Summary
Team C focused on how to protect privacy within Unmanned Aerial Systems. We implemented protections throughout the system, from low-level hardware solutions to high-level route planning and guidance solutions. This research helps to protect individuals while in public, at work, and at home from being spied on by drones.
In our presentation, we covered the current field of play, how current solutions fail to protect individuals, and how we can advance UAS technology for the benefit of everyone!
Members of Team C: Kabir Dugh, Zachary Francis, Fatima Hashimi, Tom Oswald, Ameer Quazi, and Connor Wadlin.
GMU Fall 2025 CYSE 587 – 08/12/2025 (32:41)
News
– December 9, 2025
On December 8th, 2025, Dr. Alexandre De Barros Barreto’s CYSE 587 class presented their shark tank seminar presentations! Each team presented for twenty minutes before a panel of sharks began to ask their questions.
It was an innovative and engaging night, full of discussion, collaboration, and problem solving. Thank you to all of the amazing sharks who came out, and to all of the presenters for their solutions to real world problems!
Please look at the overview post to view each team’s presentation and videos.
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Team C Presentation
This is Team C’s presentation on Protecting Individual Privacy from Intrusive Drone Surveillance, where we covered the current field of play, how current solutions fail to protect individuals, and how we can advance UAS technology for the benefit of everyone!
What we learned from 587
Connor Wadlin
During the course of this project, I learned a lot about UAS security. While I’ve worked with drones for my research around automated threat detection, autonomous flight, and object detection, this class presented a far more systemic view I hadn’t been exposed to yet.
It was fascinating to learn about the ways different places around the world, particularly in the EU, were thinking about UAS security. We spent a lot of time in the project gaining a very deep understanding of both our individual problem as well as its relation to the broader U-Space context.
Stepping back from the project and focusing on the class, we learned different types of both security and privacy methodologies that could be employed within systems. As someone who believes one cannot have security without privacy, this was a breathe of fresh air and provided me a much more actionable perspective on how to intertwine the two concepts.
I would like to personally thank Dr. Alexandre De Barros Barreto for both teaching this class with rigor and respect, as well as for providing an innovative platform for students to design new and interesting solutions to real world problems!
Project’s Next Steps
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