Sriram Sami

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Sriram Sami is a leading researcher in the intersection of cybersecurity, privacy, and embedded systems, with a primary focus on exposing novel side-channel attacks in consumer smart devices. His most influential work, "Spying with your robot vacuum cleaner" (83 citations), introduces LidarPhone—a groundbreaking acoustic side-channel attack that repurposes a robot vacuum’s lidar sensor to eavesdrop on private conversations by analyzing reflected laser signals. This work reveals how seemingly innocuous hardware can be weaponized, highlighting critical vulnerabilities in smart home ecosystems. Sami’s follow-up paper, "LidarPhone: acoustic eavesdropping using a lidar sensor" (11 citations), further refines the attack methodology, demonstrating its practicality across different environments. His research has reshaped how the security community thinks about sensor-based privacy threats, earning recognition for its creativity and real-world implications. By bridging hardware hacking with signal processing, Sami has become a key voice in the fight against emerging surveillance risks, making his work essential reading for anyone studying IoT security, privacy engineering, or adversarial machine learning.