Patents
Hybrid Unsupervised Machine Learning Framework for Industrial Control System Intrusion Detection
Jiaxing Pi, Dong Wei, Leandro Pfleger de Aguiar, Honggang Wang, Saman Zonouz
United States Patent and Trademark Office Reference: 17/259,010
Safety-Aware Route Recommendation System and Method
Dario Pompili, Vidyasagar Sadhu, Saman Zonouz
United States Patent and Trademark Office Reference: 17/517,307 (pending)
Method for Verifying Integrity of an Additive Manufacturing Process
Saman Zonouz, Mehdi Javanmard, Luis Garcia, Tuan Le
United States Patent and Trademark Office Reference: 62/615,669 (pending)
Value-Based Information Flow Tracking in Software Packages
Gabriel Salles-Loustau, Saman Zonouz, Mani Srivastava, Moustafa Alzantot
United States Patent and Trademark Office Reference: 16/650,369
Cloud-Based Biometric Identification System with Minimal Data Disclosure
Mohammad Haghighat, Mohammad Abdel-Mottaleh, Saman Zonouz
United States Patent and Trademark Office Reference: 32286/50704 (pending)
Security Management on a Mobile Device
Kaustubh Joshi (based on our collaborative IEEE DSN 2016 research paper)
US 20150150085 A1
Journals and Magazines
Toward Resilient Modern Power Systems: From Single-Domain to Cross-Domain Resilience Enhancement
Hao Huang, H Vincent Poor, Katherine R Davis, Thomas J Overbye, Astrid Layton, Ana E Goulart, Saman Zonouz
Proceedings of the IEEE, 2024
Dissecting the Industrial Control Systems Software Supply Chain
Constantine Doumanidis, Yongyu Xie, Prashant Rajput, Ryan Pickren, Burak Sahin, Saman Zonouz,
Michail Maniatakos
IEEE Security & Privacy, 2023
Design of Next-Generation Cyber-Physical Energy Management Systems: Monitoring to Mitigation
Abhijeet Sahu, Katherine Davis, Hao Huang, Amarachi Umunnakwe, Saman Zonouz, Ana Goulart
IEEE Open Access Journal of Power and Energy, 2023
Cyberattack Defense with Cyber-Physical Alert and Control Logic in Industrial Controllers
Hao Huang, Patrick Wlazlo, Zeyu Mao, Abhijeet Sahu, Katherine Davis, Ana Goulart, Saman Zonouz,
Matthew Davis
IEEE Industry Applications Magazine, 2022
Multi-Source Multi-Domain Data Fusion for Cyberattack Detection in Power Systems
Abijeet Sahu, Zeyu Maoi, Patrick Wlazo, Hao Huangi, Kate Davis, Ana Goulart, Saman Zonouz
IEEE Access, 2021
Generalized Contingency Analysis Based on Graph Theory and Line Outage Distribution Factor
Mohammad Rasoul Narimani, Hao Huang, Amarachi Umunnakwe, Zeyu Mao, Abhijeet Sahu, Saman
Zonouz, and Kate Davis
IEEE Systems Journal, 2021
Design and Evaluation of a Cyber-Physical Testbed for Improving Attack Resilience of Power Systems
Abhijeet Sahu, Patrick Wlazlo, Zeyu Mao, Hao Huang, Ana Goulart, Katherine Davis, Saman Zonouz
IET Cyber-Physical Systems: Theory & Applications, 2021
Man-in-The-Middle Attacks and Defense in a Power System Cyber-Physical Testbed
Patrick Wlazlo, Abhijeet Sahu, Zeyu Mao, Hao Huang, Ana Goulart, Katherine Davis, Saman Zonouz
IET Cyber-Physical Systems: Theory & Applications, 2021 (Top Downloaded Article Award)
A Strategy for Distributed Controller Defense: Leveraging Controller Roles and Control Support Groups to Maintain or Regain Control in Cyber-Adversarial Power Systems
Shamina Hossain-McKenzie, Kaushik Raghunath, Kate Davis, Sriharsha Etigowni, Saman Zonouz
IET Cyber-Physical Systems: Theory & Applications, 2021
Don’t just BYOD, Bring-Your-Own-App Too! Protection via Virtual Micro Security Perimeter
Gabriel Salles-Loustau, Vidyasagar Sadhu, Kaustubh Joshi, Dario Pompili, Saman Zonouz
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), 2020
SDCD: A Strategy for Distributed Controller Defense in Cyber-Adversarial Power Systems
Shamina Hossain-McKenzie, Sriharsha Etigowni, Kaushik Raghunath, Saman Zonouz, Kate Davis
IET Cyber-Physical Systems: Theory & Applications, 2020
CollabLoc: Privacy-preserving Multi-modal Collaborative Mobile Phone Localization
Vidyasagar Sadhu, Saman Zonouz, Dario Pompili, Vicent Sritapan
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2019
Measuring and Enhancing Microgrid Resiliency Against Cyber Threats
Venkatesh Venkataramanan, Anurag K. Srivastava, Adam Hahn, Saman Zonouz
IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, 2019
A Survey of Side Channel Based Code Execution Monitoring Systems
Yi Han, Ioannis Christoudis, Konstantinos Diamantaras, Saman Zonouz, Athina Petropulu
IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 2018
Cytocoded Passwords: BioMEMS Based Barcoding of Biological Samples for User Authentication in Microfluidic Diagnostic Devices
Tuan Le, Gabriel Salles-Loustau, Mehdi Javanmard, Laleh Najafizadeh, Saman Zonouz
Biomedical Microdevices, 2018
Trusted Sensor Signal Protection for Confidential Point-of-Care Medical Diagnostic
Gabriel Salles-Loustau, Tuan Le, Laleh Najafizadeh, Mehdi Javanmard, Saman Zonouz
IEEE Sensors, 2017
Cyber-Physical Resilience: Definition and Assessment Metric
Andrew Clark, Saman Zonouz
IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid (TSG), 2017
Analytic Corrective Control Selection for Fast, Automated Remedial Action Schemes
Shamina Hossain-McKenzie, Maryam Kazerooni, Sriharsha Etigowni, Kate Rogers, Saman Zonouz
IET Cyber-Physical Systems: Theory & Applications, 2017
RESeED: Regular Expression Search over Encrypted Data in the Cloud
Mohsen Amini, Thomas Caldwell, Alejandro Fernandez, Emmanuel Michiewicz, Eric Rozier, Saman
Zonouz, David Redberg
Software: Practice and Experience, 2017
How to Hide a Hook: A Hypervisor for Rootkits
Mingbo Zhang, Saman Zonouz
Phrack Magazine, Volume 15, Issue 66, 2016
Cyber-Physical Security Assessment for Electric Power Systems
Katherine R. Davis, Robin Berthier, Saman Zonouz, Gabe Weaver, Rakesh B. Bobba, Edmond Rogers,
Peter W. Sauer, and David M. Nicol
IEEE Bridge Magazine, 2016
Empirical Development of a Trusted Sensing Base for Power System Infrastructures
Ali Mazloomzadeh, Osama Mohammed, Saman Zonouz
IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 2015
CPINDEX: Cyber-Physical Vulnerability Assessment for Power-Grid Infrastructures
Ceeman Vellaithurai, Anurag Srivastava, Saman Zonouz, Robin Berthier
IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 2015
A Cyber-Physical Modeling and Assessment Framework for Power Grid Infrastructures
Kate Davis, Charles Davis, Saman Zonouz, Rakesh Bobba, Robin Berthier, Luis Garcia, Peter Sauer,
William Sanders
IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 2015
CloudID: Trustworthy Cloud-based and Cross-Enterprise Biometric Identification
Mohammad Haghighat, Saman Zonouz, Mohammed Abdel-Mottaleb
Elsevier Expert Systems with Applications, 2015 (selected for Special Issue of Selected Biometrics research papers in Elsevier journals)
Automated PLC Code Analytics for Detection of Industrial Control Malware
Saman Zonouz, Julian Rrushi, Stephen McLaughlin
IEEE Security and Privacy, 2014
An Analysis of DoS Attack Strategies Against the LTE RAN
Jill Jermyn, Gabriel Salles-Lousta, Saman Zonouz
Journal of Cyber Security, 2014
SOCCA: A Security-Oriented Cyber-Physical Contingency Analysis in Power Infrastructures
Saman Zonouz, Matt Davis, Kate Rogers, Rakesh Bobba, Robin Berthier, Peter Sauer, William H. Sanders
IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 2014
Selected as Significant Research in Cyber Security, National Security Agency (NSA) Science of Security Virtual Organization SOS-VO
RRE: A Game-Theoretic Intrusion Response and Recovery Engine
Saman Zonouz, Himanshu Khurana, William Sanders, Timothy Yardley
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2014
Seclius: An Information Flow-based Consequence-Centric Security Metric
Saman Zonouz, Robin Berthier, Himanshu Khurana, William H. Sanders, Tim Yardley
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2013
Cyber-Physical Security Metric Elicitation in Smart Grid Critical Infrastructures Based on System Administrators’ Responsive Behavior
Saman Zonouz, Parisa Haghani
Elsevier Computers and Security, 2013
SCPSE: Security-Oriented Cyber-Physical State Estimation for Power Grid Critical Infrastructures
Saman Zonouz, Katherine M. Rogers, Robin Berthier, Rakesh Bobba, William H. Sanders, and Thomas
J. Overbye
IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 2012
A Multi-Sensor Energy Theft Detection Framework for Advanced Metering Infrastructures
