About Me
I am an Assistant Professor in the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence at Arizona State University. My research interests broadly lie in the area of systems security. Through systems design and formal verification, my research seeks to improve security and privacy guarantees in emerging computing platforms.
I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from Purdue University under the supervision of Dr. Z. Berkay Celik. My dissertation focused on achieving compositional security and privacy in IoT environments.
Prospective Students
[Spring/Fall 25] I am looking for motivated Ph.D. students and research interns who are interested in security and privacy. If you are interested in working with me, please reach out to me through email.
News
- [Jun 2024] Our work on the security of industrial control systems is accepted to Usenix Security 2024!
- [Apr 2024] I received the Diamond Award for Academic excellence from the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS) at Purdue University!
- [Mar 2024] Our work on physical side-channel attacks against intermittent (batteryless) devices is accepted to PoPETs 2024!
- [Mar 2024] I received Purdue CS Department's merit recognition award!
- [Sep 2023] I was invited to NSA’s Center of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity Research Symposium as a panelist!
- [Nov 2022] Our work on secure group pairing of heterogeneous IoT devices is accepted to IEEE S&P 2023!
- [Oct 2022] Our work about evasion attacks and defenses on physical event verification systems is accepted to NDSS 2023!
- [Aug 2022] Our work on discovering IoT physical channel vulnerabilities is accepted to CCS 2022!
Selected Publications
- SAIN: Improving ICS Attack Detection Sensitivity via State-Aware Invariants
Syed Ghazanfar Abbas, Muslum Ozgur Ozmen, Abdulellah Alsaheel, Arslan Khan, Z. Berkay Celik, and Dongyan Xu
Usenix Security 2024 (Acceptance Rate: 18.3%) [Paper] - Physical Side-Channel Attacks against Intermittent Devices
Muslum Ozgur Ozmen, Habiba Farrukh and Z. Berkay Celik
PoPETs 2024 (Acceptance Rate: 19.5%) [Paper] - Evasion Attacks and Defenses on Smart Home Physical Event Verification
Muslum Ozgur Ozmen, Ruoyu Song, Habiba Farrukh and Z. Berkay Celik
NDSS 2023 (Acceptance Rate: 16.2%) [Paper] - One Key to Rule Them All: Secure Group Pairing for Heterogeneous IoT Devices
Habiba Farrukh*, Muslum Ozgur Ozmen*, Kerem Ors and Z. Berkay Celik
IEEE S&P 2023 (* equal contribution, Acceptance Rate: 17%) [Paper] - Discovering Adversarial Driving Maneuvers against Autonomous Vehicles
Ruoyu Song, Muslum Ozgur Ozmen, Hyungsub Kim, Raymond Muller, Z. Berkay Celik, and Antonio Bianchi
Usenix Security 2023 (Acceptance Rate: 29%) [Paper] - PatchVerif: Discovering Faulty Patches in Robotic Vehicles
Hyungsub Kim, Muslum Ozgur Ozmen, Z. Berkay Celik, Antonio Bianchi and Dongyan Xu
Usenix Security 2023 (Acceptance Rate: 29%) [Paper] - Discovering IoT Physical Channel Vulnerabilities.
Muslum Ozgur Ozmen, Xuansong Li, Andrew Chu, Z. Berkay Celik, Bardh Hoxha and Xiangyu Zhang
ACM CCS 2022 (Acceptance Rate: 22%) [Paper] - PGPATCH: Policy-Guided Logic Bug Patching for Robotic Vehicles
Hyungsub Kim, Muslum Ozgur Ozmen, Z. Berkay Celik, Antonio Bianchi and Dongyan Xu
IEEE S&P 2022 (Acceptance Rate: 14.5%) [Paper] - Behind the Tube: Exploitative Monetization of Content on YouTube
Andrew Chu, Arjun Arunasalam, Muslum Ozgur Ozmen and Z. Berkay Celik
Usenix Security 2022 (Acceptance Rate: 17.2%) [Paper] - PGFUZZ: Policy-Guided Fuzzing for Robotic Vehicles
Hyungsub Kim, Muslum Ozgur Ozmen, Antonio Bianchi, Z. Berkay Celik, and Dongyan Xu
NDSS 2021 (Acceptance Rate: 15.2%) [Paper]
Professional Activity
- Program Committee
- IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P) 2025
- IEEE Computer Security Foundations (CSF) 2025
- IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN) 2025
- ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY) 2024
- IEEE Secure Development Conference (SecDev) 2024
- Symposium on Vehicle Security and Privacy (VehicleSec) 2024
- IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm) 2023, 2024
- Workshop on CPS&IoT Security and Privacy (CPSIoTSec) 2023
- IEEE/ACM Workshop on the Internet of Safe Things (SafeThings) 2023
- Workshop on Re-design Industrial Control Systems with Security (RICSS) 2023
- Reviewer
- IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC) 2024
- IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (TASE) 2024
- ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT) 2024
- ACM Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT/Ubicomp) 2023
- IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS) 2023, 2024
- IEEE Internet of Things Journal 2022
- IEEE Transactions on Services Computing 2020
- IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P) 2023, 2024
- Usenix Security 2022, 2023, 2024
- Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) 2022, 2023, 2024
- ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) 2021
Teaching
- Guest Lecturer, CS426 - Computer Security, Purdue University
- Guest Lecturer, CS590 - IoT & CPS Security, Purdue University
- Teaching Assistant, CS496 - Mobile and Cloud Software Development, Oregon State University
- Teaching Assistant, CS261 - Data Structures, CS/ECE578 - Cyber-security, Oregon State University
- Teaching Assistant, CS492 - Mobile Software Development, Oregon State University