Biography

I received my doctoral degree (Dr.Sc. Tech) from the University of Oulu (Finland). As the years went by, I reached a good experience in short-range wireless communications and cybersecurity solutions by exploiting the physical layer security. My research focuses on multilevel cybersecurity with a special interest in critical infrastructure systems.

I’m IEEE Senior Member and I have been TPC member in several conferences. I serve as a reviewer IEEE Transaction on Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) and IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, and as an Editor reviewer Frontiers in Communcations and Networks - Non-Conventional Communications and Networks section. Furthermore, I hold five patents (wireless communications and positioning).

Today, I’m Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, within the SySMA research unit, and I do work on important cybersecurity projects in collaboration with CINI National Laboratory for Cybesecurity.

In 2020, I served CINI as National Coordinator of the CyberChallenge.IT project. Now I collaborate at the first edition of the Italian cybersecurity olympiad: OliCyber.IT.

Research Area

• Physical layer security;
• 6G Security: visible light communications (VLC);
• Covert channel communications: acoustic communications;
• Protocol Security;
• Network Security;
• Security in critical infrastructure systems.

Selected Publications

• Enhancing Security in 6G Visible Light Communications. Soderi, S. 2020 2nd 6G Wireless Summit (6G SUMMIT). March 2020

• Acoustic-Based Security: A Key Enabling Technology for Wireless Sensor Network. Soderi, S. International Journal of Wireless Information Networks, 27(1): 45–59. nov 2019

• Cybersecurity Assessment of the Polar Bluetooth Low Energy Heart-Rate Sensor. Soderi, S. 14th EAI International Conference on Body Area Networks. October 2019

• Physical layer security based on spread-spectrum watermarking and jamming receiver. Soderi, S.; Mucchi, L.; Hämäläinen, M.; Piva, A.; and Iinatti, J. Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, 28(7). 2017

• Performance and security evaluation of intra-vehicular communication architecture. Liyanage, M.; Kumar, P.; Soderi, S.; Ylianttila, M.; and Gurtov, A. 2016 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops, ICC 2016,302-308. 2016

• Near-field measurements for safety related systems and jamming attack. Soderi, S.; Papini, M.; Iinatti, J.; and Hämäläinen, M. Progress In Electromagnetics Research B, 62(1): 289-302. 2015

• Signal fingerprinting in cognitive wireless networks. Soderi, S.; Dainelli, G.; Iinatti, J.; and Hämäläinen, M. Proceedings of the 2014 9th International Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks and Communications, CROWNCOM 2014,266-270. 2014

• An experimental evaluation of WiFi-based vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication in a tunnel. Viittala, H.; Soderi, S.; Saloranta, J.; Hämäläinen, M.; and Iinatti, J. IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference. 2013

• Emulation of secure Wi-Fi communication: A performance gap analysis against a virtual test-bed. Soderi, S.; Viittala, H.; Saloranta, J.; Mancini, A.; Hämäläinen, M.; and Iinatti, J. 2013 13th International Conference on ITS Telecommunications, ITST 2013,226-231. 2013

See links at the top of the page for a full list of my publications.

My Doctoral Thesis

• Evaluation of industrial wireless communications systems’ security. Soderi, S. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Oulu, Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering; Centre for Wireless Communications, June 2016

Patents

• DISTANCE ESTIMATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A RAILWAY VEHICLE. Soderi, S.; Viittala, H.; and Saloranta, J. 2015. US 9134411 B2; EP 2786172 A1; WO 2013081792 A1

• SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VEHICLE POSITION DETECTION. Soderi, S.; and Giusto, R. 2015. US 9606224 B2; WO 2015108726 A1

• POSITION ESTIMATION SYSTEM AND METHOD. Viittala, H.; Soderi, S.; Saloranta, J.; Hamalainen, M.; and Iinatti, J. 2014. US 8751127 B2; EP 2786167 A1; WO 2013081791 A1

• SPREAD SPECTRUM SIGNALS IN VEHICLE NETWORK SYSTEMS. Soderi, S.; and Papini, M. 2014. US 9425854 B2; EP 2760141 B1; HK 1196479 A1

• METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR SIGNAL FINGERPRINTING. Soderi, S.; and Papini, M. 2013. US 9608742 B2; EP 2676860 B1; AU 2013206087 C1; ES 2710221 T3