| 2026 | EACL | BitBypass: A New Direction in Jailbreaking Aligned Large Language Models with Bitstream Camouflage. | Kalyan Nakka, Nitesh Saxena |
| 2025 | CCS | Harnessing Vital Sign Vibration Harmonics for Effortless and Inbuilt XR User Authentication. | Tianfang Zhang, Qiufan Ji, Md Mojibur Rahman Redoy Akanda, Zhengkun Ye, Ahmed Tanvir Mahdad, Cong Shi, Yan Wang, Nitesh Saxena, Yingying Chen |
| 2025 | IJCNLP | LiteLMGuard: Seamless and Lightweight On-Device Guardrails for Small Language Models against Quantization Vulnerabilities. | Kalyan Nakka, Jimmy Dani, Ausmit Mondal, Nitesh Saxena |
| 2025 | PST | A Machine Learning-Based Framework for Assessing Cryptographic Indistinguishability of Lightweight Block Ciphers. | Jimmy Dani, Kalyan Nakka, Nitesh Saxena |
| 2025 | PST | Encryption Struggles Persist: When Tech-Savvy Students Face Challenges with PGP in Thunderbird. | Md Imanul Huq, Ahmed Tanvir Mahdad, Nitesh Saxena |
| 2025 | WWW | Broken Access: On the Challenges of Screen Reader Assisted Two-Factor and Passwordless Authentication. | Md Mojibur Rahman Redoy Akanda, Ahmed Tanvir Mahdad, Nitesh Saxena |
| 2025 | WWW | The First Early Evidence of the Use of Browser Fingerprinting for Online Tracking. | Zengrui Liu, Jimmy Dani, Yinzhi Cao, Shujiang Wu, Nitesh Saxena |
| 2025 | SP | BPSniff: Continuously Surveilling Private Blood Pressure Information in the Metaverse via Unrestricted Inbuilt Motion Sensors. | Zhengkun Ye, Ahmed Tanvir Mahdad, Yan Wang, Cong Shi, Yingying Chen, Nitesh Saxena |
| 2024 | CCS | Breaching Security Keys without Root: FIDO2 Deception Attacks via Overlays exploiting Limited Display Authenticators. | Ahmed Tanvir Mahdad, Mohammed Jubur, Nitesh Saxena |
| 2024 | CCS | SAFARI: Speech-Associated Facial Authentication for AR/VR Settings via Robust VIbration Signatures. | Tianfang Zhang, Qiufan Ji, Zhengkun Ye, Md Mojibur Rahman Redoy Akanda, Ahmed Tanvir Mahdad, Cong Shi, Yan Wang, Nitesh Saxena, Yingying Chen |
| 2024 | ICDCS | Dual Study of Canvas Fingerprinting Based Authentication: A Novel Spoofing Attack and the Countermeasure. | Zengrui Liu, Nitesh Saxena |
| 2024 | PST | Mobile Login Bridge: Subverting 2FA and Passwordless Authentication via Android Debug Bridge. | Ahmed Tanvir Mahdad, Nitesh Saxena |
| 2024 | PST | Disease Detector: A Disease Inference Attack Using Brainwave Signals Associated with Body Postures. | Anuradha Mandal, Nitesh Saxena |
| 2023 | CCS | FaceReader: Unobtrusively Mining Vital Signs and Vital Sign Embedded Sensitive Info via AR/VR Motion Sensors. | Tianfang Zhang, Zhengkun Ye, Ahmed Tanvir Mahdad, Md Mojibur Rahman Redoy Akanda, Cong Shi, Yan Wang, Nitesh Saxena, Yingying Chen |
| 2023 | ICDCS | EmoLeak: Smartphone Motions Reveal Emotions. | Ahmed Tanvir Mahdad, Cong Shi, Zhengkun Ye, Tianming Zhao, Yan Wang, Yingying Chen, Nitesh Saxena |
| 2023 | IRI | Ballot Tabulation Using Deep Learning. | Fei Zhao, Chengcui Zhang, Nitesh Saxena, Dan S. Wallach, AKM Shahariar Azad Rabby |
