Saman Zonouz
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I am an Associate Professor at Georgia Tech
School of Cybersecurity and Privacy (SCP) - Office: Coda S0921
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE)
Director, Cyber-Physical Systems Track in GTPE
I lead CPSec: Cyber-Physical Systems Security Lab.
We have open PostDoc positions and look for motivated Ph.D. students.
Recent PC memberships: IEEE S&P'24, USENIX Security'24, NDSS'2019-2024, CCS'2022-24, DSN'2020-24, DSN'23, ICCPS'22, ICCPS'20, IEEE S&P'20.
I have served on the Editorial Board of IEEE Transactions on Smart Grids.
I received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 2019.
I received the Outstanding Faculty Research Award, Georgia Tech in 2024.
I received NSF CAREER Award in Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). Project started in 2015.
We won the $65M Georgia Tech-led AI-Manufacturing project - announced by President Biden, 2022.
My Cybersecurity of Drones course received Georgia Tech's Teaching Award (Student Recognition of Excellence in Teaching), 2023.
Detailed CV including the publications
Recent work:
Compromising Industrial Processes using Web-Based Programmable Logic Controller Malware (NDSS 2024 - artifact evals: available, functional, reproduced)
GraphMP: Graph Neural Network-based Motion Planning with Efficient Graph Search (NeurIPS 2023)
CSTAR: Towards Compact and Structured Deep Neural Networks with Adversarial Robustness (AAAI 2023)
Hiding in Plain Sight? On the Efficacy of Power Side Channel-Based Control Flow Monitoring (USENIX Security 2022)
Hiding My Real Self! Protecting 3D Printer Intellectual Property Against Optical Side-Channel Attacks (NDSS 2022)
Reverse Engineering and Retrofitting Robotic Aerial Vehicle Control Firmware using DisPatch (MobySys 2022)
Robot Motion Planning as Video Prediction: A Spatio-Temporal Neural Network-based Motion Planner (IROS 2022)
CHIP: CHannel Independence-based Pruning for Compact Neural Networks (NeurIPS 2021)
A Trusted Safety Verifier for Process Controller Code (NDSS)
Hey, My Malware Knows Physics! Attacking PLCs with Physical Model Aware Rootkit (NDSS)
See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Feel No Evil, Print No Evil? Malicious Fill Patterns Detection in Additive Manufacturing (USENIX-Security)
I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science at UIUC in 2011 with Prof. William Sanders (currently Dean of Engineering, CMU), and B.Sc. in Computer Engineering from Sharif University of Technology in 2006.
My research interests are in cyber-physical systems security (currently supported by NSF, DOEnergy, DOEducation, ONR, DHS, ARPA-E, AFOSR, Siemens Research, Accenture Research, GrammaTech, Fortinet, Google, ETAP and WindRiver).
My group is looking at:
Cyber-Physical Security and Privacy
Embedded/IoT Intrusion Detection and Response
Trustworthy and Efficient Artificial Intelligence
I am looking for self-motivated students with strong systems security, formal methods, and control theory background.
Email: saman.zonouz@gatech.edu
Non-professional activities: I train for triathlons; have completed Escape-to-Miami 2013, ITU San Diego 2014, and Palm Spring HITS Triathlon 2015.
Currently, I train for and compete in USTA Tennis League (Singles) - qualified to Nationals Competition in Las Vegas 2018, and was ranked #1 in Atlanta's Ultimate Tennis League (139 players) in 2023.