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] | 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 | 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 |
Publications
Academic Refereeing
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- [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