Chen, Al Faruque Awarded for Research in Autonomous Security

With autonomous vehicle on the rise, Assistant Professor Alfred Chen and Professor Mohammad Al Faruque have shown that these vehicles, like self-driving cars and autonomous drones, can be hijacked and tricked into dangerous driving. Prof. Chen and Prof. Al Faruque are leading a team to discover end-to-end security vulnerabilities in any cyber-physical system. Their project is part of the Faithful Integration, Reverse-engineering, and Emulation (FIRE) program, backed by a three-year fund of $15 million from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.