Sara Rampazzi

Dr. Sara Rampazzi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) at University of Florida. She obtained her Ph.D. in Computer Science Engineering at University of Pavia, Italy. Her research focuses on the security and privacy of cyber-physical systems with applications in Healthcare, Autonomous Systems, and the Internet of Things. Her research on injecting inaudible and invisible commands to smart home devices, phones, has been covered by several media outlets, such as NY Times, CNN, and Wired. Her work on Lidar spoofing attacks on autonomous vehicles has been recognized by Forbes as the first practical attack against LiDAR-based perception of autonomous driving systems. She received the Medtronic Outstanding Research Contributor Recognition after discovering a vulnerability in pacemakers, and the Facebook award "Explorations of Trust in AR, VR, and Smart Devices". Her research on secure N95 masks decontamination processes and the security of the vaccine cold chain during the Covid-19 pandemic has been sponsored by NSF (https://sararampazzi.com/). “The ISSNAF program is a great opportunity for networking and sharing knowledge with the Italian research community. I hope to help Italian students to build their careers in the US as a mentor for ISSNAF.