Ali Abbasi is a Post-Doctoral researcher at the Chair for System Security of Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. His research interest involves embedded systems security mostly related to Industrial Control Systems, Critical Infrastructure security, and Real-Time Operating Systems security. He received his Msc degree in Computer Science from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He was working there on Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) security in Network Security Lab, Microprocessor and SoC Technology R&D center with the National 863 High-tech Program grant from Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China. Ali received his PhD degree from Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands. In Eindhoven, he was working on code-reuse defences for Programable Logic Controllers (PLC) and other embedded systems.