July2026
Md Al Muzahid Nayim Successfully Defended His M.S. Thesis
Md Al Muzahid Nayim successfully defended his M.S. thesis on on-device machine-learning model stealing through cache-based architecture reconstruction. Congratulations, Nayim!
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June2026
Paper Presented at ASIA CCS 2026
Md. Hasan Shahriar presented our paper on Adversarial Perturbation Detection via Natural Noise Analysis
Check Paper DetailsMay2026
Distinguished Reviewer Award at IEEE S&P
Dr. Sikder received Distinguished Reviewer Award at IEEE S&P, 2026.
May2026
Invited Talk at CyRI Launch
Dr. Sikder presented ongoing research on AI-assisted tools for actuaries and the insurance industry at the CyInsurance Research Initiative (CyRI) launch at Iowa State University.
Mar2026
Paper Accepted at ASIA CCS 2026
Our paper on adversarial perturbation detection leveraging natural noise patterns got accepted at ASIA CCS 2026. Congrats Hasan and the team!
Check Paper DetailsFeb2026
Presented at Hydro Seed Grant Competition
Liu Lu presented our project on AI-assisted critical mineral recovery from coal combustion residuals
Feb2026
Paper Presented at NDSS 2026
David presented our NDSS 2026 paper, Achieving ZEN, on reconstructing deep learning models from memory for attribution and reuse.
Check The PresentationDec2025
Syed Sherazi successfully defended his MS thesis
Syed Sherazi successfully defended his M.S. thesis on adversarial attacks against BLE-Based Wireless Body Area Networks. Congrats Syed!
Nov2025
Invited Talk at IEEE DISTILL 2025
Dr. Sikder presented ongoing research on secure and trustworthy LLMs at IEEE DISTILL workshop panel.
Oct2025
Paper Presented at CCS 2025
Jon presented our ACM 2026 paper on dead drop resolver malware
Check The PaperMay2025
FIRE Lab Receives ARPA-H UPGRADE Grant
ARPA-H has awarded $12.5 million (ISU Funding: $350,000) to Hospital-Integrated Vulnerability Identification and Proactive Remediation (H-VIPER) project. This is a multi-institute collaboration between Georgia Tech, ISU, Tufts, Narf Industry, and Children Hospitals of Atlanta. Thanks to ARPA-H.
Check The NewsOct2024
Invited Talk at ISU Computer Science Colloquium
Dr. Sikder presented ongoing research on malware forensic and web app vulnerablities at CS colloquium.