EE515/IS523: Security of Emerging Systems


Calendar

Lecture: MW 2:30–3:45 PM, N1 113. Reading papers (R1/R2) are assigned per session; the presenter is announced later (TBD). Dates and topics are subject to change — check this page regularly.

Date Topic Reading (R1 / R2) Presenter
Aug 31 (Mon)IntroductionInstructor
Sep 02 (Wed)IntroductionInstructor
Sep 07 (Mon)Basic CryptographyInstructor
Sep 09 (Wed)Basic CryptographyInstructor
Sep 14 (Mon)Vulns in New TechsInstructor
Sep 16 (Wed)Vulns in New TechsInstructor
Sep 21 (Mon)SER1 Security Analysis of the Diebold AccuVote-TS Voting Machine
R2 Comprehensive Experimental Analyses of Automotive Attack Surfaces
Instructor
Sep 23 (Wed)Medical DeviceR1 Pacemakers and Implantable Cardiac Defibrillators: Software Radio Attacks and Zero-Power Defenses
R2 Ghost Talk: Mitigating EMI Signal Injection Attacks against Analog Sensors
Instructor
Sep 28 (Mon)Special TopicHow to write top-tier security conference papers?Instructor
Sep 30 (Wed)Pre-proposal meeting with TAsTBD
Oct 05 (Mon)National Foundation Day (holiday)
Oct 07 (Wed)Cellular (1)Instructor intro
R1R2 Touching the Untouchables: Dynamic Security Analysis of the LTE Control Plane
Instructor
Oct 12 (Mon)Cellular (2)LTESniffer: An Open-source LTE Downlink/Uplink Eavesdropper
LLFuzz - An Over-the-Air Dynamic Testing Framework for Cellular Baseband Lower Layers
TBD
Oct 14 (Wed)Cellular (3)R1 Hiding in Plain Signal: Physical Signal Overshadowing Attack on LTE
R2 Enabling Physical Localization of Uncooperative Cellular Devices
TBD
Oct 19 (Mon)Midterm exam period
Oct 21 (Wed)Midterm exam period
Oct 26 (Mon)Cellular (4)DoLTEst: In-depth Downlink Negative Testing Framework for LTE DevicesTBD
Oct 28 (Wed)Cellular (5)R1 Stateful Analysis and Fuzzing of Commercial Baseband Firmware
R2 Devilray: A Systematic Adversarial Model Revealing Blind Spots in Fake Base Station Detection
TBD
Nov 02 (Mon)Automated Driving System (1)Instructor intro
Illusion and Dazzle: Adversarial Optical Channel Exploits against Lidars for Automotive Applications.
Instructor
Nov 04 (Wed)Automated Driving System (2)R1 Too good to be safe: Tricking lane detection in autonomous driving with crafted perturbations
R2 Too afraid to drive: systematic discovery of semantic dos vulnerability in autonomous driving planning under physical-world attacks
TBD
Nov 09 (Mon)Drone (1)Instructor intro
Rocking Drones with Intentional Sound Noise on Gyroscopic Sensors
Instructor
Nov 11 (Wed)Drone (2)R1 Paralyzing Drones via EMI Signal Injection on Sensory Communication Channels
R2 Drone Security and the Mysterious Case of DJI's DroneID
TBD
Nov 16 (Mon)Drone (3)R1 Tractor beam: Safe-hijacking of consumer drones with adaptive GPS spoofing
R2 RVFuzzer: Finding Input Validation Bugs in Robotic Vehicles through Control-Guided Testing
TBD
Nov 18 (Wed)LLM-based Testing (1)R1 Fuzz4All: Universal Fuzzing with Large Language Models
R2 Large Language Model Guided Protocol Fuzzing (ChatAFL)
TBD
Nov 23 (Mon)LLM-based Testing (2)R1 ProtocolGuard: Detecting Protocol Non-compliance Bugs via LLM-guided Static Analysis and Dynamic Verification
R2 FirmAgent: Leveraging Fuzzing to Assist LLM Agents with IoT Firmware Vulnerability Discovery
TBD
Nov 25 (Wed)LLM JailbreakingR1 Don't Listen To Me: Understanding and Exploring Jailbreak Prompts of Large Language Models
R2 Great, Now Write an Article About That: The Crescendo Multi-Turn LLM Jailbreak Attack
TBD
Nov 30 (Mon)Machine LearningR1 Stealing machine learning models via prediction APIs
R2 Knowledge Distillation Detection for Open-weights Models
TBD
Dec 02 (Wed)SatelliteR1 Space Odyssey: An Experimental Software Security Analysis of Satellites
R2 Record: A Reception-Only Region Determination Attack on LEO Satellite Users
TBD
Dec 07 (Mon)VR/ARR1 On the Feasibility of Side-Channel Attacks with Brain-Computer Interfaces
R2 It’s all in your head (set): Side-channel attacks on ar/vr systems
TBD
Dec 09 (Wed)LLM: Online Information ManipulationR1 Cross-National Information Attacks: A Two-Decade Analysis of Troll Behavior in Korea
R2 XDAC: XAI-Driven Detection and Attribution of LLM-Generated News Comments in Korean
TBD
Dec 14 (Mon)Final exam period
Dec 16 (Wed)Final exam period

Project milestones

  • Pre-proposal: 9/27/2026  ·  Full Proposal: 10/11/2026  ·  Midterm Report: 11/8/2026  ·  Final Report: 12/16/2026