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Technische Universität München

Dr.-Ing. Mohammad Hamad

Contact 

Group Leader Security for IoT and Autonomous Systems 
E-Mailmohammad.hamad (at) tum.de
Telefon+49-(0)89-289-23557
Office4947
Address

Mohammad Hamad

TUM-EI-ESI

Arcisstr. 21

D-80333 München

Personal Websitemhamad.me

Bio

Mohammad Hamad is the "Security for IoT and Autonmous Systems" research group leader in the Associate Professorship of Embedded Systems and Internet of Things in the Department of Computer Engineering at Technical University of Munich (TUM). Mohammad received his Ph.D. in computer engineering (Dr.-Ing.) from the Institute for Data Technology and Communication Networks at TU Braunschweig in 2020. 

Open Positions for Students

If you are interested in my area of research and are looking for a bachelor's thesis (BT), master's thesis (MT), or research internship (FP), feel free to contact me.

Open positions 
TypeTopic 
MT [External]Secure Communication over the SpaceWire

 

Teaching

Course Name
Role
Semester
Students Evaluation
IoT Security Lecturer 

Winter: 22/23, 21/22

Summer: 2021, 2024

WS22/23
Advanced Topics in IoT SecurityLecturer 

Winter: 23/24

Summer: 2022

SS22
Software Architecture for Distributed Embedded SystemsTutorWinter: 20/21 
Advanced Seminar Embedded Systems and Internet of Things  Supervisor  

Summer: 2020, 2024

Winter: 20/21, 21/22

 

 

Publications List

Journals 

  1. Mohammad Hamad, Zain AH Hammadeh, Davide Alessi, Monowar Hasan, Mert Pese, Daniel Lüdtke, Sebastian Steinhorst. “Enhancing Security Through Task Migration in Software-Defined Vehicles”. In. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2025. DOI: 10.1109/JIOT.2025.3611875

  2. Andreas Finkenzeller, Arne Fucks, Emanuel Regnath, Mohammad Hamad, Sebastian Steinhorst. "Securing the Precision Time Protocol with SDN-enabled Cyclic Path Asymmetry Analysis". In: ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems, doi.org/10.1145/3728363.

  3. Zain A. H. Hammadeh, Monowar Hasan, Mohammad Hamad. "RESCUE: A Reconfigurable Scheduling Framework for Securing Multi-Core Real-Time Systems". In: ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems, https://doi.org/10.1145/3728364. 

  4. 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, 145( ), 2024. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cose.2024.104008

  5. Firas Hamila, Mohammad Hamad, Daniel Costa Salgado, Sebastian Steinhorst. "Enhancing Security in Fiat-Shamir Transformation-based Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge Protocols for IoT Authentication". In: International Journal of Information Security, 2023, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10207-023-00779-8

  6. Mohammad Hamad, Andreas Finkenzeller, Hangmao Liu, Jan Lauinger, Vassilis Prevelakis, Sebastian Steinhorst. "SEEMQTT: Secure End-to-End MQTT-Based Communication for Mobile IoT Systems Using Secret Sharing and Trust Delegation". In: IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/JIOT.2022.3221857

  7. Lea Schönberger, Mohammad Hamad, Javier Velasquez Gomez, Sebastian Steinhorst, Selma Saidi. "Towards an Increased Detection Sensitivity of Time-Delay Attacks on Precision Time Protocol". In: IEEE Access, 2021. DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3127852

  8. Mohammad Hamad, Vassilis Prevelakis. "SAVTA: A Hybrid Vehicular Threat Model: Overview and Case Study". In: Information, 11(5), pp. 273.  2020, DOI: 10.3390/info11050273

  9. Mohammad Hamad, Zain A. H. Hammadeh, Selma Saidi, Vassilis Prevelakis. "Temporal-based intrusion detection for IoV". In: it - Information Technology, 62(5-6), pp. 227-239. 2020, DOI: 10.1515/itit-2020-0009

Conferences and Workshops

  1. 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 ". In: ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIA CCS '26) . Bangalore, India , pp. . DOI: 10.1145/3779208.3785267

  2. Marco Calipari, Fabian Maximilian Schmidt, Mohammad Hamad, Sebastian Steinhorst. " CIAK-CP: Camera feed Injection Attack in Collaborative Perception ". In: The 41st ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC2026) . Thessaloniki, Greece , pp. . DOI: 10.1145/3748522.3779847

  3. Lukas Eugster, Friedrich Wiemer, Mert D. Pesé, Mohammad Hamad, Sebastian Steinhorst. "Secure Automotive Ethernet: Implementing and Benchmarking MACsec, IPsec, and TLS". In: 2026 IEEE 103rd Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2026-Spring).

