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I am looking for students that are SELF-MOTIVATED and interested in exploring NEW things to join us for realizing fantastic and futuristic systems on the area of autonomous driving security, voice security, AIoT and ubiquitous security. Both students that intend to practise his/her research skills, or want to pursue Ph.D. and master degrees, are welcome!

Brief Biography

Li Lu is currently a tenure-track Research Professor of School of Cyber Science and Technology and College of Computer Science and Technology at Zhejiang University. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Technology from Shanghai Jiao Tong University; and his B.E. degree in Computer Science and Technology and B.Admin degree in Business Administration from Xi’an Jiaotong University. Previously, he has visited Wireless Information Network Laboratory (WINLAB) and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Rutgers University. He has published over 50 peer-reviewed papers on premier international journals and conferences, including USENIX Security, ACM SenSys, ACM IMWUT/UbiComp, IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE ICASSP, IEEE TIFS, IEEE/ACM ToN etc. He is the recipient of ACM China SIGAPP Chapter Rising Star Award and Doctoral Dissertation Award, Best Poster Runner-up Award at ACM MobiCom’22, First Runner-up Poster Award at ACM MobiCom’19, Distinguished Member of the IEEE INFOCOM’24 TPC, Excellent Collaboration Award of HW-ZJU Joint Lab, Distinguished Service Award of IEEE GreenCom’23, Shanghai Computer Society Doctoral Dissertation Award Nomination, Joint Ph.D. Training Grant of China Scholarship Council, Travel Grant of Global Young Scientist Summit at Singapore.

More details can be found in my CV.

Research Interests

His research interests include AIoT security, intelligent voice security, autonomous driving security, mobile sensing, ubiquitous computing, and human-computer interactions. The main work is to employ signal processing and machine learning techniques in sensing and communications to realize interesting and futuristic applications as well as investigate corresponding security problems underlying these techniques and applications.

Currently, I lead the Mobile and Ubiquitous Security Lab (MUSLab), whose name not only embeds the research area, but also indicates the Muses goddess that gives us the sixth sense in researches. (Also could be the anime LoveLive! ^_^)

News

[Feb. 2024] I was recognized as the Distinguished Member of the IEEE INFOCOM 2024 Technical Program Committee. Link

[Jan. 2024] I recieved the Distinguished Service Award of IEEE GreenCom.

[Dec. 2023] I received the Outstanding Collaboration Award of HW-ZJU Joint Lab.

[Dec. 2023] One paper was accepted by ACM IUI, which was completed by my advised Ph.D. student Qianniu Chen. Congratulations!

[Dec. 2023] One paper was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, which was completed by my advised Ph.D. student Meng Chen. Congratulations!

[Aug. 2023] My advised undergraduate student Huanyi Zheng, Peilin Sun, Shuhao Shen has received the 3rd Award of National College Student Information Security Contest. Congratulations!

[Jul. 2023] Two papers were accepted by USENIX Security, which were completed by my advised Ph.D. students Meng Chen and Kun Wang. Congratulations!

[Jul. 2023] One paper was recognized as a highly cited paper of Essential Science Indicators. Link

[Apr. 2023] One paper was accepted by ACM IMWUT, which was completed by my advised Ph.D. student Meng Chen. Congratulations!

[Feb. 2023] One paper was accepted by IEEE ICASSP, which was completed by my advised master student Junhao Wang. Congratulations!

[Jan. 2023] One paper was accepted by ACM IMWUT, which was completed by my advised master student Lei Wang. Congratulations!

[Oct. 2022] We received Best Poster Runner-up Award from ACM MobiCom 2022, which is completed by my advised Ph.D. student Meng Chen. Congratulations!

[Apr. 2022] My advised Ph.D. student Meng Chen received INFOCOM 2022 Student Conference Grant. Congratulations!

[Dec. 2020] I received the 2020 Shanghai Computer Society Doctoral Dissertation Award Nominations. Link

[Nov. 2020] I received the 2020 ACM China SIGAPP Chapter Doctoral Dissertation Award. Link

[Nov. 2019] I received the travel grant from the Global Young Scientists Summit Singapore 2020.

[Oct. 2019] We received the first runner-up poster award in ACM MobiCom 2019.

[Feb. 2019] Our work on "Lip Reading-based User authentication through Acoustic Sensing on Smartphones" has been reported by IEEE Spectrum.

Featured Publications

[C1, USENIX SEC, CCF-A] Meng Chen, Xiangyu Xu, Li Lu*, Zhongjie Ba, Feng Lin, Kui Ren. Devil in the Room: Triggering Audio Backdoors in the Physical World. Proceedings of USENIX Security Symposium. Philadelphia, PA, USA. 2024.

