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Qi Alfred Chen

Computer Science · Purdue University West Lafayette

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Mid career · publishing since 2014
Adversarial Robustness in Machine LearningAdvanced Malware Detection TechniquesAutonomous Vehicle Technology and SafetyVehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs)Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications

Publications

156

Citations

2,837

Est. group size

~1

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

13

Publishing since 2014

Research summary
AI-generated

Qi Alfred Chen's research focuses on the security and safety of autonomous driving systems and other cyber-physical systems, particularly how sensors like LiDAR, cameras, and thermal imagers can be attacked or spoofed, and how such vulnerabilities can be detected and defended against. Recent work also explores security risks in vision-language models and large language models applied to driving perception and planning, as well as hardware-level attacks such as keystroke eavesdropping. This work sits at the intersection of computer security, autonomous vehicle technology, and machine learning robustness.

Autonomous vehicle securitySensor spoofing attacks (LiDAR, camera, thermal)Adversarial machine learning and robustnessAutonomous driving software testing and bug analysisCyber-physical systems security

Publication output grew substantially from 2017-2018 through a peak around 2021, and has remained fairly high (roughly 13-29 papers per year) over the past five years, though counts have declined somewhat in 2025-2026.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 16.6/year recently
2017: 6 publications172018: 4 publications182019: 5 publications192020: 18 publications202021: 29 publications29212022: 20 publications222023: 24 publications232024: 20 publications242025: 13 publications252026: 6 publications26
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • arXiv (Cornell University)×38
  • USENIX Security Symposium×3
  • Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security×3
  • IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems×2
  • IEEE Sensors Journal×2
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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