News

2025.3

• (NEW) Bangjie's paper, "CAMPrints: Leveraging the "Fingerprints" of Digital Cameras to Combat Image Theft", is (conditionally) accepted at ACM MobiSys'25.

2025.2

• (NEW) Congratulations to Dr. Soundarya Ramesh on the successful defense of her Ph.D. dissertation! 

• (NEW) Congratulations to Dr. Sriram Sami on the successful defense of her Ph.D. dissertation! 

2024.11

• (NEW) Our paper in collaboration with Zhejiang University, "Lend Me Your Beam: Privacy Implications of Beamforming Feedback Packets in WiFi", is accepted and will be presented at NDSS'25.

• (NEW) Dongjin's, Jonghyuk's, Seongjin's, and Jaewoo's poster won the Best Poster Award at ACM SenSys'24. Congratulations! 

• (NEW) Our paper in collaboration with UC Merced titled, "Don’t Crosstalk to Me: Origami Structure-Augmented Sensing for Scalable Surface Pressure Monitoring", is accepted and will be presented at ACM SenSys'24.

2024.10

• (NEW) Jun is is invited to serve on the TPC of several top conferences including ACM MobiSys'25, ACM MobiCom'25, IEEE S&P'25, ACM CCS'25.

2024.8

• (NEW) Jun is serving as the PI in an international research grant (a collaboration between KAIST, MIT, and NUS) recently selected by the Korean National Research Foundation (NRF) (STEAM Global Cooperative Convergence Research Program). This grant will provide KRW 5.4B (approximately SGD 5.4M or USD 4M) in funding over a 4.5-year project span [KAIST News]. 

2024.6

• (NEW) Jonghyuk's, Kyoosik's, Kichang's, and Bangjie's paper won the Best Paper Award at ACM MobiSys'24. Congratulations! [link] 

• (NEW) Soundarya won the Best Presentation Award of the Rising Stars Forum Award at ACM MobiSys'24. Congratulations!

2024.5

• (NEW) Nan's and Bangjie's paper, "Can I Hear Your Face? Pervasive Attack on Voice Authentication Systems with a Single Face Image", is accepted and will appear at USENIX Security'24. 

2024.4

• Jonghyuk's, Kyoosik's, Kichang's, and Bangjie's paper, "PowDew: Detecting Counterfeit Powdered Food Products using a Commodity Smartphone", is accepted and will appear at ACM MobiSys'24.

2024.2

• CyPhy Lab moved to the School of Computing at KAIST. 

• Jun is appointed as an Associate Professor in the School of Computing at KAIST [link]. 

2023.12

• Cherry's, Seongjin's, and Dongjun's paper, "ImpacTile: Tile-level Localization for the Visually Impaired using Structural Uniqueness" is accepted and will be presented at ACM HotMobile'24. 

2023.9

• Jun is selected to receive a four-year research grant from the National Research Foundation (NRF) with the Mid-Career Researcher Program (중견연구).  

• Bangjie's, Kanav's, and Gyuyeon's paper, "Testing Masks and Air Filters With Your Smartphones" is accepted and will be presented at ACM SenSys'23. 

• Jun is invited to serve on the TPC of several top conferences including  ACM MobiSys'24 and ACM/IEEE IPSN'24. Jun is also invited to serve on the OC of ACM MobiSys'24 as the Workshops Chair. 

• Jun is invited to Google Jigsaw's conference as an invited speaker on "Confronting Digital Authoritarianism" in New York City, NY. 

2023.8

• Jun is invited to Samsung Security Tech Forum (SSTF) 2023 as an invited speaker in Seoul, Korea. 

2023.6

• Rui's and Soundarya's paper, "MagTracer: Detecting GPU Cryptojacking Attacks via Magnetic Leakage Signals" is accepted and will appear at ACM MobiCom'23.

• Our paper in collaboration with University of Michigan, Northeastern University, and Georgia Tech titled, "Characterizing and Mitigating Touchtone Eavesdropping in Smartphone Motion Sensors", is accepted and will appear at RAID'23.

2023.5

• Jun is serving on the TPC of several top security conferences including USENIX Security'24 and IEEE S&P (Oakland)'24.

2023.4

• Jun is selected to receive the Google Research Scholar Award 2023. This is a prestigious award from Google “focused on funding world-class research conducted by early-career professors”.  

2023.3

• Jun is serving on the TPC of several top mobile/sensing systems conferences including ACM MobiSys'23 and  ACM SenSys'23. He is also serving on the TPC of other well as reputable venues including ACM HotMobile'23 and ACM/IEEE IoTDI'23. 

2023.2

• Jonghyuk's, Gyuyeon's and Soundarya's poster, "RampScope: Ramp-level Localization of Shared Mobility Devices using Sidewalk Ramps" won the Best Poster Award at ACM HotMobile'23. This poster accompanies our paper also presented at HotMobile'23.

