Bio

Mohammad Hamad is the "Security for IoT and Autonmous Systems" research group leader in the Associate Professorship of Embedded Systems and Internet of Things in the Department of Computer Engineering at Technical University of Munich (TUM). Mohammad received his Ph.D. in computer engineering (Dr.-Ing.) from the Institute for Data Technology and Communication Networks at TU Braunschweig in 2020. 

Open Positions for Students

If you are interested in my area of research and are looking for a bachelor's thesis (BT), master's thesis (MT), or research internship (FP), feel free to contact me.

Open positions 

Type	Topic
MT [External]	Secure Communication over the SpaceWire
MT [External]	LLM Agents in Penetration Testing
MT [External]	Security Test Scenario Framework for Automotive ECUs
MT	Security Language for Autonomous Driving Systems Testing
FP /MT [External]	Library-Level Access Control Using Hardware Assistance

 

Supervised Work

Master Thesis (MT), Bachelor Thesis (BT)

Student	Title	Type	Year
Ayser Ecem Konu	Consistency Analysis for Automotive Sensor Data	MT*	Ongoing
Maximilian Lüdecke	On the resilience of autonomous vehicles against adversarial retroreflective patch attacks	MT*	Ongoing
Manish Kadam	Comparative Analysis of AI-Driven Systems for Playbook Generation in Automated Incident Response	MT*	2024
Davide Alessi	Design and implementation of a Portable ECUs Emulation  System for the realisation of a hardware-based CTF Platform	MT	2024
Rami Daouas	Digital Twin  for Autonomous Vehicles	MT	2024
Marco Calipari	Formal Security Analysis Of Zero Touch Onboarding Protocols	MT	2024
Lorenz Teply	Double Seeding for search space reduction when manipulating multiple sensor inputs for ADS fuzzing	MT*	2024
Xinyi Huang	Cost-efficient secure boot and secure update design for embedded systems used on automotive applications	MT	2024
Jesser Bouzid	Evaluating the Resilience of Multi-Sensor Fusion Methods	MT*	2024
Jingyue Cheng	Cybersecurity Testing and Evaluation of Autonomous Driving Sensor	MT*	2024
Firas Hamila	Design of a Zero-Knowledge Protocol Without Interaction for IIoT Applications	MT	2023
Borna Blazevic	Providing a Trusted Execution Environment in a Virtualized seL4 Based System	MT	2023
Sherin Kalli Valappil	Avoidance of security misuse through IDPS capabilities for highly automated and connected vehicles	MT	2023
Eduardo Rodriguez Fernandez	System implementation and analysis of a container-based SSH-accessible virtualized operating system platform	MT*	2023
Souleima Abdelghani	Security Evaluation of Library-based Access Control Mechanism	MT	2023
Oliver Butowski	SDN-based Countermeasures Against Time Delay Attacks	MT*	2023
Mazen Mohamed	Automotive-Ethernet Security: Using Gateways to Split the Car's Ethernet Network into Security Zones	MT	2023
Anshu Mathur	Simulation-based attack data generation for connected and autonomous vehicles	MT*	2023
Felix Montnacher	Automated IDS ruleset analysis for open-source data extension	MT	2022
Michael Kühr	Analysis and Design of an Intrusion Response System for Autonomous Cars and the Internet of Vehicles	MT	2022
Thomas Wakim	Security Testbed for Time Synchronization in IoT Systems	MT*	2022
Milind Mathai	Derivation of a Formal Sensor and Attack Data Model for Autonomous Vehicles	MT*	2022
Wenxuan Ye	Data Management in Next Generation Mobile Communication System Based on Blockchain for Intelligent Services	MT	2022
Moez Ben Ayed	Analytical Study of Using Machine Learning for Intrusion Response System	BT	2022
Alexander Künzner	Evaluating the Use of MISP as a Shared Threat Intelligence Repository for IoV	BT	2021
Andreas Finkenzeller	SenGen - An Automotive Simulation Framework to Generate Realistic Sensor and Attack Data	MT*	2021
Hangmao Liu	Implementation and Evaluation of IBE for Securing MQTT Protocol	MT	2021

* co-supervision 

Teaching

Course Name	Role	Semester	Students Evaluation
IoT Security	Lecturer	Winter: 22/23, 21/22 Summer: 2021, 2024	WS22/23
Advanced Topics in IoT Security	Lecturer	Winter: 23/24 Summer: 2022	SS22
Software Architecture for Distributed Embedded Systems	Tutor	Winter: 20/21
Advanced Seminar Embedded Systems and Internet of Things	Supervisor	Summer: 2020, 2024 Winter: 20/21, 21/22

 

Academic Refereeing

• Conferences and Workshops 
  • [2024, Co-Organizer] First Workshop on Real-Time Autonomous Systems Security
  • [2024, PC memeber]:  Symposium on Vehicle Security and Privacy (VehicleSec 2024)
  • [2023, PC memeber]: The 29th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA 23)
  • [2022, PC memeber]: The 5th Workshop on Security and Dependability of Critical Embedded Real-Time Systems (CERTS 2022)
  • [2022, PC member]: DSD2022(Security and Privacy of Cyber-Physical Systems (SPCPS)
  • [2022, PC member]: The 27th Nordic Conference on Secure IT Systems (NordSec 2022)
  • [2022, PC member]: DATE Initiative on Autonomous Systems Design (ASD) 
  • [2021, PC member]: The Fifteenth International Conference on Emerging Security Information, Systems and Technologies (SECURWARE 2021)
  • [2021, PC member]: The 26th Nordic Conference on Secure IT Systems (NordSec 2021)
  • [2021, PC member]: DSD2021(Security and Privacy of Cyber-Physical Systems (SPCPS))
  • [2021, PC member]: DATE Initiative on Autonomous Systems Design (ASD)  
  • [2020, PC member]: DATE Initiative on Autonomous Systems Design (ASD)  
  • [2019, Auxiliary Reviewer]: International Conference on Vehicle Technology and Intelligent Transport Systems (VEHITS)
• Journals
  • ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS)
  • ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems (TCPS)
  • ACM Computing Surveys
  • IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (IEEE T-ITS) 
  • IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (IEEE TVT)
  • Journal of Information Security and Applications