2026
ScooterLab Workshop 2026
The 2026 ScooterLab Workshop, will be held on May 18, 2026 at the Weston Conference Center in San Antonio.
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SPriTELab
SPriTE stands for Security, Privacy, Trust and Ethics in Computing. SPriTELab's mission is to do ground-breaking and impactful security and privacy research with the goal of improving humanity's trust and reliance in modern computing systems, applications and technology.
Mobile & IoT Security
Distributed Systems Security
Privacy Enhancing Technologies
Adversarial Machine Learning
Secure Ubiquitous Sensing
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2025
Distinguished Paper Award at USENIX 2025
Our paper titled "We Have a Package for You! A Comprehensive Analysis of Package Hallucinations by Code Generating LLMs" won a distinguished paper award at the 2025 USENIX Secur...
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2025
Distinguished Paper Award at NDSS 2025
Our paper titled "VoiceRadar: Voice Deepfake Detection using Micro-Frequency and Compositional Analysis" won a distinguished paper award at the Network and Distributed System Se...
Read More about Distinguished Paper Award at NDSS 2025Recent Projects
SaTC: Enabling Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Studying Social Engineering Attacks Targeting Vulnerable Refugee Populations
Two recent world events, an ongoing pandemic together with continuing regional wars and conflicts, have resulted in a sizable number of refugee population being forcibly displaced and resettled in the United States.
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ScooterLab
ScooterLab is a National Science Foundation (NSF) funded community research infrastructure initiative, currently under development at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA).
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A Holistic Context-based Approach for Security and Privacy in the Era of Ubiquitous Sensing and Computing
This project plans to uncover new security and privacy risks in modern ubiquitous sensing and computing environments comprising of functionally heterogeneous and isolated sensors and applications and evaluate their feasibility.
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We are always looking for exceptional undergraduate student researchers, graduate and PhD student researchers, and post-doctoral researchers to join SPriTELab and work with us on exciting new research problems in these areas. Please contact SPriTELab director, Dr. Murtuza Jadliwala, for more information on open positions and how to apply.