☕️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
September 2026
Our poster A Kinematic Root of Trust for Laser-Linked Satellites: Authentication via Delta-v Bounds over Time was accepted at the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2026) Poster Track.
September 2026
Our paper On the Vulnerability of Lane Detectors to Physical Shadow Attack was accepted at the IEEE Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC 2026) in Los Angeles, California, USA.
August 2026
Our paper Perspective-Shift Attacks Against Optical Perception Sensors: A Novel Attack Vector on LiDAR and Camera won the Best Paper Award at USENIX VehicleSec 2026.
July 2026
I will serve on the technical program committee of DATE 2027.
July 2026
I am co-organizing AIRAS 2027. Please consider submitting your paper.
Selected Publications ⭐
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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
Best Paper Award
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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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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: 57
Journals: 10
Conferences: 45
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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Poster: A Kinematic Root of Trust for Laser-Linked Satellites: Authentication via Delta-v Bounds over Time.
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2026), Poster Track
, 2026.
Conference
CORE: A*
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PRISM-D: PRNU-based Runtime Image-Tampering Detection for Automotive Cameras.
4th EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Cyber-Physical Systems and Smart Vehicles (SmartSP 2026)
, 2026.
Conference
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FuzzSense: Towards a Modular Fuzzing Framework for Autonomous Driving Software.
4th EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Cyber-Physical Systems and Smart Vehicles (SmartSP 2026)
, 2026.
Conference
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On the Vulnerability of Lane Detectors to Physical Shadow Attack.
IEEE Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC 2026)
, 2026.
Conference
CORE: A
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