About Me

I completed my Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with Honors and a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from Purdue University in 2020. I am currently pursuing my Ph.D. in Computer Science at Purdue University, with a research focus on Autonomous Vehicle Software Security and Robustness. My specific research interests lie in developing techniques to enhance the resilience of autonomous driving systems against adversarial attacks and perception failures. My advisors are Dr. Z. Berkay Celik and Dr. Antonio Bianchi.

News

• [October 2025] I'm excited to share that I passed my Ph.D. preliminary exam! 🎉

  A huge thank you to my committee members: Prof. Z. Berkay Celik, Prof. Antonio Bianchi, Prof. Aniket Bera, and Prof. Dongyan Xu for their valuable feedback and guidance throughout this process.

  I also want to thank my amazing labmates at PurSec Lab for their support and encouragement. Looking forward to the exciting research ahead!

• [Aug 2025] Our new preprint "CP-FREEZER: Latency Attacks against Vehicular Cooperative Perception" is now available on arXiv!
• [Aug 2025] Our work "From Threat to Trust: Exploiting Attention Mechanisms for Attacks and Defenses in Cooperative Perception" is accepted to Usenix Security 2025!
• [May 2025] Our work "Investigating Physical Latency Attacks against Camera-based Perception" is accepted to S&P 2025!
• [November 2024] 3rd USENIX VehicleSec Symposium is announced! Please consider submitting your work!
• [October 2024] Please consider submitting your work to 1st International Workshop on Software Engineering for Autonomous Driving Systems (SE4ADS 2025)!
• [October 2024] Our new preprint "Enhancing LLM-based Autonomous Driving Agents to Mitigate Perception Attacks" is now available on arXiv!
• [June 2023] Our work about adversarial driving maneuvers against autonomous vehicles is accepted to Usenix Security 2023!
• [Oct 2022] Our work about evasion attacks and defenses on physical event verification systems is accepted to NDSS 2023!

Publications

• From Threat to Trust: Exploiting Attention Mechanisms for Attacks and Defenses in Cooperative Perception [pdf]
  Chenyi Wang, Raymond Muller, Ruoyu Song, Jean-Philippe Monteuuis, Jonathan Petit, Yanmao Man, Ryan Gerdes, Z Berkay Celik, Ming Li
  Usenix Security 2025 (Acceptance Rate: 17%)
• Investigating Physical Latency Attacks against Camera-based Perception[pdf]
  Raymond Muller, Ruoyu Song, Chenyi Wang, Yuxia Zhan, Jean-Philippe Monteuuis, Yanmao Man, Ming Li, Ryan Gerdes, Jonathan Petit, and Z Berkay Celik
  IEEE Security and Privacy Symposium (Oakland) 2025 (Acceptance Rate: 15.1%)
• Discovering Adversarial Driving Maneuvers against Autonomous Vehicles[pdf]
  Ruoyu Song, Muslum Ozgur Ozmen, Hyungsub Kim, Raymond Muller, Z. Berkay Celik, and Antonio Bianchi
  Usenix Security 2023 (Acceptance Rate: 29%)
• Evasion Attacks and Defenses on Smart Home Physical Event Verification[pdf]
  Muslum Ozgur Ozmen, Ruoyu Song, Habiba Farrukh and Z. Berkay Celik NDSS 2023
  NDSS 2023 (Acceptance Rate: 16.2%)

Preprints

• Enhancing LLM-based Autonomous Driving Agents to Mitigate Perception Attacks [pdf]
  Ruoyu Song, Muslum Ozgur Ozmen, Hyungsub Kim, Antonio Bianchi, Z. Berkay Celik
  
• CP-FREEZER: Latency Attacks against Vehicular Cooperative Perception[pdf]
  Chenyi Wang, Ruoyu Song, Raymond Muller, Jean-Philippe Monteuuis, Z Berkay Celik, Jonathan Petit, Ryan Gerdes, Ming Li