Mert D. Pesé

PhD Candidate

Real-Time Computing Laboratory (RTCL)

The University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

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Student Mentoring

During my PhD, I worked with several excellent undergraduate and Master's students on research projects in the field of automotive security and privacy.

Undergraduate Students


  • Batuhan Akcay
    Fall 2020
    Batuhan Akcay
    Worked on exploring wireless vehicular interfaces to propose remote attacks. Senior @ University of Michigan.

  • Kurt Ayalp
    Fall 2018
    Kurt Ayalp
    Worked on LibreCAN. Software Development Engineer @ Amazon Web Services (AWS).

  • C. Andrés Campos
    Winter 2019 - Winter 2020
    C. Andrés Campos
    Worked on LibreCAN and Vehicular Data Collection Platform. Software Engineer @ Google.

  • Alejandro Fischer
    Fall 2018
    Alejandro Fischer
    Worked on LibreCAN. Software Engineer @ Microsoft.

  • Junhui Li
    Spring 2020 - Fall 2020
    Junhui Li
    Worked on CAN bus authentication, as well as spoofing and DoS prevention solution for CAN bus. Senior @ University of Michigan.

  • Jiaxiang Ma
    Summer 2020 - Fall 2020
    Jiaxiang Ma
    Worked on spoofing and DoS prevention solution for CAN bus. Senior @ University of Michigan.

  • Osama Saeed
    Winter 2019
    Osama Saeed
    Worked on LibreCAN. GSI @ University of Michigan.

  • Jay W. Schauer
    Spring 2020 - Fall 2020
    Jay W. Schauer
    Worked on CAN bus authentication and automotive privacy protection framework. Junior @ University of Michigan.

  • Troy Stacer
    Fall 2018 - Winter 2020
    Troy Stacer
    Worked on LibreCAN and Vehicular Data Collection Platform. Master's Student @ University of Michigan.

  • Arman Tabaddor
    Fall 2020
    Arman Tabaddor
    Worked on V2V-based anonamy detection system for connected vehicles. Junior @ University of Michigan.

  • Alice Ying
    Winter 2019 - Winter 2020
    Alice Ying
    Worked on LibreCAN and Vehicular Data Collection Platform. Junior @ University of Michigan.

Master's Students


  • Bryan Brauchler
    Fall 2020
    Bryan Brauchler
    Worked on spoofing and DoS prevention solution for CAN bus. Master's Student @ University of Michigan.