Photos of presenters from the 2022 partners conference

We are pleased to announce the 2023 CyLab Partners Conference!

The CyLab Annual Partners Conference highlights the latest research in security and privacy with an interactive forum between faculty, students, and industry. We are excited to welcome our guests back to campus for this year’s three-day event, which will include more than 40 faculty and student presentations. All sessions will consist of brief talks, followed by active dialogue with our attendees.

Attendance is limited to invited guests, representatives of CyLab's partners, and CMU CyLab faculty, staff, and students. We will provide additional information in the coming weeks.

Some of the conference’s talks will be live streamed. We will send instructions on accessing these hybrid presentations the day before the event.

If you have any questions regarding the 2023 CyLab Partners Conference, please contact Jamie Scanlon at 412.268.6415 or jlscanlo@andrew.cmu.edu.

For information on hotels and transportation please see our "Visiting CyLab" page.

Not a CyLab partner? Learn how your company can benefit from becoming one. Contact the Director of Partnerships, Michael Lisanti, at mlisanti@cmu.edu or 412.268.1870.
  

Agenda

This agenda is subject to change.
 

Day 1: Tuesday, October 3, 2023 (EST)

8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. - Breakfast and Registration

9:00 a.m. - 9:20 a.m. – Opening remarks

9:20 a.m. - 10:20 a.m. – Session I: Internet of Things

  • Limin Jia: 'Towards Usable Analyses of Security and Privacy Risks of Smart Homes'
  • Ding Zhao: 'Safety, Security and Privacy of Intelligent Autonomy'
  • Anthony Rowe: 'Giving the Cloud an Edge' | PDF
  • Yuvraj Agarwal: 'Improving Trust, Security and Privacy in IoT Systems'

10:20 a.m.- 10:35 a.m. – Break

10:35 a.m. - 11:20 a.m. - Session II: Software Security (Part 1)

  • Rohan Padhye: 'Fuzz testing: Maybe the *Real Treasure* Was the Inputs We Saved Along the Way'
  • Jonathan Aldrich: 'Leveraging Ownership in Rust for Simple Information Flow Control'
  • Fraser Brown: 'Compilation for Proof Systems'

11:20 a.m. - 12:05 p.m. - Session II: Software Security (Part 2)

  • Jay Bosamiya: 'Provably-Safe Multilingual Software Sandboxing Using WebAssembly'
  • Ian McCormack: 'Examining Rust Developers’ Motivations for Using Unsafe' | PDF
  • Eunsuk Kang: 'Reasoning About the Robustness of Protocols' | PDF

12:05 p.m. - 1:20 p.m. - Lunch and Student Poster Session

1:20 p.m. - 2:20 p.m. - Session III: Privacy

  • Lorrie Cranor: 'Obtaining Meaningful and Informed Consent When Users Have 17 Choices to Make'
  • Steven Wu: 'The Duality of Private Synthetic Data and Reconstruction Attacks' | PDF
  • Alessandro Acquisti: 'Behavioral Advertising and Consumer Welfare'
  • Norman Sadeh: 'Mobile App Privacy Compliance at Scale & Using Generative AI to Help Users Manage their Privacy and Security'

2:20 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. – CyLab Distinguished Alumni Award Presentation

2:45 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. – Break

3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. - Session IV: 20 Year Panel | Video

4:00 p.m. - 4:05 p.m. – End-of-day remarks: Lorrie Cranor

5:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. - 20 Year Celebration Gala (Heinz History Center)

 

Day 2: Wednesday, October 4, 2023 (EST)

8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. - Breakfast and Registration

9:00 a.m. - 9:05 a.m. – Opening remarks:

9:05 a.m.-9:35 a.m. - Partnerships and Initiatives

9:35 a.m. - 10:35 a.m. – Session V: Crypto and Blockchain

  • Aayush Jain: 'Homomorphic Secret Sharing from Sparse Learning Parity with Noise' | PDF
  • Thomas Scanlon: 'Organizational Readiness for Quantum Computing'
  • Abhiram Kothapalli: 'Nova: Recursive Zero-Knowledge Arguments from Folding Schemes' | PDF
  • Kunming Jiang: 'Less is More: Refinement Proofs for Probabilistic Proofs' | PDF

10:35 a.m. - 10:50 a.m. - Break

10:50 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. –  Session VI: System and Hardware Security

  • Mansi Sood: 'Random Graph Models for Efficient Network Design in Distributed Systems'
  • Riccardo Paccagnella: 'Software Security Challenges in the Era of Modern Hardware'
  • Josh Gancher: 'Verifying Security Protocols End-to-End with Owl' | PDF

11:50 a.m. - 1:05 p.m. – Lunch and Student Poster Session

1:05 p.m. - 2:05 p.m. – Session VII: Generative AI and ML (Part 1)

  • Carlee Joe-Wong: 'Private Federated Learning of Graph Convolutional Networks' | PDF
  • Matthew Walsh: 'The Creation and Detection of Deepfakes'
  • Lauren Mcllvenny: 'Towards an AI Security Incident Response Team (AISIRT)'
  • Matt Fredrikson: 'Universal and Transferrable Attacks on Large Language Models'

2:05 p.m. - 3:05 p.m. – Session VII: Generative AI and ML (Part 2)

  • Mark Sherman: 'Using Generative AI for Evaluating Source Code' | PDF
  • Sauvik Das: 'Privacy in the age of AI: What’s changed and what should we do about it?' | PDF
  • Lujo Bauer: 'Putting AI to work: Detecting malware and attacks on industrial control systems'
  • Ravi Mangal: 'Closed-loop Analysis of Vision-based Autonomous Systems' | PDF

3:05 p.m. - 3:20 p.m. - Break

3:20 p.m. - 4:20 p.m. - Session VII: Human Factors

  • Nicolas Christin: 'Social Trading Manipulation'
  • Isadora Krsek: 'Measuring, Modeling, and Helping People Account For Privacy Risks in Online Self-Disclosures'
  • McKenna McCall: 'Towards Usable Security Analysis Tools for Trigger-Action Programming' | PDF
  • Alejandro Cuevas: 'Does Darknet Market Vendor Reputation Matter?' | PDF

4:20 p.m. - 4:25 p.m. – Closing remarks

4:25 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. - Social Reception and Student Poster Session

 

Day 3: Thursday, October 5, 2023 (EST)

9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. - Lab Tours and Demos


TBD - FutureEnterprise@CyLab Year 2 Kick-Off (Sponsors Only)

 

Special thanks to our program committee: Lorrie Cranor, Lujo Bauer, Mark Sherman, Osman Yagan, Michael Lisanti, Ryan Gent, Isabelle Glassmith, Ryan Noone, Jamie Scanlon, Danyel Kusbit, and Dany Ricci.