The Cybersecurity Institute is running a Security Speaker Series. Several speakers have been invited starting in September through December 2019. All talks will be on Tuesdays at 2:30 P.M. and take place in CS151 - except the Stefan Savage talk (different time). Current speakers for 2019 are:
| 9/10 |
Prof. Tongping Liu, ECE UMass Amherst
In-situ Failure Diagnosis for In-Production Software
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| 9/18 |
Prof. Stefan Savage, UC San Diego
Modern Automotive Vulnerabilities: Problems, Causes and Outcomes
Wednesday@4pm in CS151
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| 9/24 |
Dr. Ahmad Bashir, Northeastern Univ (and soon UC Berkeley)
On the Privacy Implications of Real Time Bidding
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| 10/1 |
Dr. Arthur H. House, Cybersecuity Chief, State of Connecticut
Cyber Threats: The States Fight Back
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| 10/8 |
Dr. Markus Hofmann, Bell Labs
Reshaping Our Interactions and Communications
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| 10/22 |
Pardis Emami-Naeini, CMU
[CICS Rising Star Series]: Informing Privacy and Security Decision-Making in and IoT World
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| 10/29 |
Dr. Reinier Broker, Center for Communications Research
An Introduction to Elliptic Curve Cryptography
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| 11/5 |
Ari Trachtenburg, Boston University
Paving a Road to Hell with Good Side-Channels
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| 11/8 |
Aaron Johnson, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
Stormy: Statistics in Tor by Measuring Securely |
| 11/12 |
Madolyn Chiu, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
TBA
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| 11/13 |
Caroline Lemieux,UC Berkeley
[CICS Rising Star Series]:
Expanding the Reach of Fuzzing: from Exposing Syntax Errors to Enabling Program Synthesis
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| 11/15 |
Walter O. Krawec, University of Connecticut
Quantum Key Distribution with Limited Resources
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| 11/19 |
Prof. Adam Bates, UIUC
Can Data Provenance Put an End to the Data Breach?
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| 12/3 |
Prof. Elaine Shi, Cornell Univ.
Rethinking Large-Scale Consensus
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| 12/10 |
Prof. Michelle Mazurek, Univ Maryland College Park
Usable Security Beyond End Users
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We have a few more speakers in progress. Titles and abstracts will be posted as we receive them. This page is easily linked to as http://infosec.cs.umass.edu/speakers.
Past Speakers
The following speakers were scheduled in 2018. A list of earlier speakers is available as well.
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9/12
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Tony Martin, Intel
Ghost in the Shell
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9/19
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Prof. Chip Weems, UMass Amherst, CICS
"Meltdown and Spectre: Exploiting Abandoned State in the Microarchitecture"
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9/26
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Dr. Simson Garfinkel, U.S. Census
Issues Encountered Deploying Differential Privacy
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10/3
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Prof. Subhransu Maji, UMass Amherst, CICS
Adversarial Attacks Against Machine Learning Systems
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10/10
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Prof. Dan Holcomb, UMass Amherst, ECE
Hardware Security
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10/17
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Prof. Natallia Katenka, University of Rhode Island
Epidemiological Study of Browser-Based Malware for University Network with Partially Observed Flow Data
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10/24
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Prof. Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Northeastern University
Automated Attack Discovery for TCP Implementations
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10/31
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Prof. Alex Halderman, University of Michigan
Cybersecurity and U.S. Elections
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11/7
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Christopher Kelly, Dir., Digital Evidence Lab, Office of the Attorney General, MA
TBA [Cybercrime]
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11/28
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Dr. Zheni Utic, UMass Amherst, Statistics
"Machine Learning Methods for Network Intrusion Detection and Intrusion Prevention Systems"
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12/5
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Jeff Long, MITRE
"Software Defined Radio and Cyber Security"
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12/12
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Dr. Paula Donovan, Lincoln Labs
"Quantitative Evaluation of Moving Target Technology"
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