| 2026 | NDSS | The Heat is On: Understanding and Mitigating Vulnerabilities of Thermal Image Perception in Autonomous Systems. | Sri Hrushikesh Varma Bhupathiraju, Shaoyuan Xie, Michael Clifford, Qi Alfred Chen, Takeshi Sugawara, Sara Rampazzi |
| 2026 | NDSS | DualStrike: Accurate, Real-time Eavesdropping and Injection of Keystrokes on Commodity Keyboards. | Xiaomeng Chen, Jike Wang, Zhenyu Chen, Qi Alfred Chen, Xinbing Wang, Dongyao Chen |
| 2026 | NDSS | FlyTrap: Physical Distance-Pulling Attack Towards Camera-based Autonomous Target Tracking Systems. | Shaoyuan Xie, Mohamad Habib Fakih, Junchi Lu, Fayzah Alshammari, Ningfei Wang, Takami Sato, Halima Bouzidi, Mohammad Abdullah Al Faruque, Qi Alfred Chen |
| 2025 | CCS | ControlLoc: Physical-World Hijacking Attack on Camera-based Perception in Autonomous Driving. | Chen Ma, Ningfei Wang, Zhengyu Zhao, Qian Wang, Qi Alfred Chen, Chao Shen |
| 2025 | ICCV | Are VLMs Ready for Autonomous Driving? An Empirical Study from the Reliability, Data, and Metric Perspectives. | Shaoyuan Xie, Lingdong Kong, Yuhao Dong, Chonghao Sima, Wenwei Zhang, Qi Alfred Chen, Ziwei Liu, Liang Pan |
| 2025 | ICLR | Can We Trust Embodied Agents? Exploring Backdoor Attacks against Embodied LLM-Based Decision-Making Systems. | Ruochen Jiao, Shaoyuan Xie, Justin Yue, Takami Sato, Lixu Wang, Yixuan Wang, Qi Alfred Chen, Qi Zhu |
| 2025 | ICRA | Slamspoof: Practical Lidar Spoofing Attacks on Localization Systems Guided by Scan Matching Vulnerability Analysis. | Rokuto Nagata, Kenji Koide, Yuki Hayakawa, Ryo Suzuki, Kazuma Ikeda, Ozora Sako, Qi Alfred Chen, Takami Sato, Kentaro Yoshioka |
| 2025 | NDSS | On the Realism of LiDAR Spoofing Attacks against Autonomous Driving Vehicle at High Speed and Long Distance. | Takami Sato, Ryo Suzuki, Yuki Hayakawa, Kazuma Ikeda, Ozora Sako, Rokuto Nagata, Ryo Yoshida, Qi Alfred Chen, Kentaro Yoshioka |
| 2025 | NDSS | Revisiting Physical-World Adversarial Attack on Traffic Sign Recognition: A Commercial Systems Perspective. | Ningfei Wang, Shaoyuan Xie, Takami Sato, Yunpeng Luo, Kaidi Xu, Qi Alfred Chen |
| 2024 | AAAI | SlowTrack: Increasing the Latency of Camera-Based Perception in Autonomous Driving Using Adversarial Examples. | Chen Ma, Ningfei Wang, Qi Alfred Chen, Chao Shen |
| 2024 | CVPR | Intriguing Properties of Diffusion Models: An Empirical Study of the Natural Attack Capability in Text-to-Image Generative Models. | Takami Sato, Justin Yue, Nanze Chen, Ningfei Wang, Qi Alfred Chen |
| 2024 | NDSS | Invisible Reflections: Leveraging Infrared Laser Reflections to Target Traffic Sign Perception. | Takami Sato, Sri Hrushikesh Varma Bhupathiraju, Michael Clifford, Takeshi Sugawara, Qi Alfred Chen, Sara Rampazzi |
| 2024 | NDSS | LiDAR Spoofing Meets the New-Gen: Capability Improvements, Broken Assumptions, and New Attack Strategies. | Takami Sato, Yuki Hayakawa, Ryo Suzuki, Yohsuke Shiiki, Kentaro Yoshioka, Qi Alfred Chen |
| 2023 | DAC | Invited: Waving the Double-Edged Sword: Building Resilient CAVs with Edge and Cloud Computing. | Xiangguo Liu, Yunpeng Luo, Anthony Goeckner, Trishna Chakraborty, Ruochen Jiao, Ningfei Wang, Yixuan Wang, Takami Sato, Qi Alfred Chen, Qi Zhu |
