Khaled Serag

About Me

I am a post-doctoral research assistant at Purdue University. I finished my Ph.D. at Purdue in August 2023. My broad research area is Information Security. Since I joined Purdue, I have been working closely with Dr. Dongyan Xu and Dr. Z. Berkay Celik on several Automotive and ICS Security projects. I also have industrial research experience through working with Boeing as a Cyber Security Researcher, where I was involved in several security research projects pertaining to avionic networks, mesh networks, IoT devices, and other areas.

Research Interests

• Network Security: Serial Buses, Mesh Networks, Ethernet, Wireless Networks

• Cyber Physical Systems Security: Automotive Systems, Autonomous Vehicles, Avionic Systems, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), IoT Devices

Publications

• ZBCAN: A Zero‑Byte CAN Defense System
  Khaled Serag, Rohit Bhatia, Akram Faqih, Muslum Ozgur Ozmen, Vireshwar Kumar, Z. Berkay Celik, Dongyan Xu
  In Proceedings of the 32𝑛𝑑 USENIX Security Symposium, 2023 (USENIX 2023). [PDF]
  

• Attacks on CAN Error Handling Mechanism
  Khaled Serag, Vireshwar Kumar, Z. Berkay Celik, Rohit Bhatia, Mathias Payer, Dongyan Xu.
  In Proceedings of the NDSS’ Fourth International Workshop on Automotive and Autonomous Vehicle Security (AutoSec 2022). [PDF]

• Exposing New Vulnerabilities of Error Handling Mechanism in CAN
  Khaled Serag, Rohit Bhatia, Vireshwar Kumar, Z. Berkay Celik, Dongyan Xu
  In Proceedings of the 30𝑡ℎ USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX 2021). [PDF]

• Evading Voltage‑Based Intrusion Detection on Automotive CAN
  Rohit Bhatia, Vireshwar Kumar, Khaled Serag, Z. Berkay Celik, Mathias Payer, and Dongyan Xu
  In Proceedings of the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS 2021). [PDF]

Patents

• Multiple Security Level Monitor for Monitoring a Plurality of MIL‑STD‑1553 Buses with Multiple Independent Levels of Security
  Josh D Eckhardt, Thomas E Donofrio, Khaled Serag
  United States Patent No.: US10685125B2, 2020. [PDF]

• Bus data monitor
  Josh D Eckhardt, Thomas E Donofrio, Khaled Serag
  United States Patent No.: US10691573B2, 2020. [PDF]

• System and Method of Monitoring Data Traffic on a MIL‑STD‑1553 Data Bus
  Josh D Eckhardt, Thomas E Donofrio, Khaled Serag
  United States Patent No.: US10467174B2, 2019. [PDF]

Research Experience

• Research Assistant
  Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S.A.
  2017-Present

• Cyber Security Researcher (Summer Only)
  Boeing, Huntsville, Alabama, U.S.A.
  2017-2022

• Cyber Security Researcher (Full Time)
  Boeing, Huntsville, Alabama, U.S.A.
  2015-2017

• Graduate Student
  The State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, New York, U.S.A.
  2014-2015

Curriculum Vitae

A copy of my C.V. could be obtained through this link

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