Biography

Michael Kühr is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Associate Professorship of Embedded Systems and Internet of Things in the School of Computation, Information and Technology of Technische Universität München (TUM). He gained his Bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering at the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University in Stuttgart and his Master degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at TUM.

 

Research Interests

• Autonomous Driving
• Secure Sensors

Publications

2026	Pedram MohajerAnsari, Amir Salarpour, Michael Kühr, Siyu Huang, Mohammad Hamad, Habeeb Olufowobi, Sebastian Steinhorst, Bing Li, and Mert D. Pesé, “Toward Inherently Robust VLMs Against Visual Perception Attacks,” 2026 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), Detroit, MI, USA, 2026, pp. 45–52. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/IV66570.2026.11624073
	Shareeful Islam, Spyridon Papastergiou, Armend Duzha, Kostas Drakonakis, Grigorios Chrysos, Sotiris Ioannidis, Iordanis Xanthopoulos, George Spanoudakis, Marc-Oliver Pahl, Haralambos Mouratidis, Michael Kühr, and Mohammad Hamad, “AI-Enhanced Security Tools with Virtual Reality for Ensuring Digital Resilience,” in J. Soldatos & H. Abie (Eds.), Technology-Enabled Resilience: Innovations in Critical Infrastructure Protection, Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2026, pp. 225–238. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-25917-2_10
	Michael Kühr, Mohammad Hamad, Pedram MohajerAnsari, Mert D. Pesé, Sebastian Steinhorst, “SoK: Security of the Image Processing Pipeline for Camera-based Sensing in Autonomous Vehicles,” ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIA CCS '26),  Bangalore, India, 2026, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3779208.3785267
2025	Michael Kühr, Maximilian Mittmann, Mohammad Hamad, Sebastian Steinhorst, “CATI - An Open-Source Framework to Evaluate Attacks on Cameras for Autonomous Vehicles,” 28th Euromicro Conference Series on Digital System Design (DSD) 2025, Salerno, Italy, 2025. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/DSD67783.2025.00078
	Mohammad Hamad, Michael Kühr, Haralambos Mouratidis, Eleni-Maria Kalogeraki, Christos Gizelis, Dimitris Papanikas, Athanasios Bountioukos-Spinaris, Charilaos Skandylas, Evangelos Raptis, Andreas Alexopoulos, Grigorios Chrysos, Mina Marmpena, Sevasti Politi, Konstantinos Lieros, Papagiannopoulos Nikolaos, Iordanis Xanthopoulos, Spyros Papastergiou, Sotiris Ioannidis, Mikael Asplund, Marc-Oliver Pahl, Sebastian Steinhorst, "Multi-Partner Project: CyberSecDome - Framework for Secure, Collaborative, and Privacy-Aware Incident Handling for Digital Infrastructure," 2025 Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference (DATE), Lyon, France, 2025, pp. 1-7. DOI: https://doi.org/10.23919/DATE64628.2025.10992768
2024	Mohammad Hamad, Andreas Finkenzeller, Michael Kühr, Andrew Roberts, Olaf Maennel, Vassilis Prevelakis, Sebastian Steinhorst. "REACT: Autonomous intrusion response system for intelligent vehicles". In: Computers & Security, Volume 145, pp. 104008, 2024. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cose.2024.104008

Teaching

Lecture	Semester	Type	Role
IoT Security	SS24	Lecture + Exercise	Teaching Assistant
IoT Security	SS25	Lecture + Exercise	Teaching Assistant
Secure Autonomous Systems	WS25/26	Lecture + Exercise	Teaching Assistant
Advanced Seminar Embedded Systems and Internet of Things	WS25/26	Seminar	Organization and Supervision
IoT Security	SS26	Lecture + Exercise	Teaching Assistant (Proxy)
Advanced Seminar Embedded Systems and Internet of Things	SS26	Seminar	Organization and Supervision

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