March 3rd, 3pm, ICS1 Room 428
Join us for a talk from Professor Al Faruque (EECS Department and Embedded & Cyber-Physical Systems Lab at UCI) about the current state of cyber-physical systems security and both research developments and challenges in the field. The talk is open to all, including newbies in cybersecurity and researchers in the field. Snacks and refreshments will be provided! See below for more detailed information about the talk and speaker.
Title: Cross-Layer Security of Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems
Abstract: Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are engineered systems that are built from, and depend upon, the seamless integration of computation and physical components [NSF]. Embedded systems comprising of hardware and software systems are the major enabling technology for these cyber-physical systems. Today, CPSs can be found in security-sensitive areas such as aerospace, automotive, energy, healthcare, manufacturing transportation, entertainment, and consumer appliances. Compared to the traditional information processing systems, due to the tight interactions between cyber and physical components in CPSs and closed-loop control from sensing to actuation, new vulnerabilities are emerging from the boundaries between various layers and domains. In this seminar, Prof. Al Faruque will discuss how new vulnerabilities are emerging at the intersection of various components and subsystems and their various hardware, software, and physical layers. Several recent examples from various cyber-physical systems will be presented in this talk. To understand these new vulnerabilities a very different set of methodologies and tools are needed. Defenses against these vulnerabilities demand also new hardware/software co-design approaches. The talk will highlight recent developments in this regard. The major goal of this talk will be to highlight various research challenges and the need for novel scientific solutions from the larger research community.
Bio: Mohammad Al Faruque is currently with the University of California Irvine (UCI), where he is a full professor and directs the Cyber-Physical Systems Lab. He has been nominated as the IEEE CEDA Distinguished Lecturer for 2022-2023. Prof. Al Faruque is the recipient of the School of Engineering Mid-Career Faculty Award for Research 2019, the IEEE Technical Committee on Cyber-Physical Systems Early-Career Award 2018, and the IEEE CEDA Ernest S. Kuh Early Career Award 2016. He also received the UCI Academic Senate Distinguished Early-Career Faculty Award for Research 2017, the School of Engineering Early-Career Faculty Award for Research 2017, the EECS Professor of the year 2015-16 Award, and the 2015 UCI Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Fostering Undergraduate Research. He served as an Emulex Career Development Chair from October 2012 till July 2015. Before, he was with Siemens Corporate Research and Technology in Princeton, NJ.
His current research is focused on the system-level design of Internet-of-Things (IoT), Embedded Systems, and Cyber-Physical-Systems (CPS) with special interests in design automation methodologies, data-driven modeling techniques, including machine learning for design, CPS security, etc. His work involves novel hardware and software design for various CPS application areas, including mobile health (mHealth), Industry 4.0 (manufacturing), smart-grid, and autonomous vehicles.
Prof. Al Faruque received 4 best paper awards (ACSAC 2022, DATE 2016, DAC 2015, and ICCAD 2009), 5 additional best paper award nominations, several paper/poster awards, and the Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award 2016 from the Edison Foundation for his research and innovations. Besides 150+ IEEE/ACM publications in the premier journals and conferences, Prof. Al Faruque holds 11 US patents. Prof. Al Faruque has published 2 books in the area of Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems.
Prof. Al Faruque served as the Program Co-Chair in the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems in 2021 (ICCPS’21), the General Co-Chair for the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems 2022 (ICCPS’22), and the Program Chair of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis (CODES+ISSS’22, and CODES+ISSS’23).