Publications

John McShane, Levent Celik, Iwinosa Aideyan, Richard Brooks, Mert D. Pesé (2025). LLM-Powered Fuzz Testing of Automotive Diagnostic Protocols.

Andrew Roberts, Lorenz Teply, Mert D. Pesé, Olaf Maennel, Mohammad Hamad, Sebastian Steinhorst (2025). FuzzSense: Towards A Modular Fuzzing Framework for Autonomous Driving Software. arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.10717.

Arkajyoti Mitra, Afia Anjum, Paul Agbaje, Mert D. Pesé, Habeeb Olufowobi (2025). FedVLM: Scalable Personalized Vision-Language Models through Federated Learning. The European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI'25).

Philipp Bauerfeind, Amir Salarpour, David Fernandez, Pedram MohajerAnsari, Johannes Reschke, Mert D. Pesé (2025). David vs. Goliath: A comparative study of different-sized LLMs for code generation in the domain of automotive scenario generation. arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.14115.

Arkajyoti Mitra, Pedram MohajerAnsari, Afia Anjum, Paul Agbaje, Mert D. Pesé, Habeeb Olufowobi (2025). Beyond the Glow: Understanding Luminescent Marker Behavior Against Autonomous Vehicle Perception Systems. 3rd USENIX Symposium on Vehicle Security and Privacy (VehicleSec ‘25).

David Fernandez, Pedram MohajerAnsari, Amir Salarpour, Mert D. Pesé (2025). Avoiding the Crash: A Vision-Language Model Evaluation of Critical Traffic Scenarios.

Pedram MohajerAnsari, Amir Salarpour, David Fernandez, Cigdem Kokenoz, Bing Li, Mert D. Pesé (2025). Attention-Aware Temporal Adversarial Shadows on Traffic Sign Sequences. The 5th Workshop of Adversarial Machine Learning on Computer Vision: Foundation Models + X.

Andrew York, Mohammed Aldeen, Jingwen Yan, Pranav Silimkhan, Song Liao, Mert D. Pesé, Long Cheng (2025). A First Look at Privacy Compliance of Zoom Apps. 2025 IEEE Secure Development Conference (SecDev).

Mohammed Aldeen, Pedram MohajerAnsari, Jin Ma, Mashrur Chowdhury, Long Cheng, Mert D. Pesé (2024). An Initial Exploration of Employing Large Multimodal Models in Defending Against Autonomous Vehicles Attacks. In IV'24.

Iwinosa Aideyan, Richard Brooks, Mert D. Pesé (2024). Fuzzing CAN vs. ROS: An Analysis of Single-Component vs. Dual-Component Fuzzing of Automotive Systems. In WCX'24.