Sara Rampazzi
Department of Computer and Information
Science and Engineering

University of Florida
Florida Institute for Cybersecurity
Research (FICS)
Malachowsky Hall,1889 Museum Road,
Gainesville, FL 32611

srampazzi@ufl.edu
sararampazzi.com
Researchareas

Cyber-physical system security & privacy, embedded systems design, modeling, andsimulation with application to medical devices, automotive, and Internet of Everything

Education

PhD in Electronics, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
University of Pavia (Italy), 2014.
MEng in Computer Science Engineering
University of Pavia (Italy), 2010.
BS in Computer Science Engineering
University of Pavia (Italy), 2008.

Grants andawardsPI:••••

Toyota InfoTech Lab Research grant on “Discovering Attacks on CAVCameras”, 70K, 2024
Toyota InfoTech Lab Research grant on “Cyber-Physical Attacks on CAVPerception”, 100K, 2023
Toyota InfoTech Lab Research grant on “Secure Autonomous Driving
Sensor Hardware and Hardware Designs”, 70K, 2022
Meta Award Explorations of Trust in AR, VR, and Smart Devices, 75K, 2020

Co-PI:• NSF Grant Award #2031077: RAPID: SaTC: COVID19: Science of using
wirelessly powered sensors to quickly scale up verifiable decontamination ofindividual N95 respirator masks, 200K, 2020Recognition:• Medtronic Outstanding Research Contributor: For researchers
recognized for the value of their contributions to the security of Medtronic
medical devices - https://global.medtronic.com/xg-en/productsecurity/outstanding-research-contributors.html•Academicpositions

Finalist: ISSNAF Mario Gerla Young Investigator Award 2021 for researchin Computer Science - https://www.issnaf.org/young-investigator-awardsfinalists-2021

Assistant Professor
Computer & Information Science & Engineering
University of Florida

Jan 2021-Present

Research Investigator
Electrical Engineering & Computer Science,
University of Michigan

Feb 2018-Dec 2020

Last Update: Nov 2023

S. Rampazzi (1)Intermittent Lecturer
Electrical Engineering & Computer Science,
University of Michigan

Researchexperience

Teaching
experience

Jan 2019-Apr 2019

Affiliate Researcher
Electrical Engineering & Computer Science,
University of Michigan

Aug 2017-Feb 2018

Postdoc fellow
Computer Science Engineering,
University of Pavia

2014

Senior personnel on THAW
University of Michigan

2018-2021

Principal Researcher for MCity PASS project
University of Michigan

2018-2020

Visiting researcher
Univ. de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain)

Spring 2014

Instructor
Fall 2021 – Present
Course: CIS5370 - Computer and Information Security
Dept. of Computer and Information Science and Engineering, University of Florida
Course: CIS4360 - Computer and Information Security
Dept. of Computer and Information Science and Engineering, University of Florida
Course: CIS4930/6930 - Special Topics in CISE: Cyber-physical System Security
Dept. of Computer and Information Science and Engineering, University of Florida
Lecturer
Winter 2019
Course: EECS 496 - Major Design Experience Professionalism
Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan

Industry
experience

Instructor of record
Course: C coding
Department of Mathematics, University of Pavia

2013-2014

Instructor of record
Course: Introduction to Computer Systems II
Computer Science Engineering, University of Pavia

2010-2012

Teaching AssistantCourse: Introduction to Computer Systems
Computer Science Engineering, University of Pavia

2007-2010

Firmware developer for LTE systems
Azcom Technology
Client: Blue Danube Inc.

2016-2017

Software engineer consultant
2015-2016
Alten Italia
Client: Leonardo S.p.A.
Client: Magneti Marelli (Fiat Chrysler Automobiles Group)
Last Update: Nov 2023