| 2023 | ICCV | Semi-supervised Semantics-guided Adversarial Training for Robust Trajectory Prediction. | Ruochen Jiao, Xiangguo Liu, Takami Sato, Qi Alfred Chen, Qi Zhu |
| 2023 | ICCV | Does Physical Adversarial Example Really Matter to Autonomous Driving? Towards System-Level Effect of Adversarial Object Evasion Attack. | Ningfei Wang, Yunpeng Luo, Takami Sato, Kaidi Xu, Qi Alfred Chen |
| 2023 | IROS | Lateral-Direction Localization Attack in High-Level Autonomous Driving: Domain-Specific Defense Opportunity via Lane Detection. | Junjie Shen, Yunpeng Luo, Ziwen Wan, Qi Alfred Chen |
| 2023 | IROS | Learning Representation for Anomaly Detection of Vehicle Trajectories. | Ruochen Jiao, Juyang Bai, Xiangguo Liu, Takami Sato, Xiaowei Yuan, Qi Alfred Chen, Qi Zhu |
| 2023 | ICSE | Doppelgnger Test Generation for Revealing Bugs in Autonomous Driving Software. | Yuqi Huai, Yuntianyi Chen, Sumaya Almanee, Tuan Ngo, Xiang Liao, Ziwen Wan, Qi Alfred Chen, Joshua Garcia |
| 2022 | ACSAC | Play the Imitation Game: Model Extraction Attack against Autonomous Driving Localization. | Qifan Zhang, Junjie Shen, Mingtian Tan, Zhe Zhou, Zhou Li, Qi Alfred Chen, Haipeng Zhang |
| 2022 | CCS | Poster: Towards Complete Computation Graph Generation for Security Assessment of ROS Applications. | Yunpeng Luo, Ziwen Wan, Qi Alfred Chen |
| 2022 | CCS | Poster: Towards Large-Scale Measurement Study on LiDAR Spoofing Attacks against Object Detection. | Takami Sato, Yuki Hayakawa, Ryo Suzuki, Yohsuke Shiiki, Kentaro Yoshioka, Qi Alfred Chen |
| 2022 | CCS | Poster: On the System-Level Effectiveness of Physical Object-Hiding Adversarial Attack in Autonomous Driving. | Ningfei Wang, Yunpeng Luo, Takami Sato, Kaidi Xu, Qi Alfred Chen |
| 2022 | CVPR | Towards Driving-Oriented Metric for Lane Detection Models. | Takami Sato, Qi Alfred Chen |
| 2022 | CVPR | On Adversarial Robustness of Trajectory Prediction for Autonomous Vehicles. | Qingzhao Zhang, Shengtuo Hu, Jiachen Sun, Qi Alfred Chen, Z. Morley Mao |
| 2022 | NDSS | Too Afraid to Drive: Systematic Discovery of Semantic DoS Vulnerability in Autonomous Driving Planning under Physical-World Attacks. | Ziwen Wan, Junjie Shen, Jalen Chuang, Xin Xia, Joshua Garcia, Jiaqi Ma, Qi Alfred Chen |
| 2021 | BMVC | On Adversarial Robustness of 3D Point Cloud Classification under Adaptive Attacks. | Jiachen Sun, Karl Koenig, Yulong Cao, Qi Alfred Chen, Zhuoqing Morley Mao |
| 2021 | BMVC | Intrinsic Examples: Robust Fingerprinting of Deep Neural Networks. | Siyue Wang, Pu Zhao, Xiao Wang, Sang Chin, Thomas Wahl, Yunsi Fei, Qi Alfred Chen, Xue Lin |
| 2021 | ICIP | Sensor Adversarial Traits: Analyzing Robustness of 3D Object Detection Sensor Fusion Models. | Won Park, Nan Liu, Qi Alfred Chen, Z. Morley Mao |
| 2021 | MOBICOM | A nationwide census on wifi security threats: prevalence, riskiness, and the economics. | Di Gao, Hao Lin, Zhenhua Li, Feng Qian, Qi Alfred Chen, Zhiyun Qian, Wei Liu, Liangyi Gong, Yunhao Liu |
