Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering
Rampazzi Lab
Led by Sara Rampazzi · Computer and Information Science and Engineering
What we study
The Rampazzi Lab studies cybersecurity in embedded systems, like smart devices and autonomous vehicles, using modeling and simulation. They research vulnerabilities in sensors and firmware to improve security.
What working here is like
- Computational
- No organisms (data only)
- Coding required
- Projects
- 3
- Papers
- 5
Current projects
Deep Note
Investigates how underwater data centers might be damaged by acoustic interference.
EMI-LiDAR
Examines vulnerabilities in LiDAR sensors used in autonomous driving using electromagnetic interference.
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Shimware
Develops practical security retrofitting methods for monolithic firmware images.
Summaries are written by AI in plain language from public symposium abstracts and may be imperfect.
Recent papers, explained
- Active Localization of Close-Range Adversarial Acoustic Sources for Underwater Data Center Surveillance
2026 · IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering
Develops a system to track underwater sound attacks on data centers using fixed and mobile sensors.
- SrFTL: Leveraging Storage Semantics for Effective Ransomware Defense in Flash-based SSDs
2025 · ACM Transactions on Storage
Creates a storage system to block ransomware by using file-level data instead of just blocks.
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- Toward security-aware portable sequencing
2025 · Nature Communications
Uses zero-trust principles to secure portable genome sequencers against external threats.
- To Go or Not to Go: Shedding Light on Traffic Light Signal Manipulation and Defense Strategies
2025 · ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems
Finds that lasers can trick traffic light recognition systems by scattering light inside them.
- LightTouch: Harnessing Laser-Based Signal Injection to Manipulate Optical Human-Computer Interfaces
2024 · IEEE Access
Shows how invisible infrared lasers can trick optical input devices like keyboards and mice into sending fake commands remotely.
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