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The Cyber-physical System Security Lab (CSS Lab) conducts research addressing a wide spectrum of security problems in the cyber-physical systems space. We seek to develop mechanisms to address security, trust, and resilience of representative computer applications designed for the Internet of Things, distributed embedded systems, automotive systems, and related network-connected critical infrastructure.

Ubiquitous Connection of CPSs and Infrastructure in the Internet of Vehicles

Automotive Security in Smart City Ecosystem

Lab News

  • March 2024: Congratulations to my Ph.D. student, Afia Anjum, for being invited as a speaker at the NDNComm’24.
  • March 2024: Congratulations to my Ph.D. students Afia Anjum, Paul Agbjabe, and Arkajyoti Mitra for receiving the Travel Grant Award to attend The Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) 2024.
  • February 2024: Congratulations to my Ph.D. student, Afia Anjum, for winning the best Ph.D. Lightning Talk award at the Student Computing Research Festival (SCRF).
  • February 2024: Our lab conducted a successful workshop on “Adversarial attacks and the Robustness of Object Detection Algorithms for Autonomous Vehicles” at OurCS@DFW.
  • February 2024: Our article titled “Towards named data networking technology: Emerging applications, use cases, and challenges for secure data communication” got published in the Future Generation Computer Systems journal.
  • November 2023: Congratulations to my Ph.D. students Afia Anjum, Paul Agbaje, and Arkajyoti Mitra on successfully completing the Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam!
  • September 2023: Congratulations to two of my students, Paul Agbaje and Arkajyoti Mitra, for being awarded ‘2023 Tapia Registration Scholarship’ to attend ACM Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference.
  • July 2023: Our paper titled “Deep Reinforcement Learning for Energy-Efficient Task Offloading in Cooperative Vehicular Edge Networks” got published in the proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN).
  • July 2023: Our paper titled “FedCime: An Efficient Federated Learning Approach For Clients in Mobile Edge Computing” got published in the proceedings of the IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium.
  • May 2023: Congratulations to two of my students, Afia Anjum and Paul Agbaje, for receiving Travel Grant Award to attend 2023 Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet-of-Things Week (CPS-IoT Week).
  • March 2023: Our paper titled “Work-in-Progress: Deadline-Aware Named Data Networking for Time-Sensitive IoT Applications” got accepted in the 29th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium.
  • February 2023: Congratulations to my Ph.D. student, Afia Anjum, for securing the 2nd runner-up position at the Ph.D. Lightning Talk competition at the Student Computing Research Festival (SCRF).
  • February 2023: Our lab conducted a workshop titled “VehicleSec” at OurCS@DFW.
  • January 2023: Our paper titled “Towards Mitigating Blackhole Attack in NDN-Enabled IoT” got published in the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE).
  • August 2022: Our journal article titled “Survey of Interoperability Challenges in the Internet of Vehicles” got published in the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.
  • April 2022: We won the best paper award at AutoSec 2022 for our paper “A Framework for Consistent and Repeatable Controller Area Network IDS Evaluation”.
  • April 2022: Congratulations to one of my PhD students, Afia Anjum, for receiving Travel Grant Award , which provides financial support to qualified doctoral students to attend the 43rd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy.
  • April 2022: Our poster titled “Mitigating Blackhole Attack in NDNoT” got accepted in the 43rd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy.
  • March 2022: Our paper titled “In-Vehicle Network Anomaly Detection Using Extreme Gradient Boosting Machine” got accepted in the 10th International Conference on  Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSIoT’2022).
  • February 2022: Congratulations to my students for winning best Ph.D Lightning Talk Award at Student Computing Research Festival (SCRF): Afia Anjum (Runners-up), Paul Agbaje (Honorable Mentions).
  • February 2022: Our workshop at OurCS@DFW was successful and the team got Honorable Mentions.
  • February 2022: Our paper titled “A Framework for Consistent and Repeatable Controller Area Network IDS Evaluation” got accepted in the 4th International Workshop on Automotive and Autonomous Vehicle Security (AutoSec 2022).
  • I am seeking outstanding and highly motivated students to join our research group. Please check the Prospective Students section if interested.
  • June 2020: CSS Lab website is live!
  • TPC, CPSIoTSec2020, Nov. 9 2020, Orlando, USA
  • May 2020:  CPSIoTSec2020 website and call for papers go live!