| 2021 | SP | Demo: Attacking Multi-Sensor Fusion based Localization in High-Level Autonomous Driving. | Junjie Shen, Jun Yeon Won, Zeyuan Chen, Qi Alfred Chen |
| 2021 | SP | Invisible for both Camera and LiDAR: Security of Multi-Sensor Fusion based Perception in Autonomous Driving Under Physical-World Attacks. | Yulong Cao, Ningfei Wang, Chaowei Xiao, Dawei Yang, Jin Fang, Ruigang Yang, Qi Alfred Chen, Mingyan Liu, Bo Li |
| 2021 | SP | Demo: Security of Camera-based Perception for Autonomous Driving under Adversarial Attack. | Christopher DiPalma, Ningfei Wang, Takami Sato, Qi Alfred Chen |
| 2021 | SP | Demo: Security of Deep Learning based Automated Lane Centering under Physical-World Attack. | Takami Sato, Junjie Shen, Ningfei Wang, Yunhan Jack Jia, Xue Lin, Qi Alfred Chen |
| 2021 | SP | Demo: ROI Attacks on Traffic Light Detection in High-Level Autonomous Driving. | Kanglan Tang, Junjie Shen, Qi Alfred Chen |
| 2021 | SIGMETRICS | A Systematic Framework to Identify Violations of Scenario-dependent Driving Rules in Autonomous Vehicle Software. | Qingzhao Zhang, David Ke Hong, Ze Zhang, Qi Alfred Chen, Scott A. Mahlke, Z. Morley Mao |
| 2021 | SRDS | Protecting Reward Function of Reinforcement Learning via Minimal and Non-catastrophic Adversarial Trajectory. | Tong Chen, Yingxiao Xiang, Yike Li, Yunzhe Tian, Endong Tong, Wenjia Niu, Jiqiang Liu, Gang Li, Qi Alfred Chen |
| 2020 | EuroSys | Experiences of landing machine learning onto market-scale mobile malware detection. | Liangyi Gong, Zhenhua Li, Feng Qian, Zifan Zhang, Qi Alfred Chen, Zhiyun Qian, Hao Lin, Yunhao Liu |
| 2020 | ICLR | Fooling Detection Alone is Not Enough: Adversarial Attack against Multiple Object Tracking. | Yunhan Jia, Yantao Lu, Junjie Shen, Qi Alfred Chen, Hao Chan, Zhenyu Zhong, Tao Wei |
| 2020 | ICPADS | Exploring Data Correlation between Feature Pairs for Generating Constraint-based Adversarial Examples. | Yunzhe Tian, Yingdi Wang, Endong Tong, Wenjia Niu, Liang Chang, Qi Alfred Chen, Gang Li, Jiqiang Liu |
| 2020 | ICSE | A comprehensive study of autonomous vehicle bugs. | Joshua Garcia, Yang Feng, Junjie Shen, Sumaya Almanee, Yuan Xia, Qi Alfred Chen |
| 2020 | ISPA | Constructing Optimal Sparse Decision Tree for Analying I-SIG System Attack. | Xiaojin Wang, Yingxiao Xiang, Wenjia Niu, Endong Tong, Qi Alfred Chen, Gang Li, Jiqiang Liu, Long Li |
| 2020 | NDSS | Automated Cross-Platform Reverse Engineering of CAN Bus Commands From Mobile Apps. | Haohuang Wen, Qingchuan Zhao, Qi Alfred Chen, Zhiqiang Lin |
| 2019 | CCS | Adversarial Sensor Attack on LiDAR-based Perception in Autonomous Driving. | Yulong Cao, Chaowei Xiao, Benjamin Cyr, Yimeng Zhou, Won Park, Sara Rampazzi, Qi Alfred Chen, Kevin Fu, Z. Morley Mao |
| 2019 | CCS | Effective and Light-Weight Deobfuscation and Semantic-Aware Attack Detection for PowerShell Scripts. | Zhenyuan Li, Qi Alfred Chen, Chunlin Xiong, Yan Chen, Tiantian Zhu, Hai Yang |
| 2019 | Mobisys | Understanding Fileless Attacks on Linux-based IoT Devices with HoneyCloud. | Fan Dang, Zhenhua Li, Yunhao Liu, Ennan Zhai, Qi Alfred Chen, Tianyin Xu, Yan Chen, Jingyu Yang |
