Congratulations to Dr. Xiali for an NSF Award

Congratulations to Dr. Xiali Hei and her post-doc fellow Yazhou Tu! Their project “SaTC: CORE: Small: Mitigating Threats of Physical-Domain Signal Injections on Security, Reliability, and Safety of Sensing and Control Systems” has been approved by NSF for an award.

In this project, the project aims to systematically uncover novel vulnerabilities and attack vectors introduced by instruction-tuned code LLMs, providing fundamental insights into their implications for cybersecurity and AI-incorporated software engineering workflows. The proposed work represents the first comprehensive investigation into the risks of code injection attacks against instruction-tuned code LLMs. Furthermore, we will develop a technique for identifying adversarial threats against instruction-tuned code LLMs, involving the detection of adversarially manipulated inputs and generated code before execution.

With the award, Dr. Hei can support one post-doc fellow and two graduate students. Additionally, REU summplement funds of $30,000 were approved by NSF. It allows Dr. Xiali Hei to support three REU students in USA. 

More details about this award are available at the following link: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2231682&HistoricalAwards=false