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Todd Michael Austin – Ann Arbor, MI, United States

Establishing Hardware Trust: Challenges, Opportunities and (Im)possibilities
Much of the future success of computing rests on our ability to establish trust in the hardware we build. In this talk, I will argue that the primary approach taken to build secure hardware,...
On the Rules of Low-Power Design (and Why You Should Break Them)
Energy and power constraints have emerged as one of the greatest lingering challenges to progress in the computing industry. In this talk, Todd Austin, an electrical engineering and computer...
Peering into the Post Moore's Law World
With the end of Moore’s Law arriving soon, there is much concern for the future of computing. Rightly, much of the research community’s focus has turned toward heterogeneous parallel...

Salman A Baset – New York, NY, United States

Blockchain and GDPR
The European Union’s ("EU") General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR"), which went into effect on 25 May 2018, is the most significant overhaul of EU data...
Container Security
Whether you are an operator looking to provide a container platform for your customers or whether you are building applications using containers, the question of container security must be on your...
Hyperledger Fabric
Hyperledger Fabric is an open source project under Linux Foundation, which can be used to build a permissioned blockchain. This talk will give an overview of Hyperledger Fabric and its various...

Debnath Bhattacharyya – Visakhapatnam, India

Design and Analysis of Graphical Password

Most common computer authentication method is traditional ‘User Name’ and ‘password’. There are numerous Biometric authentication methods also proposed. In...
Unsupervised Learning in Data Mining
The meaning of Unsupervised learning is to find hidden structure in unlabeled data. Approaches of Unsupervised learning can be used in Data Mining. Clustering is an important and popular approach...

Swarup Bhunia – Gainesville, FL, United States

FPGA Security: New Frontiers
Reconfigurable hardware platforms, e.g. Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are being increasingly deployed in diverse applications including the emerging Internet of Things (IoT) edge devices,...
Security of the Internet of Things: Are We Paranoid Enough?
Security has become a critical design challenge for modern electronic hardware. With the emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT) regime that promises exciting new applications from smart...

Christophe Bobda – Fayetteville, AR, United States

Advances In System Isolation For Cyber Attack Mitigation
The increasing global availability of broadband access to the Internet has led to the creation and distribution of malicious software and financially-oriented underground economies of...
Automatic Generation of Hardware Sandboxes for Hardware Trojan Mitigation in Systems on Chip
Embedded systems operate at the heart of many systems such as planes, unmanned aerial systems (UAS), autonomous ground vehicles, communication systems, and weaponry. The design of embedded...

Dipankar Dasgupta – Memphis, TN, United States

Adaptive Multi-Factor Authentication (A-MFA) Methodology
Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) is the current trend to genuinely identify authorized users (in multiple ways) through an authentication process via passwords, security tokens, biometrics,...
Cloud Services: Security, Compliance and an Insurance model
As cloud services move to the mainstream to meet major computing needs, the issues of ownership and chain of custody of customer data are becoming primary responsibilities of providers. The...
Online Social Networks and Privacy issues
Blogging, tweeting and social networking become important part of our daily life. Studies have shown that people spend a lot of their time online such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, You...
Puzzle-based learning in Cyber Security Education
Different forms of puzzles are in existence for people to think, expand knowledge and stimulate their cognitive ability. Puzzle-based learning has proven to result in a better STEM learning...
Where the Immunological Computation Research is heading?
The biological immune system exhibits some remarkable properties, including distributed processing, pathogenic pattern recognition, decentralized control, adaptability, diversity,...

Tassos Dimitriou – Athens, Greece

Cryptography and its Applications to Networking and e-Commerce
With the arrival of the Information Age, cryptography has grown to be an essential tool for a wide segment of networking and industry. It can be used to protect all forms of electronic...
Security and Privacy issues related to the use of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies
“The most profound technologies are those that disappear... they weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they become indistinguishable from it”. This...
Tools of the Trade: Enhancing Privacy in Participatory Sensing
The increasing availability of sensors in today's smartphones and other everyday devices, carried around by millions of people, has opened up the possibility of new ways of information...
Why is security difficult to achieve?
In this presentation we consider some of the issues that make security difficult to achieve in real life. We are interested in answering such questions as "Why is it the case that most...

