Current News

2025

• April
• Dr. Liu attended the IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC).
• Congratulations to Sean for winning "Best Graduate Poster Presentation in Electric, Connected, & Autonomous Technologies" at Clarkson's Spring 2025 RAPS!
• Congratulations to Lindsey and Elizabeth for winning "Best Undergraduate Poster Presentation in Electric, Connected, & Autonomous Technologies" at Clarkson's Spring 2025 RAPS!
• Sean, Richard, Robert, Thomas, Lindsey, and Elizabeth presented their work at Clarkson's Spring 2025 Research and Project Showcase (RAPS).
• Dr. Liu attended the Automotive Chiplet Forum (ACF).
• March
• Dr. Liu attended the Automotive Computing Conference (ACC).
• The works by Tom, Sean, Richard, Mark, and Robert have all been accepted into the poster session at MOST 2025.
• "Greed is Good: Guided Generation from a Greedy Perspective" and "A Reversible Solver for Diffusion SDEs" by Zander were accepted at ICLR 2025's FPI and DeLTa workshops respectively.
• February
• "GaRField++: Reinforced Gaussian Radiance Fields for Large-Scale Robots View Synthesis" by Zhiliu et al. has been published on Authorea as a pre-print.
• January
• Zander presented a talk on using the continuous adjoint equations for diffusion models at Mila in Montréal, Canada.

News Archive

2024

• December
• Dr. Liu hooded Chutitep at the Fall 2024 Graduation Ceremony. Congratulations Dr. Woralert!
• Zander presented the paper "AdjointDEIS: Efficient Gradients for Diffusion Models" at NeurIPS 2024.
• November
• Dr. Liu served as a judge at the 2024 Clarkson Ignite Project Expo.
• Chutitep attended ISC EAST 2024.
• Sean, Richard, Tom, Dr. Melissa Richards, and Dr. Liu attended the Fall 2024 eCAT Center Meeting.
• Zander presented work on face morphing at Transatlantic Dialogue on Presentation Attack Detection.
• Chutitep presented the paper "Towards Effective Machine Learning Models for Ransomware Detection via Low-Level Hardware Information" at HASP 2024.
• October
• Dr. Liu attended SUSHI 2024.
• Richard and Giovanne presented final project reports at CITeR Fall 2024 program review.
• Dr. Liu attended Auto-ISAC 2024.
• Dr. Liu attended Automotive Chiplet Forum.
• Dr. Liu presented work on malware detection at the GE Aerospace 2024 LEAD symposium.
• September
• "AdjointDEIS: Efficient Gradients for Diffusion Models" by Zander has been accepted at NeurIPS 2024. Congratulations! (Clarkson news)
• "Towards Effective Machine Learning Models for Ransomware Detection via Low-Level Hardware Information" by Chutitep has been accepted by HASP 2024.
• The special session on Face Morphing Attack and Detection Techniques (FMADT-2024) was successfully held at IJCB 2024.
• Zander presented the paper "Greedy-DiM: Greedy Algorithms for Unreasonably Effective Face Morphs" at IJCB 2024.
• Richard presented the paper "The Impact of Print-and-Scan in Heterogeneous Morph Evaluation Scenarios" at IJCB 2024 special session.
• Dr. Liu attended MOVE America 2024.
• Dr. Liu attended NSF Workshop on Algorithm-Hardware Co-design for Medical Applications.
• Dr. Liu gave a talk "Low-Level Hardware Information Assisted Approach Towards System Security" at Auto-ISAC community call.
• August
• Dr. Liu will serve as the publication chair for ISCA 2025.
• July
• "On the Impact of Face Image Quality on Morphing Attack Detection" by Richard has been acceped into Face Morphing Attack and Detection Techniques (FMADT-2024) at IJCB 2024.
• The Mozee team visited Clarkson.
• Congratulations to Chutitep for successfully passing his Ph.D dissertation defense!
• Summer research students Robert, Rowan, Adam, and Nasredden presented their work at Clarkson's Summer 2024 Research and Project Showcase (RAPS).
• Dr. Liu attended 2024 Automated Road Transportation Symposium.
• June
• Dr. Liu gave a talk on "Malware Detection Work Using Low-Level Hardware Information" at Intel Product Assurance and Security (IPAS) Tech Sharing.
• Dr. Liu has been promoted to Full Professor. (Clarkson news)
• "Greedy-DiM: Greedy Algorithms for Unreasonably Effective Face Morphs" by Zander has been accepted by IJCB 2024.
• May
• Zander and Richard attended the CITeR Spring 2024 program review.
• Dr. Liu gave a talk on "Low-Level Hardware Information Assisted Approach Towards Computer System Security" at Association of Cyber Forensics and Threat Investigators (ACFTI) webinar.
• Dr. Liu and Zander attended the Spring 2024 eCAT Center Meeting.
• Dr. Liu attended MOST 2024.
• April
• Dr. Liu attended the SPIE D&S 2024.
• Dr. Liu will be organizing a special session on Face Morphing Attack and Detection Techniques (FMADT-2024) at IJCB 2024.
• Dr. Liu was inducted into Clarkson's Million Dollar Club during the Celebration and Recognition of Excellence Weekend (CREW).
• March
• Dr. Liu attended the Autonomous Vehicles USA 2024.