| 2023 | MOBICOM | Breaking Mobile Notification-based Authentication with Concurrent Attacks Outside of Mobile Devices. | Ahmed Tanvir Mahdad, Mohammed Jubur, Nitesh Saxena |
| 2023 | MOBIHOC | Poster: Unobtrusively Mining Vital Sign and Embedded Sensitive Info via AR/VR Motion Sensors. | Tianfang Zhang, Zhengkun Ye, Ahmed Tanvir Mahdad, Md Mojibur Rahman Redoy Akanda, Cong Shi, Nitesh Saxena, Yan Wang, Yingying Chen |
| 2023 | Mobisys | Passive Vital Sign Monitoring via Facial Vibrations Leveraging AR/VR Headsets. | Tianfang Zhang, Cong Shi, Payton Walker, Zhengkun Ye, Yan Wang, Nitesh Saxena, Yingying Chen |
| 2023 | SP | Privacy Leakage via Unrestricted Motion-Position Sensors in the Age of Virtual Reality: A Study of Snooping Typed Input on Virtual Keyboards. | Yi Wu, Cong Shi, Tianfang Zhang, Payton Walker, Jian Liu, Nitesh Saxena, Yingying Chen |
| 2022 | ACNS | Gummy Browsers: Targeted Browser Spoofing Against State-of-the-Art Fingerprinting Techniques. | Zengrui Liu, Prakash Shrestha, Nitesh Saxena |
| 2022 | ACNS | Beware of Your Vibrating Devices! Vibrational Relay Attacks on Zero-Effort Deauthentication. | Prakash Shrestha, Nitesh Saxena |
| 2022 | AsiaCCS | Hearing Check Failed: Using Laser Vibrometry to Analyze the Potential for Hard Disk Drives to Eavesdrop Speech Vibrations. | Payton Walker, Shalini Saini, S. Abhishek Anand, Tzipora Halevi, Nitesh Saxena |
| 2022 | ICDCS | Defending against Thru-barrier Stealthy Voice Attacks via Cross-Domain Sensing on Phoneme Sounds. | Cong Shi, Tianming Zhao, Wenjin Zhang, Ahmed Tanvir Mahdad, Zhengkun Ye, Yan Wang, Nitesh Saxena, Yingying Chen |
| 2022 | ICISC | Exploring Encrypted Keyboards to Defeat Client-Side Scanning in End-to-End Encryption Systems. | Mashari Alatawi, Nitesh Saxena |
| 2022 | Mobisys | Continuous blood pressure monitoring using low-cost motion sensors on AR/VR headsets. | Tianming Zhao, Zhengkun Ye, Tianfang Zhang, Cong Shi, Ahmed Tanvir Mahdad, Yan Wang, Yingying Chen, Nitesh Saxena |
| 2022 | Mobisys | Personalized health monitoring via vital sign measurements leveraging motion sensors on AR/VR headsets. | Tianfang Zhang, Cong Shi, Tianming Zhao, Zhengkun Ye, Payton Walker, Nitesh Saxena, Yan Wang, Yingying Chen |
| 2022 | PST | Human Brains Can't Detect Fake News: A Neuro-Cognitive Study of Textual Disinformation Susceptibility. | Cagri Arisoy, Anuradha Mandal, Nitesh Saxena |
| 2022 | PST | Mobile Mental Health Apps: Alternative Intervention or Intrusion? | Shalini Saini, Dhiral Panjwani, Nitesh Saxena |
| 2021 | ACSAC | Evaluating the Effectiveness of Protection Jamming Devices in Mitigating Smart Speaker Eavesdropping Attacks Using Gaussian White Noise. | Payton Walker, Nitesh Saxena |
| 2021 | AsiaCCS | EchoVib: Exploring Voice Authentication via Unique Non-Linear Vibrations of Short Replayed Speech. | S. Abhishek Anand, Jian Liu, Chen Wang, Maliheh Shirvanian, Nitesh Saxena, Yingying Chen |
