Scholar
Ali Abbasi
Google Scholar ID: 7BgdiU4AAAAJ
Faculty, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
Embedded Security
Firmware Security
Space Cybersecurity
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Citations
1,382
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20
Co-authors
28
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Publications
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POZZER: A Power Side Channel-guided Fuzzer for Black-Box Embedded Systems
2026
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PyFEX: Uncovering Evasive Python-based Threats via Resilient and Exhaustive Path Exploration
2026
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SatBleed: Security of Commoditized Communication Modules in Satellites
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy · 2026
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Academic Achievements
Program committee member for top-tier security conferences:
USENIX Security Symposium (2026)
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (2025, 2026)
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (2023–2026)
NDSS (2025)
IEEE Conference on Security for Space Systems (3S) (2024, 2025)
NDSS Workshop on Security of Space and Satellite Systems (SpaceSec) (2023–2026)
Background
Faculty member at CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security in Saarbrücken, Germany
Leads the Embedded Systems Security group (EMSEC)
Research lies at the intersection of hardware and system security
Focuses on hardware-assisted techniques to enhance security of embedded and mission-critical systems
Research includes side-channel analysis for system introspection, firmware fuzzing via rehosting, and hardening under real-time constraints
Aims to bridge hardware and software security to address complex attack surfaces in real-world domains such as space and automotive systems
Co-authors
5 total
Thorsten Holz
Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy (MPI-SP)
Moritz Schloegel
CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
Giovanni Vigna
UC Santa Barbara and VMware
Carlos E. Rubio-Medrano
Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi
Alvaro A. Cardenas
Professor of Computer Science and Engineering. University of California, Santa Cruz