Giovanni Camurati

Postdoctoral Researcher • ETH Zurich • Security

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I am a postdoc in Prof. Srdjan Capkun’s System Security Group at ETH Zurich.

Previously I was a PhD student at EURECOM, advised by Prof. Aurélien Francillon and co-advised by Prof. Ludovic Apvrille, and I visited Prof. François-Xavier Standaert at UC Louvain. I hold a PhD from Sorbonne Université, a MS in Electronic Engineering from Politecnico di Torino (cum laude) and from Télécom-ParisTech (Diplôme d’ingénieur).

My research explores system security with a focus on the physical layer, wireless technologies, access control and positioning, side and covert channels, firmware analysis and hardware design, mobile and embedded devices. It covers attacks (Screaming Channels, Noise-SDR, Ghost Peak, Time for Change), analysis methodologies (Inception, MCRank) and defenses (PURE, EdgeTDC), with a large experimental component on real systems and commercial devices.

I am/was a PC member of IEEE SP 2025, IEEE SP 2024, ACM WiSec 2024, and ACM CCS 2023 (service), and I am regularly involved in collaborations, teaching and supervision (teaching).

publications

2024

  1. USENIX Security
    PURE: Payments with UWB RElay-protection
    Daniele Coppola, Giovanni Camurati, Claudio Anliker, Xenia Hofmeier, Patrick Shaller, David Basin, and Srdjan Capkun
    In 33rd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 2024), Philadelphia, PA, USA, August 14-16, 2024, 2024

2023

  1. USENIX Security
    Time for Change: How Clocks Break UWB Secure Ranging
    Claudio Anliker, Giovanni Camurati, and Srdjan Capkun
    32nd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 2023), Anaheim, CA, USA, August 9–11, 2023, 2023
  2. NDSS
    EdgeTDC: On the Security of Time Difference of Arrival Measurements in CAN Bus Systems
    Marc Roeschlin, Giovanni Camurati, Pascal Brunner, Mridula Singh, and Srdjan Capkun
    In Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) 2023, 2023
  3. IACR TCHES
    MCRank: Monte Carlo Key Rank Estimation for Side-Channel Security Evaluations
    Giovanni Camurati, Matteo Dell’Amico, and François-Xavier Standaert
    IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems, 2023

2022

  1. IEEE S & P
    Noise-SDR: Arbitrary Modulation of Electromagnetic Noise from Unprivileged Software and Its Impact on Emission Security
    Giovanni Camurati, and Aurélien Francillon
    In 2022 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP), 2022
  2. USENIX Security
    Ghost Peak: Practical Distance Reduction Attacks Against HRP UWB Ranging
    Patrick Leu*Giovanni Camurati*, Alexander Heinrich, Marc Roeschlin, Claudio Anliker, Matthias Hollick, Srdjan Capkun, and Jiska Classen
    In 31st USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 22), 2022

2020

  1. PhD Thesis
    Security Threats Emerging from the Interaction Between Digital Activity and Radio Transceiver
    Giovanni Camurati
    EURECOM - Sorbonne Université, 2020
  2. IEEE Design & Test
    SoC Security Evaluation: Reflections on Methodology and Tooling
    Nassim Corteggiani, Giovanni Camurati, Marius Muench, Sebastian Poeplau, and Aurélien Francillon
    IEEE Design & Test, 2020
  3. IACR TCHES
    Understanding screaming channels: From a detailed analysis to improved attacks
    Giovanni Camurati, Aurélien Francillon, and François-Xavier Standaert
    IACR transactions on cryptographic hardware and embedded systems, 2020

2018

  1. ACM CCS
    Screaming Channels: When Electromagnetic Side Channels Meet Radio Transceivers
    Giovanni Camurati, Sebastian Poeplau, Marius Muench, Tom Hayes, and Aurélien Francillon
    In Proceedings of the 2018 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 2018
  2. USENIX Security
    Inception: system-wide security testing of real-world embedded systems software
    Nassim Corteggiani, Giovanni Camurati, and Aurélien Francillon
    In 27th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 18), 2018