Stephen McLaughlin, Brett Holbert, Saman Zonouz, Robin Berthier
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas on Communications, 2012
Secloud: A Cloud-based On-Demand Security Solution for Resource-limited Mobile Phone Devices
Saman Zonouz, Amir Houmansadr, Robin Berthier
Elsevier Computers and Security, 2012
Approximate Core Allocation for Large Cooperative Security Games
Saman Zonouz and Parisa Haghani
ISRN Communication and Networking, 2012
Conferences
ERACAN: Defending Against an Emerging CAN Threat Model
Zhaozhou Tang, Khaled Serag, Saman Zonouz, Z. Berkay Celik, Dongyan Xu, Raheem Beyah
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2024
Distinguished Paper Award
Release the Hounds! Automatic Inference and Empirical Security Evaluation of Field-Deployed PLCs using Active Network Data
Ryan Pickren, Animesh Chhotaray, Frank Li, Saman Zonouz, Raheem Beyah
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2024
Virtual Keymysteries Unveiled: Detecting Keystrokes in VR with External Side-Channels
Hossein Khalili, Alexander Chen, Theodoros Papaiakovou, Timothy Jacques, Hao-Jen Chien, Changwei Liu, Aolin Ding, Amin Hass, Saman Zonouz, Nader Sehatbakhsh
2024 IEEE Security and Privacy Workshops
Control Corruption without Firmware Infection: Stealthy Supply Chain Attacks via PLC Hardware Implants (MalTag)
Mingbo Zhang, Saman Zonouz
ACM/IEEE 15th International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS), 2024
Compromising Industrial Processes using Web-Based Programmable Logic Controller Malware
Ryan Pickren, Tohid Shekari, Saman Zonouz, Raheem Beyah
Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2024
GraphMP: Graph Neural Network-based Motion Planning with Efficient Graph Search
Xiao Zang, Miao Yin, Jinqi Xiao, Saman Zonouz, Bo Yuan
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2023
Get Your Cyber-Physical Tests Done! Data-Driven Vulnerability Assessment of Robotic Vehicles
Aolin Ding, Matthew Chan, Amin Hassanzadeh, Nils Ole Tippenhauer, Shiqing Ma, Saman Zonouz
53rd Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 2023
Resource-aware DNN Partitioning for Privacy-sensitive Edge-Cloud Applications
Aolin Ding, Amin Hass, Matthew Chan, Nader Sehatbakhsh, Saman Zonouz
International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP), 2023
CSTAR: Towards Compact and Structured Deep Neural Networks with Adversarial Robustness
Van Nhat Huy Phan, Miao Yin, Yang Sui, Saman Zonouz, Bo Yuan
Thirty-Seventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligencehttps (AAAI), 2023
Hiding in Plain Sight? On the Efficacy of Power Side Channel-Based Control Flow Monitoring
Yi Han, Matthew Chan, Nils Ole Tippenhauer, Saman Zonouz
USENIX Security, 2022
Hiding My Real Self! Protecting 3D Printer Intellectual Property Against Optical Side-Channel Attacks
Sizhuang Liang, Raheem Beyah, Saman Zonouz
Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2022
Robot Motion Planning as Video Prediction: A Spatio-Temporal Neural Network-based Motion Planner
Xiao Zang, Miao Yin, Lingyi Huang, Jingjin Yu, Saman Zonouz, Bo Yuan
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2022
Reverse Engineering and Retrofitting Robotic Aerial Vehicle Control Firmware using DisPatch
Taegyu Kim, Aolin Ding, Sriharsha Etigowni, Pengfei Sun, Jizhou Chen, Luis Garcia, Saman Zonouz,
Dongyan Xu, and Dave Tian
20th ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys), 2022
Fed2KD: Heterogeneous Federated Learning for Pandemic Risk Assessment via Two-Way Knowledge Distillation
Chuanneng Sun, Tingcong Jiang, Saman Zonouz, Dario Pompili
17th IFIP/IEEE Wireless On-demand Network systems and Services Conference (WONS), 2022
OpenConduit: A Tool for Recreating Power System Communication Networks Automatically
Amarachi Umunnakwe, Patrick Wlazlo, Abhijeet Sahu, Julian Velasquez, Katherine Davis, Ana E Goulart, Saman Zonouz
IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for Smart
Grids (SmartGridComm), 2022
Guide-Guard: Off-Target Predicting in CRISPR Applications
Joseph Bingham, Netanel Arussy, Saman Zonouz
23rd International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning (IDEAL), 2022