| 2021 | AsiaCCS | Bypassing Push-based Second Factor and Passwordless Authentication with Human-Indistinguishable Notifications. | Mohammed Jubur, Prakash Shrestha, Nitesh Saxena, Jay Prakash |
| 2021 | AsiaCCS | HVAC: Evading Classifier-based Defenses in Hidden Voice Attacks. | Yi Wu, Xiangyu Xu, Payton R. Walker, Jian Liu, Nitesh Saxena, Yingying Chen, Jiadi Yu |
| 2021 | ICICS | Analyzing the Security of OTP 2FA in the Face of Malicious Terminals. | Ahmed Tanvir Mahdad, Mohammed Jubur, Nitesh Saxena |
| 2021 | MOBICOM | Face-Mic: inferring live speech and speaker identity via subtle facial dynamics captured by AR/VR motion sensors. | Cong Shi, Xiangyu Xu, Tianfang Zhang, Payton Walker, Yi Wu, Jian Liu, Nitesh Saxena, Yingying Chen, Jiadi Yu |
| 2021 | SAC | A hidden-password online password manager. | Maliheh Shirvanian, Christopher Robert Price, Mohammed Jubur, Nitesh Saxena, Stanislaw Jarecki, Hugo Krawczyk |
| 2020 | ACSAC | Voicefox: Leveraging Inbuilt Transcription to Enhance the Security of Machine-Human Speaker Verification against Voice Synthesis Attacks. | Maliheh Shirvanian, Manar Mohamed, Nitesh Saxena, S. Abhishek Anand |
| 2020 | ACSAC | WearID: Low-Effort Wearable-Assisted Authentication of Voice Commands via Cross-Domain Comparison without Training. | Cong Shi, Yan Wang, Yingying Chen, Nitesh Saxena, Chen Wang |
| 2020 | ACSAC | IvoriWatch: Exploring Transparent Integrity Verification of Remote User Input Leveraging Wearables. | Prakash Shrestha, Zengrui Liu, Nitesh Saxena |
| 2019 | ACSAC | Challenge-response behavioral mobile authentication: a comparative study of graphical patterns and cognitive games. | Manar Mohamed, Prakash Shrestha, Nitesh Saxena |
| 2019 | ACSAC | Defeating hidden audio channel attacks on voice assistants via audio-induced surface vibrations. | Chen Wang, S. Abhishek Anand, Jian Liu, Payton Walker, Yingying Chen, Nitesh Saxena |
| 2019 | ISPEC | CATCHA: When Cats Track Your Movements Online. | Prakash Shrestha, Nitesh Saxena, Ajaya Neupane, Kiavash Satvat |
| 2019 | NDSS | The Crux of Voice (In)Security: A Brain Study of Speaker Legitimacy Detection. | Ajaya Neupane, Nitesh Saxena, Leanne M. Hirshfield, Sarah E. Bratt |
| 2019 | PERCOM | Quantifying the Breakability of Voice Assistants. | Maliheh Shirvanian, Summer Vo, Nitesh Saxena |
| 2019 | PST | Compromising Speech Privacy under Continuous Masking in Personal Spaces. | S. Abhishek Anand, Payton Walker, Nitesh Saxena |
| 2019 | PST | Brain Hemorrhage: When Brainwaves Leak Sensitive Medical Conditions and Personal Information. | Ajaya Neupane, Kiavash Satvat, Mahshid Hosseini, Nitesh Saxena |
| 2019 | PST | Stethoscope: Crypto Phones with Transparent & Robust Fingerprint Comparisons using Inter Text-Speech Transformations. | Maliheh Shirvanian, Nitesh Saxena |
| 2019 | PST | ZEMFA: Zero-Effort Multi-Factor Authentication based on Multi-Modal Gait Biometrics. | Babins Shrestha, Manar Mohamed, Nitesh Saxena |
