Amir Salarpour
About Me
I am a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Clemson University (School of Computing, TigerSec Lab) since Jan. 2024, working with Prof. Mert D. Pesé on security and robustness of autonomous-vehicle perception, including adversarial sensing and robust 3D point-cloud perception.
Previously, I was a Visiting Researcher at Carnegie Mellon University (CyLab) in 2023 (supervised by Prof. Raj Rajkumar), and an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Sirjan University of Technology (2018–2022), where I also served as Department Chair.
Research Interests
- Autonomous Perception Security: adversarial sensing/attacks, robust AV perception pipelines, evaluation & defense
- 3D Computer Vision (Point Clouds): classification/segmentation, registration, 3D detection & tracking, geometric deep learning
- Trustworthy ML: adversarial robustness, data-efficient training, uncertainty estimation for perception systems
Teaching
Instructor of Record — Clemson University
- CPSC 8580 — Security in Emerging Computing and Networking Systems (Spring 2025)
- CPSC 4200 — Computer Security Principles (Spring 2026)
Prior teaching — Sirjan University of Technology (Assistant Professor, 2018–2022)
- Graduate: Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing, Advanced AI
- Undergraduate: Advanced Programming, Algorithms, AI, ML, Internet Engineering, Software Engineering
News
- [Spring 2026] Instructor of Record: CPSC 4200 – Computer Security Principles (Clemson University).
- [2026] Papers accepted (to appear) at IEEE IV 2026 and ICRA 2026 on VLM/robustness and 3D point-cloud perception.
- [2025] Best Paper Award (SAE/WCX 2025) for “Avoiding the Crash: A Vision-Language Model Evaluation of Critical Traffic Scenarios”.
- [Jan–Dec 2025] Key Personnel on U.S. DOT UTC (TraCR): Resilient Autonomous Vehicle Perception Under Adversarial Settings (Total: $276,314).
Publications
Selected
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SLNet: A Super-Lightweight Geometry-Adaptive Network for 3D Point Cloud Recognition2026 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Accepted; to appear (June 2026).Accepted
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2026 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), Accepted; to appear (June 2026). arXiv:2602.00542PDF Accepted
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Comparative Analysis of Patch Attack on VLM-Based Autonomous Driving Architectures2026 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), Accepted; to appear (June 2026).Accepted
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2026 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), Accepted; to appear (June 2026). arXiv:2506.11472PDF Accepted
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Trustworthy AI for CPS SecurityBook chapter (Springer), Accepted; to appear, 2026.Accepted book chapter
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WIP: From Detection to Explanation: Using LLMs for Adversarial Scenario Analysis in Vehicles3rd USENIX Symposium on Vehicle Security and Privacy (VehicleSec 25), 2025.
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Attention-Aware Temporal Adversarial Shadows on Traffic Sign SequencesIEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025.
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SAE Technical Paper 2025-01-8213, 2025. Best Paper Award (SAE/WCX 2025).DOI Best Paper Award
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Point-LN: A Lightweight Framework for Efficient Point Cloud Classification Using Non-Parametric Positional Encoding29th International Computer Conference, Computer Society of Iran (CSICC), 2025.
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Point-GN: A Non-Parametric Network Using Gaussian Positional Encoding for Point Cloud ClassificationIEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2025.
More publications
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Comprehensive Strategy for Classification of Voltage Sags Source Location Using Optimal Feature Selection Applied to Support Vector Machine and Ensemble TechniquesInternational Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems, 2021.
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Point-PlaneNet: Plane Kernel Based Convolutional Neural Network for Point Clouds AnalysisDigital Signal Processing, 2020.
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Line-Segment Based Trajectory Similarity Measure Using Time Warping TechniqueTabriz Journal of Electrical Engineering, 2019.
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Direction-Based Similarity Measure to Trajectory ClusteringIET Signal Processing, 2019.
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Kernel Correlation Based CNN for Point Cloud Classification Task8th International Conference on Computer and Knowledge Engineering (ICCKE), 2018.
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An Empirical Comparison of Distance Measures for Multivariate Time Series ClusteringInternational Journal of Engineering, 2018.
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A Multiresolution Approach to Trajectory Description3rd International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (IPRIA), 2017.
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Optimizing Parameters Contributing to Riveting Quality Using Imperialist Competitive Algorithm and Predicting Objective Function via Three Models MLR, RBF, and ANN-GAInternational Journal of Advanced Design & Manufacturing Technology, 2016.
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Artificial Neural Networks and Advanced Fuzzy Techniques for Predicting Noise Level in the Industrial Embroidery WorkroomsApplied Artificial Intelligence, 2015.
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Modelling Broilers’ Abdominal Fat in Response to Dietary TreatmentsJournal of Animal Physiology and Animal Nutrition, 2015.
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Development of a Noise Prediction Model Based on Advanced Fuzzy Approaches in Typical Industrial WorkroomsJournal of Research in Health Sciences, 2014.
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Using Soft Computing to Predict Broilers' Performance in Response to Herbal AdditivesEuropean Poultry Science, 2014.
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Long-Term Estimation of Human Spatial Interactions Through Multiple Laser Ranging SensorsInternational Conference on Robotics and Emerging Allied Technologies in Engineering (iCREATE), 2014.
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Sentiment Analysis and Visualization of Social Media Data: The #BostonMarathon #Bombings Test CaseOnline article, 2013.
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Vehicle Tracking Using Kalman Filter and FeaturesSignal & Image Processing: An International Journal, 2011.
Services
Program Committees & Conference Reviewing
- ICRA (2026)
- IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV) (2025, 2026)
- USENIX VehicleSec (2025, 2026)
- AAAI (2025)
- BMVC (2025)
- ACM CCS (2024)
- IEEE/RSJ IROS (2023)
Journal Peer Review
- Verified reviews (Web of Science): 117
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Selected journals:
IEEE TIFS ;IEEE TIP ;IEEE TCSVT ;IEEE TMM ;IEEE T-ASE ;IEEE TVT ;IEEE SPL ;IEEE Intelligent Systems ;IEEE CG&A ;IEEE T-CE ;Digital Threats: Research and Practice ;IET Image Processing ;CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology ;Science China Technological Sciences ;Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing ;Sensors ;IEEE Access
Leadership & Event Service
- Department Chair, Computer Science, Sirjan University of Technology (Mar. 2020 – Dec. 2022)
- Director, International Academic Cooperation, Sirjan University of Technology (Jun. 2021 – Apr. 2022)
- Academic Chair, National Conference of Ideas and Innovation in Business and Information Technology (NCIBIT) (2019, 2021, 2022)
Professional Memberships
- IEEE (Graduate Student Member)
- IEEE Young Professionals
- ACM (Professional Member)
Contact
Email: asalarp@clemson.edu
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=PPyF4hEAAAAJ&hl=en
GitHub: https://github.com/asalarpour
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