Speakers
Prof. N. Asokan (University of Waterloo, Canada)
N. Asokan is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo (since 2019) where he holds a David R. Cheriton Chair and serves as the Executive Director of the Waterloo Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute (https://cpi.uwaterloo.ca/). He is also an adjunct professor at Aalto University where he was the founding director of the Helsinki-Aalto Institute for Cybersecurity (https://haic.fi).
Asokan's primary research theme is systems security broadly, focussing on platform security and security/privacy of systems based on machine learning. He is an ACM Fellow, an IEEE Fellow, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Visit Homepage
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Dr. Luc Bläser (Dfinity, Switzerland)
Luc Bläser is a senior software engineer in the Motoko programming language team at the DFINITY Foundation, working on the runtime system and the compiler, such as on new advanced designs of garbage collection and orthogonal persistence. Before joining the Motoko team, he was a professor of software engineering for 11 years at the University of Applied Sciences of Eastern Switzerland (OST Fachhochschule), researching and teaching in the area of programming languages, runtime system and compiler construction, concurrency, parallelism, and code analysis. He holds a PhD in programming languages and runtime systems from ETH Zurich.
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Dr. Jan Camenisch (Dfinity, Switzerland)
Jan Camenisch is CTO at the DFINITY Foundation which is a major contributor the Internet Computer blockchain. He also serves on Sovrin‘s Technical Governance Board. Jan has published over 150 widely cited papers, was granted about 140 patents worldwide, gave numerous keynotes and invited talks at international conferences, and has received a number of awards for his work, including the 2010 ACM SIGSAC Outstanding Innovation Award, the 2013 IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award, and the 2018 IFIP Kristian Beckman Award. Visit Homepage
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Prof. Yvo Desmedt (The University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
Yvo Desmedt is Jonsson Distinguished Professor at Department of Computer Science, The University of Texas at Dallas. Prior to joining, he was Chair of Information Communication Technology (2004-2012) and BT-Chair of Information Security (2004-2009) at University College London, UK. He was also the Head of the Information Security Group in Computer Science. At Florida State University (1999-2004), U.S., he was the Founding Director of the Laboratory of Security and Assurance in Information Technology, one of the first 14 NSA Centers of Excellence. He is a Fellow of the International Association of Cryptologic Research (IACR) and a Member of the Belgium Royal Academy of Science. He is the Editor-in-Chief of IET Information Security and Chair of the Steering Committee of CANS.
He was requested to give feedback, in 1998 on the report by the US Presidential Commission on Critical Infrastructures Protection, and in 2020 on the Chinese list of Top 10 Scientific Issues Concerning Development of Human Society. Moreover he commented on some US NIST standards and suggested that NIST makes a Threshold Cryptography standard. He proposed the first Hardware Trojan (Proc. of Crypto 1986), searchable encryption and what is now called functional encryption (both at the 1993 New Security Paradigms Workshop, Proc.). His work has been funded by e.g., ARC, DARPA, EPSRC, and NSF. His current research interests include Access Control, Cryptanalysis, Entity Authentication, E-Voting, Game Theory, Oblivious Transfer, Quantum Computations, Secret Sharing, and Unreliable and Untrusted Clouds. Visit Homepage
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Prof. Michalis Faloutsos (UC Riverside, USA)
Michalis Faloutsos is a faculty member at the Computer Science Dpt and Director of Entrepreneurship in the University of California Riverside. He got his bachelor's degree at the National Technical University of Athens and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. at the University of Toronto. His interests include, network and systems security, online social networks analytics, and network measurements. With his two brothers, he co-authored the paper "On powerlaws of the Internet topology" (SIGCOMM'99), which received the "Test of Time" award from ACM SIGCOMM. His research has resulted in more than 18K citations, an h-index greater than 56, and an i10-index greater than 120. His work has been supported by many NSF, DHS, ARL, and DAPRA grants, for a cumulative amount of more than $15M. He is the co-founder of stopthehacker.com, a web-security start-up, which got acquired by Cloudflare in November 2013. In Aug 2014, he co-founded programize.com, which provides product development as a service and grew to 85 people by its sixth year. Visit Homepage
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Prof. Elena Ferrari (University of Insubria, Italy)
Elena Ferrari is a professor of Computer Science at the University of Insubria (Italy), where she leads the STRICT SociaLab. She received her Ph.D. and M.Sc. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Milano (Italy).