| 2018 | ACSAC | Do Social Disorders Facilitate Social Engineering?: A Case Study of Autism and Phishing Attacks. | Ajaya Neupane, Kiavash Satvat, Nitesh Saxena, Despina Stavrinos, Haley Johnson Bishop |
| 2018 | PKC | Two-Factor Authentication with End-to-End Password Security. | Stanislaw Jarecki, Hugo Krawczyk, Maliheh Shirvanian, Nitesh Saxena |
| 2018 | SP | Speechless: Analyzing the Threat to Speech Privacy from Smartphone Motion Sensors. | S. Abhishek Anand, Nitesh Saxena |
| 2017 | ACSAC | On the Pitfalls of End-to-End Encrypted Communications: A Study of Remote Key-Fingerprint Verification. | Maliheh Shirvanian, Nitesh Saxena, Jesvin James George |
| 2017 | CCS | VibWrite: Towards Finger-input Authentication on Ubiquitous Surfaces via Physical Vibration. | Jian Liu, Chen Wang, Yingying Chen, Nitesh Saxena |
| 2017 | CCS | CCCP: Closed Caption Crypto Phones to Resist MITM Attacks, Human Errors and Click-Through. | Maliheh Shirvanian, Nitesh Saxena |
| 2017 | FC | PEEP: Passively Eavesdropping Private Input via Brainwave Signals. | Ajaya Neupane, Md. Lutfor Rahman, Nitesh Saxena |
| 2017 | ICDCS | SPHINX: A Password Store that Perfectly Hides Passwords from Itself. | Maliheh Shirvanian, Stanislaw Jarecki, Hugo Krawczyk, Nitesh Saxena |
| 2017 | WWW | Neural Underpinnings of Website Legitimacy and Familiarity Detection: An fNIRS Study. | Ajaya Neupane, Nitesh Saxena, Leanne M. Hirshfield |
| 2016 | ACSAC | Gametrics: towards attack-resilient behavioral authentication with simple cognitive games. | Manar Mohamed, Nitesh Saxena |
| 2016 | ACSAC | Theft-resilient mobile wallets: transparently authenticating NFC users with tapping gesture biometrics. | Babins Shrestha, Manar Mohamed, Sandeep Tamrakar, Nitesh Saxena |
| 2016 | CCS | Device-Enhanced Password Protocols with Optimal Online-Offline Protection. | Stanislaw Jarecki, Hugo Krawczyk, Maliheh Shirvanian, Nitesh Saxena |
| 2016 | CCS | The Sounds of the Phones: Dangers of Zero-Effort Second Factor Login based on Ambient Audio. | Babins Shrestha, Maliheh Shirvanian, Prakash Shrestha, Nitesh Saxena |
| 2016 | FC | A Sound for a Sound: Mitigating Acoustic Side Channel Attacks on Password Keystrokes with Active Sounds. | S. Abhishek Anand, Nitesh Saxena |
| 2016 | NDSS | Pitfalls in Designing Zero-Effort Deauthentication: Opportunistic Human Observation Attacks. | Otto Huhta, Swapnil Udar, Mika Juuti, Prakash Shrestha, Nitesh Saxena, N. Asokan |
| 2015 | ACSAC | Emerging Image Game CAPTCHAs for Resisting Automated and Human-Solver Relay Attacks. | Song Gao, Manar Mohamed, Nitesh Saxena, Chengcui Zhang |
| 2015 | ACSAC | On the Security and Usability of Crypto Phones. | Maliheh Shirvanian, Nitesh Saxena |
| 2015 | CANS | Bad Sounds Good Sounds: Attacking and Defending Tap-Based Rhythmic Passwords Using Acoustic Signals. | S. Abhishek Anand, Prakash Shrestha, Nitesh Saxena |
| 2015 | CCS | A Multi-Modal Neuro-Physiological Study of Phishing Detection and Malware Warnings. | Ajaya Neupane, Md. Lutfor Rahman, Nitesh Saxena, Leanne M. Hirshfield |
