autonomous vehicles

Breaking the Vehicle Over-The-Air Update System

A modern vehicle is composed of around 100 Electronic Control Unit (ECU) connected via several types of networks. An ECU is an embedded device, similar to a RaspberryPI, running an operating system, e.g., Linux-based or real-time OS, on top of which different software and firmware may run, depending on the application. Due to the imperfection of humans, software can have faults and vulnerabilities, which can lead to catastrophic failures that threatens human lives. This makes the manufacturers liable to such failures and thus often caused millions of vehicles recalls for repair. A smart

Rehana Yasmin

Rehana Yasmin is a Research Scientist at the Resilient Computing and Cybersecurity Center (RC3), KAUST, since August 2023. Before joining KAUST, she had been working as a researcher in the area of Automotive Cybersecurity and Resilience at Huawei International. Prior to above, she served as a lecturer at University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, and later as an assistant professor at Mirpur University of Science and Technology, in Pakistan. She also obtained a short experience of postdoc from University of Padova, Italy. Research Interests Yasmin's research interests lie in security and privacy

Erick Rodrigues E Silva

Education Erick pursued his education in Control and Automation Engineering at CEFET-RJ, where he was awarded a Motion of Praise for his victory in a national robotics championship. He authored a thesis titled "Platform for Simulation and Generation of Synthetic Data for Autonomous Inspections by UAVS in Solar Plants." Experience During the thesis composition, Erick made a significant contribution to the paper "Virtual Reality Simulation of Autonomous Solar Plant Inspections with Unmanned Aerial Systems." This paper was published at ICUAS, a conference held in Dubrovnik, Croatia in 2021. After