Tian Xie
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Michigan State University
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Email: xietian1 [at] msu [dot] edu
Office: 2153 Engineering Building (Map)
Biography
Tian is currently a Ph.D. student in Network System and Security (NSS) Research Laboratory in Department of Computer Science and Engineering
at Michigan State University. Tian is advised by Prof. Guan-Hua (Scott) Tu.
Prior to joining NSS group in Spring 2017, Tian receives the B.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering With Honor from Michigan State University in 2016 Fall.
Research Keywords: Mobile computing systems, mobile networks and systems, Internet of Things (IoT), wireless networking, network security, and data analysis.
Recent News
- Our 911 security paper received AT&T Security Award.
- Our 911 security paper received the Best Community Paper Award Runner-Up at ACM MobiCom'22.
- Tian received 2022 Dissertation Completion Fellowship.
- Nov. 2019, Our Voice over Wi-Fi security research receives a Google Security Reward.
- Tian received 2019 Graduate Office Fellowship (GOF).
- Our Wi-Fi Calling paper won IEEE CNS'18 Best Paper Award.
- Tian won a travel grant to 2018 IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS).
- Tian received 2018 Graduate Office Fellowship (GOF).
- Tian received 2017 Graduate Office Fellowship (GOF).
Publications
- ToN'22 Insecurity of Operational IMS Call Systems: Vulnerabilities, Attacks, and Countermeasures Yu-Han Lu, Sandy Hsin-Yu Hsiao, Chi-Yu Li, Yi-Chen Hsieh, Po-Yi Chou, Yao-Yu Li, Tian Xie, Guan-Hua Tu Accepted to IEEE ToN IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, to appear.
- MobiCom'22 Uncovering Insecure Designs of Cellular Emergency Services (911) Yiwen Hu, Min-Yue Chen, Guan-Hua Tu, Chi-Yu Li, Sihan Wang, Jingwen Shi, Tian Xie, Xiao Li, Chunyi Peng, Zhaowei Tan, Songwu Lu Accepted to ACM MOBICOM'22 28th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and NetworkingBest Community Paper Award Runner-Up, AT&T Security Award
- TMC'22 MPKIX: Towards More Accountable and Secure Internet Application Services via Mobile Networked Systems Tian Xie†, Sihan Wang†(†: co-primary), Xinyu Lie, Jingwen Shi, Guan-Hua Tu, Chi-Yu Li Accepted to IEEE TMC IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, to appear.
- TMC'21 The Untold Secrets of WiFi-Calling Services: Vulnerabilities, Attacks, and Countermeasures Tian Xie, Guan-Hua Tu, Bangjie Yin, Chi-Yu Li, Chunyi Peng, Mi Zhang, Hui Liu, Xiaoming Liu Accepted to IEEE TMC IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
- TMC'21 How Can IoT Services Pose New Security Threats In Operational Cellular Networks? Tian Xie, Guan-Hua Tu, Chi-Yu Li, Chunyi Peng Accepted to IEEE TMC IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
- CodeSpy'21 BFastPay: a Routing-free Protocol for Fast Payment in Bitcoin Network Xinyu Lei, Guan-Hua Tu, Tian Xie, Sihan Wang Accepted to ACM CODASPY'21 ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy
- CodeSpy'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 Accepted to ACM CODASPY'21 ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy
- MobiCom'21 Insecurity of Operational Cellular IoT Service: New Vulnerabilities, Attacks, and Countermeasures Sihan Wang, Guan-Hua Tu, Xinyu Lei, Tian Xie, Chi-Yu Li, Po-Yi Chou, Fucheng Hsieh, Yiwen Hu, Li Xiao, Chunyi Peng Accepted to ACM MOBICOM'21 27th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking
- MobiCom'20 Ghost Calls from Operational 4G Call Systems: IMS Vulnerability, Call DoS Attack, and Countermeasure Yu-Han Lu, Chi-Yu Li, Yao-Yu Li, Sandy Hsin-Yu Hsiao, Tian Xie, Guan-Hua Tu, Wei-Xun Chen Accepted to ACM MOBICOM'20 26th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking
- 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 Accepted to Mobisys'20 ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applicaitons, and Services
- ICDCS'20 An Inter-blockchain Escrow Approach For Fast Bitcoin Payment (Extended Abstract) Xinyu Lei, Tian Xie, Guan-Hua Tu and Alex X. Liu Accepted to ICDCS'20 40th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
- CNS'20 Fast and Secure kNN Query Processing in Cloud Computing Xinyu Lei, Guan-Hua Tu, Alex X. Liu, Tian Xie Accepted to IEEE CNS'20 IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security.
- SSCI'20 Exploring the Insecurity of Google Account Registration Protocol via Model Checking Tian Xie, Sihan Wang, Guan-Hua Tu, Chi-Yu Li, Xinyu Lei Accepted to IEEE SSCI'19 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence.
- CNS'18 The Dark Side of Operational Wi-Fi Calling Services Tian Xie, Guan-Hua Tu, Chi-Yu Li, Chunyi Peng, Jiawei Li, and Mi Zhang Accepted to IEEE CNS'18 IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security. Best Paper Award, Google Security Reward
- CNS'18 The Insecurity of Home Digital Voice Assistants - Vulnerabilities, Attacks and Countermeasures Xinyu Lei, Guan-Hua Tu, Alex Liu, Chi-Yu Li, and Tian Xie, Accepted to IEEE CNS'18 IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security.
- ICC'18 How Voice Service Threatens Cellular-connected IoT Devices in the Operational 4G LTE Networks Tian Xie, Chi-Yu Li, Guan-Hua Tu and Jiliang Tang Accepted to IEEE ICC'18 Communication and Information Systems Security Symposium.
- NEMS'17 Optical propagation of blue LED light in brain tissue and Parylene-C Tian Xie, Xiaopeng Bi, Rui Luo, Fan Bin, Zhe Wang, Wen Li Accepted to IEEE NEMS'17 IEEE International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems.
- A Flexible, Micro-Lens-Coupled LED Stimulator for Optical Neuromodulation Xiaopeng Bi, Tian Xie, Bin Fan, Wasif Khan, Yue Guo, and Wen Li Accepted to IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems.
Professional Services
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TPC:
- ACM Mobicom S3 2019 Journal Reviewer:
- IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security (TIFS), IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), Computer Networks, Computer & Security, ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (TOPS/TISSEC) Conference Reviewer:
- Infocom2023, BigData2023, Mobicom2022, CNS2022, Mobicom2021, IFIP2020, VNC2020, BigData2020, BigData2019, IFIP2019, ICDCS2019, Globalcom2019, VNC2018
Teaching Experience
- Teaching Assistant: CSE 824 Advanced Computer Networks and Communications, Fall 2022
- Teaching Assistant: CSE 825 Computer and Network Security, Fall 2021
- Teaching Assistant: CSE 320 Computer Organization and Architecture, Summer 2020
- Teaching Assistant: CSE 476 Mobile App Development, Fall 2019
- Teaching Assistant: CSE 425 Intro to Computer Security, Fall 2018
- Teaching Assistant: CSE 425 Intro to Computer Security, Spring 2018
- Teaching Assistant: CSE 476 Mobile App Development, Fall 2017
- Teaching Assistant: CSE 422 Computer Network, Sping 2017