  4. Andreas Finkenzeller, Andrew Roberts, Mauro Bellone, Olaf Maennel, Mohammad Hamad, Sebastian Steinhorst. "Sensor Fusion Desynchronization Attacks". In: 37th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2025). Brussel, Belgium, pp. 22. DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ECRTS.2025.6

  5. Michael Kühr, Maximilian Mittmann, Mohammad Hamad, Sebastian Steinhorst. "CATI - An Open-Source Framework to Evaluate Attacks on Cameras for Autonomous Vehicles". In: 28th Euromicro Conference Series on Digital System Design (DSD) 2025. Salerno, Italy. DOI: 10.1109/DSD67783.2025.00078

  6. Andrew Roberts, Mohsen Malayjerdi, Mauro Bellone, Raivo Sell, Olaf Maennel, Mohammad Hamad, Sebastian Steinhorst. "ADSecData Platform: An Open-Source Data Platform for Autonomous Driving Cybersecurity". In: The 2025 IEEE 101st Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2025-Spring). Oslo, Norway, In Press. 

  7. Andrew Roberts, Jingyue Cheng, Olaf Maennel, Mohammad Hamad, Sebastian Steinhorst. "ADSecLang: A Domain-Specific Language for Cybersecurity Testing of Autonomous Vehicles". In: The 2025 IEEE 101st Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2025-Spring). Oslo, Norway, In Press. 

  8. Mohammad Hamad, Christian Prehofer, Mikael Asplund, Tobias Loehr, Lucas Bublitz, Alexander Zeh, Mridula Singh, Sebastian Steinhorst. "Cybersecurity Challenges of Autonomous Systems". In: Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE 2025). Lyon, France, pp. 10. 

  9. Zain A. H. Hammadeh, Mohammad Hamad, Andrzej Olchawa, Milenko Starcik, Ricardo Fradique, Stefan Langhammer, Manuel Hoffmann, Florian Goehler, Daniel Luedtke, Michael Felderer, Sebastian Steinhorst. "Designing Secure Space Systems". In: Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE 2025). Lyon, France, pp. 7.

  10. Mohammad Hamad, Michael Kuehr, 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". In: Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE 2025). Lyon, France, pp. 7.

  11. Andrew Roberts, Mohsen Malayjerdi, Mauro Bellone, Raivo Sell, Olaf Maennel, Mohammad Hamad, Sebastian Steinhorst. “Analysis of Autonomous Driving Software to Low-Level Sensor Cyber Attacks”. In: 20th International Conference on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems. Ottawa, Canada, 2025. 

  12. Mohammad Hamad, Andreas Finkenzeller, Monowar Hasan, MArc-Oliver Pahl, Sebastian Steinhorst. "A Gamified Learning Approach for IoT Security Education using Capture-the-Flag Competitions: Architecture and Insights". In: The 29th Nordic Conference on Secure IT systems (NordSec). Sweeden,  2024, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-79007-2_9. 

  13. Andreas Finkenzeller, Oliver Butowski, Emanuel Regnath, Mohammad Hamad, and Sebastian Steinhorst, "PTPsec: Securing the Precision Time Protocol Against Time Delay Attacks Using Cyclic Path Asymmetry Analysis", IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM), Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2024, DOI: 10.1109/INFOCOM52122.2024.10621345

  14. Andrew Roberts, Mohammad Reza Heidari Iman, Mauro Bellone, Tara Ghasempouri, Olaf Maennel, Jaan Raik, Mohammad Hamad, and Sebastian Steinhorst, "ADAssure: Debugging Methodology for Autonomous Driving Control Algorithms", Design, Automation, and Test in Europe (DATE 2024)

  15. Zain A. H. Hammadehand, Monowar Hasan, Mohammad Hamad. "Securing Real-Time Systems using Schedule Reconfiguration". In: International Symposium on Real Time Distributed Computing (ISORC 2024). 

  16. Mohammad Hamad, Sebastian Steinhorst. "Security Challenges in Autonomous Systems Design". In: International Conference on Computational Technologies and Electronics (ICCTE-2023). India. 

  17. Marinos Tsantekidis, Souleima Abdelghani, Mohammad Hamad, Vassilis Prevelakis. "Creating a Security Enforcement Environment for a Vehicular Platform". In: IEEE Conference on Standards for Communications and Networking (CSCN 23). Munich, Germany.

  18. Borna Blazevic, Sebastian Steinhorst. "TEEVseL4: Trusted Execution Environment for Virtualized seL4-based Systems". In: IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA 2023). Niigata, Japan,  DOI:10.1109/RTCSA58653.2023.00017

  19. Andreas Finkenzeller, Anshu Mathur, Jan Lauinger, Mohammad Hamad, Sebastian Steinhorst. "Simutack - An Attack Simulation Framework for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles". In: The 2023 IEEE 97th Vehicular Technology Conference: VTC2023-Spring (VTC2023-Spring). Florence, Italy, DOI: 10.1109/VTC2023-Spring57618.2023.10200555.

