☕️Dr.-Ing. Mohammad Hamad
(he/him)
Group Leader - Security for IoT and Autonomous Systems
I am Mohammad Hamad. I am leading the research group Security for IoT and Autonomous Systems in the Associate Professorship of Embedded Systems and Internet of Things in the Department of Computer Engineering at the Technical University of Munich (TUM).
Before joining TUM, I worked as a research staff member at the Embedded Computer Security group at the Institute of Computer and Network Engineering at TU Braunschweig, Germany, where I finished my PhD.
My research interests are IoT Security, CPS Security and Autonomous Systems Security
My research interests are IoT Security, CPS Security and Autonomous Systems Security
Recent News
July 2026
I will serve on the technical program committee of DATE 2027.
July 2026
I am organizing AIRAS 2027. Please consider submitting your paper.
June 2026
Our paper SoK: Security of the Image Processing Pipeline for Camera-based Sensing in Autonomous Vehicles received the Distinguished Paper Award (Main Conference) at ASIACCS 2026 in Bangalore, India.
June 2026
Two papers were accepted at the 4th EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Cyber-Physical Systems and Smart Vehicles (EAI SmartSP 2026).
May 2026
Our paper Perspective-Shift Attacks Against Optical Perception Sensors: A Novel Attack Vector on LiDAR and Camera was accepted at USENIX VehicleSec 2026.
Selected Publications ⭐
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SoK: Security of the Image Processing Pipeline for Camera-based Sensing in Autonomous Vehicles.
ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIA CCS '26)
, 2026.
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Enhancing Security Through Task Migration in Software-Defined Vehicles.
IEEE Internet of Things Journal
, 2025.
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REACT: Autonomous intrusion response system for intelligent vehicles.
Computers & Security
, 2024.
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PTPsec: Securing the Precision Time Protocol Against Time Delay Attacks Using Cyclic Path Asymmetry Analysis.
IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM 2024)
, 2024.
Conference
CORE: A*
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SEEMQTT: Secure End-to-End MQTT-Based Communication for Mobile IoT Systems Using Secret Sharing and Trust Delegation.
IEEE Internet of Things Journal
, 2022.
Recent Publications
Total: 53
Journals: 10
Conferences: 41
Book Chapters: 2
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Contextualizing Security and Privacy of Software-Defined Vehicles: A Literature Review and Industry Perspectives.
ACM Computing Surveys
, 2026.
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Safeguarding Artificial Intelligence in Autonomous Vehicles: Industry Perspectives and Research Challenges.
2026 ACM/IEEE 17th International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS)
, 2026.
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Perspective-Shift Attacks Against Optical Perception Sensors: A Novel Attack Vector on LiDAR and Camera.
4th USENIX Symposium on Vehicle Security and Privacy (VehicleSec '26)
, 2026.
Conference
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SoK: Security of the Image Processing Pipeline for Camera-based Sensing in Autonomous Vehicles.
ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIA CCS '26)
, 2026.
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CIAK-CP: Camera feed Injection Attack in Collaborative Perception.
The 41st ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC2026)
, 2026.
Conference
DOI
Education
Habilitation
Technical University of Munich - Germany
Thesis: Enhancing Security and Resilience in Autonomous Cyber-Physical Systems
PhD Computer Science
Technical University of Braunschweig - Germany
Thesis: A Multilayer Secure Framework for Vehicular Systems