Short Biography
I am an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at Michigan Technological University (MTU). I get my Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan State University (MSU). My Ph.D. advisor is Prof. Guan-Hua (Sccot) Tu. I worked in Texas A&M University at Qatar as a Research Assistant in 2013. In 2017, I worked as a Research Intern at Ford Motor Company.
Current Research Interests
Distributed Computing, Mobile Computing, Data Science, Privacy-Preserving Protocols, Trustworthy Machine Learning, etc.
Research Grants
Selected Publications
(Full List See Google Scholar)[DSC'25] Dissecting Privacy-Exposing Identifiers in 5G/4G Networks. Munshi Saifuzzaman, Tian Xie, Xinyu Lei , etc. IEEE Conference on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2025. [PDF] (Best Paper Award!)
[TDSC'25] Uncovering Risks of Data-Free Feature Vector Inversion Attacks Against Vector Databases. Shengyang Qin, Xinyu Lei , etc. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2025. [PDF]
[TIFS'23] Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning with Malicious Clients and Honest-but-Curious Servers. Junqing Le, Di Zhang, Xinyu Lei , etc. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2023. [PDF]
[TDSC'23] Secure Redactable Blockchain with Dynamic Support. Di Zhang, Junqing Le, Xinyu Lei, etc. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2023. [PDF]
[MobiCom'21] Insecurity of Operational Cellular IoT Service: New Vulnerabilities, Attacks, and Countermeasures. Sihan Wang, Guan-Hua Tu, Xinyu Lei, Tian Xie, etc. ACM Conference On Mobile Computing and Networking, 2021. [PDF]
[MobiSys'20] SecWIR: Securing Smart Home IoT Communications via Wi-Fi Routers with Embedded Intelligence. Xinyu Lei, Guan-Hua Tu, Chi-Yu Li, Tian Xie, Mi Zhang. ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services, 2020. [PDF]