Anyi Liu

Anyi Liu

Associate Professor at Oakland University

About Me

I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Oakland University. I received my Ph.D. degree from the Department of Computer Science at George Mason University.

Research Interests

  • System and Software Security
  • AI (LLM, AGI, and AIGC)
  • Trusted Computing
  • Cloud, Mobile, and IoT Security
  • Intrusion Detection, Prevention, and Correlation
  • Simulation
  • Steganography and Side-Channel
  • Computer Education

Position Opening

I seek self-motivated Ph.D./Master/Undergraduate students with solid Cybersecurity and Computer Systems backgrounds. Further, just like me, you must be passionate about Artificial Intelligence and LLMs. If you want to pursue a Ph.D. under my supervision, please email me your CV, transcripts, and/or publications. Visiting scholars and capable students (high school and above) are also welcome.

Publications

  • Brett Piggott, Siddhant Patil, Guohuan Feng, Ibrahim Odat, Rajdeep Mukherjee, Balakrishnan Dharmalingam, and Anyi Liu. Net-GPT: A LLM-Empowered Man-in-the-Middle Chatbot for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, In Proceedings of the Eighth ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing (IEEE/ACM SEC’23).
  • Anyi Liu, Yuan Cheng, Bruce Maxim, and Xiaohong Yuan. Exploring Cybersecurity Hands-on Labs in Pervasive Computing: Design, Assessment, and Reflection. Accepted by the 2023 IEEE ASEE Frontiers in Education Conference (IEEE/ASEE FIT’23).
  • Balakrishnan Dharmalingam, Ibrahim Odat, Rajdeep Mukherjee, Brett Piggott, and Anyi Liu. HGDAVE: Heterogeneous Generative Dataset for UASes. In Proceedings of the 1st IEEE Conference on Mobility: Operations, Services, and Technologies (IEEE MOST’23).
  • Balakrishnan Dharmalingam, Anyi Liu, Subra Ganesan, and Sankardas Roy. FineObfuscator: Defeating Reverse Engineering Attacks with Context-sensitive and Cost-efficient Obfuscation for Android Apps. In Proceedings of the 22nd Annual IEEE International Conference On Electro Information Technology (IEEE EIT’22).
  • David Werde, Matthew Muccioli, and Anyi Liu. TEEm: A Tangle-based Elastic Emulator for Storing Connected Vehicle Data in a Distributed Ledger Technology. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy (ICISSP’22).
  • Anyi Liu, Huirong Fu, Yuan Hong, Jigang Liu, and Yingjiu Li. LiveForen: Ensuring Live Forensic Integrity in the Cloud. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (IEEE TIFS).
  • Anyi Liu, Selena Haidar, Yuan Cheng, and Yingjiu Li. Confidential State Verification for the Delegated Cloud Jobs with Confidential Audit Log. EAI Transactions on Security and Safety. 2019.
  • Anyi Liu, Ali Alqazzaz, Hua Ming, and Balakrishnan Dharmalingam. IoTVerif: Automatic Verification of SSL/TLS Certificate for IoT Applications. IEEE Access. 2019.
  • Canlin Li, Jinhua Liu, Anyi Liu, Qinge Wu, and Lihua Bi. Global and Adaptive Contrast Enhancement for Low Illumination Gray Images. IEEE Access. Vol.7, No.1, December 2019, pages 163395 - 163411.
  • Zijun Han, Guangzhi Qu, Bo Liu, Anyi Liu, Weihua Cai, and Dona Burkard. Genetic Algorithm-based Parallelization Planning for Legacy Real-Time Embedded Programs. In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Industries (ai4i’18). September 26 - 28, 2018. Laguna Hills, CA, USA.
  • Xiao Yue, Guangzhi Qu, Bo Liu, and Anyi Liu. Detection Sound Source Direction in 3D Space Using Convolutional Neural Networks. In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Industries (ai4i’18). September 26 - 28, 2018. Laguna Hills, CA, USA.
  • Anyi Liu and Guangzhi Qu. H-Verifier: Verifying Confidential System State with Delegated Sandboxes. In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Science of Cyber Security (SciSec’18). August, 12 - 14, 2018. Beijing, China.
  • Anyi Liu, Dong Han, and Huirong Fu. ReScuE: A Cloud-based System for Cybersecurity Education and Training. In Proceedings of the 22nd Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education (CISSE’18). June 11 - 13, 2018. New Orleans, LA, USA.
  • Anyi Liu and Huirong Fu. Fast Tamper Detection for Hierarchical Data in Live Cloud Forensics. In Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Electro-Information Technology Conference (IEEE EIT’18). May 3 -5, 2018. Rochester, MI, USA.
  • Abdulrahman Alzahrani, Ali Alshehri, Hani Alshahrani, Raed Alharthi, Huirong Fu, and Anyi Liu. RanDroid: Structural Similarity Approach for Detecting Ransomware Applications in Android Platform. In Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Electro-Information Technology Conference (IEEE EIT’18). May 3 -5, 2018. Rochester, MI, USA.
