Information and Intelligent Security Laboratory

About the Lab

The Information and Intelligent Security (IIS) Laboratory at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas is co-directed by Dr. Junggab Son and Dr. Zuobin Xiong, both Assistant Professors in the Department of Computer Science within the Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering.

Our lab focuses on cutting-edge research in cybersecurity, privacy preservation, and artificial intelligence security. We are dedicated to developing innovative solutions that address real-world security challenges in our increasingly connected digital world.

We are always looking for motivated and enthusiastic individuals to join our research group! We accept graduate students from Computer Science (MSCS, Ph.D. in CS) at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Interested in joining the IIS Lab? Email junggab.son@unlv.edu with your CV and research interests attached.

Location: Department of Computer Science, Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering
4505 S Maryland Pkwy, Las Vegas, NV 89154

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News

Nov 20, 2024
Paper Acceptance
A paper authored by An Huang was accepted in the ACM SAC 2025 conference: An Huang, Junggab Son, and Zuobin Xiong, "DDSNet: A Lightweight Dense Depthwise Separable Network for Tumor Classification," accepted in the 40th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (ACM SAC), pp. 1-8, 2025.
Sep 02, 2024
Paper Acceptance
A paper authored by Shubham Joshi was accepted in the SecureComm 2024 Conference: Shubham Joshi, Dillion Davidson, Yeonjoon Lee, Homook Cho, and Junggab Son*, "Ensuring Integrity in Online Content Usage and Download Counting with Smart Contracts," accepted in the 20th EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm), pp. 1-23, 2024.
Sep 02, 2024
Paper Acceptance
A paper authored by Junggab Son was accepted in the SecureComm 2024 Conference: Junggab Son*, Jeehyung Kim, Jemin Ahn, Doowon Kim, Homook Cho, and Daeyoung Kim, "Anti-EMP: Encrypted Malware Packets Filtering Algorithm Leveraging Ciphertext Patterns under Zero Knowledge Setting," accepted in the 20th EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm), pp. 1-25, 2024.
Sep 02, 2024
Paper Acceptance
A paper authored by Jemin Ahn and Dorian Akhavan was accepted in the SecureComm 2024 Conference: Jemin Ahn, Dorian Akhavan, Woohwan Jung, Kyungtate Kang, and Junggab Son*, "Encoder-based Multimodal Ensemble Learning for High Compatibility and Accuracy in Phishing Website Detection," accepted in the 20th EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm), pp. 1-19, 2024.