| 2015 | ESORICS | All Your Voices are Belong to Us: Stealing Voices to Fool Humans and Machines. | Dibya Mukhopadhyay, Maliheh Shirvanian, Nitesh Saxena |
| 2015 | PERCOM | Curbing mobile malware based on user-transparent hand movements. | Babins Shrestha, Manar Mohamed, Anders Borg, Nitesh Saxena, Sandeep Tamrakar |
| 2014 | CCS | A three-way investigation of a game-CAPTCHA: automated attacks, relay attacks and usability. | Manar Mohamed, Niharika Sachdeva, Michael Georgescu, Song Gao, Nitesh Saxena, Chengcui Zhang, Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, Paul C. van Oorschot, Wei-bang Chen |
| 2014 | CCS | Wiretapping via Mimicry: Short Voice Imitation Man-in-the-Middle Attacks on Crypto Phones. | Maliheh Shirvanian, Nitesh Saxena |
| 2014 | FC | Drone to the Rescue: Relay-Resilient Authentication using Ambient Multi-sensing. | Babins Shrestha, Nitesh Saxena, Hien Thi Thu Truong, N. Asokan |
| 2014 | NDSS | Neural Signatures of User-Centered Security: An fMRI Study of Phishing, and Malware Warnings. | Ajaya Neupane, Nitesh Saxena, Keya Kuruvilla, Michael Georgescu, Rajesh K. Kana |
| 2014 | NDSS | Two-Factor Authentication Resilient to Server Compromise Using Mix-Bandwidth Devices. | Maliheh Shirvanian, Stanislaw Jarecki, Nitesh Saxena, Naveen Nathan |
| 2014 | PERCOM | Comparing and fusing different sensor modalities for relay attack resistance in Zero-Interaction Authentication. | Hien Thi Thu Truong, Xiang Gao, Babins Shrestha, Nitesh Saxena, N. Asokan, Petteri Nurmi |
| 2013 | CANS | Wave-to-Access: Protecting Sensitive Mobile Device Services via a Hand Waving Gesture. | Babins Shrestha, Nitesh Saxena, Justin Harrison |
| 2013 | CCS | Sensing-enabled channels for hard-to-detect command and control of mobile devices. | Ragib Hasan, Nitesh Saxena, Tzipora Halevi, Shams Zawoad, Dustin Rinehart |
| 2013 | FC | Exploring Extrinsic Motivation for Better Security: A Usability Study of Scoring-Enhanced Device Pairing. | Alexander Gallego, Nitesh Saxena, Jonathan Voris |
| 2012 | CCS | A closer look at keyboard acoustic emanations: random passwords, typing styles and decoding techniques. | Tzipora Halevi, Nitesh Saxena |
| 2012 | ESORICS | Secure Proximity Detection for NFC Devices Based on Ambient Sensor Data. | Tzipora Halevi, Di Ma, Nitesh Saxena, Tuo Xiang |
| 2012 | ICICS | Exploring Mobile Proxies for Better Password Authentication. | Nitesh Saxena, Jonathan Voris |
| 2012 | INFOCOM | Estimating age privacy leakage in online social networks. | Ratan Dey, Cong Tang, Keith W. Ross, Nitesh Saxena |
| 2012 | PERCOM | Sensing-enabled defenses to RFID unauthorized reading and relay attacks without changing the usage model. | Tzipora Halevi, Sein Lin, Di Ma, Anudath K. Prasad, Nitesh Saxena, Jonathan Voris, Tuo Xiang |
| 2011 | CCS | Password-protected secret sharing. | Ali Bagherzandi, Stanislaw Jarecki, Nitesh Saxena, Yanbin Lu |