  20. Jan Lauinger, Mohammad Hamad, Sebastian Steinhorst. "Toward a Multi-Layer Intrusion Response System for Connected Vehicles". In: The 2022 IEEE 96th Vehicular Technology Conference: VTC2022-Fall (VTC2022-Fall). London, UK, pp. 2. DOI: 10.1109/VTC2022-Fall57202.2022.10012711

  21. Andreas Finkenzeller, Thomas Wakim, Mohammad Hamad, Sebastian Steinhorst. "Feasible Time Delay Attacks Against the Precision Time Protocol". In: IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2022) . Rio de Janeiro, Brazil , pp. 6. DOI: 10.1109/GLOBECOM48099.2022.10001666

  22. Wenxuan Ye, Xueli An, Xueqiang Yan, Mohammad Hamad, Sebastian Steinhorst. "FLaaS6G: Federated Learning as a Service in 6G Using Distributed Data Management Architecture". In: IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2022) . Rio de Janeiro, Brazil , pp. 6. DOI: 10.1109/GLOBECOM48099.2022.10001307

  23. Jan Lauinger, Andreas Finkenzeller, Henrik Lautebach, Mohammad Hamad, Sebastian Steinhorst. "Attack Data Generation Framework for Autonomous Vehicle Sensors". In: Proceedings of the Conference on Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE 2022) . Antwerp, Belgium, pp. 4. DOI: 10.23919/DATE54114.2022.9774542

  24. Jan Lauinger, Jens Ernstberger, Emanuel Regnath, Mohammad Hamad, Sebastian Steinhorst. "A-PoA: Anonymous Proof of Authorization for Decentralized Identity Management". In: Proceedings of the Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC 2021). Sydney, Australia, pp. 8.

  25. Mohammad Hamad, Emanuel Regnath, Jan Lauinger, Vassilis Prevelakis, Sebastian Steinhorst. "SPPS: Secure Policy-based Publish/Subscribe System for V2C Communication". In: Proceedings of the Conference on Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE 2021). Grenoble, France. DOI: 10.23919/DATE51398.2021.9474070

  26. Mohammad Hamad, Marinos Tsantekidis, Vassilis Prevelakis. "Intrusion Response System for Vehicles: Challenges and Vision". In: Smart Cities, Green Technologies and Intelligent Transport Systems. Springer International Publishing, pp. 321-341 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68028-2_15

  27. Mohammad Hamad, Marinos Tsantekidis, Vassilis Prevelakis. "Red-Zone: Towards an Intrusion Response Framework for Intra-vehicle System". In: 5th International Conference on Vehicle Technology and Intelligent Transport Systems (VEHITS). heraklion, Greece, pp. 148-158. DOI: 10.5220/0007715201480158

  28. Marinos Tsantekidis, Mohammad Hamad, Vassilis Prevelakis, Mustafa R. Agha. "Security for Heterogeneous Systems". In: Heterogeneous Computing Architectures: Challenges and Vision. Taylor & Francis Ltd, pp. 221-232 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1201/9780429399602

  29. Mohammad Hamad, Zain Alabedin Haj Hammadeh, Selma Saidi, Vassilis Prevelakis, Rolf Ernst. "Prediction of abnormal temporal behavior in real-time systems". In: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2018), Pau, France, April 09-13, 2018. Pau, France, pp. 359-367. DOI: 10.1145/3167132.3167172

  30. Mohammad Hamad, Mustafa R. Agha, Vassilis Prevelakis. "ProSEV: Proxy-Based Secure and Efficient Vehicular Communication". In: 2018 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference, VNC. Taipei, Taiwan, pp. 1-8. DOI: 10.1109/VNC.2018.8628360

  31. Muhammad Ali Siddiqi, Robert M. Seepers, Mohammad Hamad, Vassilis Prevelakis, Christos Strydis. "Attack-tree-based Threat Modeling of Medical Implants". In: PROOFS 2018, 7th International Workshop on Security Proofs for Embedded System. Amsterdam, Netherlands, pp. 32–49. DOI: 10.29007/8gxh

  32. Mohammad Hamad, Marcus Nolte, Vassilis Prevelakis. "A framework for policy based secure intra vehicle communication". In: 2017 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC 2017). Torino, Italy, pp. 1-8. DOI: 10.1109/VNC.2017.8275646

  33. Mohammad Hamad, Vassilis Prevelakis. "Secure APIs for Applications in Microkernel-based Systems". In: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy, ICISSP. Porto, Portugal, pp. 553-558. DOI: 10.1109/VNC.2017.8275646