2023

• November
• Dr. Liu attended the Defense TechConnect Innovation Summit and Expo.
• Dr. Liu will serve on the program committee of MOST 2024.
• October
• Dr. Liu will serve as meta-reviewer for ICPR 2024.
• “Explainable Image Quality with Transformer-based Models” and “Towards The Creation Of A Large Dataset Of High-Quality Face Morphs - Phase III” have been awarded as new CITeR projects, congratulations!
• Zander, Richard and Dr. Liu attended the Fall 2023 CITeR program review at Potsdam, NY.
• Dr. Liu attended the 7th Annual Auto-ISAC Cybersecurity Summit.
• "Exploring the Design Space of Diffusion Autoencoders for Face Morphing” by Zander is available on arXiv.
• Dr. Liu, Chutitep and Zander attended IROS 2023 and presented eCAT center.
• September
• “A Comparison of One-class and Two-class Models for Ransomware Detection via Low-level Hardware Information” by Chutitep et al. has been accepted by AsianHOST 2023.
• Dr. Liu attended MOVE America 2023.
• “Clarkson Green Energy on Demand” project has been awarded by NIST, congratulations!
• Dr. Liu, Mark, Zander, and Chutitep attended the NSF IUCRC eCAT center kickoff meeting.
• August
• Dr. Liu served on the summer visit day panel at Clarkson University.
• July
• "HARD-Lite: A Lightweight Hardware Anomaly Realtime Detection Framework Targeting Ransomware” by Chutitep and Zander has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers (link)
• Dr. Liu attended WAIC 2023 virtually.
• May
• Irwing Vielma and Hovan Liu joined CAMEL as summer undergraduate researcher, welcome!
• "Unified Perception and Collaborative Mapping for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles” by Zhiliu has been accepted by IEEE Network Magazine.
• Dr. Liu attended ISC High Performance 2023.
• Dr. Liu attended MOST 2023.
• Mark and Dr. Liu attended SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing Conference and presented the paper “Millimeter Wave Radar-based Road Segmentation”.
• March
• IUCRC Clarkson University: Center for Electric, Connected and Autonomous Technologies for Mobility (eCAT) has been awarded by NSF, congratulations!
• "A Multi-Tasked Approach Towards Face Detection and Face Quality Assessment" by Rod has been accepted by IWBF2023.
• January
• "Leveraging Diffusion For Strong and High Quality Face Morphing Attacks" by Zander is available on arXiv.
• “Millimeter wave radar-based road segmentation” by Mark has been accepted by the “Radar Sensor Technology XXVII” conference at SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing.

2021

• March
• Congratulations to Zhiliu for being selected as the recipient of the Ben Schilling '18 Graduate Award!
• Congratulations to Josh for being selected as the recipient of The John B. Russell Memorial Award!
• Our work on High Frequency Performance Monitoring via Architectural Event Measurement has been featured in ECE Newsletter
• "FPGA-Based Candidate Scoring Acceleration towards LiDAR Mapping" by Josh and Zhiliu has been accepted by MetroCAD 2021
• February
• Dr. Liu became a Senior Member of IEEE.
• Dr. Liu will serve as publicity co-chair for IFIP NPC 2021.

