Sriram Sami

Sriram Sami

I am a Computer Science PhD candidate at the National University of Singapore.

My current research focuses on security and privacy issues and novel use-cases for active sensors (LIDARs, time-of-flight sensors, etc) .

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Journal, Conference, and Workshop Papers
  1. "LAPD: Hidden Spy Camera Detection using Smartphone Time-of-Flight Sensors"

    Sriram Sami, Sean Rui Xiang Tan, Bangjie Sun, and Jun Han

    Published in the Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2021)

    Acceptance Rate: 17.9% (25 of 139)

    [   Project Website   |  Paper   |   Presentation Slides  ]

    Featured in the media on The Register, Forbes, New Scientist, Hacker News, DER SPIEGEL, TechRadar, BitDefender, and others.

    Most downloaded paper across all years of the ACM Sensys conference
    (out of more than 2,500 publications)

    Top 3 most downloaded paper across all years of ACM SIGMOBILE
    (out of more than 20,000 publications)

    LAPD Demo

    LAPD Short Teaser Video

    LAPD Talk at Sensys 2021 (Coimbra, Portugal)





  2. "Spying with Your Robot Vacuum Cleaner: Eavesdropping via Lidar Sensors"

    Sriram Sami, Yimin Dai, Sean Rui Xiang Tan, Nirupam Roy, and Jun Han

    Published in the Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2020)

    Acceptance Rate: 20.2% (43 of 213)

    [   Paper   |   Presentation Slides  ]

    Featured in the media on Forbes, Hacker News, CNA, SCMP, ZDNet, Futurity, Hackster.io, Threatpost, Slashdot, and others.

    Lidarphone Short Teaser Video

    Lidarphone Talk at Sensys 2020 (Virtual)

Posters/Demos in Conference Proceedings and/or Presentations
  1. "Poster Abstract: On Utilizing Smartphone Time-of-Flight Sensors to Detect Hidden Spy Cameras"

    Sriram Sami, Sean Rui Xiang Tan, Bangjie Sun, and Jun Han

    Published in the Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2021)

    [   Poster Writeup   |   Poster  ]



  2. "Poster Abstract: LidarPhone: Acoustic Eavesdropping using a Lidar Sensor"

    Sriram Sami, Sean Rui Xiang Tan, Yimin Dai, Nirupam Roy, and Jun Han

    Published in the Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2020)

    [   Poster Writeup   |   Poster  ]

    Best Poster Award Runner-Up (out of 49 posters)

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