Ming "Fred" Li

About

Ming "Fred" Li is a university distinguished scholar and professor in the School of Electrical, Computing, and Software Engineering at the University of Arizona and is an affiliated faculty with the Computer Science Department. He was an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at Utah State University from 2011 to 2015. He received his PhD in electrical and computer engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 2011. His main research interests are wireless and cybersecurity, with an emphases on cross-layer optimization and machine learning in wireless networks, wireless physical layer security, privacy-enhancing technologies and cyber-physical system security. He received the NSF Early Faculty Development (CAREER) Award in 2014 and the ONR Young Investigator Program (

Education

• PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 2011
• MS Electronic and Information Engineering, Beihang University, 2008

Selected publications

• From Threat to Trust: Exploiting Attention Mechanisms for Attacks and Defenses in Cooperative Perception
• DP-BREM: Differentially-Private and Byzantine-Robust Federated Learning with Client Momentum
• That Person Moves Like A Car: Misclassification Attack Detection for Autonomous Systems using Spatiotemporal Consistency
• Remote Perception Attacks against Camera-based Object Recognition Systems and Countermeasures
• PoF: Proof-of-Following for Vehicle Platoons
• Data Inference from Encrypted Databases: A Multi-dimensional Order-Preserving Matching Approach
• PCKV: Locally Differentially Private Correlated Key-Value Data Collection with Optimized Utility
• SVM: Secure Vehicle Motion Verification with a Single Wireless Receiver
• ROBin: Known-Plaintext Attack Resistant Orthogonal Blinding via Channel Randomization
• Are Friends of My Friends Too Social? Limitations of Location Privacy in a Socially-Connected World