Keynote Speakers

The Zen of Bluetooth Security


The Zen of Bluetooth Security (ZOBS) is a collection of Bluetooth security principles developed by the speaker to systematize seven years of research on Bluetooth security protocols. The talk explores Bluetooth security research through the lens of these principles, distills key lessons learned, and shares them with the broader wireless-security research community. The talk also pinpoints open research challenges in Bluetooth security and opens the floor for discussion of future research directions. The audience will learn about the state of the art in Bluetooth security and how to apply the ZOBS principles to offensive and defensive wireless-security research. The keynote covers eight Bluetooth BR/EDR, commonly called Bluetooth Classic (BC), and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) security papers co-authored by the speaker: BlueBrothers [8], HardaBLE [7], BLERP [6], BLUFFS [1], BLUR [5], BIAS [3], KNOB on BLE [4] and KNOB on BC [2].

Daniele Antonioli
EURECOM, France

Daniele is an Assistant Professor (Class 1) at EURECOM with the software and system security (S3) group. He is doing research and teaching in system security and privacy with an emphasis on protocols, such as Bluetooth, FIDO2, and OCPP, embedded systems, such as vehicles, mobile, and IoT devices and cyber-physical systems such as industrial control systems. Prior to joining EURECOM, Daniele spent one year and a half as a Postdoc with Mathias Payer’s HexHive group at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). During his postdoc, among others, he participated in the design, implementation and evaluation of DP3T/GAEN, a privacy-preserving contact-tracing technology now used by Android and iOS for proximity tracing.

OpenSky: How a Security Project Became Global Infrastructure


In 2012, the OpenSky Network (https://opensky-network.org) began as an academic experiment: a crowdsourced sensor network for studying the security of wireless aviation communication. At the time, ADS-B and related surveillance technologies were becoming central to modern aviation, yet their openness, lack of authentication, and real-world deployment at scale raised fundamental security questions.The questions that were posed by several collaborating academic security groups were: What would it take to observe, measure, and understand these systems not in a laboratory, but in the wild? What is required to scale a large distributed sensor network?More than a decade later, OpenSky has become something much larger than its founders originally imagined. Built by researchers, aviation enthusiasts, and citizen scientists, it has grown into a global non-profit infrastructure for collecting, archiving, and sharing open aviation data. Its database now contains tens of trillions of records across petabytes of data, and has supported more than 900 scientific publications in many diverse fields including aviation security, air traffic management, climate science, pandemic modelling, machine learning, economics, journalism, and public accountability. Beyond academia, it has been used by many diverse partners from EUROCONTROL to the Bank of England.This keynote tells the story of how a security research project became global infrastructure. We reflect on the technical, scientific, organizational, and ethical lessons learned while operating a long-running, crowdsourced, non-profit data collection system. We will revisit OpenSky’s original motivation in aviation security, including insecure aircraft communications and later work on GNSS interference and spoofing, but also show how the same infrastructure enabled discoveries far beyond wireless security.The talk discusses the power and fragility of crowdsourced measurement: how to build trust in noisy global data, how to sustain a volunteer-based network over many years, how to balance openness with privacy and safety, and how to keep a public-good infrastructure alive in a world increasingly dominated by proprietary data platforms. The broader message is that security research infrastructure can have second lives: when built openly, carefully, and sustainably, it can become a foundation for science, society, and unexpected forms of public value.

Ivan Martinovic
University of Oxford, UK

Ivan is a Professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford. Before coming to Oxford he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Security Research Lab, UC Berkeley and at the Secure Computing and Networking Centre, UC Irvine. From 2009 until 2011 he enjoyed a Carl-Zeiss Foundation Fellowship and he was an associate lecturer at TU Kaiserslautern, Germany. He obtained his PhD (2008) from TU Kaiserslautern under supervision of Prof. Jens B. Schmitt and MSc (2004) from TU Darmstadt, Germany.

Martin Strohmeier
Armasuisse, Switzerland

Martin is a Senior Scientist at the Swiss Cyber Defence Campus, primarily based at ETH Zurich, and a Visiting Fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford. His work focuses on designing and analyzing security protocols for cyber-physical systems in critical infrastructures—aviation, satellites, space, and transportation systems. Martin also explore privacy issues in global networks, adversarial machine learning, and open-source intelligence.

Martin received his DPhil in 2016 at Oxford, supervised by Prof. Ivan Martinovic, where he studied the security and privacy of aviation communication technologies. Martin co-founded the OpenSky Network and coordinates its research activities. His work has received awards from both the aviation and security communities, including the EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellowship and commendation from the British Computer Society.