Gedare Bloom

Assistant Professor
Director, Embedded Systems Security Lab
Department of Computer Science
University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
gbloom uccs edu

Education

• Ph.D., Computer Science, The George Washington University, 2013
• M.S., Computer Science, The George Washington University, 2012
• B.S., Computer Science and Mathematics, Michigan Technological University, 2005

Research

I investigate security problems in real-time embedded systems and apply solutions across the hardware-software interface.

See more on my research page.

Selected Publications

See more on my publications page, CV (PDF), or on Google Scholar.

• M. Nasri, T. Chantem, G. Bloom, and R. Gerdes. On the Limitations and Vulnerabilities of Schedule Randomization against Schedule-Based Attacks, 25th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium, RTAS’19 (25% acceptance)
• J. Song, G. Bloom, and G. Parmer. SuperGlue: IDL-Based, System-Level Fault Tolerance for Embedded Systems, Proceedings of the 46th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, DSN ‘16 (22% acceptance) PDF bibtex
• G. Bloom and R. Simha. Hardware-Enhanced Distributed Access Enforcement for Role-Based Access Control, Proceedings of the 19th ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies, SACMAT ‘14 (29% acceptance) PDF bibtex
• G. Bloom, G. Parmer, B. Narahari, and R. Simha. Shared Hardware Data Structures for Hard Real-Time Systems, 12th International Conference on Embedded Software, EMSOFT ‘12 (24% acceptance), PDF bibtex

Recently Accepted Papers

• March, 2019  Event Notification in CAN-based Sensor Networks  is accepted to appear in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics.
• February, 2019  Survey of Automotive Controller Area Network Intrusion Detection Systems  is accepted to appear in IEEE Design & Test.
• January, 2019  Anomaly Detection Approach Using Adaptive Cumulative Sum Algorithm for Controller Area Network  is accepted to appear in ACM Workshop on Automotive Cybersecurity (AutoSec).
• January, 2019  Automotive Intrusion Detection Based on Constant CAN Message Frequencies Across Vehicle Driving Modes  is accepted to appear in ACM Workshop on Automotive Cybersecurity (AutoSec).
• December, 2018  Chapter 16 - Connected Cars: Automotive Cybersecurity and Privacy for Smart Cities  is accepted to appear in Smart Cities Cybersecurity and Privacy (Book).
  

Teaching

I develop and teach practical, hands-on courses in systems areas including architecture, operating systems, real-time embedded systems, and security.

See more on my teaching page

News and Events

• October 17, 2019  EWiLi Workshop  I’m organizing EWiLi 2019 the 9th Embedded Operating Systems Workshop, co-located with ESWeek in New York, NY.

• August 18, 2019  New Job at UCCS  I’ve relocated and am Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs.

• April 13, 2019  IEEE Senior Member  I was elevated to the grade of IEEE Senior Member!

• April 10, 2019  Dissertation Defense  Habeeb Olufowobi defended his dissertation at Howard University. Congratulations Dr. Olufowobi!

• April 5, 2019  Truck Hackathon  We hosted a Truck Cybersecurity Hackathon at Howard University in conjunction with Cummins.

• March 27, 2019  AutoSec2019  Eight students from ESSL attended CODASPY and AutoSec in Dallas, and we presented two papers at AutoSec.

• March 21, 2019  Visit Northrop Grumman  Members of the ESSL visited an IoT innovation lab operated by Northrop Grumman Mission Systems.

• March 19, 2019  ACM Senior Member  I was elevated to Senior Member of the ACM!