Final Program
EAI SmartSP 2026
November 5–6, 2026
University of Michigan-Dearborn Campus
Detroit, MI, USA
Full program with presentation time slots: Download the EAI SmartSP 2026 program (PDF)
Day 1 — Thursday, November 5, 2026
Hours: 8:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m.
8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
Registration & Morning Coffee
9:00 a.m. – 9:15 a.m.
Opening Remarks
Welcome by General Chairs (Qiben Yan and Mert Pesé), and Program Chairs (Habeeb Olufowobi and Dave Tian).
9:15 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.
Keynote 1
Speaker: Prof. Kang G. Shin (University of Michigan)
10:15 a.m. – 10:35 a.m.
Morning Coffee Break
10:35 a.m. – 11:55 a.m.
Technical Session 1: Autonomous Driving & Vehicular Security
Session Chair: Ozgur Ozmen
- 10:35–10:55: FuzzSense: Towards A Modular Fuzzing Framework for Autonomous Driving Software — Andrew Roberts, Lorenz Teply, Mert Pesé, Olaf Maennel, Mohammad Hamad, and Sebastian Steinhorst
- 10:55–11:15: PRINGLE: Security-driven Ontology Framework for Autonomous Driving Systems — Nicholas Costagliola, Marco De Vincenzi, Elena Cardillo, Ilaria Matteucci, and Sara Rampazzi
- 11:15–11:35: Behavior-Based Trust Enforcement for Routing Attack Mitigation in Vehicular Delay-Tolerant Networks — Zhuochao Cai and Muslum Ozgur Ozmen
- 11:35–11:55: Physics-Informed In-Session Detection of State-of-Charge Spoofing in OCPP 2.0.1 Electric Vehicle Charging Networks — Prince Paul Addai Kwaning and Francis Akowuah
12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Lunch Break
1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Keynote 2
Speaker: Dr. Georgios Fainekos (Toyota Research Institute of North America)
2:30 p.m. – 3:50 p.m.
Technical Session 2: Perception, Cameras & Sensing Security
Session Chair: Hafiz Malik
- 2:30–2:50: PRISM-D: PRNU-based Runtime Image-tampering Detection for Automotive Cameras — Marco Calipari, Liang-Chi Chen, Michael Kühr, Mohammad Hamad, and Sebastian Steinhorst
- 2:50–3:10: Certified Context-Adaptive Anonymization of Bystanders in Smart-Vehicle Cameras — Felix Hermsen, Roman Matzutt, and Stefan Decker
- 3:10–3:30: Can Autonomous Vehicles Keep Their Cool? A Survey of Thermal Side-Channel and Perception Attacks — Harsh Aaryan and Ce Zhou
- 3:30–3:50: Detection-Guided Adaptive Purification with Diffusion Models for Robust Audio Deepfake Detection — Muhammed Salih Kayhan and Qiben Yan
3:50 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Poster & Demo Session + Afternoon Refreshments
- Featured demo: Matter-Based IoMT Telemetry and Security Analysis — Muhammad Hassan, Masooda Bashir, and Carl Gunter
- Featured poster: V-ADSD: Visual Attacks Can Reduce Speculative Decoding Efficiency in Driving VLMs — Run Wang, Pedram MohajerAnsari, Amir Salarpour, Chaoyi Zhou, Xi Liu, Yu-Wei Liu, David Fernandez, Yi Zhu, Siyu Huang, and Mert D. Pesé
- Accepted poster papers and participating main-track posters
5:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Social Dinner & Awards Reception
Remarks from UM-Dearborn Provost Ghassan Kridli.
Day 2 — Friday, November 6, 2026
Hours: 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
Registration & Morning Coffee
9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Keynote 3
Speaker: Dr. Dariusz Mikulski (US Army DEVCOM Ground Vehicle Systems Center)
Title: Yesterday’s Gaps, Today’s Connected Risks: Securing CPS and Smart Vehicles
10:00 a.m. – 10:20 a.m.
Morning Coffee Break
10:20 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Technical Session 3: AI, LLMs & Embodied Agents in CPS
Session Chair: Ce Zhou
- 10:20–10:40: When Smart Vehicles Become Agentic CPS: Security Risks from In-Vehicle AI LLM and Critical Infrastructure IoT Management — Anh Tuan Hoang
- 10:40–11:00: Green-Hybrid Anomaly Detection Framework for Edge-Deployed Industrial Control Systems: Fusing Autoencoder and Isolation Forest with Carbon-Aware Optimization — Muhammad Muzamil Aslam, Ali Tufail, Rosyzie Anna Awg Haji Mohd Apong, Liyanage Chandratilak De Silva, and Muhammad Faisal Buland Iqbal
- 11:00–11:20: From Intent to Action: Benchmarking LLM Safety in Vehicle Voice Command Authorization — Diba Afroze, Xingli Zhang, Yazhou Tu, and Xiali Hei
- 11:20–11:40: Evaluating the Robustness of LLM-Based Multi-Agent Systems against Adversarial Manipulation — Simran Banga and Yi Zhu
- 11:40–12:00: StepTrigger: Contact-State-Triggered Backdoor Attacks on VLM-Powered Legged Robots — Kaichen Yang, Jiageng Zhang, and Doniyorkhon Obidov
12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Lunch Break
1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Panel Discussion: Security of VLAs for Autonomous Driving and VLAs for Security
Moderator: Mert Pesé (Clemson University)
Panelists: Ameer Kashani (DENSO), Xuke Yan (Aptiv), Anne Zachos (NMFTA), and Pavan Vemuri (SDVerse)
2:30 p.m. – 3:50 p.m.
Technical Session 4: CPS & IoT Authentication and Resilience
Session Chair: Yi Zhu
- 2:30–2:50: FlexMode: Beyond the Centralization / Decentralization Dichotomy for Disaster-Adaptive Cyber-Physical Systems — James Fogg, Michael Jones, Will Zakroff, and Nikolay Ivanov
- 2:50–3:10: Satellite Signal Perturbation for Dual-Fingerprint Authentication and Spoofing Detection — Kanishka Wijewardena, Griffin Klevering, Qiben Yan, and Li Xiao
- 3:10–3:30: Atlas: Enabling Cross-Vendor Authentication for IoT — Sanket Goutam, Omar Chowdhury, and Amir Rahmati (presented by Kasra Kakaee)
- 3:30–3:50: Real-Time Authentication of Embedded Hardware — Hafiz Malik, Hasan Ali Arif, Abbas Ali, and Saad Kayani
3:50 p.m. – 4:05 p.m.
Afternoon Coffee Break
4:05 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.
Technical Session 5: Side Channels & Binary Analysis
Session Chair: Nikolay Ivanov
- 4:05–4:25: Cross-Origin Covert Channel via Data Memory-Dependent Prefetchers — Wei Qiu and Zihao Zhan
- 4:25–4:45: EXHIB: A Benchmark for Realistic and Diverse Evaluation of Function Similarity in the Wild — Yiming Fan, Jun Yeon Won, Ding Zhu, Melih Sirlanci, Mahdi Khalili, Zhiqiang Lin, and Carter Yagemann
4:45 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
