Biographies and contact information of the organizers
Researcher with over a decade of experience in applied research for industry and academia. Michael's research is generally in the sphere of Internet of Things (IoT) and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), where he is author and co-author on over 30 IEEE/ACM publications, and named inventor on 6 US patents. He is currently a Principal Researcher at the Technology Innovation Institute (TII) in Abu Dhabi, where he explores topics around intelligent and resilient networked embedded systems, including: low-power wireless communications, localization, and embedded AI.
Professor Utz Roedig is Full Professor of Computer Science at University College Cork (UCC) in Ireland. Before moving to Cork he was Professor at Lancaster University, UK, where he led the Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research (ACE-CSR). Prior to his work in Lancaster he held research positions at UCC and Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany. He holds a Dr.-Ing and Dipl.-Ing from Darmstadt University of Technology. His research interests are computer networks and security and he has published over 150 peer-reviewed papers in this field. His research collaborations with industry partners has resulted in several patents. Over the last number of years his research has been supported by a number of research grants funded by EU, EPSRC and Industry. He frequently serves as TPC member of international conferences such as DCOSS, EWSN, IPSN, and he is a grant reviewer for international funding bodies such as EPSRC (UK), ESF (EU) and FWO (Belgium).
Pericle Perazzo is a researcher at the University of Pisa. His research interests include the area of security and privacy in the Internet of Things, with special emphasis on attribute-based encryption, post-quantum cryptography, and blockchain. Pericle contributed to the embedded computing area with publications in venues such as: IEEE IoT Journal, IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing, ACM Trans. on Sensor Networks, etc. Pericle has been Co-Chair of the Workshop on Management of Cloud and Smart City Systems (MoCS) in the 2021, 2022 and 2023 editions and Co-Chair of the SPICES in 2022 and 2023 editions.
Fikret Basic is a PostDoc researcher at the Graz University of Technology, Austria. He is a co-author of several publications including the areas of secure system design and protocols, automotive and embedded systems, IoT, wireless communication, and design patterns in venues such as DATE, DSD, IEEE RFID, etc. He contributed as a session chair to the special session on security, SPCPS, during the Euromicro DSD 2023 conference. His current area of research focuses on security in wireless and cyber-physical devices.
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Call for Papers
The 4th Workshop on Security and Privacy in Connected Embedded Systems (SPICES 2025)
Co-located with EWSN 2025 -- September 22, 2025
We invite researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to submit papers (up to 6 pages, double-column) focusing on topics such as:
- Wireless security for cyber-physical systems (e.g., factory automation).
- AI / Machine Learning assisted security and privacy at the physical, MAC, or networking layers.
- Generative Adversarial Networks for wireless and embedded security.
- Security protocols for wireless communications and networking.
- RF Jamming attacks and defenses for wireless networks.
- Localization and positioning privacy (GPS, UWB, BLE 5.2, etc.).
- Measurement of embedded computing privacy leakage.
- Privacy-enhancing and anonymization techniques in embedded computing.
- Security and privacy techniques in embedded computing.
- Privacy-enhanced data analytics and storage in embedded computing.
- Privacy-preservation methods on context (e.g., location, energy) changes in embedded computing.
- Offensive security and side-channel attacks on IoT devices.
- Security and possible weaknesses in 6G cellular networks (3GPP, ETSI, IEEE, etc.).
- Testbed and experimental platforms for wireless security.
- Vehicular network security (e.g., drones, automotive, avionics, autonomous driving).
- Security for UAV swarms (i.e., distributed, highly mobile systems).
- Communications security in satellite systems.
- Cryptography primitives and lightweight protocols for embedded IoT devices.
- Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS).
- Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs).
- Internet of the Things (IoT) security and privacy.
- Smart Contracts and Blockchain for wireless communication.
- Multi-factor authentication methods for embedded IoT devices.
- Zero-knowledge and zero-trust techniques in embedded computing.
Submitted papers must contain at most six pages (US letter, 9pt font size, double-column format, following the ACM master article template), including all figures, tables, and references. All submissions must be written in English. SPICES 2025 will use a double-anonymous review policy during the paper review process. Authors must not include their names, affiliations, and contact information in the manuscript they submit for review. Reviewers will not know the identity of the authors until an outcome is decided for the paper. Only PC chairs will know the identity of the authors and be able to interact with them during the review process, should the need arise. Submissions that are not properly anonymized will be rejected without being reviewed.
Submissions may be uploaded through the SPICES workshop track under the dedicated HotCRP submission site https://spices25.hotcrp.com.
Accepted papers will be published in ACM as part of the EWSN 2025 proceedings. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their work in a plenary session as part of the main workshop program.
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Past Workshops
Security and Privacy in Connected Embedded Systems The workshops have brought together experts and professionals to discuss key challenges and advancements in securing embedded systems.
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