LegoNet: Memory Footprint Reduction Through Block Weight Clustering
Joseph Bingham, Noah Green, Saman Zonouz
The 20th IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic & Secure Computing (DASC), 2022
CHIP: CHannel Independence-based Pruning for Compact Neural Networks
Yang Sui, Yi Xie, Miao Yin, Huy Phan, Saman Zonouz, Bo Yuan
Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2021
Physics-Aware Security Monitoring against Structural Integrity Attacks in 3D Printers
Sriharsha Etigowni, Sizhuang Liang, Saman Zonouz, Raheem Beyah
IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 2021
A Practical Side-channel Based Intrusion Detection System for Additive Manufacturing Systems
Sizhuang Liang, Xirui Peng, H. Jerry Qi, Saman Zonouz, Raheem Beyah
41st IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2021
Physical Logic Bombs in 3D Printers via Emerging 4D Techniques
Tuan Le, Sriharsha Etigowni, Sizhuang Liang, Xirui Peng, Jerry Qi, Mehdi Javanmard, Saman Zonouz,
Raheem Beyah
Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), 2021
Mini-Me, You Complete Me! Fine-grained Drone Security via DNN-based Approximate Computing
Aolin Ding, Praveen Murthy, Luis Garcia, Pengfei Sun, Matthew Chan, Saman Zonouz
International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID), 2021
Control Behavior Integrity for Distributed Cyber-Physical Systems
Sridhar Adepu, Ferdinand Brasser, Luis Garcia, Michael Rodler, Lucas Davi, Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi,
Saman Zonouz
ACM/IEEE 11th International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS), 2020
Hybrid Firmware Analysis for Known Mobile and IoT Security Vulnerabilities
Pengfei Sun, Luis Garcia, Gabriel Salles-Loustau, Saman Zonouz
IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 2020
On-board Deep-learning-based Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Fault Cause Detection and Identification
Vidyasagar Sadhu, Saman Zonouz, Dario Pompili
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2020
Tell Me More Than Just Assembly! Reversing Cyber-physical Execution Semantics of Embedded IoT Controller Software Binaries
Pengfei Sun, Luis Garcia, Saman Zonouz
IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 2019
PAtt: Physics-based Attestation of Control Systems, International Symposium on Research in Attacks
Hamid Reza Ghaeini, Matthew Chan, Raad Bahmani, Ferdinand Brasser, Luis Garcia, Jianying Zhou,
Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, Nils Ole Tippenhauer, Saman Zonouz
Intrusions and Defenses (RAID), 2019
HCFContext: Smartphone Context Inference via Sequential History-based Collaborative Filtering
Vidyasagar Sadhu, Saman Zonouz, Dario Pompili, Vincent Sritapan
IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom), 2019
SCORE: A Security-Oriented Cyber-Physical Optimal Response Engine
Abhijeet Sahu, Hao Huang, Saman Zonouz, Kate Davis
IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm), 2019
A Cyber Topology Model for the Texas 2000 Synthetic Electric Power Grid
Patrick Wlazlo, Kevin Price, Christian Veloz, Abhijeet Sahu, Hao Huang, Ana E Goulart, Kate Davis,
Saman Zonouz
Principles, Systems and Applications of IP Telecommunications (IPTComm), 2019
Fast Generation Redispatch Techniques for Automated Remedial Action Schemes
Hao Huang, Maryam Kazerooni, Shamina Hossain-McKenzie, Sriharsha Etigowni, Saman Zonouz, Kather ine Davis
Intelligent System Applications to Power Systems (ISAP), 2019
A Framework for Cyber-Physical Model Creation and Evaluation
Abhijeet Sahu, Hao Huang, Saman Zonouz, Katherine Davis
Intelligent System Applications to Power Systems (ISAP), 2019
Algorithmic Attack Synthesis using Hybrid Dynamics of Power Grid Critical Infrastructures
Zhenqi Huang, Sriharsha Etigowni, Sayan Mitra, Saman Zonouz
IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 2018
Crystal (ball): I Look at Physics and Predict Control Flow! Just-Ahead-Of-Time Controller Recovery
Sriharsha Etigowni, Shamina Hossain, Maryam Kazerooni, Kate Davis, Saman Zonouz
Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), 2018
Dynamic Memory Protection via Intel SGX-Supported Heap Allocation
