Mert D. Pesé personal


Office

4944 Beyster Building
2260 Hayward St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Mert D. Pesé

I am Mert D. Pesé, a final-year PhD Candidate in the Real-Time Computing Laboratory (RTCL) at the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor.

Education

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, April 2022 (expected).
  • M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology (with high distinction), Technical University of Munich, December 2016.
  • B.Sc. in Computer Science, Technical University of Munich, July 2015.
  • B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology (with high distinction), Technical University of Munich, July 2014.
Previously, I worked on automotive cybersecurity during various positions at CISPA, Harman International, General Motors, Audi, and the University of Michigan Transportation Research Insitute (UMTRI).

My Research Interests

My research interests primarily include the security and privacy of vehicles. I worked on Automotive Ethernet Security and Intrusion Detection Systems during positions I held before my PhD. I am the lead developer of LibreCAN, a framework to automatically reverse engineer the CAN bus. Currently, I am focusing on privacy attacks and defenses of vehicular data to protect drivers' personal information, as well as novel and feasible solutions to secure the CAN bus, vehicle-to-vehicle communication and Android Automotive.

Contact Me

The best way to reach me is through my email address at:      mpese _at_ umich _dot_ edu.

I am looking for prospective MS and PhD students to join my research group at Clemson University. Please contact me if you are interested.

Latest News

  • Apr. 2022

    I will be a TT Assistant Professor at the School of Computing of Clemson University, starting August 2022. Go Tigers!

  • Oct. 2021

    I am on the academic job market this year! My research statement can be found here and my teaching statement here.

  • Aug. 2021

    I will be teaching EECS 571 Principles of Real-Time Embedded Systems together with Prof. Shin this fall!

  • Aug. 2021

    Our S2-CAN paper got accepted at ACSAC 2021.

    Please find a copy of the paper here.

  • May 2021

    I am going to spend my summer as a visiting researcher at CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security in Saarbrücken, Germany! I will be working with two fantastic supervisors Nils Ole Tippenhauer and Sven Bugiel.

  • Apr. 2021

    I talked on a panel at SAE World Congress Experience 2021 on "How secure is secure?".

  • Nov. 2020

    I gave a guest lecture in EECS 571 at the University of Michigan on "Security and Privacy of Tomorrow's Connected Vehicles".

  • Oct. 2020

    I gave a talk at ASRG (Automotive Security Research Group) on "LibreCAN: Automated CAN Message Translator". The presentation recording can be found here.

  • Sep. 2020

    I gave a guest lecture in EECS 571 at the University of Michigan on "Introduction to Automotive Networks".

  • Jan. 2020

    Our Android Automotive Security paper got accepted at SAE World Congress Experience 2020.

    Please find a copy of the paper here, the link to the slides here and the presentation recording here.

  • Nov. 2019

    Our SPy paper got accepted at PETS 2020.

    Please find a copy of the paper here, the link to the slides here and the presentation recording here.

  • Oct. 2019

    I gave a guest lecture in EECS 571 at the University of Michigan on "Security and Privacy of Tomorrow's Connected Vehicles".

  • Oct. 2019

    I talked on "Security and Privacy of Tomorrow's Connected Vehicles" as an invited speaker at the University of Windsor in Canada.

  • Sep. 2019

    Our LibreCAN paper got accepted at ACM CCS 2019.

    Please find a copy of the paper here, the link to the slides here and the presentation recording here. Furthermore, we maintain a project website here.

  • Apr. 2019

    I talked on "Security and Privacy of Tomorrow's Connected Vehicles" as an invited speaker at the University of Colorado in Denver, CO.

    • Jan. 2019

    Our automotive privacy paper got accepted at SAE World Congress Experience 2019.

    Please find a copy of the paper here, and the link to the slides here.

  • May 2018

    I advanced to PhD Candidacy.

  • Aug. 2017

    Our CarLab paper got accepted at ACM CarSys 2017.

    Please find a copy of the paper here, and the link to the slides here.

  • Apr. 2017

    Our CAID paper (with Armin Wasicek) got accepted at escar USA 2017.

    Please find a copy of the paper here, and the link to the slides here.

  • Jan. 2017

    Our automotive firewall paper got accepted at SAE World Congress Experience 2017.

    Please find a copy of the paper here, and the link to the slides here.

  • Jan. 2017

    I joined RTCL at the University of Michigan as PhD student.