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
Mobile Computing, Privacy-Preserving
Research Grants
Selected Publications
(Full List See Google Scholar)[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]
[CodaSpy'21] BFastPay: A Routing-Free Protocol for Fast Payment in Bitcoin Network. Xinyu Lei, Guan-Hua Tu, Tian Xie, Sihan Wang. ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy, 2021. [PDF]
[CodaSpy'21] Security Threats from Bitcoin Wallet Smartphone Applications: Vulnerabilities, Attacks, and Countermeasures.
Yiwen Hu, Sihan Wang, Guan-Hua Tu, Li Xiao, Tian Xie, Xinyu Lei, Chi-Yu Li.
ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy, 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]
[CNS'20] Fast and Secure kNN Query Processing in Cloud Computing. Xinyu Lei, Guan-Hua Tu, Alex X. Liu, Tian Xie. IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security, 2020. [PDF]
[ICDE'19] SecEQP: A Secure and Efficient Scheme for SkNN Query Problem over Encrypted Geodata on Cloud. Xinyu Lei, Alex X. Liu, Rui Li, Guan-Hua Tu. IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, 2019. [PDF]
[CNS'18] The Insecurity of Home Digital Voice Assistants-Vulnerabilities, Attacks and Countermeasures. Xinyu Lei, Guan-Hua Tu, Alex X. Liu, Chi-Yu Li, Tian Xie. IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security, 2018. [PDF] Hightlight: Wikipedia Reported [Link]