Mingbo Zhang, Luis Garcia, Pengfei Sun, Saman Zonouz
16th IEEE Intl Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing (DASC), 2018
A Mitigation for Kernel TOCTOU Vulnerabilities
Mingbo Zhang, Saman Zonouz
BlueHat Conference, 2018
Use-After-Free Mitigation via Protected Heap Allocation
Mingbo Zhang, Saman Zonouz
IEEE Conference on Dependable and Secure Computing (DSC), 2018
A Framework of Smart and Secure Power Electronics Driven HVAC Thermal Inertia in Distributed Power Systems
Yue Cao, Katherine Davis, Saman Zonouz
IEEE Green Technologies Conference (GreenTech), 2018
Watch Me, but Don’t Touch Me! Contactless Control Flow Monitoring via Electromagnetic Emanations
Yi Han, Sriharsha Etigowni, Hua Liu, Saman Zonouz, Athina Petropulu
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2017
See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Feel No Evil, Print No EvilMalicious Fill Patterns Detection in Additive
Manufacturing
Christian Bayens, Tuan Le, Luis Garcia, Raheem Beyah, and Mehdi Javanmard, Saman Zonouz
The 26th Security Symposium (USENIX Security), 2017
Hey, My Malware Knows Physics! Attacking PLCs with Physical Model Aware Rootkit
Luis Garcia, Ferdinand Brasser, Mehmet H. Cintuglu, Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, Osama Mohammed, Saman Zonouz
Networks and Distributed Systems Symposium (NDSS), 2017
CollabLoc: Privacy-Preserving Multi-Modal Localization via Collaborative Information Fusion
Vidyasagar Sadhu, Dario Pompili, Saman Zonouz, Vincent Sritapan
26th International Conference on Computer Communication and Networks (ICCCN), 2017
Compromising Security of Economic Dispatch in Power System Operations
Devendra Shellar, Pengfei Sun, Saurabh Amin, Saman Zonouz
IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 2017
Cyber-Air-Gapped Detection of Controller Attacks through Physical Interdependencies
Sriharsha Etigowni, Mehmet Cintuglu, Maryam Kazerooni, Shamina Hossain, Pengfei Sun, Katherine
Davis, Osama Mohammed, Saman Zonouz
IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm), 2017
Power Grid Safety Control via Fine-Grained Multi-Persona Programmable Logic Controllers
Gabriel Salles-Loustau, Luis Garcia, Pengfei Sun, Maryam Mehri, Saman Zonouz
IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm), 2017
Improving Power System Neural Network Construction Using Modal Analysis
Joshua Johnson, Shamina Hossain-McKenzie, Uyen Bui, Sriharsha Etigowni, Katherine Davis, Saman
Zonouz
19th International Conference on Intelligent System Application to Power Systems (ISAP), 2017
Trace-Free Memory Data Structure Forensics via Past Inference and Future Speculations
Pengfei Sun, Rui Han, Mingbo Zhang, Saman Zonouz
Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), 2016
Secure Point-of-Care Medical Diagnostics via Trusted Sensing and Cyto-Coded Passwords
Tuan Le, Gabriel Salles-Loustau, Laleh Najafizadeh, Mehdi Javanmard, Saman Zonouz
IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 2016
CPAC: Securing Critical Infrastructure with Cyber-Physical Access Control
Sriharsha Etigowni, Dave Tian, Grant Hernandez, Saman Zonouz, and Kevin Butler
Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), 2016
Don’t just BYOD, Bring-Your-Own-App Too! Protection via Virtual Micro Security Perimeters
Gabriel Salles-Loustau, Kaustubh Joshi, Saman Zonouz
IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 2016
Detecting PLC Control Corruption via On-Device Runtime Verification
Luis Garcia, Dong Wei, Leandro Pfleger de Aguiar, Saman Zonouz
Resilience Week, 2016
BioMEMS-Based Coding For Secure Medical Diagnostic Devices
Tuan Le, Gabriel Salles-Loustau, Laleh Najafizadeh, Mehdi Javanmard, Saman Zonouz
38th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2016
Secure Mobile Technologies for Proactive Critical Infrastructure Situational Awareness
Gabriel Salles-Loustau, Vidyasagar Sadhu, Dario Pompili, Saman Zonouz, Vincent Sritapan
IEEE Symposium on Technologies for Homeland Security (HST), 2016
Augmented DC Power Flow Method Using Real-Time Measurements
Shamina Hossain, Sriharsha Etigowni, Kate Davis, Saman Zonouz