2020

• December
• Dr. Liu became a Senior Member of ACM
• October
  • Zhiliu, Zander and Dr. Liu participated the Fall 2020 CITeR program review.
  • Dr. Liu will serve on the program committee of PMAM 2021.
  • Zhiliu's paper "pi-Map: A Decision-Based Sensor Fusion with Global Optimization for Indoor Mapping" is virtually presented at IROS 2020. (Clarkson News)
  • Chutitep's paper "High Frequency Performance Monitoring via Architectural Event Measurement" is virtually presented at IISWC 2020. (Clarkson News)
  • Zander and Dr. Liu presented work at IFPC 2020.
  • Dr. Liu served as session chair at IISWC 2020.
• September
  • Dr. Liu attended the Adirondack ON-RAMP conference virtually.
• August
  • Dr. Liu and Zander taught the Cyber Summer Camp virtually at Griffiss Institute
  • "High Frequency Performance Monitoring via Architectural Event Measurement" by Chutitep et al. has been accepted by IISWC 2020.
• July
  • Dr. Liu served as panelist of "Special Technical Communities (STC) – A Panel Discussion" at COMPSAC 2020.
  • "pi-Map: A Decision-Based Sensor Fusion with Global Optimization for Indoor Mapping" by Zhiliu Yang, Bo Yu, Wei Hu, Jie Tang, Shaoshan Liu, and Chen Liu has been accepted by IROS 2020
• June
  • Dr. Liu will serve on the program committee of IISWC 2020
• May
  • Congratulations to Xuan on successfully passing his dissertation defense!
  • Dr. Liu served as judge for the annual Clarkson’s Research and Project Showcase (RAPS)
• April
  • "Compression Artifact Mitigation for Face in Video Recognition" by Xuan has been accepted by SPIE DCS 2020
• February
  • Dr. Liu will serve on the program committe of ICDIS 2020
  • Zhiliu and Dr. Liu attended MetroCAD 2020 and presented research work.
• January
  • "An Autoencoder Based Approach to Defend Against Adversarial Attacks for Autonomous Vehicles" by Houchao has been accepted by MetroCAD 2020.
  • "2D Map Estimation via Teacher-Forcing Unsupervised Learning" by Zhiliu has been accepted by MetroCAD 2020.

2019

• December
  • "On the Code Modernization of Shared Sampling Alpha Matting with OpenMP" by TH, KC and Zhiliu et al. has been accepted by FGCS
• October
  • "Energy-aware automatic tuning on many-core platform via adaptive evolution" by Zhiliu et al. has been accepted by International Journal of Embedded Systems
  • Dr. Liu presented research work at IEEE student branch at Clarkson
  • Dr. Liu presented research work at the 3rd Annual North Country Cybersecurity Conference
  • Xuan, Zander, Zhiliu and Dr. Liu attended the Fall 2019 CITeR program review.
  • Dr. Liu will serve on the program committee of PMAM 2020.
• September
  • Zander and Dr. Liu visited Inficon
• August
  • Xuan Qi passed the Ph.D. proposal defense.
• June
  • Gildo and Dr. Liu attended ISCA2019 and presented the work at HASP 2019.
• May
  • "SoK: The Challenges, Pitfalls, and Perils of Using Hardware Performance Counters for Security" published at IEEE S&P 2019 has referenced our work of [IJSSOE 2014], [ARMS-CC 2016], [HASP 2016], [DTSSS 2017].
  • Xuan attended CITeR Spring 2019 program review.
  • "Detecting Non-Control-Flow Hijacking Attacks Using Contextual Execution Information" by Gildo et al. has been accepted by HASP 2019!
• April
  • Dr. Liu will serve as General Co-chair of MetroCAD 2020.
• March
  • Dr. Liu attended MetroCAD 2019 and presented the work. (Speaker list here)
  • Dr. Liu will serve as the publicity co-chair for ICPADS 2019.
• February
  • Dr. Liu will serve on the program committee of APPT 2019
• January
  • Dr. Liu will serve as guest editor for Special Issue on Heterogeneous Computation in Specific Domain Accelerations (HC-SDA), Future Generation Computer Systems
  • Dr. Liu will serve on the program committee of ISVLSI 2019

2018

• November
  • Congratulations to Gildo on successfully passing his dissertation defense!
  • Dr. Liu will serve on the program committee of ICDIS 2019.
  • Dr. Liu will serve as the general co-chair for HC-SDA 2019.
• October
  • Dr. Liu will serve on the program committee of PMAM 2019.
• August
  • Dr. Liu and Gildo taught the Cyber Summer Camp 2018 @ Griffiss Institute in Rome, NY
• June
  • Gildo participated in the XSEDE HPC Workshop: Summer Boot Camp offered by XSEDE along with the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
• February
  • Dr. Liu receives tenure and promotion at Clarkson University (Clarkson News)
• January
  • Dr. Liu will serve on the program committee of ScalCom 2018

