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The 11th IEEE International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems Security (CPS-Sec 2026)
Workshop Program
Workshop Program
9 am - Opening Remarks
Workshop Co-chairs
9:10 AM - 10:00 AM — Session I: State of the Art CPS Security
9:10 AM - 9.35 AM
Systemization of Knowledge (SoK): A Unified Architectural Framework of Cyber Attacks on Autonomous Cyber-Physical AI Systems
Viet Khoi Nguyen (California Polytechnic State University, Pomona, USA); Kai Xue (California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, USA); Nathan Lee and Mohammad Iftekhar Husain (Cal Poly Pomona, USA)
9:35 AM - 10:00 AM
SPARTAN: A Systematic Review, Taxonomy, and Analysis of Autonomous Vehicle Security
Sohidul Haque Sahid and Hisham Kholidy (Northern Illinois University, USA); Nur Imtiazul Haque (Northern Illionois University, USA)
Organizers
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM — Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM — Keynote Address
When the Defender Is Also a Model: Autonomous Cyber Defense and Its Assurance Problem
When the Defender Is Also a Model: Autonomous Cyber Defense and Its Assurance Problem
Abstract
Cyber resilience needs two things it still largely lacks: metrics that quantify how much adversary effort a system actually absorbs, and defenses that can act at machine speed without a human in the loop. This keynote traces both through a decade of work on critical infrastructure. On measurement, I will cover attack-graph-based ranking of vulnerabilities, exploits, and privileges for countermeasure prioritization, automated learning of adversary tradecraft from malicious campaigns, and resilience metrics developed for energy delivery, offshore wind, and port systems. On autonomy, I will cover zero-trust defense against generative-AI-driven attacks in the power grid, trust-by-learning for 6G, neuro-symbolic explainable AI twins, and agentic AI for real-time attack detection in 5G O-RAN along with the assurance problems autonomy creates. I will close with results from the STRIVEN spectrum testbed, where these ideas were validated against live radar, and an agenda for the community.
Sachin Shetty is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Old Dominion University and Executive Director of the Center for Secure and Intelligent Critical Systems. He received his Ph.D. in Modeling and Simulation from Old Dominion University and was named a University Eminent Scholar in 2026. His research sits at the intersection of computer networking, network security, and machine learning, with a focus on cyber resilience and risk assessment for critical infrastructure, AI assurance, and 5G/6G and spectrum security. He has published over 300 peer-reviewed articles and five edited books, and has led more than $22 million in research funded by NSF, AFRL, ONR, DHS, DOE, and industry. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE.
11:30 AM - 12:20 PM — Session II: AI - Enabled Detection and Attack Response
11:30 AM - 11.55 AM
On Timing-Based Information Leakage in Data Flow-Driven Real-Time Cyber-Physical Systems
Mohammad Fakhruddin Babar and Monowar Hasan (Washington State University, USA)
11:55 AM - 12:20 PM
On-Device Response to Coordinated False-Data Injection in Water Distribution Systems
Afroza Nowshin (University of Toledo, USA); Samia Tasnim (The University of Toledo, USA)
12:20 PM - 1:30 PM — Lunch
1:30 PM - 2:10 PM — Featured Presentation
Topic: Cyber-Physical Systems Defence by Agility
Dr Mohammad Ashiqur Rahman
2:10 PM - 3:00 PM — Session III: Logic and Semantics for CPS Security
2:10 PM - 2.35 PM
A Dual-Layered Semantic Guardrail to Secure Agentic AI in Cyber-Physical Systems
Polra Victor Falade (Nigerian Defence Academy, Nigeria); Olamide Jogunola (Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
2:35 PM - 3:00 PM
Subjective Logic for Trustworthy Path Property Verification in Network Attestation
Engin Zeydan (CTTC, Spain); Abdullah Aydeger (Florida Institute of Technology, USA)
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM — Afternoon Coffee Break
3:30 PM - 4:20 PM — Session IV: CPS Security Metrics and Testbed
3:30 PM - 3:55 PM
BYOT-CPS: A Hybrid IoT/CPS Security Testbed for Experimentation and Platform Evaluation
Yan Lin Aung and Nelson Neba (University of Derby, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
3:55 PM - 4:20 PM
A Game-Theoretic Framework for Compatible Parameterization of Cybersecurity Metrics
Paulo Segal and Claudio Segal (UFF, Brazil); Carlos Eduardo Banjar, Heudson Mirandola and Lucas Motta (UFRJ, Brazil); Lucas G Miranda (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil); Miguel Bicudo (UFRJ, Brazil); Daniel Menasché (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil); Gaurav Kumar Srivastava (Siemens Corporate Research, USA); Priyanjan Sharma (Siemens, USA); Anton Kocheturov (Siemens Corporation Corporate Technology, USA); Raphael Machado (Inmetro and UFF, Brazil)
4:20 PM — Closing Remarks
Workshop Co-Chairs
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