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I have a relatively broad research interest and capability, based on my industry experience as systems and chip architect in the Silicon Valley and my government experience in building and managing basic and applied science research program for the Office of Naval Research, program in Cybersecurity. I am currently focusing on investigating several topics including but not limited to: hardware-assisted cybersecurity, cyberattack-resilient technologies and foundational principles of machine learning. Current list of research projects is available at: https://sites.gatech.edu/karno/sample-page/csafa/
I am currently teaching Introduction to Cyber Physical Systems Security (CS6263) and Cyber Security Practicum (CS6727).
D.R. Keppler, M.F. Karim, M.S. Mickelson, J.S. Mertoguno, Experimentation and Implementation of BFT++ Cyber-attack Resilience Mechanism for Cyber Physical Systems, ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems, Volume 8, Issue 3, Article No.: 35, pp 1–25, Jul. 2024.
Dinuka Sahabandu, Sukarno Mertoguno, Radha Poovendran, A Natural Language Processing Approach for Instruction Set Architecture Identification, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security, Volume 18, 2023, pp. 4086–4099
A. AlMaruf, L. Niu, A. Clark, J.S. Mertoguno, and R. Poovendran, 2023, A Timing-Based Framework for Designing Resilient Cyber-Physical Systems under Safety Constraint, ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems, Volume 7, Issue 3, Article No.: 19, pp 1–25
H Lu, Y Deng, S Mertoguno, S Wang, F Zhang, MOLE: Breaking GPU TEE with GPU-Embedded MCU, Proceedings of the 2025 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Oct. 13-17, 2025.
Y. Mirsky, G. Macon, M. Brown, C. Yagemann, M. Pruett, E. Downing, S. Mertoguno, W. Lee, VulChecker: Graph-based Vulnerability Localization in Source Code, USENIX Security 2023
L. Niu, A. AlMaruf, A. Clark, S. Mertoguno, R. Poovendran, A Compositional Resilience Index for Computationally Efficient Safety Analysis of Interconnected Systems, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Singapore, Dec. 2023
M. Alexiou, S. Mertoguno, Automated Binary Program Partitioning through Structural Analysis, The 14th International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications (IISA’23), Volos, Greece, July 2023.
M.F. Karim, Y. Deng, L. Niu, B. Ramasubramanian, M. Alexiou, D. Sahabandu, R. Poovendran, S. Mertoguno, Rapid Autonomy Transfer in Reinforcement Learning with a Single Pre-Trained Critic, IEEE 36th International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI), Oct. 2024.
M. Alexiou, S. Mertoguno, Not-in-Perspective: Towards Shielding Google’s Perspective API Against Adversarial Negation Attacks, The 14th International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications (IISA’23), Volos, Greece, July 2023.
L. Niu, A. AlMaruf, A. Clark, J.S. Mertoguno, R. Poovendran, An Analytical Framework for Control Synthesis of Cyber-Physical Systems with Safety Guarantee, Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2022, Cancun Mexico, Dec. 2022.
A. AlMaruf, L. Niu, A. Clark, J.S. Mertoguno, R. Poovendran, A Compositional Approach to Safety-Critical Resilient Control for Systems with Coupled Dynamics, Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) 2022, Cancun, Mexico, Dec. 2022.
J.S. Mertoguno, G Briskin, J.H. Li, K Kwak, Lessons Learned and Future Directions for Security, Resilience and Artificial Intelligence in Cyber Physical Systems, Network Security Empowered by Artificial Intelligence, Springer Cham, pp. 403-432, June 2024.
J.S. Mertoguno, “ISA & API Same Different; MonT & DFM” at Low Resource Computing Workshop, Dartmouth College, Hannover, NH, August 3-6, 2025
J.S. Mertoguno, “MonT: Toward Real-Time Model Checking” at Trusted Computing Center of Excellence (TTCOE) Summit 2025, Annapolis, MD, May 15-16, 2025