  • Ali Alshehri, Hani Alshahrani, Abdulrahman Alzahrani, Raed Alharthi, Huirong Fu, Anyi Liu and Ye Zhu. DOPA: Detecting Open Ports in Android OS. In Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (IEEE CNS’18). May 30 - June 1, 2018. Beijing, China.
  • Khalid Alghamdi, Ali Alqazzaz, Anyi Liu, and Hua Ming. IoTVerif: An Automated Tool to Verify Android IoT Apps Utilizing MQTT Protocol. The 8th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (ACM CODASPY’18). March 19 - 21, 2018. Tempe, AZ, USA.
  • Anyi Liu, Huirong Fu, and David Werden. Constructing Cloud-based Cyber Threat Intelligence Sharing and Correlation System. The 2017 Michigan Space Grant Fall Conference. November 11, 2017, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
  • Melissa Nichols, Nathan Torrez, and Anyi Liu. Constructing Virtual Laboratory for Research and Education. The 2017 Mid-Michigan Symposium for Undergraduate Research Experiences (Mid-SURE‘17), Lansing, MI, USA.
  • Anyi Liu and Huirong Fu, Constructing Cloud-based Lab Infrastructure for Cyber Security Education. The 21st Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education (CISSE’17). June 12-14, 2017. Las Vegas, NV, USA.
  • Xiaohong Yuan, Kenneth Williams, Kelvin Bryant, Jinsheng Xu, Albert Esterline, Scott McCrickard, Anyi Liu, Charles Hardnett, Selvarajah Mohanarajah, Litany H. Lineberry, and Rachel Rutledge. Teaching Mobile Computing and Mobile Security. Frontiers in Education 2016 (IEEE FIE’16), Erie, PA, October 12-15, 2016.
  • Xunyu Pan, Jacob Wilson, Megan Balukoff, Anyi Liu, and Wenjuan Xu. Musical Instruments Simulation on Mobile Platform. The 2016 IS&T International Symposium on Electronic Imaging (EI’16), San Francisco, California, February 14-18, 2016.
  • Anyi Liu, Jim Chen, and Harry Wechsler. Real-time Timing Channel Detection in a Software-Defined Networking Virtual Environment. Intelligent Information Management, Vol.7, No.6, 2015, pages 283-302.
  • Anyi Liu, Jigang Liu, and Tetsutaro UeharaSecure. Streaming Forensic Data Transmission for Trusted Cloud. The Second International Workshop on Security and Forensics in Communication Systems in conjunction with the 9th ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security (AISACCS-SFCS’14). Kyoto, Japan, June 3-6, 2014.
  • Mathew Nyamagwa, Jigang Liu, Anyi Liu, and Tetsutaro Uehara. CloudForen: A Novel Framework for Digital Forensics in Cloud Computing. Journal of Harbin Institute of Technology, Vol. 21, No. 6, 2014, pages 99-105.
  • Mathew Nyamagwa, Jigang Liu, Anyi Liu, and Tetsutaro Uehara. CloudForen: A Novel Framework for Digital Forensics in Cloud Computing. The 2nd International Conference on Digital Forensics and Investigation (ICDFI’13). Wuhan, China, September 12-13, 2013.
  • Anyi Liu, Jim X. Chen, and Harry Wechsler. Detecting Covert Timing Channels in a Networked Virtual Environment. The 9th IFIP WG 11.9 International Conference on Digital Forensics (ICDF’13). Orlando, Florida, USA. January 28-30, 2013.
  • Anyi Liu, Xuxian Jiang, Jing Jin, Feng Mao, and Jim Chen. Enforcing System-Called-based Intrusion Detection with Protocol Context. The 5th International Conference on Emerging Security Information, Systems and Technologies (SECURWARE’11). Nice/Saint Laurent du Var, France, August 21-27, 2011.
  • Rajeshwar Katipally, Li Yang, and Anyi Liu. Attacker Behavior Analysis in Multi-stage Attack Detection System. The Cyber Security and Information Intelligence Research Workshop (CSIIRW-7). Oak Ridge, USA, October 10, 2011.
  • Anyi Liu, Jim Chen, and Li Yang. Observer: An Real-time System to Detect Covert Channels in a Highly Virtualized Environment. The 5th IFIP WG 11.10 International Conference on Critical Infrastructure Protection (ICCIP’11), Hanover, NH, USA, March 23-25, 2011.
  • Anyi Liu, Duminda Wijesekera, and Angelos Stavrou. SQLProb: A Proxy-based Architecture towards Preventing SQL Injection Attacks. The 24th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC’09). Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, March 9-12, 2009.
  • Lingyu Wang, Anyi Liu, and Sushil Jajodia. Using Attack Graphs for Correlating, Hypothesizing, and Predicting Network Intrusion Alerts. Computer Communications, Vol.29, No.15, 2006, pages 2917-2933.
  • Huiping Guo, Yingjiu Li, Anyi Liu, and Sushil Jajodia. A Fragile Watermarking Scheme for Detecting Malicious Modifications of Database Relations. Information Sciences, Vol.176, No.10, 2006, pages 1350-1378.
  • Lingyu Wang, Anyi Liu, and Sushil Jajodia. An Efficient and Unified Approach to Correlating, Hypothesizing, and Predicting Network Intrusion Alerts. The 10th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS’05), Milan, Italy, September 12-14, 2005.