Her research interests are in the broad area of cybersecurity, privacy, and trust. Current research includes security and privacy for IoT, privacy-preserving data publishing, machine learning for cybersecurity, malware detection, and blockchain. She is a fellow member of ACM and IEEE. She has been the recipient of several prestigious awards, including the 2009 IEEE Technical Achievement Award for pioneering contributions to Secure Data Management, the 2021 ACM SIGSAC Outstanding Contributions Award, the ACM CODASPY Research Award, and the ACM SACMAT 10-Year Test of Time Award. She is the recipient of the 2024 IEEE Innovation in Societal Infrastructure Award for pioneering and sustained contributions to the security and privacy of online social networks. In 2018, she was named one of the 50 most influential Italian women in tech. Visit Homepage
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Prof. Somesh Jha (University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA)
Somesh Jha received his B.Tech from Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi in Electrical Engineering. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University under the supervision of Prof. Edmund Clarke (a Turing award winner). Currently, Somesh Jha is the Lubar Professor in the Computer Sciences Department at the University of Wisconsin (Madison). His work focuses on analysis of security protocols, survivability analysis, intrusion detection, formal methods for security, and analyzing malicious code. Recently, he has focused his interested on privacy and adversarial ML (AML). Somesh Jha has published several articles in highly-refereed conferences and prominent journals. He has won numerous best-paper and distinguished-paper awards. Prof. Jha is the fellow of the AAAS, ACM and IEEE. Jha's work has been widely cited (Google scholar says that he is more than 48+k citations and his h-index is 87). Visit Homepage
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Prof. Angelos Keromytis (Georgia Tech, USA)
Dr. Angelos D. Keromytis is Professor, John H. Weitnauer, Jr. Chair, and Georgia Research Alliance (GRA) Eminent Scholar at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His field of research is systems and network security, and applied cryptography.
He came to Georgia Tech from DARPA, where he served as Program Manager in the Information Innovation Office (I2O) from 2014 to 2018. During that time, he initiated five major research initiatives in cybersecurity and managed a portfolio of nine programs, and supervised technology transitions and partnerships with numerous elements of the Department of Defense, the Intelligence Community, Law Enforcement, and other parts of the U.S. government. For his work, he received the DAPRA Superior Public Service Medal, and the Results Matter Award. Prior to DARPA, he served as Program Director with the Computer and Network Systems Division in the Directorate for Computer and Information Science & Engineering (CISE) at the National Science Foundation (NSF), where he co-managed the Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) program and helped initiate a number of cross-disciplinary and public-private programs. Prior to his public service tour, Dr. Keromytis was a faculty member with the Department of Computer Science at Columbia University, where he founded the Network Security Lab.