Chuck Easttom – Plano, TX, United States

Applying Graph Theory to Digital Forensics
Graph theory is an area of discrete mathematics that is used to model the relationships between entities. Previously, graph theory has been used to model network traffic, biological systems, and...
Cryptographic Backdoors
This is an overview of cryptographic backdoors, their function and purpose. Specific research is discussed including examples such as Dual_EC_DRBG and backdoors in RSA. This is appropriate for...
Quantum Computing and Lattice Based Cryptography
This lecture provides an overview of the current state of quantum computing and what impact that will have on cryptography. Then cryptogrphic algorithms that are believed to be resistent to...
S-Box Design
Symmetric ciphers are widely used to provide secure communications and data storage. The ubiquitous nature of the symmetric cipher, indicates that its underlying structure is worth...
Steganography
This lecture begins with an overview of steganography, including the history of steganography techniques. Basic current methods (LSB and DCT) are discussed. The lecture then describes more...

Sebastian Fischmeister – Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Safety and Security for Future Embedded Systems
For decades, safety was the dominating topic for cyberphysical systems. Safety of a system ensures that in the case of faults, the system is still highly unlikely to cause harm to users,...

Marcus Foth – Brisbane, QLD, Australia

The Promise of Blockchain Technology for Food & Agriculture
After its first prominent application as part of the digital cryptocurrency Bitcoin, blockchain and distributed ledger technology are gaining in popularity. Blockchain comprises a chain of...

Jennifer Golbeck – College Park, MD, United States

The Human Side of Cyber Security
Security experts often claim that people are the most unreliable part of their systems. I argue that the problem is not people behaving insecurely, but security systems that are designed with no...

Gururaj H L – Mysuru, India

WLAN security and Cyber Security
Wireless LANs have gone through rapid changes with respect to their security architecture in recent years. One view has been to incorporate WLANs under already existing VPN umbrellas and to...

Shiyan Hu – Houghton, MI, United States

Smart Energy Cyber-Physical Systems: Big Data Analytics and Cyber Security
A smart energy cyber-physical system is characterized by the interactions among the sensing devices and the physical energy system. Such a system leverages big data analytics techniques in...
Smart Home Cybersecurity: Threat and Defense in a Cyber-Physical System
The massive deployment of advanced metering infrastructure and home energy management system has mandated a transformative shift of the classical grid into a more reliable and secure grid. Smart...

Dharm Singh Jat – Windhoek, AR, Namibia

Modified AES Algorithm for Strong Encryption & Enhanced Security
Networks today an inherent part of all defence or military organisations. Any loss of data from defence networks directly impacts the national security. Hence, this data has to be protected using...

Ashish Kundu – Yorktown Heights, NY, United States

A Trusted Healthcare Data Analytics Cloud Platform
This talk presents a vision about cloud-based system for health care applications. Our system has advanced features for preserving privacy which are essential for health care applications...
Baking Compliance into Cloud: Art or Science?
With the (obvious) evolution of cloud from being a compute-centric infrastructure to a data-and-compute-centric infrastructure, more and more enterprises are bringing their data to cloud in...
Compliance-Aware Provisioning of Containers on Cloud
Deploying applications in containers have several advantages, such as rapid development, portability across different machines, and simplified maintenance. In a cloud computing environment,...
Energy Attacks on Mobile and IoT Devices

