I am a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor for Embedded Sensing Systems and Industrial Networks at the Institute of Computer Science in Vorarlberg (ICV), School of Computer Science, University of St. Gallen (HSG), where I lead the Sensing Group.
My research sits at the intersection of network security, distributed systems, and the physical world. I design systems that can securely sense, interpret, and act on their environment:
- Passive & physical-layer sensing: inferring activity and context from ambient signals: Wi-Fi/BLE/RF and acoustic sensing, embedded sensor systems, and multi-modal fusion.
- Privacy in cyber-physical systems: understanding and limiting what sensing reveals: privacy-preserving data fusion, RF-tracking risks, and security for IoT and industrial networks.
- Network & systems security: collaborative, cross-domain architectures for defending networks, from signaling-based DDoS mitigation to distributed coordination and trust.
Short bio
Before joining HSG, I received my doctoral degree from the University of Zurich (UZH) in 2020, where I also served as a postdoctoral researcher until 2024. My PhD focused on collaborative signaling systems to mitigate DDoS attacks; during my postdoc I extended this work into the physical layer, exploring passive wireless sensing and the privacy implications of RF-based tracking. Prior to my PhD, I was a researcher at the University of São Paulo (USP), collaborating with Ericsson Research (2013–2016) on SDN and cloud resource orchestration. I hold an MSc in Computer Engineering from USP and a BSc from UDESC.
A full publication list is on Google Scholar and the group’s publications page; more about me at bruno-br.com.