| 2019 | Mobisys | Understanding and Detecting Overlay-based Android Malware at Market Scales. | Yuxuan Yan, Zhenhua Li, Qi Alfred Chen, Christo Wilson, Tianyin Xu, Ennan Zhai, Yong Li, Yunhao Liu |
| 2018 | CCS | No One In The Middle: Enabling Network Access Control Via Transparent Attribution. | Jeremy Erickson, Qi Alfred Chen, Xiaochen Yu, Erinjen Lin, Robert Levy, Zhuoqing Morley Mao |
| 2018 | NDSS | Exposing Congestion Attack on Emerging Connected Vehicle based Traffic Signal Control. | Qi Alfred Chen, Yucheng Yin, Yiheng Feng, Z. Morley Mao, Henry X. Liu |
| 2017 | CCS | Client-side Name Collision Vulnerability in the New gTLD Era: A Systematic Study. | Qi Alfred Chen, Matthew Thomas, Eric Osterweil, Yulong Cao, Jie You, Zhuoqing Morley Mao |
| 2017 | CCS | An Initial Investigation of Protocol Customization. | David Ke Hong, Qi Alfred Chen, Zhuoqing Morley Mao |
| 2017 | NDSS | ContexloT: Towards Providing Contextual Integrity to Appified IoT Platforms. | Yunhan Jack Jia, Qi Alfred Chen, Shiqi Wang, Amir Rahmati, Earlence Fernandes, Zhuoqing Morley Mao, Atul Prakash |
| 2016 | FC | Android UI Deception Revisited: Attacks and Defenses. | Earlence Fernandes, Qi Alfred Chen, Justin Paupore, Georg Essl, J. Alex Halderman, Zhuoqing Morley Mao, Atul Prakash |
| 2016 | IMC | Understanding On-device Bufferbloat for Cellular Upload. | Yihua Guo, Feng Qian, Qi Alfred Chen, Zhuoqing Morley Mao, Subhabrata Sen |
| 2016 | NDSS | Kratos: Discovering Inconsistent Security Policy Enforcement in the Android Framework. | Yuru Shao, Qi Alfred Chen, Zhuoqing Morley Mao, Jason Ott, Zhiyun Qian |
| 2016 | SIGCOMM | QoE Inference Without Application Control. | Ashkan Nikravesh, David Ke Hong, Qi Alfred Chen, Harsha V. Madhyastha, Zhuoqing Morley Mao |
| 2016 | SP | MitM Attack by Name Collision: Cause Analysis and Vulnerability Assessment in the New gTLD Era. | Qi Alfred Chen, Eric Osterweil, Matthew Thomas, Zhuoqing Morley Mao |
| 2015 | CCS | Static Detection of Packet Injection Vulnerabilities: A Case for Identifying Attacker-controlled Implicit Information Leaks. | Qi Alfred Chen, Zhiyun Qian, Yunhan Jack Jia, Yuru Shao, Zhuoqing Morley Mao |
| 2015 | MOBICOM | Performance Characterization and Call Reliability Diagnosis Support for Voice over LTE. | Yunhan Jack Jia, Qi Alfred Chen, Zhuoqing Morley Mao, Jie Hui, Kranthi Sontineni, Alex Yoon, Samson Kwong, Kevin Lau |
| 2014 | IMC | QoE Doctor: Diagnosing Mobile App QoE with Automated UI Control and Cross-layer Analysis. | Qi Alfred Chen, Haokun Luo, Sanae Rosen, Zhuoqing Morley Mao, Karthik Iyer, Jie Hui, Kranthi Sontineni, Kevin Lau |
| 2014 | MOBICOM | Discovering fine-grained RRC state dynamics and performance impacts in cellular networks. | Sanae Rosen, Haokun Luo, Qi Alfred Chen, Zhuoqing Morley Mao, Jie Hui, Aaron Drake, Kevin Lau |
| 2014 | MOBICOM | Understanding RRC state dynamics through client measurements with mobilyzer. | Sanae Rosen, Haokun Luo, Qi Alfred Chen, Zhuoqing Morley Mao, Jie Hui, Aaron Drake, Kevin Lau |
| 2014 | WCNC | Efficient route guidance in vehicular wireless networks. | Yu Stephanie Sun, Lei Xie, Qi Alfred Chen, Sanglu Lu, Daoxu Chen |