All mobile devices are energy-constrained. They use batteries thatallows using the device for a limited amount of time. In general, energy attacks on mobile devices are denial of...
Exploiting Placement New of C++
In this talk, we would explore how to exploit the "placement new" expression in C++. "Placement new" facilitates placement of an object/array at a specific memory location....
GDPR: Challenges and Issues
GDPR went into effect May 2018. As a regulatory compliance policy for member countries and citizens, it has significant implications on how computing is carried out today. In this talk, we shall...
HMACs for Graph Data
Graphs are widely used in the representation and processing of data in several domains. Assurance of integrity of graph data is essential. Related work has shown that the digital signatures...
Network Flow Security Analytics for IoT and Mobile Devices
Given that security threats and privacy breaches are commonplace today, it is an important problem for one to know whether their device(s) are in a "good state of...
Privacy-preserving Authentication of Graphs on Cloud
Leakages of structural information in trees and graphs due to (redactable) signatures lead to privacy and confidentiality breaches. So leakage-free redactable signatures are an important topic...
Research Directions in Blockchain Data Management and Analytics

Blockchain technology has emerged as a primary enabler for verification-driven transactions between parties that do not have complete trust among themselves. Bitcoin uses this...
Risk-Based Packet Routing for Privacy and Compliance-Preserving SDN
Software defined networking (SDN) is increasingly being used in data centers as well as enterprise networks. With the quality of service requirements, security and privacy requirements are...
Security and Compliance Issues in Blockchain
Blockchain is a paradigm shift in computing -- it enables computing among distributed untrusted peers without the need for any centralized trusted authority. Transaction...

Jeanna N Matthews – Potsdam, NY, United States

Big Data? Big Promise, Big Problems
The data that we record daily about ourselves through our cell phones, credit card purchases, emails, social media postings, etc., helps us connect with each other and improve our life...
Rapid Recovery Architecture and Virtual Machine Contracts
Many seemingly innocent actions can render your personal computer unusable and the road to recovery can be painful. For example, reinstall the OS (if you know how), reinstall the...

Prabhat Mishra – Gainesville, FL, United States

Validation of Hardware Security and Trust
Reusable hardware Intellectual Property (IP) based System-on-Chip (SoC) design has emerged as a pervasive design practice in the industry to dramatically reduce design/verification cost while...

James F. O'Brien – Berkeley, CA, United States

Adaptive Simulation with Triangle Meshes
This talk will discuss the development of high-fidelity finite element simulation methods based on adaptive mesh refinement. These methods dynamically refine and coarsen meshes so that they...
Image and Video Forensics through Content Analysis
Advances in computational photography, computer vision, and computer graphics allow for the creation of visually compelling photographic forgeries. Forged images have appeared in tabloid...

Sharath Pankanti – Yorktown Heights, NY, United States

Actionable Video Content Summarization: Lessons from Practical Case Studies
For the first time in the history of universe, the video data generated by humans has exceeds all other forms of the data. While no one denies the utility of the information hidden within...
Multi-media Compliance: A practical paradigm for managing business integrity
In virtually every business context there is a need to establish some form of monitoring system to ensure that employees comply with business processes and policies. Compliance failures range from...
Public Sector Surveillance
Situation awareness is the key to security. Awareness requires information that spans multiple scales of space and time. The increasing need for sophisticated surveillance systems and the move to...

Abhik Roychoudhury – Singapore, Singapore

Automated Program Repair

Software debugging is extremely time consuming, and hence techniques to aid automated program repair are of value. Moreover, even after software errors are identified, fixing the...
Testing and Debugging of Software Regressions

Software regressions, where a previously working program fails on certain tests after changes, constitute a major source of delays and missed schedules in any large software...

Sandeep K Shukla – Kanpur, India

Cyber Security Landscape and the Urgent Need for Cyber Manpower Development
Cyber Security is recognized as one of the most dangerous threats to our increasingly digital society and livelihood. Other than our reliance on smart phone, smart devices, medical implants, our...
Cyber Security of Critical Infrastructures: A Case for a Schizoid Design Approach
In the past, the design of cyber physical systems required a model based engineering approach, where as a first step of the design process -- a physics based mathematical model of the physical...
Smart-Grid: Where Embedded Computing, Communication and Power Systems Meet

The vision of a smart grid is predicated upon pervasive use of embedded intelligence, and digital communication techniques in today's power system. As wide area...