Dr. Keromytis is an elected Fellow of the ACM and the IEEE. He has 53 issued U.S. patents and over 250 refereed publications. His work has been cited over 20,000 times, with an h-index of 72 and i10-index of 229. He has founded two new technology ventures, StackSafe and Allure Security Technology. He received his Ph.D. (2001) and M.Sc. (1997) in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania, and his B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Crete, Greece. He is a certified PADI Master Instructor, with over 500 dives. Visit Homepage
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Dr. Herbert Lin (Stanford University, USA)
Herbert Lin is senior research scholar for cyber policy and security at the Center for International Security and Cooperation and Hank J. Holland Fellow in Cyber Policy and Security at the Hoover Institution, both at Stanford University. In addition to his positions at Stanford University, he is Chief Scientist, Emeritus for the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, National Research Council (NRC) of the National Academies, where he served from 1990 through 2014 as study director of major projects on public policy and information technology. He is also a member of the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. In 2016, he served on President Obama’s Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity. In 2019, he was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2020, he was a commissioner on the Aspen Commission on Information Disorder. From 1986-1990 was a professional staff member and staff scientist for the House Armed Services Committee, where his portfolio included defense policy and arms control issues. He received his doctorate in physics from MIT. Visit Homepage
Prof. Athina Petropulu (Rutgers University, USA)
Athina P. Petropulu is Distinguished Professor at the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department at Rutgers, having served as chair of the department during 2010-2016. Prior to joining Rutgers, she was a Professor of ECE at Drexel University (1992-2010). She held Visiting Scholar appointments at SUPELEC, Universite' Paris Sud, Princeton University and University of Southern California. Dr. Petropulu's research interests span the area of statistical signal processing, wireless communications, signal processing in networking, physical layer security, and radar signal processing.
Dr. Petropulu is Fellow of IEEE and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and recipient of the 1995 Presidential Faculty Fellow Award given by the US National Science Foundation and the White House. She has played key roles in her professional society, namely, she was 2022-2023 President of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (2009-2011) and IEEE Signal Processing Society Vice President-Conferences (2006-2008). She was Technical Program Co-Chair of the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), General Co-Chair of the 2018 IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), and General Chair of the 2005 ICASSP. She was Distinguished Lecturer for the Signal Processing Society and the IEEE Aerospace & Electronics Systems Society. For her service, Dr. Petropulu has received the 2012 IEEE Signal Processing Society Meritorious Service Award. She is also co-recipient of the 2005 IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Best Paper Award, the 2020 IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award (B. Li), the 2021 IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award (F. Liu), the 2021 Barry Carlton Best Paper Award by IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society and the 2023 Stephen O. Rice Prize Best Paper Award by the IEEE Communications Society. Visit Homepage
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Prof. Bart Preneel (KU Leuven, Belgium)
Prof. Bart Preneel is a full professor at the KU Leuven. He heads the COSIC research group, which has 100 members and is program director of the Advanced Master Cybersecurity. He was visiting professor at six universities in Europe. He has authored more than 400 scientific publications and is inventor of five patents. His main research interests are applied cryptography, cybersecurity and privacy. Bart Preneel has participated to more than 40 EU projects, for 8 of these as project coordinator and is currently co-managing the research part of the Cybersecurity Initiative Flanders. He has served as president of the IACR (International Association for Cryptologic Research) and is co-founder and chairman of the Board of the cybersecurity cluster LSEC. He is a member of the Advisory group of ENISA and of the Academia Europaea. From 2012-2019 he was a member of the Belgian Privacy Commission (subcommittee national register) and in 2019 he became a member of the knowledge center of the new Belgian Data Protection Authority. He has been invited speaker at more than 130 conferences in 50 countries. He received the RSA Award for Excellence in the Field of Mathematics (2014), the IFIP TC11 Kristian Beckman award (2015), the ESORICS Outstanding Research Award (2017) and the Belgian ICT person of the year award (2021). In 2015 he was elected as fellow of the IACR. He frequently consults for industry and government about security and privacy technologies. He is co-designer of the Belgian eID card and the Belgian e-voting system; he was the technical manager of the Belgian contact tracing app Coronalert. He is co-founder of the start-up nextAuth, Board Member of the scale-up Approach Belgium and member of the Advisory Board of Tioga Capital. Visit Homepage
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Prof. Pierangela Samarati (University of Milan, Italy)
