I am a tenure-track faculty member at the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security in Saarbrücken, Germany. My research focuses on securing sensing technologies in autonomous vehicles (LiDAR, radar, and cameras) and designing secure positioning systems (UWB, Wi-Fi, LTE, 5G, and GNSS). Our research on autonomous vehicle security is funded by the BMDV through CYPHER-AV. Our ComPASS project is funded by the BMFTR through the StartUpSecure initiative and focuses on demonstrating the resilience of radio waveforms and positioning protocols.
I received my PhD in Computer Science from ETH Zurich, Switzerland, under the supervision of Prof. Srdjan Čapkun. During my PhD, I developed physical-layer Message Time of Arrival Codes, which laid the foundation for secure proximity-based access control systems. This technology has contributed to securing passive keyless entry and start systems in several car models. Before my PhD, I co-founded Trishulam while pursuing my master’s degree at IIIT-Delhi, India, and worked as a research engineer at Xerox Research Centre India.
Recently
- Nov 2026ComPASS, funded by BMFTR through StartUpSecure, to demonstrate TRICK in terrestrial and satellite environment.
- Nov 2026CrossLink, on linking device identifiers across protocols, will appear at ACM CCS 2026 in The Hague.
- Oct 2026Path Authenticity Using Transparent Satellite Payload will appear at NDSS 2027 in Seoul.
- Oct 2026Prune to Protect, on faster training and better privacy through data pruning, will appear at NeurIPS 2026.
- Aug 2026Seeing is Deceiving, on mirror-induced LiDAR failures in autonomous driving, appears at VehicleSec 2026.
Selected papers
- CrossLink: Breaking Location Privacy by Linking Device Identifiers Across Protocols
- LEO-Range: Physical Layer Design for Secure Ranging with Low Earth Orbiting Satellites
- EdgeTDC: On the Security of Time Difference of Arrival Measurements in CAN Bus Systems
- V-Range: Enabling Secure Ranging in 5G Wireless Networks
Open positions
I am looking for motivated PhD and postdoc applicants in cyber-physical security. The positions are not project-bound. We are also looking for full-time engineers on the ComPASS project. Send your CV to singh@cispa.de. More information is on the Group page.