Publications

David Fernandez, Pedram MohajerAnsari, Amir Salarpour, Cigdem Kokenoz, Bing Li, Mert D. Pesé (2025). WIP: From Detection to Explanation: Using LLMs for Adversarial Scenario Analysis in Vehicles. 3rd USENIX Symposium on Vehicle Security and Privacy (VehicleSec ‘25).

Ashton McEntarffer, Linxi Zhang, Yu Wei Liu, Mert D. Pesé (2025). Towards a Comprehensive Evaluation of Voltage-Based Fingerprinting for the CAN Bus. Proceedings of the 40th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing.

Edward B Duffy, David Fernandez, Alta De Waal, Mert D. Pesé (2025). Small Language Models on the Edge for Real-World Agentic Systems in Industry. Southern African Conference for Artificial Intelligence.

Richard Brooks, Iwinosa Aideyan, Mert D. Pesé (2025). Security and data privacy of modern automobiles. Data Analytics for Intelligent Transportation Systems.

Mert D. Pesé, Bulut Gozubuyuk, Eric Andrechek, Habeeb Olufowobi, Mohammad Hamad, Kang G Shin (2025). MichiCAN: Spoofing and Denial-of-Service Protection using Integrated CAN Controllers. 55th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks.

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).