We are pleased to announce the 2020 CyLab Partners Conference!

Date: September 23-24, 2020
Location: Virtual

The conference agenda highlights the latest research in security and privacy with an interactive forum between faculty, students, and industry.

The conference spans two days with over 35 faculty and students presenting current research. All sessions will include brief presentations followed by active dialog with attendees.

The event is invitation only. Details on registration will be emailed directly to CyLab partners and special guests. Access to event login will be emailed to all registrants prior to the conference. If you have any questions regarding the event, please contact partnerships@cylab.cmu.edu for more information.

Not a CyLab partner? Learn how your company can benefit from becoming a CyLab partner. Contact Director of Partnerships, Michael Lisanti at mlisanti@cmu.edu or 412-268-1870.

 

Agenda

This agenda is subject to change.

Wednesday, September 23, 2020 (Eastern Time)

11:00 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. – Opening remarks: Dean Bill Sanders and Lorrie Cranor

11:15 a.m. - 12:35 p.m. – Session I: Software & Systems Security

12:35 p.m. - 1:15 p.m. – Break

1:15 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. – Session II: Human Factors in Security & Privacy

  • Lorrie Cranor: “Privacy Notice and Consent for a GDPR/CCPA/IoT World”
  • Tim Libert: “Forensic Measurement of Online Health Privacy Violations”
  • Dan Costa: “Analytic Approaches to Insider Risk Quantification”
  • Nicolas Christin: “Online Censorship Measurements”
  • Palvi Aggarwal: “An Exploratory Study of a Masking Strategy of Cyberdeception Using CyberVAN”
  • Cori Faklaris: “Behavior Change Using Social Influences”

2:45 p.m. - 3:10 p.m. – Break

3:10 p.m. - 4:40 p.m. – Session III: Hardware & Network Security

  • James C. Hoe: “FPGA accelerated 100Gbps network intrusion detection and prevention”
  • Ken Mai: “Hardware Redaction Using Embedded FPGAs”
  • Shawn Blanton: “Characterizing Secure Hardware”
  • Joseph Sweeney: “Obfuscation and Security for Digital Integrated Circuits”
  • Alan Liu: “Jaqen: High-Performance Switch-Native DDoS Defense”
  • Grace Liu: “Don’t Yank My Chain: Auditable NF Service Chaining”

4:40 p.m. - 4:45 p.m. – Closing remarks: Lorrie Cranor

4:45 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. – Break

5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. – Student virtual poster session

 

Thursday, September 24, 2020 (Eastern Time)

11:00 a.m. - 11: 05 a.m. – Opening remarks: Lorrie Cranor

11:05 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. – Partnership program updates: Michael Lisanti, Director of Partnerships

11:15 a.m. - 11:20 a.m. – CyLab Distinguished Alumni Award Presentation: Lorrie Cranor

11:20 a.m. - 11:50 a.m. – CyLab Distinguished Alumni Honoree Talk: Elaine Shi

11:50 a.m. - 12:35 p.m. – Session IV: Machine Learning & Analytics (Part 1)

  • Lujo Bauer: “Adversarial Learning in Practical Settings”
  • Carlee Joe-Wong: “Privacy and Incentives in Distributed Learning”
  • Steven Wu: “(Differentially) Private Synthetic Data Generation”

12:35 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. – Break

1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. – Session IV: Machine Learning & Analytics (Part 2)

  • Dustin Updyke and Tom Podnar: “Using ML in Modeling and Simulation for Cybersecurity Training”
  • Vincent Hellendoorn: “Learning (Un)Natural Run-Time Behavior from Source Code”
  • Samarth Gupta: “Sequential Inference and Learning in “small-data” Applications”
  • Hoda Heidari: “Formal Definitions of Algorithmic Fairness”
  • Conrad Tucker: “Deep Learning for Enhancing the Robustness of Intrusion Detection Systems”
  • Aymeric Fromherz: “Verification of Neural Networks/Machine Learning”

2:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. – Break

3:00 p.m. - 4:40 p.m. – Session V: IoT Security & Privacy

4:40 p.m - 4:45 p.m. – Closing remarks: Lorrie Cranor

4:45 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. – Break

5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. – Virtual lab tours and faculty requested meetings (exclusive to partners only)

Special thanks to our Program Committee: Lorrie Cranor, Lujo Bauer, Terri Deasy, Michael Lisanti, Jamie Scanlon, Danyel Kusbit, Shawn Blanton, Vyas Sekar, Mark Sherman, and Pulkit Grover.