Richard Stallman – Boston, MA, United States

A Free Digital Society: What Makes Digital Inclusion Good Or Bad?
There are many threats to freedom in the digital society. They include massive surveillance, censorship, digital handcuffs, nonfree software that controls users, and the War on Sharing....
Computing, Freedom and Privacy
The way digital technology is developing, it threatens our freedom, within our computers and in the internet. What are the threats? What must we change?
Copyright vs. Community in the Age of Computer Networks
Copyright developed in the age of the printing press, and was designed to fit with the system of centralized copying imposed by the printing press. But the copyright system does not fit...
Free Software and Your Freedom
The Free Software Movement campaigns for computer users' freedom to cooperate and control their own computing. The Free Software Movement developed the GNU operating system, typically...
The Danger of Software Patents
Richard Stallman will explain how software patents obstruct software development. Software patents are patents that cover software ideas. They restrict the development of software, so that every...

Shan Suthaharan – Greensboro, NC, United States

Differentially Private Logistic Regression and its characterization for big data privacy
This talk will present the topics that enlighten data owners on the selection processes of privacy parameters for differentially private logistic regression (DPLR) techniques. This knowledge will...

Rakesh Verma – Houston, TX, United States

Phish or Not is the Question
All of us have received emails threatening us with dire consequences, if we do not increase our mail quota or reset our account, and intent on stealing our digital identities. I myself...
Security Analytics - The New Frontier in Cyber Security ?
Techniques from Data Analytics, by which I mean: Natural Language Processing, Data Mining, Machine Learning and Statistics, are being applied increasingly to security challenges such as phishing,...
Wireless Sensor Networks: Security, Protocols and Countermeasures
Wireless Sensor Networks are increasingly being deployed in hazardous and hostile environments for numerous civil and military applications such as sensing the environment, biosensors, etc. They...

Wan Abdul Rahim Bin Wan Mohd Isa – Shah Alam, Malaysia

Culture Influences to Information Privacy
There is strong inclination on the importance of knowledge management (KM) concept and role towards ensuring components such as ethics and culture are relevant to the applications development,...

Edgar Weippl – Vienna, Austria

Blockchains & Distributed Ledger Technology

The rise of cryptocurrencies and distributed ledger technologies, has captured the interest from diverse communities and its potential applications are currently a hotly debated and...
Research Methods & Current Research in Information Security
Over the past few years an increasing number of descriptive works have helped explain complex phenomena in the area of distributed systems security. These include the efficiency of spam...
Secure Development Lifecycle of Production Environments
Improvement of Security of Information Processing in the Industrial Production System Lifecycle addresses application-oriented basic research issues in the areas of Systems Security and...

Tao Xie – Raleigh, IL, United States

Pathways to Technology Transfer and Adoption: Achievements and Challenges
Producing industrial impact has often been one of the important goals of academic or industrial researchers when conducting research. However, it is generally challenging to transfer research...
Software Analytics: Data Analytics for Software Engineering
A huge wealth of various data exists in software life cycle, including source code, feature specifications, bug reports, test cases, execution traces/logs, and real-world user feedback, etc. Data...
Systematic Testing and Verification of Security Policies
Access control is one of the most fundamental and widely used privacy and security mechanisms at both application and network levels. Given the high importance and delicacy of security policies,...
Text Analytics for Mobile App Security and Beyond
Mobile apps are accompanied by a rich amount of natural language text: app descriptions, app user reviews, update/release notes, etc. Such natural language text is essential in conveying important...
Transferring an Automated Test Generation Tool to Practice
Producing industry impacts has been an important, yet challenging task for the research community. Although there are a few cases on reporting "what to do" (reflecting good things to...

Moustafa A Youssef – New Borg Elarab City, Alexandria, Egypt

Wireless Physical Layer Security, From Theory to Practice
Despite recent progress, the vulnerability of wireless networks to security threats remains a major obstacle hindering the adoption of wireless technologies in various military, scientific,...