Song Liao

Song Liao

Ph.D student at Clemson University

Song Liao

I’m a last-year Ph.D. student at Clemson University, and my research interests include IoT security/privacy and online abuse detection. Specifically, my work is focused on exploring the security and privacy of Voice Personal Assistants (VPA), such as Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant. I consider myself fortunate to have the opportunity to work under the guidance of Dr. Long Cheng, whose expertise and guidance have been invaluable to my work.

Prior to my Ph.D. studies, I earned both my bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Xi’an Jiaotong University, where I had the opportunity to work in the Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (IAIR) and work with Dr.Yuehu Liu.

I will join the Department of Computer Science at Texas Tech University as a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Fall 2024. I am looking for self-motivated Ph.D. students. Please email me your CV if you are interested in my work.


News

  • [Paper] 03/2024: One paper on IoT Voice Applications Analysis was accepted by AsiaCCS 2024.
  • [Paper] 01/2024: One paper on Understanding GDPR Non-Compliance in Privacy Policies of Voice Assistant Applications was accepted by WWW 2024.
  • [Paper] 05/2023: One paper on Static Code Analysis of Voice Assistant Applications was accepted by CCS 2023.
  • [Paper] 05/2023: One paper on Tweet Data Analysis was accepted by KDD 2023.
  • [Paper] 08/2021: One paper on Policy-Violation Detection of Voice Assistant Applications was accepted by USENIX Security 2022.
  • [Talk] 07/2021: We presented our work on Policy-Violation Detection of Voice Assistant Applications at the FTC's PrivacyCon 2021.
  • [Paper] 05/2021: One paper on Privacy Policy Analysis of Voice Assistant Applications was accepted by IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine 2021 (invited).
  • [Award] 12/2020: Our paper received Distinguished Paper Award at the ACSAC 2020.
  • [Award] 12/2020: Google awarded us an Abuse Research Grant to support our research on abuse risks in Google products.
  • [Paper] 09/2020: One paper on Trustworthiness of Skill Certification in Voice Assistant Platforms was accepted by CCS 2020.
  • [Paper] 08/2020: One paper on Privacy Policy Analysis of Voice Assistant Applications was accepted by ACSAC 2020.
  • [Talk] 08/2020: We presented our work on Trustworthiness of Skill Certification in Voice Personal Assistant Platforms at the FTC's PrivacyCon 2020.
  • [Media] 07/2020: The Register and some others reported our work on measuring the ineffectiveness of privacy policies for voice-apps.
  • [Award] 07/2020: Google awarded us $5,000 bug bounty for discovering vulnerabilities of Google Actions.
  • [Media] 07/2020: The Register, Washington Internet Dail , ZDNet and some others reported our work on measuring the trustworthiness of Alexa's skills certification.