Power System Computation Conference (PSCC), 2016
Just-Ahead-Of-Time Controller Recovery
Sriharsha Etigowni, Shamina Hossain, Maryam Kazerooni, Katherine Davis, Osama Mohammed, Saman Zonouz
IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm), 2016 (accepted but
not published because of no attendance due to late visa issuance)
Cyber-Air-Gapped Detection of Controller Attacks through Physical Interdependencies
Sriharsha Etigowni, Mehmet Cintuglu, Maryam Kazerooni, Shamina Hossain, Pengfei Sun, Katherine
Davis, Osama Mohammed, Saman Zonouz
IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm), 2016 (accepted but
not published because of no attendance due to late visa issuance)
Power Grid Safety Control via Fine-Grained Multi-Persona Programmable Logic Controllers
Gabriel Salles-Loustau, Luis Garcia, Pengfei Sun, Maryam Mehri, Saman Zonouz
IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm), 2016 (accepted but
not published because of no attendance due to late visa issuance)
Cyber-Physical Models for Power Grid Security Analysis: 8-Substation Case
Gabriel Weaver, Edmond Rogers, Robin Berthier, Pete Sauer, David Nicole, Matt Davis, Kate Davis,
Saman Zonouz, Rakesh Bobba
IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm), 2016
Cyto-Encryption: BioMEMS Based Cryptography for Secure Medical Diagnostic Devices
Tuan Le, Gabriel Salles-Loustau, Laleh Najafizadeh, Mehdi Javanmard, Saman Zonouz
BioSensors 2016
PLCloud: Comprehensive Power Grid PLC Security Monitoring with Zero Safety Disruption
Henry Senyondo, Pengfei Sun, Robin Berthier, Saman Zonouz
IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm), 2015
TSC: Trustworthy and Scalable Cytometry
Mehdi Javanmard, Mohsen Amini, Saman Zonouz
IEEE International Symposium on Big Data Security on Cloud (BigDataSecurity), 2015
Towards Resilient Cyber-Physical Control Systems
Gabriel Salles-Loustau, Saman Zonouz
IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP), Symposium on Signal and
Information Processing for Optimizing Future Energy Systems – (Invited Paper), 2015
New Applications of Control Theories to Cybercrime and Cybercrime Victimization
Olena Antonaccio, Eric Louderback, Saman Zonouz
American Society of Criminology Conference, 2015
Exploring Cognitive Decision-Making Processes and Computer-Focused Cybercrime Victimization: The Role of Thoughtfully Reflective Decision Making
Eric Louderback, Olena Antonaccio, Saman Zonouz
American Society of Criminology Conference, 2015
Teaching Cyber-Physical Systems using MIT App Inventor
Ghassan Bati, Saman Zonouz
2nd International Conference on Education and Social Sciences, 2015
A Trusted Safety Verifier for Process Controller Code
Stephen McLaughlin, Saman Zonouz, Devin Pohly, Patrick McDaniel
Networks and Distributed Systems Symposium (NDSS), 2014
TroGuard: Context-Aware Protection Against Web-Based Socially Engineered Trojans
Rui Han, Alejandro Mesa, Mihai Christodorescu, Saman Zonouz
Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), 2014
Controller-Aware False Data Injection Against Programmable Logic Controllers
Stephen McLaughlin, Saman Zonouz
IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm), 2014
Covert Channel Communication Through Physical Interdependencies in Cyber-Physical Infrastructures
Luis Garcia, Henry Senyondo, Stephen McLaughlin, Saman Zonouz
IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm), 2014
RESeED: Regular Expression Search over Encrypted Data in the Cloud
Mohsen Amini, Thomas Caldwell, Alejandro Fernandez, Emmanuel Michiewicz, Eric Rozier, Saman
Zonouz, David Redberg
IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (IEEE CLOUD), 2014
TMQ: Threat Model Quantification in Smart Grid Critical Infrastructures
Luis Garcia, Saman Zonouz
IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm), 2014
Computer Security Challenges in Building Automation and SCADA
Alessio Antonini, Alessandro Barehghi, Gerardo Pelosi, Saman Zonouz
IEEE International Carnahan Conference on Security Technology, 2014
TSB: Trusted Sending Base for the Power Grid
Ali Mazloomzadeh, Mohammed Osama, Saman Zonouz
IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm) – Best Student Paper Award, 2013