2022.12

• Jonghyuk's, Gyuyeon's and Soundarya's paper, "RampScope: Ramp-level Localization of Shared Mobility Devices using Sidewalk Ramps" is accepted and will appear at ACM HotMobile'23.

• Our paper in collaboration with University of Maryland College Park titled, "ThermWare: Towards Side-channel Defense for Tiny IoT Devices", is accepted and will appear at ACM HotMobile'23.

• Sihun's and Yuri's poster, "Poster: Tap-the-Fat: Body Fat Percentage Estimation using Acoustic Responses to Vibration Stimulus on Human Skin" is accepted and will appear at ACM HotMobile'23.

2022.10

• JongTaek's (former postdoc researcher at CyPhy) paper, "Don't Weight to Board: Augmenting Vision-based Passenger Weight Prediction via Viscoelastic Mat" is accepted and will appear at ACM UbiComp'23/IMWUT. 

2022.8

• Soundarya's and Sihun's paper, "TickTock: Detecting Microphone Status in Laptops Leveraging Electromagnetic Leakage of Clock Signals" is accepted and will appear at ACM CCS'22. 

2022.6

• Bangjie's, Sean's, and Zhiwei's poster, "On Utilizing Smartphone Cameras to Detect Counterfeit Liquid Food Products", won the Best Poster Award at ACM MobiSys'22. This poster accompanies our full paper also presented at MobiSys'22.

• Yuri Choi, Seojun Hong, and Sihun Yang (Yonsei research interns) joined our group. Welcome, all! 

2022.5

• Bangjie's, Sean's, and Zhiwei's poster, "On Utilizing Smartphone Cameras to Detect Counterfeit Liquid Food Products" is accepted and will appear at ACM MobiSys'22. This poster accompanies our full paper also to be presented at MobiSys'22.

• Sungtae's and Donghun's poster, "EarChew: Towards Identifying Chewing Side Preference using Earables" is accepted and will appear at ACM MobiSys'22.  

2022.4

• Nitya will join the Department of Computer Science, School of Computing at the National University of Singapore as a faculty member in the Educator Track. Congrats, Nitya!

2022.3

• Bangjie, Sean, and Zhiwei's paper, "Detecting Counterfeit Liquid Food Products in a Sealed Bottle Using a Smartphone Camera" is accepted at ACM MobiSys 2022. 

• Jonghyuk Yoon (Yonsei M.S. student) joined our group. Welcome, Jonghyuk!

• Prof. Jong Taek Lee, a former post-doc researcher at our group, joined Kyungpook National University as an Assistant Professor. Congrats, Jong Taek! 

2022.2 

• Congratulations to Dr. Nitya Lakshmanan on the successful defense of her Ph.D. dissertation! 

2022.1 

• Nitya's paper, "On Privacy Risks of Watching YouTube over Cellular Networks with Carrier Aggregation" is accepted and will appear at ACM UbiComp 2022/IMWUT.

• Nan's paper, "EarWalk: Towards Walking Posture Identification using Earables" is accepted and will appear at ACM HotMobile'22.

• Cherry Kim, Gyu Yeon Kim, Sungtae Kim, and Donghun Lee (Yonsei research interns) joined our group. Welcome, all! 

2021.11 

• Sriram's, Sean's, and Bangjie's SenSys paper is featured on several news/media including: Forbes, The Register, Y Combinator's Hacker News, and Techlog360.

2021.10

• Sriram's, Sean's, and Bangjie's poster, "On Utilizing Smartphone Time-of-Flight Sensors to Detect Hidden Spy Cameras" is accepted and will appear at ACM SenSys'21. This poster accompanies our full paper also presented at SenSys'21.

• Sriram's, Sean's, and Bangjie's paper, "LAPD: Hidden Spy Camera Detection using Smartphone Time-of-Flight Sensors YouTube" is accepted and will appear at ACM SenSys'21.

2021.9

• Soundarya is recognized as the recipient of the Google PhD Fellowship 2021 in Mobile Computing. Congrats, Soundarya!

2021.8

• Sean RuiXiang Tan (NUS CS Ph.D. student) joined our group. Welcome, Sean!

• The name of our group changed from SENSG to Cyber-Physical Systems and Security (CyPhy) Lab. 

• Jun joined the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Yonsei University as an Assistant Professor.

2021.5

• Our paper, "FastZIP: Faster and More Secure Zero-Interaction Pairing", in collaboration with TU Darmstadt and IBM Zurich, is accepted and will appear at ACM MobiSys'21.

2021.3

• Jun is serving as the TPC Co-Chair of ACM DroNet 2021, a co-located workshop with ACM MobiSys'21. Please submit your exciting work on drones!

2021.2

• Jay (NUS PostDoc Researcher) joined our group. Welcome, Jay!