[C2, USENIX SEC, CCF-A] Kun Wang, Xiangyu Xu, Li Lu*, Zhongjie Ba, Feng Lin, Kui Ren. FraudWhistler: A Resilient, Robust and Plug-and-play Adversarial Example Detection Method for Speaker Recognition. Proceedings of USENIX Security Symposium. Philadelphia, PA, USA. 2024.

[C3, UbiComp, CCF-A] Meng Chen, Li Lu*, Junhao Wang, Jiadi Yu, Yingying Chen, Zhibo Wang, Zhongjie Ba, Feng Lin, Kui Ren. VoiceCloak: Adversarial Example Enabled Voice De-Identification with Balanced Privacy and Utility. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol./ACM UbiComp. 7(2):48:1-48:21. Cancun, Mexico. 2023.

[C4, UbiComp, CCF-A] Lei Wang, Meng Chen, Li Lu*, Zhongjie Ba, Feng Lin, Kui Ren. VoiceListener: A Training-free and Universal Eavesdropping Attack on Built-in Speakers of Mobile Devices. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol./ACM UbiComp. 7(1):32:1-32:22. Cancun, Mexico. 2023.

[C5, INFOCOM, CCF-A] Meng Chen, Li Lu*, Zhongjie Ba, Kui Ren. PhoneyTalker: An Out-of-the-Box Toolkit for Adversarial Example Attack on Speaker Recognition. Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM. Virtual. 2022.

[C6, UbiComp, CCF-A] Li Lu, Jiadi Yu, Yingying Chen, Yan Wang. VocalLock: Sensing Vocal Tract for Passphrase-Independent User Authentication Leveraging Acoustic Signals on Smartphones. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol./ACM UbiComp. 4(2):51:1-51:24. Cancun, Mexico. 2020.

[C7, UbiComp, CCF-A] Li Lu, Jiadi Yu, Yingying Chen, Yanmin Zhu, Minglu Li, Xiangyu Xu. I^3: Sensing Scrolling Human-Computer Interactions for Intelligent Interest Inference on Smartphones. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol./ACM UbiComp. 3(3):97:1-97:22. London, England. 2019.

[C8, INFOCOM, CCF-A] Li Lu, Jiadi Yu, Yingying Chen, Yanmin Zhu, Xiangyu Xu, Guangtao Xue, Minglu Li. KeyListener: Inferring Keystrokes on QWERTY Keyboard of Touch Screen through Acoustic Signals. Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM. Paris, France. pp. 775-783. 2019.

[C9, INFOCOM, CCF-A] Li Lu, Jiadi Yu, Yingying Chen, Hongbo Liu, Yanmin Zhu, Yunfei Liu, Minglu Li. LipPass: Lip Reading-based User Authentication Leveraging Acoustic Signals on Smartphones. Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM. Honolulu, HI, USA. pp. 1466-1474. 2018.

[J1, TIFS, CCF-A] Meng Chen, Li Lu*, Jiadi Yu, Zhongjie Ba, Feng Lin, Kui Ren. AdvReverb: Rethinking the Stealthiness of Audio Adversarial Examples to Human Perception. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. 19:1948-1962. 2024.

[J2, ToN, CCF-A] Hao Kong, Li Lu*, Jiadi Yu, Yingying Chen, Xiangyu Xu, Feng Lyu. Towards Multi-User Authentication Using WiFi Signals. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. 31(5):2117-2132. 2023.

[J3, ToN, CCF-A] Li Lu, Jiadi Yu, Yingying Chen, Hongbo Liu, Yanmin Zhu, Linghe Kong, Minglu Li. Lip Reading-based User Authentication through Acoustic Sensing on Smartphones. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. 27(1):447-460. 2019.

[J4, TPDS, CCF-A] Li Lu, Jiadi Yu, Yanmin Zhu, Minglu Li. A Double Auction Mechanism to Bridge Users Task Requirements and Providers Resources in Two-Sided Cloud Markets. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. 29(4):720-733. 2018.

[J5, CJC, T1] Li Lu, Jiadi Yu, Minglu Li. Towards a Real-Time Anti-Theft Method for Mobile Devices Leveraging Acoustic Sensing. Chinese Journal of Computers. 43(10):2002-2018. 2020.

Professional Services

  • Technical Program Committee: IEEE INFOCOM 2022-2024, IEEE ICDCS 2022-2023, IEEE/ACM IWQoS 2021/2023-2024, IEEE ICPADS 2019/2022-2023, IEEE Metaverse 2023, IEEE GreenCom 2023, CCF DPCS 2023.
  • Reviewer: IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, IEEE Transactions on Computers, Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, ACM Computing Surveys, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Computer Networks, Knowledge-based Systems, ACM MM, IEEE ICASSP, etc.
  • Academic Organization Service: Executive Committee Member in CCF Technical Committee on Pervasive Computing and Technical Committee on Internet of Things, Deputy Secretary-general of Technical Committee in Zhejiang Cyber Space Security Association.