Sechduler: A Security-Aware Operating System Scheduler
Saman Zonouz, Rui Han, Parisa Haghani
IEEE Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing (PRDC), 2013
SeCPSim: A Training Simulator for Cyber-Power Infrastructure Security
Ceeman Vellaithrai, Anurag Srivastava, Saman Zonouz
IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm), 2013
FloTracker: Log-Free and Instantaneous Host-Based Intrusion Root-Cause Analysis
Saman Zonouz, Ahmad Seyfi, Alejandro Mesa, Gabriel Salles-Loustau
IEEE Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing (PRDC), 2013
Identification Using Encrypted Biometrics
Mohammad Haghighat, Saman Zonouz, Mohammed Abdel-Mottaleb
International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (CAIP), 2013
Dragonfruit: Cloud Provider-Agnostic Trustworthy Cloud Data Storage and Remote Processing
Eric Rozier, Saman Zonouz, David Redberg
IEEE Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing (PRDC), 2013
EliMet: Security Metric Elicitation in Power Grid Critical Infrastructures by Observing System Administrators’ Responsive Behavior
Saman Zonouz, Amir Houmansadr, Parisa Haghani
IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 2012
An Intrusion Response System with Multiobjective System Security Metric Functions
Negin Arhami, Saman Zonouz
IEEE AESS European Conference on Satellite Telecommunications, 2012
AMIDS: A Multi-Sensor Energy Theft Detection Framework for Advanced Metering Infrastructures
Stephen McLaughlin, Brett Holbert, Saman Zonouz, Robin Berthier
IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm), 2012
A Fuzzy Markov Model for Scalable Reliability Analysis of Advanced Metering Infrastructure
Saman Zonouz, Robin Berthier, Parisa Haghani
IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference (ISGT), 2012
FloGuard: An Automated Online Forensics Engine using On-demand Detector Deployment
Saman Zonouz, Kaustubh Joshi, William H. Sanders
The 30th International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability and Security (SafeComp), 2011
RRE: A Game-theoretic Response and Recovery Engine
Saman Zonouz, Himanshu Khurana, William H. Sanders, Tim Yardley
IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 2009
A Kalman-based Coordination for Hierarchical State Estimation: Algorithm and Analysis
Saman Zonouz, William H. Sanders
Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), 2008
A Fuzzy Monte Carlo Simulation Approach for Fault Tree Analysis
Saman Zonouz, Seyyed Ghasem Miremadi
IEEE 52nd Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium (RAMS), 2006
Using a Particle Swarm Optimization Approach for Evolutionary Fuzzy Rule Learning: A Case Study of Intrusion Detection
Mohammad Saniee, Jafar Habibi, Saman Zonouz
Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems (IPMU), 2006
Impossibles Artificial Intelligence Software Architecture for AIBO 4-Legged Robots
Saman Zonouz, Hamid Reza Vaezi Joze, Siavash Rahbar, Majid Valipour, Alireza Fathi
RoboCup, 2006
Impossibles RoboCup Team Description Paper
Hamid Reza Vaezi Joze, Saman Zonouz, Siavash Rahbar, Majid Valipour, Alireza Fathi
RoboCup, 2006
An Automated Time-to-Failure Tree Generation Approach for FPGA-based Fault Tolerant Designs
Saman Zonouz, Sajed Miremadi, Seyed Ghasem Miremadi
IEEE System Integration and Reliability Improvements, IEEE International Conference on System Integration and Reliability Improvement (SIRI), 2006 (accepted but not presented due to lack of travel
funding for undergraduates)
Fault Tolerant Engineering in a Conceptual Design
Saman Zonouz, Jafar Habibi
IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering, Austria, February 2006 (accepted but not
presented due to lack of travel funding for undergraduates)
A Fuzzy Markov Model for Reliability Analysis
Saman Zonouz, Seyed Ghassem Miremadi
IEEE System Integration and Reliability Improvements, IEEE International Conference on System Integration and Reliability Improvement (SIRI), 2006 (accepted but not presented due to lack of travel
funding for undergraduates)
Workshops, Posters, and Demos
Can AI make cell and tissue manufacturing more just?