S. Rampazzi (2)Refereed
conference
publications* co-first andcorresponding
author° corresponding(senior) author

Complete list available at:https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=I9d0CrAAAAAJ&hl=en
Jennifer Sheldon, Weidong Zhu, Adnan Abdullah, Sri Hrushikesh Varma Bhupathiraju,Takeshi Sugawara, Kevin R. B. Butler, Md Jahidul Islam, Sara Rampazzi, “AquaSonic: Acoustic Manipulation of Underwater Data Center Operations and Resource Management”, Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy(IEEE S&P), May 20, 2024
Weidong Zhu, Grant Hernandez, Washington Garcia, Dave (Jing) Tian, Sara Rampazzi, Kevin Butler, “Minding the Semantic Gap for Effective Storage-Based Ransomware Defense”, Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Massive
Storage Systems and Technology (MSST 2024).
Dipkamal Bhusal, Md Tanvirul Alam, Monish Kumar Manikya Veerabhadran, MichaelClifford, Sara Rampazzi, Nidhi Rastogi, “PASA: Attack Agnostic Unsupervised Adversarial Detection using Prediction & Attribution Sensitivity Analysis”, Proceedings of the IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy 2024 (Euro S&P2024).
Sri Hrushikesh Varma Bhupathiraju, Takami Sato, Michael Clifford, Takeshi Sugawara,
Qi Alfred Chen, Sara Rampazzi, “On the Vulnerability of Traffic Light Recognition
Systems to Laser Illumination Attacks” In Proceedings of VehicleSec Symposium
2024, February 2024
Takami Sato, Sri Hrushikesh Varma Bhupathiraju, Michael Clifford, Takeshi Sugawara,
Qi Alfred Chen, Sara Rampazzi, “Invisible Reflections: Leveraging Infrared Laser
Reflections to Target Traffic Sign Perception”, Proceedings of the Network andDistributed System Security Symposium (NDSS 2024)
Yazhou Tu, Sara Rampazzi, Xiali Hei “Towards Adversarial Process Control on
Inertial Sensor Systems with Physical Feedback Side Channels”, Proceedings ofthe 5th Joint Workshop on CPS & IoT Security and Privacy (CPSIoTSec 2023).
Eric Gustafson, Paul Grosen, Nilo Redini, Saagar Jha, Andrea Continella, RuoyuWang, Kevin Fu, Sara Rampazzi, Christopher Kruegel, Giovanni Vigna “Shimware:Toward Practical Security Retrofitting for Monolithic Firmware Images”,
Proceedings of the 26th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusionsand Defenses (RAID 2023) (Acc. Rate 23%).
Yazhou Tu, Liqun Shan, Md Imran Hossen, Sara Rampazzi, Kevin Butler, Xiali Hei“Auditory Eyesight: Demystifying μs-Precision Keystroke Tracking Attacks on
Unconstrained Keyboard Inputs”, Proceedings of USENIX Security 2023. (Acc.
Rate 29%).
Dipkamal Bhusal, Rosalyn Shin, Ajay Ashok Shewale, Monish Kumar Manikya
Veerabhadran, Michael Clifford, Sara Rampazzi, and Nidhi Rastogi, “SoK: Modeling
Explainability in Security Analytics for Interpretability, Trustworthiness, and Usability”, Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Availability, Reliability
and Security (ARES 2023)