Pierangela Samarati is a Professor at the Department of Computer Science of the Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy. Her main research interests are on data and applications security and privacy, especially in emerging scenarios. She has participated in several EU-funded projects involving different aspects of information protection, also serving as project coordinator. She has published more than 290 peer-reviewed articles in international journals, conference proceedings, and book chapters. She has been Computer Scientist in the Computer Science Laboratory at SRI, CA (USA). She has been a visiting researcher at the Computer Science Department of Stanford University, CA (USA), and at the Center for Secure Information Systems of George Mason University, VA (USA). She is the chair of the IEEE Systems Council Technical Committee on Security and Privacy in Complex Information Systems (TCSPCIS), of the ERCIMSecurity and Trust Management Working Group (STM), and of the ACM Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES). She is a member of several steering committees. She is IEEE Fellow (2012), ACM Fellow (2021), IFIP Fellow (2021). She has received the ESORICS Outstanding Research Award (2018), the IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award (2016), and the IFIP WG 11.3 Outstanding Research Award (2012). Visit Homepage
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Prof. Nitin Vaidya (Georgetown University, USA)
Nitin Vaidya is the Robert L. McDevitt, K.S.G., K.C.H.S. and Catherine H. McDevitt L.C.H.S. Chair of Computer Science at Georgetown University. He has held faculty positions in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2001-2018), and in the Department of Computer Science at the Texas A&M University (1992-2001). His current research interests include distributed computing, including distributed learning, and fault-tolerant algorithms. He has also performed extensive research in wireless networking. Nitin has co-authored papers that received awards at several conferences, including ACM MobiCom, ACM MobiHoc, SSS and ICDCN. He is a fellow of the IEEE. Nitin has served as the Chair of the Steering Committee for the ACM PODC conference, as the Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, and as the Editor-in-Chief for ACM SIGMOBILE publication MC2R. He received Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Master's degree from the Indian Institute of Science-Bangalore, and Bachelor's degree from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science-Pilani. Visit Homepage
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Prof. XiaoFeng Wang (Indiana University, USA)
Dr. XiaoFeng Wang is the Associate Dean for Research and a James H. Rudy Professor of Luddy School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering, Indiana University at Bloomington and a Fellow of ACM, IEEE and AAAS. At IU, he is also a Co-Director of Center for Security and Privacy in Informatics, Computing and Engineering, and was the Director of the Master of Science in Secure Computing (MSSC) program.
Dr. Wang serves as Director and Lead PI of Center for Distributed Confidential Computing (CDCC), a Frontiers Project in Secure and Trustworthy Computing funded by the National Science Foundation. The project is a multi-institution effort, involving faculty from IU (Lead), CMU, Duke, OSU, Penn State, Purdue, Spelman and Yale. The center aims at laying the technological foundations for practical data-in-use protection based on Trusted Execution Environments (TEE) over today and tomorrow’s cloud and edge platforms, which is critical to the advance of AI and data science.
Dr. Wang is the Chair of ACM Special Interest Group on Security, Audit and Control (SIGSAC), and was also TPC Co-Chair of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), the ACM’s flagship security and privacy conference, during 2018 and 2019. In the past 20 years, Dr. Wang has been working on a broad range of research topics in systems security and data privacy. He is considered to be one of the most prominent systems security and privacy researchers, a top author according to online statistics such as CSRankings, System Security Circus (Eurecom), and Top Authors, the Systems Cirus (EPFL). Dr. Wang is known for his high-impact research on security analysis of real-world systems and biomedical data privacy. Particularly, the projects he led on side-channel analysis and mitigation, payment and single-sign-on API integrations, Android and iOS security and IoT protection have changed the way the industry built computing systems. Also he is a pioneer researcher on human genome privacy and a co-founder of the iDASH Genome Privacy Competition that contributes to reducing the gap between security and cryptography research and real-world demands for biomedical data sharing and computing protection. More recently, he is actively working on TEE-based Data-in-Use protection for supporting AI, Trustworthy AI, and application of AI technologies (such as NLP and deep learning) to protect computing systems, LTE/5G networks in particular.
For his work, Dr. Wang has received numerous awards, including Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies (the PET Award), Best Practical Paper Award at the 32nd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE S&P Oakland), and two Distinguished Paper Awards at the 26th Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS). His work has been extensively reported by public media, including CNN, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, MSNBC, Forbes, Slashdot, Nature News, etc. Visit Homepage
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More speakers to be announced soon.