| 2011 | CCS | On the effectiveness of anonymizing networks for web search privacy. | Sai Teja Peddinti, Nitesh Saxena |
| 2011 | CHI | Pairing devices for social interactions: a comparative usability evaluation. | Ersin Uzun, Nitesh Saxena, Arun Kumar |
| 2011 | DASFAA | What's in a Name: A Study of Names, Gender Inference, and Gender Behavior in Facebook. | Cong Tang, Keith W. Ross, Nitesh Saxena, Ruichuan Chen |
| 2011 | PERCOM | Vibrate-to-unlock: Mobile phone assisted user authentication to multiple personal RFID tags. | Nitesh Saxena, Md. Borhan Uddin, Jonathan Voris, N. Asokan |
| 2010 | CCS | On pairing constrained wireless devices based on secrecy of auxiliary channels: the case of acoustic eavesdropping. | Tzipora Halevi, Nitesh Saxena |
| 2010 | FC | Shoulder-Surfing Safe Login in a Partially Observable Attacker Model. | Toni Perkovic, Mario Cagalj, Nitesh Saxena |
| 2010 | ICISC | A Comparative Usability Evaluation of Traditional Password Managers. | Ambarish Karole, Nitesh Saxena, Nicolas Christin |
| 2010 | SCN | Authenticated Key Agreement with Key Re-use in the Short Authenticated Strings Model. | Stanislaw Jarecki, Nitesh Saxena |
| 2009 | ACNS | Secure Pairing of "Interface-Constrained" Devices Resistant against Rushing User Behavior. | Nitesh Saxena, Md. Borhan Uddin |
| 2009 | CANS | On the Usability of Secure Association of Wireless Devices Based on Distance Bounding. | Mario Cagalj, Nitesh Saxena, Ersin Uzun |
| 2009 | CANS | Blink 'Em All: Scalable, User-Friendly and Secure Initialization of Wireless Sensor Nodes. | Nitesh Saxena, Md. Borhan Uddin |
| 2009 | PERCOM | Caveat Emptor: A Comparative Study of Secure Device Pairing Methods. | Arun Kumar, Nitesh Saxena, Gene Tsudik, Ersin Uzun |
| 2009 | SOUPS | Treat 'em like other devices: user authentication of multiple personal RFID tags. | Nitesh Saxena, Md. Borhan Uddin, Jonathan Voris |
| 2008 | ACNS | Efficient Device Pairing Using "Human-Comparable" Synchronized Audiovisual Patterns. | Ramnath Prasad, Nitesh Saxena |
| 2008 | ICICS | Automated Device Pairing for Asymmetric Pairing Scenarios. | Nitesh Saxena, Md. Borhan Uddin |
| 2008 | SOUPS | Universal device pairing using an auxiliary device. | Nitesh Saxena, Md. Borhan Uddin, Jonathan Voris |
| 2006 | ACNS | Public Key Cryptography Sans Certificates in Ad Hoc Networks. | Nitesh Saxena |
| 2006 | SP | Secure Device Pairing based on a Visual Channel (Short Paper). | Nitesh Saxena, Jan-Erik Ekberg, Kari Kostiainen, N. Asokan |
| 2005 | ICNP | Efficient Node Admission for Short-lived Mobile Ad Hoc Networks. | Nitesh Saxena, Gene Tsudik, Jeong Hyun Yi |
| 2005 | Networking | Self-configurable Key Pre-distribution in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks. | Claude Castelluccia, Nitesh Saxena, Jeong Hyun Yi |
| 2005 | TCC | Further Simplifications in Proactive RSA Signatures. | Stanislaw Jarecki, Nitesh Saxena |
| 2004 | ICISC | Identity-Based Access Control for Ad Hoc Groups. | Nitesh Saxena, Gene Tsudik, Jeong Hyun Yi |