Last Update: Nov 2023

S. Rampazzi (3)Jennifer Sheldon, Weidong Zhu, Adnan Abdullah, Kevin Butler, Md Jahidul Islam,
Sara Rampazzi, “Deep Note: Can Acoustic Interference Damage the Availabilityof Hard Disk Storage in Underwater Data Centers?”, In Proceedings of the 15th
ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems (HotStorage 2023) (SKHynix Best Paper Award)
Sri Hrushikesh Varma Bhupathiraju, Jennifer Sheldon, Luke A. Bauer, Vincent
Bindschaedler, Takeshi Sugawara, Sara Rampazzi, “EMI-LiDAR: Uncovering Vulnerabilities of LiDAR Sensors in Autonomous Driving Setting using Electromagnetic Interference”, In Proceedings of ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in
Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec 2023) (Acc. Rate 18.5%).
Yulong Cao, Sri Hrushikesh Varma Bhupathiraju, Pirouz Naghavi, Takeshi Sugawara,
Z. Morley Mao, Sara Rampazzi “You Can't See Me: Physical Removal Attacks on
LiDAR-based Autonomous Vehicles Driving Frameworks”, In Proceedings ofUSENIX Security 2023 (Acc. Rate 29%).
Yan Long, Pirouz Naghavi, Blas Kojusner, Kevin Butler, Sara Rampazzi, Kevin Fu,“Side Eye: Characterizing the Limits of POV Acoustic Eavesdropping from
Smartphone Cameras with Rolling Shutters and Movable Lenses”, In
Proceedings of IEEE Security and Privacy 2023
Takami Sato, Sri Hrushikesh Varma Bhupathiraju, Michael Clifford, Takeshi Sugawara,
Qi Alfred Chen, Sara Rampazzi “WIP: Infrared Laser Reflection Attack Against
Traffic Sign Recognition Systems”, In Proceedings of VehicleSec Symposium2023. (ETAS Best WIP/Short Paper Award, Qualcomm Best Demo Award) (Acc.
Rate 28.22%).
Cassidy Gibson, Vanessa Frost, Katie Platt, Washington Garcia, Luis Vargas, Sara
Rampazzi, Vincent Bindschaedler, Patrick Traynor, Kevin Butler, “Analyzing theMonetization Ecosystem of Stalkerware”, In Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing
Technologies (PETS) 4: 105-119, 2022 (Acc. Rate 24%).
Nidhi Rastogi, Sara Rampazzi, Michael Clifford, Miriam Heller, Matthew Bishop, KarlLevitt, “Explaining RADAR features for detecting spoofing attacks in Connected
Autonomous Vehicles”, in Proceedings of Workshop on Explainable Agency inArtificial Intelligence, 2022.
Takeshi Sugawara, Ben Cyr, Sara Rampazzi°, Daniel Genkin, Kevin Fu,“Light Commands: Laser-Based Audio Injection on Voice-ControllableSystems”, in 29th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX), August 2020 (Acc. Rate16.1%).
Sara Rampazzi*, Yazhou Tu, Bin Hao, Angel Rodriguez, Kevin Fu, and Xiali Hei,
“Trick or Heat? Attack on Amplification Circuits to Abuse Critical Temperature
Control Systems”, in Proceedings of the 2019 ACM SIGSAC Conference on
Computer and Communications Security (CCS), November 2019 (Acc. Rate 17%).
Yulong Cao, Chaowei Xiao, Benjamin Cyr, Yimeng Zhou, Won Park, Sara Rampazzi°,
Qi Alfred Chen, Kevin Fu, Z. Morley Mao, “Adversarial Sensor Attack on LiDARbased Perception in Autonomous Driving”, in Proceedings of the 2019 ACM
SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), November
2019 (Acc. Rate 17%).
Connor Bolton, Sara Rampazzi, Chaohao Li, Andrew Kwong, Wenyuan Xu, Kevin Fu,“Blue Note: How Intentional Acoustic Interference Damages Availability andLast Update: Nov 2023

S. Rampazzi (4)Integrity in Hard Disk Drives and Operating Systems”. In Proceedings of the 39th
Annual IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, May 2018 (Acc. Rate 11.5%).
Sara Rampazzi, Francesco Leporati, Giovanni Danese, Marabelli Franco, Andrea
Valsesia, “A Novel Portable Surface Plasmon Resonance Based Imaging
Instrument for On-Site Multi-Analyte Detection”. In Federated Conference on
Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS ’13), Sept 2013.
Sara Rampazzi, Giovanni Danese, Lucia Fornasari, Francesco Leporati, FrancoMarabelli, Nelson Nazzicari, Andrea Valsesia, “Lab On Chip: Portable Optical
Device for On-Site Multi-parametric Analysis”. In IEEE Euromicro Conference on
Digital System Design (Euromicro DSD’13), 4-6 Sept 2013, pp. 807-810.
Refereedjournalpublications

Jianyi Zhang, Yuchen Wang, Yazhou Tu, Sara Rampazzi, Zhiqiang Lin, Insup Lee,Xiali Hei, “ADC-Bank: Detecting Acoustic Out-of-Band Signal Injection on InertialSensors”, Security and Privacy in Cyber-Physical Systems and Smart Vehicles.
SmartSP 2023. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 552. 05 February 2024, Springer (pp.
53-72) (SmartSP Best Paper Award)
Muhammad Sajidur Rahman, Pirouz Naghavi, Blas Kojusner, Sadia Afroz, ByronWilliams, Sara Rampazzi, Vincent Bindschaedler, “PermPress: Machine LearningBased Pipeline to Evaluate Permissions in App Privacy Policies”, IEEE Access,2022 (IF 3.476).
Yan Long, Alexander Curtiss, Sara Rampazzi, Josiah Hester, Kevin Fu, “VeriMask:Sensor Platform for Decontamination of N95 Masks”, In GetMobile: Mobile
Computing and Communications 26, no. 2, 2022. (Selected for ACM SIGMOBILE
Research Highlight).
Yan Long, Sara Rampazzi, Takeshi Sugawara, Kevin Fu, “Protecting COVID-19
Vaccine Transportation and Storage from Analog Cybersecurity Threats”, In
Biomedical Instrumentation & Technology 55, no. 3, Oct 2021 (IF 0.13).
Yan Long, Alexander Curtiss, Sara Rampazzi, Josiah Hester, Kevin Fu, “VeriMask:Facilitating Decontamination of N95 Masks in the COVID-19 Pandemic:
Challenges, Lessons Learned, and Safeguarding the Future”, In Proceedings ofthe ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (ACMIMWUT), Sept 2021 (IF 4.16).
Simone Marini, Francesca Vitali, Sara Rampazzi, Andrea Demartini, Tatsuya Akutsu,“Protease target prediction via matrix factorization”. In Bioinformatics, 29 Aug.
2018, bty746 (IF 6.9).
Sara Rampazzi, Giovanni Danese, Francesco Leporati, Franco Marabelli, “ALocalized Surface Plasmon Resonance-Based Portable Instrument for Quick
On-Site Biomolecular Detection”. In IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation andMeasurement, Vol. 65 Is. 2, 1 Dec. 2015, pp. 317-327 (IF 5.3).

