For students holding graduate teaching assistantships.

For students holding graduate teaching assistantships.

For students holding graduate research assistantships.

Cybersecurity of Drones is an in-depth exploration of security and privacy challenges in cyber-physical systems (CPS), with a primary focus on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). This course equips learners with the foundational knowledge and hands-on skills necessary to analyze, attack, and defend drone systems in real-world scenarios. You will gain expertise in drone architecture, embedded systems security, adversarial machine learning, and CPS resilience, equipping you to understand and mitigate vulnerabilities in UAV operations. Through lectures, research paper discussions, and hands-on labs, you will engage with cutting-edge cybersecurity techniques, including sensor spoofing, actuator manipulation, malware analysis and defensive mechanisms tailored for autonomous aerial systems. By the end of the course, you will not only have a deep technical understanding of drone cybersecurity but also the ability to design resilient and secure UAV architectures, in preparation for careers in cyber-physical security, embedded systems, and critical infrastructure protection.