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. My research has been supported by federal grants from the Department of Homeland Security, National Science Foundation, and Office of Naval Research, and by industry gifts from Northrop Grumman, Texas Instruments, Leidos, and Xilinx.

See more on my research page and CV (PDF)

Selected Publications

See more on my publications page and Google Scholar.

• G. Bloom. WeepingCAN: A Stealthy CAN Bus-off Attack, Workshop on Automotive and Autonomous Vehicle Security, AutoSec ‘21 (Best Paper).
• H. Olufowobi, C. Young, J. Zambreno, and G. Bloom. SAIDuCANT: Specification-based Automotive Intrusion Detection using Controller Area Network (CAN) Timing, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE TVT (JIF: 5.339)
• 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)
• 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),

Teaching

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

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News and Events

• October 22, 2020  EPICS Collaborator Meeting  I presented ongoing research at the EPICS collaboration fall meeting 2020 held virtually.

• February 25, 2020  AutoSec Workshop  My paper WeepingCAN won Best Paper Award at the 3rd AutoSec Workshop co-located with NDSS, held virtually. You can watch my presentation on YouTube.

• February 15, 2020  RTEMS Training  I led a version of the RTEMS Open Class for students and professors from UCCS and some other universities.

• October 17, 2019  EWiLi Workshop  I organized 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!