2018:

[August 2018]Our book "Privacy-Enhancing Fog Computing and Its Applications" will be published by Springer!
[August 2018]My computer forensics textbook "Introductory Computer Forensics: A Hands-on Practical Approach" will be published by Springer!
[August 2018]Congratulations to Sultan Basudan on a successful defense of his PhD dissertation "Secure and privacy-preserving fog-assisted vehicular crowdsensing"!
[July 2018]Our paper "Enabling Efficient and Geometric Range Query with Access Control over Encrypted Spatial Data" is accepted for publication by IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security!
[July 2018]Congratulations to Jianbing Ni on a successful defense of his PhD dissertation "Security and Privacy Preservation in Mobile Crowdsensing"!
[May 2018]Our paper "MARP: A Distributed MAC Layer Attack Resistant Pseudonym Scheme for VANET" is accepted for publication by IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing!
[April 2018]Our paper "Understanding Ethereum via Graph Analysis" won the Best Paper Award at IEEE INFOCOM 2018!
[March 2018]Our paper "Automated Forensic Analysis of Mobile Applications on Android Devices" has been accepted by DFRWS USA 2018!
[March 2018]Congratulations to Abdulrahman Alamer on a successful defense of his PhD dissertation "A Secure and Privacy-preserving Incentive Scheme for Vehicular Cloud"!

2017:

[December 2017]Our paper "Privacy-Preserving Data Forwarding in VANETs: A Personal-Social Behavior Based Approach" won the Best Paper Award at IEEE GLOBECOM 2017!
[November 2017]Congratulations to Yanwen Zhou on a successful defense of Master's thesis "Genetic sun shadow positioning model for digital forensics"!
[September 2017]Congratulations to Abel Bacchus on a successful defense of Master's thesis "Towards Secure e-Health Data Exchanges through Consent Based Access Control"!
[March 2017]Congratulations to Yatian Gao on a successful defense of Master's thesis "Component-based Modeling for Android Application Testing"!
[February 2017]Our paper "Differentially Private Smart Metering with Fault Tolerance and Range-Based Filtering" is accepted for publication by IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid !

[December 2016]Congratulations to Khalid AlHarbi on a successful defense of his PhD dissertation "A Framework for Privacy-Preserving Data Sharing in Smart Grid"!
[November 2016]Our paper "Cloud-Based Parallel Concolic Execution" is accepted for publication by 24th IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER 2017)!
[November 2016]I am elevated to IEEE Fellow for contributions in secure and privacy-preserving vehicular communications!
[November 2016]Our paper "Light-weight and Robust Security-Aware D2D-assist Data Transmission Protocol for Mobile-Health Systems" is accepted for publication by IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security!
[October 2016]Our paper "Cloud-Based Privacy-Preserving Parking Navigation through Vehicular Communications" won the Best Paper Award at SecureComm 2016!

[December 2015]I was awarded as Distinguished Member of the IEEE INFOCOM 2015 Technical Program Committee (Top 25% TPCs)!
[December 2015]I am elected as chair of IEEE ComSoc Communications and Information Security Technical Committee (term 2016-2017)!
[April 2015]Congratulations to Likhith Areekkal for a successful defense of his Master's project! His presentation was titled "Garmin GPS Device Forensics".
[March 2015]Our book "Vehicular Ad Hoc Network Security and Privacy" will be published by Wiley-IEEE Press!
[February 2015]Our paper "White-Box Traceable Ciphertext-Policy Attribute-Based Encryption Supporting Flexible Attributes" is accepted for publication by IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security!
[January 2015]Our paper "A Threshold Anonymous Authentication Protocol for VANETs" is accepted for publication by IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology!
[January 2015]The IFS lab got five papers accepted by IEEE ICC 2015!

[December 2014]Our paper "User-Habit-Oriented Authentication Model: Toward Secure, User-Friendly Authentication for Mobile Devices" is accepted for publication by IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing!
[November 2014]The IFS lab got two papers accepted by IEEE INFOCOM 2015!
[September 2014]Congratulations to Christopher Carver for a successful defense of his Master's thesis! His thesis was titled "E-Fencing Detection: Mining Online Classified Ad Websites for Stolen Property"!
[August 2014]The IFS lab got three papers accepted by IEEE ICCC 2014!
[August 2014]Congratulations to Talal Elawad for a successful defense of his Master's project! His presentation was titled "Weaknesses and Attacks against Enterprise Wireless Network".
[August 2014]Our paper "RCCA-Secure Multi-use Bidirectional Proxy Re-Encryption with Master Secret Security" is accepted for publication by ProvSec 2014!
[July 2014]The IFS lab got three papers accepted by IEEE GLOBECOM 2014!
[June 2014]Our paper "Large Universe Ciphertext-Policy Attribute-Based Encryption with White-Box Traceability" is accepted for publication by ESORICS 2014!