I am an Electrical and Computer Engineering Ph.D. student studying under the supervision of Dr. Hanif Rahbari in the Wireless and IoT Security and Privacy (WISP) lab at Rochester Institute of Technology. My research area is security in wireless communications, with a particular focus on physical- and MAC-layer security in next-generation vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication protocols like 5G C-V2X, as well as post-quantum security for connected vehicles. My work has been published in top conferences and journals, including IEEE INFOCOM and IEEE TWC, and my collaborators and I have been cited by top think-tanks and policy leaders including RAND Corporation, NIST, the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity, and others.
Selected Publications
G. Twardokus and H. Rahbari, “Towards Protecting 5G Sidelink Scheduling in C-V2X Against Intelligent DoS Attacks,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC), vol. 22, no. 11, pp. 7273-7286, Nov. 2023.
G. Twardokus, N. Bindel, H. Rahbari, and S. McCarthy, “When Cryptography Needs a Hand: Practical Post-Quantum Authentication for V2V Communications,” Proc. Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS Symposium), San Diego, CA, Feb. 2024. Artifacts Evaluated.
G. Twardokus and H. Rahbari, “Vehicle-to-Nothing? Securing C-V2X Against Protocol-Aware DoS Attacks,” Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), May 2022. Acceptance rate: 225/1129 = 19.92%.
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Presentations and Media Coverage
N. Bindel, S. McCarthy, H. Rahbari, and G. Twardokus, “Suitability of 3rd Round Signature Candidates for Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication,” presented at the Third NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) Standardization Conference, Virtual Conference, Jun. 2021. [Online]. Available: https://csrc.nist.gov/Events/2021/third-pqc-standardization-conference
N. Bindel, S. McCarthy, H. Rahbari and G. Twardokus, “Drive (Quantum) Safe! –Towards Post-Quantum Security for Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communications,” presented at the Real World Crypto Symposium (RWC), International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Apr. 15, 2022. Presentation slides available: https://iacr.org/submit/files/slides/2022/rwc/rwc2022/28/slides.pdf
WROC TV News story on my V2V research project at RIT (YouTube link): WROC TV News: Protecting Cars and their Computers (Oct. 2020).
IEEE Innovation at Work: Student Research Team Create Prototype of Secure Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) Communications System (Jul. 2020).