Past Security Speakers

The Cybersecurity Institute ran a Security Speaker Series during the fall 2023.

11/9/23	Benjamin Ujcich, Georgetown Univeristy No Ill Intent? Understanding the Security Threats and Challenges of Intent-Based Networking

The Cybersecurity Institute ran a Security Speaker Series from September through December 2022.

9/28/22	Diana Freed, PhD Candidate, Cornell University Understanding Digital Safety Experiences of Intimate Partner Violence and Youth Survivors
10/12/22	Juliana Freire, (NYU Tandon School of Engineering, Director of the VIDA Center) Usability, Transparency, and Trust for Data-Intensive Computations
10/28/22	Sri Aravinda Krishnan (Aravind) Thyagarajan, NTT Research Cryptographic Locks For Cryptocurrency Payments
11/2/22	Daricia Wilkinson, Postdoctoral Researcher, Microsoft Research Designing for Safety: Towards More Equitable and Trustworthy Systems
11/16/22	Pubali Datta, PhD Candidate, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Looking Past the Abstractions: Characterizing Information Flow in Real-World Systems

The speaker series was paused during COVID-19.

Several speakers were invited starting in September through December 2020.

9/1	Prof. Dan Holcomb, ECE, UMass Amherst "COUNTERFOIL: Verifying Provenance of Integrated Circuits using Intrinsic Package Fingerprints and Inexpensive Cameras"
9/8	Prof. Amir Houmansadr, CS, UMass Amherst "The Battle of Internet Censorship"
9/15	Prof. Wayne Burleson, ECE, UMass Amherst
9/29	Ana-Andreea Stoica (Columbia University), "Diversity and Inequality in Social Networks: From Recommendation to Information Diffusion"
10/6	Dr. Simson Garfinkel, Senior Computer Scientist, US Census Bureau "Randomness Concerns When Deploying Differential Privacy"
10/13	Prof. Michel Kinsy, ECE, Texas A&M University "Establishing the Essential Hardware Primitives for Quantum-Proof Secure Computer Systems"
10/20	Prof. Sara Rampazzi, CISE, University of Florida, "Security & Perception Systems"
11/10	Arta Razavi, Segment "Privacy and Security at Segment"
11/17	Dr. Kimberly Ferguson-Walter, Laboratory for Advanced Cybersecurity Research, National Security Agency, "Understanding Cognitive Security to Improve Cyber Security"

Several speakers were invited starting in September through December 2019. All talks were on Tuesdays at 2:30 P.M. and take place in CS151 - except the Stefan Savage talk (different time).

9/10	Prof. Tongping Liu, ECE UMass Amherst In-situ Failure Diagnosis for In-Production Software
9/18	Prof. Stefan Savage, UC San Diego Modern Automotive Vulnerabilities: Problems, Causes and Outcomes Wednesday@4pm in CS151
9/24	Dr. Ahmad Bashir, Northeastern Univ (and soon UC Berkeley) On the Privacy Implications of Real Time Bidding
10/1	Dr. Arthur H. House, Cybersecuity Chief, State of Connecticut Cyber Threats: The States Fight Back
10/8	Dr. Markus Hofmann, Bell Labs Reshaping Our Interactions and Communications
10/22	Pardis Emami-Naeini, CMU [CICS Rising Star Series]: Informing Privacy and Security Decision-Making in and IoT World
10/29	Dr. Reinier Broker, Center for Communications Research An Introduction to Elliptic Curve Cryptography
11/5	Ari Trachtenburg, Boston University Paving a Road to Hell with Good Side-Channels
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
11/13	Caroline Lemieux,UC Berkeley [CICS Rising Star Series]: Expanding the Reach of Fuzzing: from Exposing Syntax Errors to Enabling Program Synthesis
11/15	Walter O. Krawec, University of Connecticut Quantum Key Distribution with Limited Resources
11/19	Prof. Adam Bates, UIUC Can Data Provenance Put an End to the Data Breach?
12/3	Prof. Elaine Shi, Cornell Univ. Rethinking Large-Scale Consensus
12/10	Prof. Michelle Mazurek, Univ Maryland College Park Usable Security Beyond End Users

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.

The following speakers were scheduled in 2018. A list of earlier speakers is available as well.

9/12	Tony Martin, Intel Ghost in the Shell
9/19	Prof. Chip Weems, UMass Amherst, CICS "Meltdown and Spectre: Exploiting Abandoned State in the Microarchitecture"
9/26	Dr. Simson Garfinkel, U.S. Census Issues Encountered Deploying Differential Privacy
10/3	Prof. Subhransu Maji, UMass Amherst, CICS Adversarial Attacks Against Machine Learning Systems
10/10	Prof. Dan Holcomb, UMass Amherst, ECE Hardware Security
10/17	Prof. Natallia Katenka, University of Rhode Island Epidemiological Study of Browser-Based Malware for University Network with Partially Observed Flow Data
10/24	Prof. Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Northeastern University Automated Attack Discovery for TCP Implementations
10/31	Prof. Alex Halderman, University of Michigan Cybersecurity and U.S. Elections
11/7	Christopher Kelly, Dir., Digital Evidence Lab, Office of the Attorney General, MA TBA [Cybercrime]
11/28	Dr. Zheni Utic, UMass Amherst, Statistics "Machine Learning Methods for Network Intrusion Detection and Intrusion Prevention Systems"
12/5	Jeff Long, MITRE "Software Defined Radio and Cyber Security"
12/12	Dr. Paula Donovan, Lincoln Labs "Quantitative Evaluation of Moving Target Technology"

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