  34. Mohammad Hamad, Marcus Nolte, Vassilis Prevelakis. "Towards comprehensive threat modeling for vehicles". In: 1st Workshop on Security and Dependability of Critical Embedded Real-Time Systems (CERTS). Porto, Portugal, pp. 31-36. DOI: 10.24355/dbbs.084-201806251532-0

  35. Mohammad Hamad, Johannes Schlatow, Vassilis Prevelakis, Rolf Ernst. "A communication framework for distributed access control in microkernel-based systems". In: 12th Annual Workshop on Operating Systems Platforms for Embedded Real-Time Applications (OSPERT16). Toulouse, France, pp. 1-6. DOI: 10.24355/dbbs.084-201806251501-3

  36. Vassilis Prevelakis, Mohammad Hamad. "A Policy-based Communications Architecture for Vehicles". In: ICISSP 2015 - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy. Angers, France, pp. 155-162. DOI: 10.5220/0005325001550162

  37. Vassilis Prevelakis, Mohammad Hamad. "Extending the operational envelope of applications". In: 8th International Conference on Trust and Trustworthy Computing (TRUST 2015). Heraklion, Greece, pp. 325-327. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-22846-4 

  38. Mohammad Hamad, Vassilis Prevelakis. "Implementation and performance evaluation of embedded ipsec in microkernel OS". In: 2015 World Symposium on Computer Networks and Information Security (WSCNIS). Hammamet, Tunisia, pp. 1-7. DOI: 10.1109/WSCNIS.2015.7368294


 

Supervised Work

Master Thesis (MT), Bachelor Thesis (BT)

Student             
Title
Type
Year
Lukas EugsterAutomotive Ethernet Testbed MT2025
Mehmet Ugur OkumuşAI-based Attack Data GenerationMT*2025
Thomas GroteDecoupling Control and Data: Towards Secure and Efficient Modern Automotive In-Vehicle Networks using Fully Programmable Data PlanesMT2025
Ayser Ecem KonuConsistency Analysis for Automotive Sensor DataMT*2025
Maximilian LüdeckeOn the resilience of autonomous vehicles against adversarial retroreflective patch attacksMT*2024
Manish KadamComparative Analysis of AI-Driven Systems for Playbook Generation in Automated Incident ResponseMT*2024
Davide AlessiDesign and implementation of a Portable ECUs Emulation  System for the realisation of a hardware-based CTF PlatformMT2024
Rami DaouasDigital Twin  for Autonomous Vehicles MT2024
Marco CalipariFormal Security Analysis Of Zero Touch Onboarding ProtocolsMT2024
Lorenz TeplyDouble Seeding for search space reduction when manipulating multiple sensor inputs for ADS fuzzingMT*2024
Xinyi HuangCost-efficient secure boot and secure update design for embedded systems used on automotive applicationsMT2024
Jesser BouzidEvaluating the Resilience of Multi-Sensor Fusion MethodsMT*2024
Jingyue ChengCybersecurity Testing and Evaluation of Autonomous Driving SensorMT*2024
Firas HamilaDesign of a Zero-Knowledge Protocol Without Interaction for IIoT ApplicationsMT2023
Borna BlazevicProviding a Trusted Execution Environment in a Virtualized seL4 Based SystemMT2023
Sherin Kalli ValappilAvoidance of security misuse through IDPS capabilities for highly automated and connected vehiclesMT2023
Eduardo Rodriguez FernandezSystem implementation and analysis of a container-based SSH-accessible virtualized operating system platformMT*2023
Souleima AbdelghaniSecurity Evaluation of Library-based Access Control MechanismMT2023
Oliver ButowskiSDN-based Countermeasures Against Time Delay AttacksMT*2023
Mazen Mohamed
 		Automotive-Ethernet Security: Using Gateways to Split the Car's Ethernet Network into Security ZonesMT2023
Anshu MathurSimulation-based attack data generation for connected and autonomous vehiclesMT*2023
Felix MontnacherAutomated IDS ruleset analysis for open-source data extensionMT2022
Michael KührAnalysis and Design of an Intrusion Response System for Autonomous Cars and the Internet of VehiclesMT2022
Thomas WakimSecurity Testbed for Time Synchronization in IoT SystemsMT*2022
Milind MathaiDerivation of a Formal Sensor and Attack Data Model for Autonomous VehiclesMT*2022
Wenxuan YeData Management in Next Generation Mobile Communication System Based on Blockchain for Intelligent ServicesMT2022
Moez Ben AyedAnalytical Study of Using Machine Learning for Intrusion Response System BT2022
Alexander KünznerEvaluating the Use of MISP as a Shared Threat Intelligence Repository for IoVBT2021
Andreas FinkenzellerSenGen - An Automotive Simulation Framework to Generate Realistic Sensor and Attack DataMT*2021
Hangmao LiuImplementation and Evaluation of IBE for Securing MQTT ProtocolMT2021

* co-supervision 

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