Schedule

The schedule will change as the course progresses, in part based on student interests. If you are particularly interested in some topic not covered here, send an email to the instructor.

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Aug 24	Aug 25	Aug 26 LEC 1: Course Introduction	Aug 27	Aug 28
Aug 31 LEC 2: CPS Hardware Read: Securing Real-Time Microcontroller Systems through Customized Memory View Switching [NDSS 2018]	Sep 1	Sep 2 LEC 2: CPS Hardware Read: DriveFuzz: Discovering Autonomous Driving Bugs through Driving Quality-Guided Fuzzing [CCS 2022]	Sep 3	Sep 4
Sep 7 Labor Day	Sep 8	Sep 9 LEC 3: Industrial Control Systems Read: Fuzzing the Physical Space: Physics-Aware Testing of Black-Box Industrial Control Systems [S&P 2026] Presentation: Sahas Sharma	Sep 10	Sep 11
Sep 14 LEC 4: Robotic Platforms Read: TAT: Attesting Trajectory Integrity of Industrial Robotic Arms [USENIX Security 2026] Presentation: Matthew Du	Sep 15	Sep 16 LEC 5: Autonomous Vehicles Read: On the Realism of LiDAR Spoofing Attacks against Autonomous Driving Vehicle at High Speed and Long Distance [NDSS 2025] Presentation: Vincent Jones	Sep 17	Sep 18
Sep 21 LEC 6: CPS Software Foundations Read: RTCON: Context-Adaptive Function-Level Fuzzing for RTOS Kernels [NDSS 2026] Presentation: Sithindu Sirisooriya	Sep 22	Sep 23 Project Pitch Presentation	Sep 24	Sep 25
Sep 28 LEC 7: Communication Protocols Read: A Comprehensive Formal Security Analysis of OPC UA [USENIX Security 2025] Presentation: Joshua McKone	Sep 29	Sep 30 LEC 8: Real-Time Requirements Read: ARTO: Efficient Execution Integrity Attestation for Real-Time Operation of Cyber-Physical Systems [USENIX Security 2026] Presentation: Md Ashikul Haque	Oct 1	Oct 2
Oct 5 LEC 9: Control Algorithms and Sensor Estimation Read: BADControl: Backdoor Attacks Against Control Systems [USENIX Security 2026] Presentation: Surya Mallidi	Oct 6	Oct 7 LEC 10: Autopilot Software Read: ADGFUZZ: Assignment Dependency-Guided Fuzzing for Robotic Vehicles [NDSS 2026] Presentation: Shiv Kumar	Oct 8	Oct 9
Oct 12 Midterm Week (No Class)	Oct 13	Oct 14 Midterm Week (No Class)	Oct 15	Oct 16
Oct 19 LEC 11: SITL/HITL Simulators Read: Automated Discovery of Semantic Attacks in Multi-Robot Navigation Systems [USENIX Security 2025] Presentation: Surya Mallidi	Oct 20	Oct 21 Midterm Project Presentation	Oct 22	Oct 23
Oct 26 LEC 12: Sensor Attacks and Defenses Read: GNSS-WASP: GNSS Wide Area SPoofing [USENIX Security 2025] Presentation: Md Ashikul Haque	Oct 27	Oct 28 LEC 12: Sensor Attacks and Defenses Read: PhantomLiDAR: Cross-modality Signal Injection Attacks against LiDAR [NDSS 2025] Presentation: Shiv Kumar	Oct 29	Oct 30
Nov 2 LEC 13: Software/Network Attacks and Defenses Read: On Data Fabrication in Collaborative Vehicular Perception: Attacks and Countermeasures [USENIX Security 2024] Presentation: Sahas Sharma	Nov 3	Nov 4 LEC 13: Software/Network Attacks and Defenses Read: Software Availability Protection in Cyber-Physical Systems [USENIX Security 2025] Presentation: Matthew Du	Nov 5	Nov 6
Nov 9 LEC 14: System-Level Attacks and Defenses Read: SpecGuard: Specification Aware Recovery for Robotic Autonomous Vehicles from Physical Attacks [CCS 2024] Presentation: Sithindu Sirisooriya	Nov 10	Nov 11 LEC 14: System-Level Attacks and Defenses Read: PhySense: Defending Physically Realizable Attacks for Autonomous Systems via Consistency Reasoning [CCS 2024] Presentation: Elsha Valluru	Nov 12	Nov 13
Nov 16 Class Cancelled	Nov 17	Nov 18 Class Cancelled	Nov 19	Nov 20
Nov 23 Fall Break	Nov 24 Fall Break	Nov 25 Fall Break	Nov 26 Thanksgiving Holidays	Nov 27 Thanksgiving Holidays
Nov 30 LEC 15: AI Attacks and Defenses	Dec 1	Dec 2 Final Project Demo and Presentation	Dec 3	Dec 4
Dec 7 LEC 16: Class Overview and Closing	Dec 8	Dec 9 Last Day of Classes	Dec 10 Readings Day	Dec 11 Final Exam Period (No Exam)