We are thrilled to announce the 2nd Cyber Security in Cars Workshop (CSCS) — a premier event dedicated to tackling the evolving challenges of cybersecurity in modern vehicles. CSCS brings together researchers, industry experts, developers, and security professionals to explore cutting-edge research, discuss emerging threats, and collaborate on innovative solutions in automotive cybersecurity.

Building on the legacy of the ACM Computer Science in Cars Symposium, CSCS continues to advance the field, fostering discussions that bridge academia and industry.

We also want to extend a huge thank you to everyone who contributed to making the 1^st CSCS at CCS a resounding success! Your research, insights, and participation helped create a vibrant and inspiring event, and we look forward to building on that momentum.

We are currently planning for the next edition of CSCS to be hosted at CCS 2025, though this is not yet confirmed. Stay tuned—more details, including the Call for Papers, will be available in April!

Committee

General Chair

Hans-Joachim Hof

Technical University of Ingolstadt, Germany

Hans-Joachim Hof is full professor and vice president of Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt, Germany. He leads the research group „Security in Mobility“ in the CARISSMA Institute of Electric, Connected, and Secure Mobility (C-ECOS). His research focus is on the security testing of vehicles as well as on secure automotive software. Previously, Hans-Joachim was a full professor at the Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany and research scientist at Corporate Technology of Siemens AG, Germany. He holds a PhD from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany. Hans-Joachim is a member of the board of the German Chapter of the ACM and of the German national computer science association (Gesellschaft für Informatik).

Program Co-Chairs

Mario Fritz

CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Germany

Mario Fritz is faculty member at the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Saarbruecken, Germany and professor at the Saarland University. Previously, he was senior researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics and post-doc at UC Berkeley and the International Computer Science Institute on a Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. His research focus is at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning with Security & Privacy. His recent work focuses on Deep Learning techniques that allow end-to-end training of complex and multi-modal approaches. He has over 90 publications - 50 in top venues. His key contributions include work on visual domain adaptation, latent factor models, the Visual Turing Test, privacy in visual data, and attack as well as defenses for machine learning models. He has served as area chair for ECCV and ICCV, is associate editor of TPAMI and is member of the ACM Europe Technology Policy Committee.

Christoph Krauß

Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences and INCYDE GmbH

Christoph Krauß is full professor for Network Security at the Department of Computer Science at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences (HDA) and Head of Automotive Security Research at INCYDE GmbH, which he co-founded. At HDA, he is the spokesperson of the IT Security Expert Group, head of the research group Applied Cyber Security Darmstadt (ACSD), and member of the inter-university PhD Center for Applied Computer Science PZAI. At INCYDE, he coordinates the research activities and research projects of the automotive sector. He has over 15 years of experience in the area of cyber security. Currently, his fields of interest and activities are focused on automotive security and privacy, railway security, intelligent energy networks security, trusted computing, network security, efficient and post quantum cryptography, and security engineering.

Web Chairs and Local Organization Chairs

Dominik Bayerl, Technical University of Ingolstadt, Germany
Timm Lauser, Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, Germany

2^nd Cyber Security in Cars Workshop (CSCS)