper "Building Reasoning LLMs for Hardware Design Generation via Function-Aligned Differentiated Revision" has been published at IEEE/ACM ICCAD 2025.
[2025.10] [Award]: I received the 2025 ICC Achievement Award from the Institute of Computing and Cybersystems at Michigan Tech for contributions to robust intelligent sensing systems and AI cybersecurity.
[2025.03] [Award]: Our team ranked among the top five on the Private Leaderboard for Track 2B of the Global Challenge for Safe and Secure LLMs!
[2024.11] [Activity]: Congratulations to Madhureeta Das on successfully defending her Ph.D. dissertation!
[2024.07] [Grant]: Thanks to NSF for supporting our project "Safeguarding AI in Bioinformatics: Enhancing Cybersecurity in Biological Data Infrastructure" through the NSF OAC CICI program. I serve as the Michigan Tech Site PI.
[2024.06] [Grant]: I received an NSF ERI Award for our project "Towards Robust and Secure Intelligent 3D Sensing Systems." Thanks, NSF, for the support!
[2024.01] [Panel]: I was pleased to serve as an NSF panel reviewer and participate in a two-day panel discussion.
[2023.12] [Talk]: I attended IEEE AsianHOST 2023 in Tianjin, China, and presented our paper "LLM4SecHW: Leveraging Domain-Specific Large Language Model for Hardware Debugging."
[2023.11] [Paper]: Our paper "Hardware Phi-1.5B: A Large Language Model Encodes Hardware Domain Specific Knowledge" has been accepted by IEEE/ACM ASP-DAC 2024.
[2023.11] [Paper]: Our paper "LLM4SecHW: Leveraging Domain-Specific Large Language Model for Hardware Debugging" has been accepted by IEEE AsianHOST 2023.
[2023.11] [Activity]: Congratulations to Cheng Fan on successfully defending his Ph.D. dissertation!
[2023.11] [Paper]: Our paper "Dual-Leak: Deep Unsupervised Active Learning for Cross-Device Profiled Side-Channel Leakage Analysis" has been published at IEEE HOST 2023.
[2023.07] [Paper]: Our paper "Energy-Efficient Underwater Acoustic Communication Based on Dyna-Q with an Adaptive Action Space" has been published in Physical Communication.
[2023] [Activity]: Welcome Doniyorkhon Obidov, who joined our group as a Ph.D. student working on machine learning and cybersecurity!
[2022] [Activity]: I joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Michigan Technological University as a tenure-track Assistant Professor.
[2022] [Activity]: I completed my Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Florida.