Aaron D Levine, Elizabeth Newman, Saman Zonouz, Vahid Serpooshan
International Society for Cell & Gene Therapy (ISCT), 2023 (poster)
Side-Channel Based Code-Execution Monitoring Systems
Yi Han, Saman Zonouz, Athina Petropulu
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Demo presentation, 2019
Towards Robust Semantic Reverse Engineering of Control System Binaries
Pengfei Sun, Luis Garcia, Saman Zonouz
USENIX Security, 2019 (poster)
Secure Personal Multi-Device Network Overlays
Johannes Vamos, Saman Zonouz
IEEE Conference on Dependable and Secure Computing (DSC) – Workshop on System Dependability and Security (WSDS), 2018
Trace-Free Memory Data Forensics, Poster Publication
Pengfei Sun, Rui Han, Saman Zonouz
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (poster), 2016
Argus: Smartphone-enabled Human-robot Cooperation for Disaster Situational Awareness
Gabriel Salles-Loustau, Vidyasagar Sadhu, Dario Pompili, Saman Zonouz, Vincent Sritapan
Department of Homeland Security Cyber Security Division (invited poster/demonstration; Best Poster Award at Rutgers Research Day), 2016
Argus: Smartphone-enabled Human Cooperation via Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Disaster Situational Awareness
Vidyasagar Sadhu, Gabriel Salles-Loustau, Dario Pompili, Saman Zonouz, Vincent Sritapan
IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing – Distributed Adaptive Systems Workshop, 2016
Safety Control Code Verification
Saman Zonouz
ACM Computer and Communication Security (CCS) – Workshop on Forming an Ecosystem Around Software Transformation (FEAST), 2016
Towards Cyber-Physical Intrusion Tolerance
Shamina Hossain, Sriharsha Etigowni, Kate Davis, Saman Zonouz
IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm) – (Top-3 Student
Demonstration), 2015
Cyber-Physical Control Systems: Vulnerabilities, Threats, and Mitigations
Saman Zonouz, Kate Davis
IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN) – (invited half-day tutorial), 2015
Optimal Control vs. Safety Red Lines: Internet-Of-Things Safety via Micro-Policies
Robin Berthier, Saman Zonouz
IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN) – (fast abstract), 2015
RESeED: A Tool for Regular Expression Search over Encrypted Data in Cloud Storage
Mohsen Amini, Thomas Caldwell, Alejandro Fernandez, Emmanuel Mickiewicz, Eric Rozier, Saman Zonouz, David Redberg
IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud, and Grid Computing (CCGrid) – (poster), 2014
Cyber-Physical Educational Simulator for Cyber-Power Infrastructure Security
Saman Zonouz, Anurag Srivastava
NSF National Workshop on Energy Cyber-Physical Systems, 2014
A Security-Aware Scheduler
Parisa Haghani, Saman Zonouz
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) – (poster), 2013
State Estimation and Contingency Analysis of the Power Grid in a Cyber-Adversarial Environment
Robin Berthier, Rakesh Bobba, Matt Davis, Kate Rogers, and Saman Zonouz
National Institute for Standards and Technologies’ (NIST) Cybersecurity for Cyber-Physical Systems
Workshop, 2012
Cloud-based Intrusion Detection and Response System for Smartphone Devices
Amir Houmansadr, Saman Zonouz, Robin Berthier
IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN) – Workshop on Recent Advances in Intrusion-Tolerant Systems (WRAITS), 2011
Managing business health in the presence of malicious attacks
Saman Zonouz, Aashish Sharma, HariGovind V. Ramasamy, Zbigniew T. Kalbarczyk, Birgit Pfitzmann,
Kevin McAuliffe, Ravishankar K. Iyer, William H. Sanders
IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN) – Workshop on Recent Advances in Intrusion-Tolerant Systems (WRAITS), 2011
Cost-aware Systemwide Intrusion Defense via Online Forensics and On-demand Detector Deployment
Saman Zonouz, Kaustubh Joshi, William H. Sanders
ACM Workshop on Assurable and Usable Security Configuration (SafeConfig), 2010