Research · Abhijeet Solanki

Research

Adversarial robustness, trustworthy AI and perception security for autonomous systems.

I study how the perception systems of autonomous vehicles and edge devices can be fooled, and how to catch those attacks in real time. My work covers laser, reflective, camouflage and GPS-spoofing attacks on camera, LiDAR and GPS, and defenses light enough to run on NVIDIA Jetson hardware.

I'm interested in pursuing a PhD in robust machine learning, secure autonomy and trustworthy multimodal perception.

Peer-reviewed

2026

CAFE: Compressed Architecture for Edge-Deployed Facial Expression Recognition in Ambient Invisible Intelligence

Mohammad Mahruf Mahdi, Abhijeet Solanki, Syed Rafay Hasan, Terry N. Guo, Syed Ali Asad Rizvi

Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC)ConferenceAccepted

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Blinded by the Beam: A Unified Real-Time Defense Against Laser-Based Attacks on Navigational Perception of Autonomous Vehicles

Abhijeet Solanki, Wesam Al Amiri, Syed Rafay Hasan, Terry N. Guo

IEEE Access, vol. 14, pp. 57235–57255Journal

2025

Survey of Navigational Perception Sensors' Security in Autonomous Vehicles

Abhijeet Solanki, Wesam Al Amiri, Marim Mahmoud, Blaine Swieder, Syed Rafay Hasan, Terry N. Guo

IEEE Access, vol. 13, pp. 104937–104965Journal

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Realistic GPS Spoofing via Customized CARLA GPS Navigation and Controller Systems

Thomas D. Robertson, Wesam Al Amiri, Abhijeet Solanki, Syed Rafay Hasan, Terry N. Guo

2025 IEEE 68th International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), pp. 720–724Conference

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Mitigation of Camouflaged Adversarial Attacks in Autonomous Vehicles: A Case Study Using CARLA Simulator

Yago Romano Martinez, Carter Brady, Abhijeet Solanki, Wesam Al Amiri, Syed Rafay Hasan, Terry N. Guo

2025 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), pp. 1–5Conference

DOI arXiv

ReAL: Machine Learning Detection of Reflective Attacks Against Lidarometry

Abhijeet Solanki, Luke Beirne, Syed Rafay Hasan, Wesam Al Amiri

SoutheastCon 2025, pp. 1309–1313Conference

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GNAPing On the Job: Attacking and Defending Facial Detection on Edge Devices

Abhijeet Solanki, Ryan Taylor Thornton, Syed Rafay Hasan, Uvais Qidwai

SoutheastCon 2025, pp. 918–923Conference

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Towards Trustworthy AI: Analyzing Model Uncertainty through Monte Carlo Dropout and Noise Injection

Chernchao Tai, Wesam Al Amiri, Abhijeet Solanki, Douglas A. Talbert, Terry N. Guo, Syed Rafay Hasan

Proceedings of the International FLAIRS ConferenceConference

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Investigating Adversarial Image Attacks in a Sensor Fusion Framework Using a Scaled Autonomous Vehicle Testbed

Tahmid Hasan Sakib, Wesam Al Amiri, Abhijeet Solanki, Syed Rafay Hasan, Terry N. Guo, Syed Ali Asad Rizvi

IFAC Modeling, Estimation and Control Conference (MECC)Conference

Towards Machine Learning Based Fingerprinting of Ultrasonic Sensors

Marim Elhanafy, Srivaths Ravva, Abhijeet Solanki, Syed Rafay Hasan

SoutheastCon 2025, pp. 1332–1333Poster

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2024

Investigate the Effects of Laser Attack on Intelligence of the AV Perception

Abhijeet Solanki, Syed Rafay Hasan, Terry N. Guo

2024 IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI), pp. 779–782Conference

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2020

Protecting Electronic Health Records in Transit and at Rest

Denis Ulybyshev, Christian Bare, Kristen Bellisario, Vadim Kholodilo, Bradley Northern, Abhijeet Solanki, Timothy O'Donnell

2020 IEEE 33rd International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS), pp. 449–452Conference

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Preprints

2026

RAID: Real-Time XAI-Guided Adversarial Attacks for Edge-Deployed Neural Networks

Abhijeet Solanki, Faiq Khalid, Drew Phelps, Syed Rafay Hasan, Terry N. Guo, Uvais Qidwai

TechRxivPreprint

Vulnerability Assessment of Adversarial Image Attacks in a Miniaturized Autonomous Vehicle Testbed without Relying on Way-Point Information

Tahmid Hasan Sakib, Abhijeet Solanki, Wesam Al Amiri, Syed Rafay Hasan, Syed Ali Asad Rizvi, Terry N. Guo

TechRxivPreprint

2025

Input-Slice Attacks and Defense against Pseudo-Model-Parallelism-Based Collaborative DNN

Abhijeet Solanki, Parth Patel, Faiq Khalid, Syed Rafay Hasan, Uvais Qidwai

TechRxivPreprint

Towards Trustworthy AI: Real-Time Uncertainty Monitoring and Adversarial Detection

Chern Chao Tai, Abhijeet Solanki, Wesam Al Amiri, Douglas A. Talbert, Syed Rafay Hasan, Terry N. Guo

TechRxivPreprintUnder review at SN Computer Science

Talks

GNAPing On the Job: Attacking and Defending Facial Detection on Edge Devices · IEEE SoutheastCon 2025, Charlotte, NC2025
ReAL: Machine Learning Detection of Reflective Attacks against Lidarometry · IEEE SoutheastCon 2025, Charlotte, NC2025
Data Protection in Transit and at Rest (1st Place Graduate Presentation Award) · ACM Mid-Southeast Chapter Conference2020
Optimizing Airfare Forecasting via Machine Learning (1st Place Award) · Research Enquiry Day, Tennessee Tech2020

Papers under double-blind review are added after acceptance.