SLAI Seminar 20th Session will be discussing the topic on "Toward Secure and Privacy-Preserving Extended Realty Systems", from 10am to 12pm, January 9th (Friday) at B411 Lecture Hall, online participation is welcome (Tencent Meeting ID: 810-298-183)

About the Speaker:

Hong-Ning Dai is now with the Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University. He obtained a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and a D.Eng. in Computer Technology Application from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Before joining Hong Kong Baptist University in 2022, he was with the School of Computer Science and Engineering at Macau University of Science and Technology from 2010 to 2021, and the Department of Computing and Decision Sciences, Lingnan University, Hong Kong from 2021 to 2022. He has published more than 300 papers in referred conferences and journals, including the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), AAAI, KDD, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), Proceedings of the IEEE, ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), IEEE Transactions on Computer (TC), IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, etc. His publications have received more than 27,000 citations (with H Index 55). He has won more than 17 awards. He is also the holder of 2 U.S. patent and 1 Australia innovation patent. He is a senior member of ACM and IEEE. He has served as associate editors for IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems, and Ad Hoc Networks.

Abstract：

The recent advent of extended reality (XR) systems with the synergy of virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), artificial intelligence (AI), digital twin (DT), and the Internet of Things has proliferated a number of XR applications (apps) on top of diverse VR/AR devices, such as Meta Quest, MS Hololens, Sony PlayStation VR, ByteDance Pico, and Apple Vision Pro. Meanwhile, diverse XR applications have emerged, such as gaming, healthcare, industry, creator economy, and digital arts. However, the current development of XR systems is still in the early stage because of their intrinsic complexity and heterogeneity, which hinders effective security protection. Moreover, emerging security vulnerabilities and privacy-leakage concerns have also prevented XR systems from wide adoption. In this talk, I will first briefly review recent advances of XR systems as well as relevant technologies. I will then elaborate on its challenges as well as potential solutions. Next, I will report several progressive research achievements from my research groups. Finally, I will discuss several future directions in this promising area.