ASPIRE Lab

Acoustic Security Protecting Intelligent Real Environments

We secure intelligent systems that interact with people, communicate through voice, sense the physical world, and act autonomously.

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Research Thrusts

Secure people ↔ devices: voice assistants, speaker verification, and mobile sensing under attack.

Secure people ↔ people: stop deepfakes, scam calls, hidden recording, and dataset misuse.

Secure people ↔ AI agents: jailbreaks, scraper abuse, and proving a human is really there.

07/2026 Paper accepted at Interspeech 2026: Learning to Evade: Adaptive Attacks on Audio Watermarking.

06/2026 PI Hanqing Guo received the NSF CER award (#2551964).

06/2026 ASPIRE Lab launched at Indiana University Bloomington (Luddy School / CS).

04/2026 Paper accepted at ICML 2026: On the Risks of Generative Engine Optimization in the Era of LLMs.

04/2026 Paper accepted at IEEE S&P Workshop ArtSec 2026: Mental Damage.

09/2025 Paper accepted at IEEE S&P 2026: WebCloak.

09/2025 Paper accepted at EMNLP 2025: Web Intellectual Property at Risk.

01/2025 Paper accepted at USENIX Security 2025: AUDIO WATERMARK.

05/2025 Best Demo Award at S&P Workshop SecureTrans (in-car mmWave IRS attack).