2021.1

• Soundarya's paper, "Acoustics to the Rescue: Physical Key Inference Attack Revisited", in collaboration with Rui, Jong Taek, Ananda, and Harini, is accepted and will appear at USENIX Security'21.

2020.11

• Sriram's, Sean's, and Dai's SenSys paper is featured on several news/media including: Forbes, ZDNet, Hacker.io, ThreatPost, Slashdot, Boan News (Korean), CNA (Singapore's mainstream news), and NUS News.

• Sriram's, Sean's, and Dai's poster, "LidarPhone: Acoustic Eavesdropping using a Lidar Sensor", won the Best Poster Runner-Up Award at ACM SenSys 2020. This poster accompanies our full paper also presented at SenSys'20.

• Nitya's Usenix Security paper is recognized as GSMA Mobile Security Hall of Fame.

• Sriram's, Dai's, and Sean's paper, "Spying with Your Robot Vacuum Cleaner: Eavesdropping via Lidar Sensors" is accepted and will appear at ACM SenSys 2020.

2020.10

• Sriram's, Sean's, and Dai's poster, "LidarPhone: Acoustic Eavesdropping using a Lidar Sensor" is accepted at ACM SenSys 2020. This poster accompanies our full paper also accepted at SenSys'20.

2020.9

• Nitya's paper, "A Stealthy Location Identification Attack Exploiting Carrier Aggregation in Cellular Networks" is accepted and will appear at USENIX Security'21.

• Bangjie Sun (NUS CS Ph.D. student) joined our group. Welcome, Bangjie!

• We received an Academic Research Fund (Tier 1) from Singapore Ministry of Education for our work on On-Ear Wearables. This work is also in collaboration with Prof. Tony Quek (SUTD) and Prof. Romit Roy Choudhury (UIUC).

2020.8

• Aug 2020: Our work is featured in ACM News article, "Picking Locks with Audio Technology". This is also featured on several news/media/blog posts including: Forbes, The Telegraph, Mashable, Gizmodo, The Register, The Sun, Y Combinator's Hacker News, Slashdot, Hacker.io, Boan News (1), Boan News (2), and Bruce Schneier's blog post.

• Gucheng Wang (NUS CS Ph.D. student) joined our group. Welcome, Gucheng!

2020.7

• Nitya Lakshmanan (NUS CS Ph.D. student) joined our group. Welcome, Nitya!

2020.5

• Our article, "How to Curtail Oversensing in the Home", is now published at Communications of ACM (June 2020 - Vol. 63 No. 6, Pages 20-24).

2020.2

• Jong Taek's and Eric's poster, "Don't Wait For Weight: Towards Weight Inference of Passengers and Luggage using Smartphone Camera", is accepted at ACM/IEEE IPSN 2020.

2020.1

• Jong Taek Lee (NUS PostDoc Researcher) joined our group. Welcome, Jong Taek!

2019.12

• Soundarya's and Harini's paper, "Listen to Your Key: Towards Acoustics-based Physical Key Inference", is accepted at ACM HotMobile 2020.

2019.8

• Sriram Sami (NUS CS Ph.D. student) joined our group. Welcome, Sriram!

2019.6

• Soundarya's poster, "SoundUAV: Fingerprinting Acoustic Emanations for Delivery Drone Authentication", won the Best Poster Runner-Up Award at ACM MobiSys 2019.

2019.4

• Soundarya's paper, "SoundUAV: Towards Delivery Drone Authentication via Acoustic Noise Fingerprinting", is accepted at ACM DroNet 2019, workshop co-located with ACM MobiSys.

• Soundarya's poster, "SoundUAV: Fingerprinting Acoustic Emanations for Delivery Drone Authentication", is accepted at ACM MobiSys 2019.

• Christian's poster, "Towards Precise Localization of E-Scooters using Sidewalk Ramps", is accepted at ACM MobiSys 2019.

2019.3

• Nitya's paper, "SurFi: Detecting Surveillance Camera Looping Attacks with Wi-Fi Channel State Information" is accepted and will appear at ACM WiSec 2019.

2019.2

• Our demo titled "Demo Abstract: Secure Pairing via Video and IMU Verification", in collaboration with Carlos Ruiz and other researchers from CMU, is accepted and will be presented at ACM/IEEE IPSN 2019.

2018.12

• Our paper "Smart Home Occupant Identification via Sensor Fusion Across On-Object Devices" is now published in ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN) Volume 14 Issues 3-4, Article No. 23, Dec. 2018.

• Reksten-Monsen Christian (NUS CS Ph.D. student) joined our group. Welcome, Christian!

• Soundarya Ramesh (NUS CS Ph.D. student) joined our group. Welcome, Soundarya!

2018.7

• Sensing, Embedded, & Network Security Group (SENSG) at NUS officially opened! 

• Jun joined the Computer Science Department at the National University of Singapore as an Assistant Professor (NUS News).