Bio
Hi, I'm Rik Chatterjee, a Research Assistant at Colorado State University. I work at the Energy Institute, specifically in the Systems Cyber Lab headed by Dr. Jeremy Daily. I have been involved in several research projects, including:
- The DARPA Assured Micropatching (AMP) program as a TA3 performer, where I created challenge problems, performed binary reversing, and evaluated performer solutions.
- The NSF PIVOT project, focused on vehicle system cybersecurity and intelligent transportation.
- Currently, I'm working on the Byte RI project in collaboration with NREL and AIS, focusing on applying solutions from AMP into embedded devices within the energy sector's electric grids.
Research Interests
- Finding software bugs (still learning!)
- Hardware reversing (still learning!)
- Commercial vehicle security (still learning!)
- Embedded systems (still learning!)
- Systems engineering (still learning!)
Current Projects
- AMP Project: Assured Micropatching with DARPA for patching of large legacy binaries without access to source code
- PIVOT Project: NSF-funded research focused on vehicle data generation and disemmination to the community
- Byte RI Project: Collaboration with NREL and AIS for embedded solutions in electric grids
Publications
- Exploiting transport protocol vulnerabilities in SAE J1939 networks - Symposium of Vehicular Security and Privacy, 2023 [DOI]
- Exploiting diagnostic protocol vulnerabilities on embedded networks in commercial vehicles - Symposium of Vehicular Security and Privacy, 2024 [DOI]
- Commercial vehicle electronic logging device security: Unmasking the risk of truck-to-truck cyber worms - Symposium of Vehicular Security and Privacy, 2024 [DOI]
- Assured Micropatching of Race Conditions in Legacy Real-time Embedded Systems - Workshop on Real-Time Autonomous Systems Security, 2024 [DOI]
- A Demonstration of MBSEsec Applied to Securing Cyber-Physical System Communications - IEEE Aerospace Conference, 2024 [DOI]
Presentations
- DEFCON32: [Truck2Truck Worm]
- Symopisum of Vehicle Security and Privacy: [Diagnostic Protocol Vulnerabilities in Commercial Vehicles]
- NMFTA Cybersecuirty Conference: [Ultimate Truck Hacking Platform]
- Poster: NMFTA Cybersecurity Conference: [UDS Vulnerabilities]
- Symopisum of Vehicle Security and Privacy: [Transport Protocol Vulnerabilities in Commercial Vehicles]
- Workshop on Road to Future Automotive Datasets: [J1939 Data-Link Layer Vulnerabilities in Truck Networks]
- Poster: INCOSE Western States Regional Conference: [The Request Overload Attack]
Personal Projects
- ESP32 Weather Station: A personal project where I built a weather station using ESP32.