Silicon to Cloud Security & Resilience

The Next Generation of Trusted Mobility

Secure-by-design & Innovate-by-development

Mission

The autoMoTIVe-X applied research Lab bridges the gap between fundamental cryptographic theory and the urgent demands of the automotive industry. We specialize in developing Stateless, Hardware-Verified Authentication and Secure-by-Design OTA Frameworks for the Software-Defined Vehicle (SDV) era — turning silicon-rooted mathematics into protocols an OEM can actually ship.

The Trust Chain

From a silicon PUF to
a sovereign cloud —
one continuous chain of proof

Every layer authenticates the one below it, with nothing but math holding the links together — no stored keys, no blind trust hand-offs.

01 · SILICON PUF Entropy 02 · HARDWARE Vehicular ECU 03 · ZONAL Controller 04 · SOVEREIGN Cloud / Data Space
01 · Silicon PUF Entropy
02 · Hardware Vehicular ECU
03 · Zonal Controller
04 · Sovereign Cloud / Data Space
Why autoMoTIVe-X?

The next generation of trusted & sustainable mobility.

That's the motivation behind every pillar on this site: mobility that every stakeholder — driver, OEM, and regulator — can trust, built on solutions engineered to last rather than to patch.

Core Values
SECURITY

Secure-by-Design

Security is a property of the architecture, not a patch applied after the fact.

CODE

Build It, Not Just Prove It

Every protocol ships as working code before it ships as a paper.

RESILIENCE

Resilience-by-Design

A system that can't recover isn't secure — recovery is part of the spec, not an afterthought.

INDUSTRY

Industrial Relevance

We work backward from the rollback and scalability failures Tier-1 suppliers actually hit.

OPEN-SCIENCE

Open Science by Default

Our research code, data, and protocols are released openly — rerun, copy, build on, rather than vague "collaboration."


Three reasons the industry is listening
GLOBAL PEDIGREE

Research born in three countries

Research born in Italy (Padova), matured in France (Inria), and rooted in India (AMBIT) — a lab built on three overlapping scientific cultures, not one campus.

INDUSTRY-DRIVEN

Solving real pain points

We work backward from real-world pain points: rollback integrity, mass-broadcast scalability, and side-channel resilience — not abstractions in search of a use case.

HARDWARE-ROOTED

Silicon PUF as HW fingerprint.

Leveraging Silicon PUF and ZKP to eliminate the "stored-key" vulnerability at the heart of most vehicular ECU compromises.

Research Pillars

Four problems worth solving

Stateless authentication, rollback integrity, post-quantum resilience, and data sovereignty — the pillars that hold up trusted mobility.

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Current Work

Funded and in progress

From the MSCA Seal of Excellence fellowship at Inria to ongoing collaborations with SPRITZ and IEEE VTS — see what the lab is actively running.

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