Ali Abbasi

Embedded Systems Security Group

CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security

Ali Abbasi

Embedded Systems Security Group

CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security

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August 2025

We presented our research group’s results to German Chancellor Friedrich Merz during his visit to the state of Saarland and CISPA.

Foto: BLP

November 2024:

  1. Our paper named ” TWINFUZZ: Differential Testing of Video Hardware Acceleration Stacks”, was accepted at NDSS 2025.

October 2024:

  1. Our project on cyber resilience of autonomous vehicles receives over 2 million euros from Federal Ministry of Digital and Transport of Germany.
  2. Our paper named “A Comprehensive Memory Safety Analysis of Bootloaders” was accepted at NDSS 2025.

April 2024:

Our paper on the Feasibility of Inter-Satellite Friendly Jamming was accepted at ESA’s 2024 Security for Space Systems conference.

February 2024:

  1. Our SoK paper on security of Programmable Logic Controllers got accepted in USENIX Security Symposium 2024.
  2. Our paper on Application Sandboxing for Space Missions got accepted at NDSS SpaceSec Workshop.

November 2023:

Our proposal for a cyber-security satellite won the German Space Agency (DLR) competition (between over 85 different proposals). The DLR will pay for the development and launch of our satellite.

© DLR

May 2023:

Our paper on security analysis of in-orbit satellites firmware received Distinguished Paper Award at IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P) 2023.

March 2023:

Our paper on security analysis of in-orbit satellites firmware was accepted at IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2023.

February 2023:

We have multiple open positions for PhD/Postdocs.