Prof. Sara Rampazzi, University of Florida

Sara Rampazzi, Ph.D., is an assistant professor at the University of Florida since 2021. She is a member of the Florida Institute for Cybersecurity Research (FICS), Warren B. Nelms Institute, and Florida Institute for National Security (FINS). Her research areas include cyber-physical systems security with applications in Autonomous Systems, Healthcare, Critical infrastructure, and the Internet of Things. Dr. Rampazzi investigates security and privacy risks and designs defense strategies for trustworthy and resilient cyber-physical systems despite emerging physical attacks. Several media outlets covered her work on preventing inaudible and invisible light commands injection into smart home devices, protecting underwater datacenters from acoustic attacks, and side channel analysis to prevent eavesdropping on speech. Forbes has recognized her work on LiDAR spoofing attacks on autonomous vehicles as the first research on practical attacks against LiDAR systems. She is currently Associate Chair of IEEE Security & Privacy and Program Co-Chair of the USENIX VehicleSec Symposium 2025. She is also a steering committee member of USENIX WOOT Conference on Offensive Technologies (WOOT). Dr. Rampazzi received the Medtronic Outstanding Research Contributor Recognition for medical device security in 2020. Her work is sponsored by NSF, ONR, Meta, and Toyota Info Tech Lab.

Anastasia Cornelio, Ferrari S.p.A.

Anastasia Cornelio, Ph.D., is a Mathematician from University of Bologna, with a PhD in Applied Mathematics at University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. She started dealing with automotive cybersecurity in 2016, when she was with Marelli. Currently, Anastasia works in the R&D Cybersecurity Manager at Ferrari, where she's in charge of managing Cyber Security for on-board components and EE Architecture during the entire vehicle lifecycle.