2017

• December
  • "Boosting Face in Video Recognition via CNN based Key Frame Extraction" by Xuan et al. has been accpeted by ICB 2018.
• November
  • Gildo attended IEEE-SC2 2017 and IOV 2017 conferences and presented the work.
  • Dr. Liu begins to serve on the editorial board of Sustainanle Computing (SusCom).
  • James attended NASEC 2017 and presented the work.
  • Gildo attended Intel HPC Developer Conference 2017 and presented the work.
  • Xuan and Dr. Liu attended CITeR Fall 2017 Program review.
• October
  • "CNN Based Key Frame Extraction for Face in Video Recognition" by Xuan et al. has been accpeted by ISBA 2018.
  • Dr. Liu attended CyberSci Symposium 2018 in DC and presented the work.
  • Dr. Liu will serve on the program committee of PMAM 2018, MCSOC 2018 and SPIE Disruptive Technologies 2018
• June
  • Gildo attended ANTS 2017 and presented the work.
• May
  • Dr. Liu received the Tau Beta Pi Faculty Award.
  • Dr. Liu, Xuan and Zhiliu attended the Spring 2017 CITeR meeting.
  • Dr. Liu becomes a member of IEEE DataFlow STC.
  • New CAMEL website is up and runing. The old site can be found here.
• April
  • The paper titled "Automatic Tuning on Many-Core Platform for Energy Efficiency via Support Vector Machine Enhanced Differential Evolution" by Zhiliu and Zack has been accepted by SCPE.
  • Advanced Clustering Installs New Supercomputer at Clarkson University
  • Congratulations to the CAMEL members that participated in the first Clarkson's Research and Project Showcase (RAPS) conference.
    Both Xuan and Zander won oral presentation first place in their respecitve sessions.
    Gildo also won first place in the graduate poster session.
    
  • James presented at the SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing Conference in Anaheim, California.
• March
  • James and a team of four other students won 1st place at Hack Potsdam with a custom built virtual reality game, Data Range.
• January
  • Our research project "Rapid Recognition of Faces from Video" has been featured in 2016 Industry-Nominated Technology Breakthroughs of NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers

2016

• December
  • “Verification of openSSL version via hardware performance counters” by James and Zander et. al. has been accepted by SPIE Defense and Commercial Sensing.
• Novemeber
  • Our work has been referenced by our colleague in Binghamton UniversityOur work has been referenced by our colleague in Binghamton University. (link)
  • Dr. Liu will serve on the program committee of MCSOC 2017
• October
  • Dr .Liu will serve on the program committee of PMAM 2017 and WACC 2017.
  • Dr. Liu is the awardee of the NSF MRI grant!
• September
  • Tim Platt joined CAMEL as a Ph.D. student, welcome!
• August
  • Zhiliu Yang joined CAMEL as a Ph.D. student, welcome!
  • Yijun presented his paper at PASA 2016.
• July
  • Dr. Liu will serve on the program committee of DTSSS 2017.
  • Dr. Liu will serve on the program committee of AsianHOST 2016.
  • Gildo presented his paper at ARMS-CC 2016.
• June
  • Gildo presented a poster at the 6th Biennial C4I and Cyber Conference in Utica NY.
  • Gildo attended ISCA 2016 and presented his paper at HASP 2016.
  • Dr. Liu, Xuan and Boyang attended the Spring 2016 CITeR Program Review.
• May
  • Gildo received travel grant to attend ISCA 2016.
  • "The Impact on the Performance of Co-running Virtual Machines in a Virtualized Environment" by Gildo et al. has been accepted by ARMS-CC 2016.
  • "Energy-Aware Automatic Tuning on Many-Core Platform via Differential Evolution" by Yijun and Xuan et al. has been accepted by PASA 2016.
• April
  • "Detecting Data Only Exploits at Runtime using Hardware Events: A Case Study of the Heartbleed Vulnerability" by Gildo et al. has been accepted by HASP 2016.
  • Dr. Liu presented the work at CITeR webinar.
• March
  • Dr. Liu is awarded 2016 AFRL Summer Faculty Fellowship (Clarkson News) (WTDNews).
• January
  • Dr. Liu will serve as publicity chair for MoCS 2016.

2015

• June
  • James won the 1st place in poster presentation in "Signal Processing" during the Summer 2015 Symposium on Undergraduate Research Experiences (SURE).