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Our paper on speeding up the detection of suspicious Bluetooth trackers, in collaboration with Portland State University, has been accepted at the 19th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec) 2026.

Towards Fast Detection of Suspicious Bluetooth Trackers using Anomaly Detection

Orobosa Ekhator, Dylan Conklin, Primal Pappachan, and Roberto Yus

Roberto Yus has received a National Science Foundation CAREER award for Towards a Sensorless Internet of Things through Sensor Data Management Abstraction. The five-year award (NSF #2542782, $599,184, July 2026 – June 2031) is funded by NSF’s Division of Information and Intelligent Systems.

Our paper on benchmarking publish/subscribe systems for distributed IoT deployments has been accepted at the IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom) 2026, together with an accompanying artifact paper at PerCom Workshops.

PSMark: A Distributed IoT Benchmark for Publish/Subscribe Under Domain-Based Workloads

Artifact: PSMark: A Distributed IoT Benchmark for Publish/Subscribe Under Domain-Based Workloads

Christian Badolato, Nathan Samson, Houssam Hajj Hassan, Chih-Kai Huang, Georgios Bouloukakis, Primal Pappachan, and Roberto Yus

Our paper has been accepted at the 15th International Conference on the Internet of Things (IoT) 2025!

A Context-Aware Benchmarking Approach for Scenario-Based Evaluation of Smart Devices

Nikolaos Papadakis (Télécom SudParis, France), Athanasios Tsirikas (University of Patras, Greece), Fotios Fouskas (AEGIS IT RESEARCH, Greece), Krish Chatterjie (Télécom SudParis, France), Christian Badolato (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA),Gregory Blanc (Télécom SudParis, France), Roberto Yus (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA), Kostas Magoutis (FORTH, Greece), Georgios Bouloukakis (Télécom SudParis, France; University of Patras, Greece)

Our team’s demo paper has been officially accepted to be demoed at the IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SmartComp) 2025.

Web-CozyBench: A Web-Based Platform to Benchmark Thermal Comfort Provision using Digital Twins

Jun Ma, Aziz Boubaker, Sabrine Azaiez (Télécom SudParis, France), Roberto Yus (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA), Georgios Bouloukakis (University of Patras, Greece)

Our paper has been accepted at the IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SmartComp) 2025!

DigiGuide: A DT-based Occupant Guiding System for Optimizing Comfort and Energy Consumption

Jun Ma (Télécom SudParis, France), Roberto Yus (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA), Georgios Bouloukakis (University of Patras, Greece)

Our paper on the analysis of smart home IoT devices while not in active use won the Best Artifact Paper award at PerCom 2025!

Your Smart Home Exchanged 3M Messages: Defining and Analyzing Smart Device Passive Mode

Christian Badolato (University of Maryland, Baltimore County), Kaur Kullman (University of Maryland, Baltimore County), Nikolaos Papadakis (Institut Polytechnique de Paris), Manav Bhatt (University of Maryland, Baltimore County), Georgios Bouloukakis (Institut Polytechnique de Paris), Don Engel (University of Maryland, Baltimore County), and Roberto Yus (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)

Our team’s project, LiDAR Occupancy and Analysis Detection System (LOADS), has been officially accepted to be demoed at the IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom) 2025.

LOADS: LiDAR-based Privacy-Preserving Queue Monitoring and Analysis

Saisricharan Malkireddy, Sumedh Kane, Sourimitra Medepalli, Satvik Racharla, Bharg Barot, Christian Badolato, Roberto Yus (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA)

We got a second demo paper accepted in collaboration with Portland State University. This work presents a system to identify suspicious trackers.

BL(u)E CRAB: A User-Centric Framework for Identifying Suspicious Bluetooth Trackers.

Dylan Conklin (Portland State University, United States), Primal Pappachan (Portland State University, United States) and Roberto Yus (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, United States).

Our paper on the analysis of smart home IoT devices while not in active use has been accepted at PerCom 2025! This is Christian’s first paper accepted at a conference!

Your Smart Home Exchanged 3M Messages: Defining and Analyzing Smart Device Passive Mode

Christian Badolato (University of Maryland, Baltimore County), Kaur Kullman (University of Maryland, Baltimore County), Nikolaos Papadakis (Institut Polytechnique de Paris), Manav Bhatt (University of Maryland, Baltimore County), Georgios Bouloukakis (Institut Polytechnique de Paris), Don Engel (University of Maryland, Baltimore County), and Roberto Yus (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)

Aamir Hamid did a great job today at #PETS2024 presenting our work (with Hemanth Reddy Samidi, Primal Pappachan, and Tim Finin) on designing a benchmark to evaluate GenAI systems answering questions about privacy.

First conference presentation of (hopefully) many! Amazing job Aamir Hamid!