Journalpublications
as member oftheN95DeconConsortium

Complete list available at https://www.n95decon.org/publicationsLoïc Anderegg, John Doyle, Margaret L Gardel, Amit Gupta, Christian Hallas, YuriLensky, Nancy G Love, Bronwyn A Lucas, Edward Mazenc, Cole Meisenhelder, Ajay
Pillarisetti, Daniel Ranard, Allison H Squires, Jessica Vechakul, Nathaniel B Vilas,
Stuart Williams, Daniel Wilson, Tyler N Chen, N95DECON Consortium, “Heat andLast Update: Nov 2023

S. Rampazzi (5)Humidity for Bioburden Reduction of N95 Filtering Facepiece Respirators”,
Applied Biosafety, Jan 2021 (IF 0.72).
Samantha M Grist, Alisha Geldert, Anjali Gopal, Alison Su, Halleh B Balch, Amy EHerr, N95DECON Consortium “Current Understanding of Ultraviolet-C
Decontamination of N95 Filtering Facepiece Respirators”, Applied Biosafety, Jan2021 (IF 0.72).
Sylvia J Smullin, Branden D Tarlow, N95DECON Consortium, “Room Temperature
Wait and Reuse for Bioburden Reduction of SARS-CoV-2 on N95 Filtering
Facepiece Respirators”, Applied Biosafety, Jan 2021 (IF 0.72).
David Rempel, John Henneman, James Agalloco, Jill Crittenden, N95DECON
Consortium “Hydrogen Peroxide Methods for Decontaminating N95 Filtering
Facepiece Respirators”, Applied Biosafety, Jan 2021, (IF 0.72).
David Rempel, N95DECON Consortium, “Scientific Collaboration During theCOVID-19 Pandemic: N95DECON.org”. In Annals of Work Exposures and Health,June 2020, (IF 1.960).
Posters &Demo papers

Trishna Chakraborty, S. Hrushikesh, Dipkamal Bhusal, Michael Clifford, SaraRampazzi, Nidhi Rastogi, Qi Alfred Chen, “Towards A Quantitative Risk
Assessment of Physical Adversarial Attacks in the AV Perception Domain”, In
the Poster Session of the USENIX Security Symposium 2023 (USENIX 2023).
Cesar Arguello, Hunter Searle, Sara Rampazzi, Kevin Butler, “A PracticalMethodology for ML-Based EM Side Channel Disassemblers”, In the Poster
Session of the 7th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy 2022.
Yulong Cao, Jiaxiang Ma, Kevin Fu, Sara Rampazzi, Z. Morley Mao, “AutomatedTracking System For LiDAR Spoofing Attacks On Moving Targets”. In the Demo
Session of Automotive and Autonomous Vehicle Security (AutoSec) Workshop 2021,
Feb 2021. (Best Demo Award Runner-up)
Yan Long, Alexander Curtiss, Sara Rampazzi, Josiah Hester, Kevin Fu, “Automating
Decontamination of N95 Masks for Frontline Workers in the COVID-19
Pandemic”. In the Poster Session of the ACM Conference on Embedded NetworkedSensor Systems (Sensys 2020), Nov 2020 (Best Poster Award Runner-up).
Angel Rodriguez, Sara Rampazzi and Kevin Fu, “IoT Two Factor Neurometric
Authentication System using Wearable EEG”. In the Poster Session of the IEEE
Workshop on the Internet of Safe Things (SafeThings 2019), May 2019.

Patents

Sara Rampazzi, Giovanni Danese, Lucia Fornasari, Francesco Leporati, FrancoMarabelli, Nelson Nazzicari, Andrea Valsesia “Detection device of molecularcompounds based on Surface Plasmon Resonance”. European patent
ITMI20131345 (A1) ― 2015-02-07. Priority 2013. Published 2015.

