IoT devices (smart lightbulbs, smart plugs, smart cameras, etc) are entering the market without much regard for security. A project in this area will focus on designing and implementing attacks against IoT devices in our lab, or on defences that mitigate existing attacks.

This project requires either hands-on experience with or willingness to learn network traffic sniffing and machine learning (data mining) techniques and algorithms, or, alternatively, reverse-engineering IoT device firmware.