Selected
Invited talks
lectures andseminars“Cyber-physical system security: Exploiting the physics of sensors to undermine AIbased decisions”, Invited webinar, Hardware.io - Hardware Security Conference andTraining, 02/14/2022“Sensor Security”, Sara Rampazzi, Invited Keynote at 15th IEEE Workshop on
Offensive Technologies (WOOT ’21), 27/05/2021“Autonomous Vehicle Security”, Invited talk, Lansing Information Systems Security
Association (ISSA) Meeting, 12/17/2020

Last Update: Nov 2023

S. Rampazzi (6)“Wirelessly sensor technology for verifiable decontamination of N95 masks”, COVID19 Research Lightning Round Webinar, COVID Information Commons, 10/16/2020“Light Commands: Hacking Voice Assistants with Lasers”, talk, BlackHat Europe
2020, 12/10/2020“Cybersecurity In The Internet Of Medical Things Era: Research And Challenges”,
Invited Seminar, Archimedes 2020 Leadership Workshop Webinar Series, 06/03/2020“Cybersecurityin
Hospitals:comparing
EUandUSstrategies”
Seminar & discussion panel in second level postgraduate Master in Cyberlaw andPolicies for Digital Innovation, University of Milan Bicocca, 12/19/2018“Cybersecurity and Implantable Devices”. Invited talk in Women in Electrophysiology,
Medical Education - Medtronic Accademy, 10/13/2018“Sensor Security in Cyber-Physical Systems”, seminar for graduate students of thePh.D. School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering and Computer Science,
University of Pavia, 07/15/2018
Service toprofession

Steering Committee:
Conference on Offensive Technologies (USENIX WOOT)
Program Chair:
17th Workshop on Offensive Technologies (WOOT 2023)
2nd Annual Embedded System Workshop (EmSec 2020)Student Funding Chair:
Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS 2024)
Poster/Demo Chair:
Poster Chair for USENIX Security Symposium 2022
Poster and Demo Chair for the VehicleSec Symposium 2023 and 2024
Session Chair:
ACM CCS 2020, USENIX 2021
Conferences PC Member:• IEEE Workshop on the Internet of Safe Things (SafeThings) 2019, 2021
• USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX), 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
• IEEE Security & Privacy 2023, 2024
• ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) 2020
• Workshop on Offensive Technologies (WOOT) 2020, 2021, 2022
• IEEE SecDev 2021
• DYnamic and Novel Advances in Machine Learning and Intelligent Cyber
Security Workshop (DYNAMICS), 2020
• International Workshop on Automotive and Autonomous Vehicle Security(AutoSec) 2022
• VehicleSec Symposium 2023
• Workshop on CPS&IoT Security and Privacy (CPSIoTSec) 2022

N95Decon.org Consortium member (2020-2021):

Last Update: Nov 2023

S. Rampazzi (7)Volunteer collective of scientists, with the goal of reviewing, publishing, anddisseminating scientific information about N95 masks decontamination and reuse https://www.n95decon.org/
Journal Peer Reviewer (https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/788841):
PLOS ONE; ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security;
ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare; Science Magazine;
IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine, Sensors; ACM IEEE Transactions on
Dependable and Secure Computing.
NSF SaTC Grant Proposal Review Panelist (2018, 2022)
Organization Committee member:
Euromicro SEAA 2014/ DSD 2014 Conference

Mentoring &Advising

Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access Committee Member
University of Florida, CISE Dept, 2021 - 2023
Computer Engineering Undergraduate Advisor
University of Michigan, Winter 2019
Mentor of:• Wiser – (Women In SEcurity Research) at University of Michigan (2018-2020)• First Generation Engineering Program at University of Michigan (2018-2020)• Society of Women Engineers Summer Camp mentor at University of Michigan(2018)

IEEE Student Branch Computer Science Area Advisor
IEEE Pavia Student Branch, Region 8, Italian section,
University of Pavia, 2011-2014.

TechnicalSkills

Languages

PLs:

Matlab, C, Java

Design/Modelling/Simulation tools:

Matlab-Simulink, COMSOL Multiphysics, StateFlow, IBM
Rational Rhapsody.

Programming/Validation/Testing tools:

IBM Rational Logiscope, GNURadio, QA System
Cantata++, dSpace Target Link, ROS, MPLAB, MikroC
for PIC and ARM

ItalianEnglish
SpanishLast Update: Nov 2023

Native speaker
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