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ACM CCS 2024

October 14-18, 2024 Salt Lake City, U.S.A.

ACM CCS’24 Doctoral Symposium Program

Oct 14, 2024, Salt Lake City, USA

All CCS’24 Attendees are Welcome to Participate

8:40 AM Welcoming remarks

8:50 AM – 10:30 AM Session 1, Chair: Gang Tan

  • Trusted Execution Environments for Quantum Computers
    • Theodoros Trochatos, Yale University
    • Advisor: Jakub Szefer
  • Towards Secure Runtime Auditing of Remote Embedded System Software
    • Adam Caulfield, Rochester Institute of Technology
    • Advisor: Ivan De Oliveira Nunes
  • Symbolic Execution for Dynamic Kernel Analysis
    • Pansilu Pitigalaarachchi, Singapore Management University
    • Advisor: Xuhua Ding
  • Leveraging Storage Semantics to Enhance Data Security and Privacy
    • Weidong Zhu, University of Florida
    • Advisors: Kevin Butler, Sara Rampazzi

10:30 AM – 11:00 AM Break

11:00 AM – 12:15 PM Session 2, Chair: Kevin Roundy

  • Evolving Network Security In the Era of Network Programmability
    • Mingming Chen, Penn State University
    • Advisors: Thomas La Porta, Trent Jaeger
  • Securing Cyber-Physical Systems via Advanced Cyber Threat Intelligence Methods
    • Efrén López-Morales, Texas A\&M University-Corpus Christi
    • Advisor: Carlos Rubio-Medrano
  • Towards Proactive Protection against Unauthorized Speech Synthesis
    • Zhiyuan Yu, Washington University in St. Louis
    • Advisor: Ning Zhang

12:15 PM – 1:30 PM Lunch

1:30 PM – 3:10 PM Session 3, Chair: Apu Kapadia

  • Understanding and Addressing Online Tracking: Online Privacy’s Regulatory Turn
    • Nathan Reitinger, University of Maryland
    • Advisor: Michelle L. Mazurek
  • Catch Me If You Can: Detecting Unauthorized Data Use in Deep Learning Models
    • Zitao Chen, University of British Columbia
    • Advisor: Karthik Pattabiraman
  • Privacy Analysis of Machine Learning Algorithms
    • Jiayuan Ye, National University of Singapore
    • Advisor: Reza Shokri
  • Novel Privacy Attacks and Defenses Against Neural Networks
    • Sayanton V. Dibbo, Dartmouth College
    • Advisor: Adam Breuer

3:10 PM – 3:30 PM Break

3:30 PM – 4:45 PM Session 4, Chair: Kevin Butler

  • Language-based Sandboxing
    • Jialun Zhang, The Pennsylvania State University
    • Advisor: Gang Tan
  • Toward Practical Threshold FHE: Low Communication, Computation and Interaction
    • Hyeongmin Choe, Seoul National University
    • Advisor: Jung Hee Cheon
  • Privacy-Preserving Graph Analysis
    • Bhavish Raj Gopal, Indian Institute of Science
    • Advisor: Arpita Patra

4:45 PM Concluding remarks

Synopsis

Pursuing a PhD can be an arduous journey. Starting in 2024, a dedicated Doctoral Symposium will be held in conjunction with the ACM CCS conference to provide PhD students with timely feedback from the SIGSAC research community on their dissertation research. The Inaugural Doctoral Symposium will be held on Oct 14, the day before the CCS’24 main conference. Invited PhD students will present their in-progress PhD dissertation work to the audience. During and after each presentation, the student and the audience will engage in constructive discussions with the purpose of providing perspectives and suggestions to help the student refine and strengthen their dissertation work.

It is worth noting that a PhD dissertation has much more depth than a single peer-reviewed paper or simply a collection of results from several published papers. A PhD dissertation shall be based on a coherent postulate that is subject to rigorous scientific reasoning and experimentation, and consists of a substantial amount of inquiry -- theoretically, experimentally, or both -- that demonstrates the validity and utility of the said postulate. An ideal candidate who can benefit from the Doctoral Symposium is one who can articulate this vision, and explain to the committee 1) why it is worthwhile to conduct the research, 2) the rationale behind the approaches being contemplated/experimented, and 3) any existing data that demonstrates a feasible path forward. We expect students who can benefit most from the Doctoral Symposium are those who are in the middle of their PhD journey. This is also a period when a PhD student is eager to acquire a wide perspective of their work, but may not have had the exposure (e.g., conference presentations) necessary to receive feedback from the broader research community. To encourage participation in the Doctoral Symposium, ACM SIGSAC has provided generous financial support so each invited PhD student will receive a $1,000 student travel grant to help defray the cost of attending the Doctoral Symposium.

Doctoral Symposium Committee

  • Xinming Ou (co-chair) - University of South Florida
  • Gabriela Ciocarlie (co-chair) - UT San Antonio

  • Manos Antonakakis - Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Alex Bardas - University of Kansas
  • Kevin Butler - University of Florida
  • Joseph A. Calandrinor - Federal Trade Commission
  • Lorenzo Cavallaro - University College London
  • Leah Ding - American University
  • Yong Guan - Iowa State University
  • Limin Jia - Carnegie Mellon University
  • Apu Kapadia - Indiana University
  • Angelos Keromytis - Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Zhiqiang Lin - Ohio State University
  • Alina Oprea - Northeastern University
  • Giancarlo Pellegrino - CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
  • Roberto Perdisci - University of Georgia
  • Kevin Roundy - Andromeda Security
  • Sushmita Ruj - University of New South Wales, Sydney
  • Angelos Stavrou - Virginia Tech
  • Gang Tan - Pennsylvania State University
  • Selcuk Uluagac - Florida International University
  • Min Xu - Mastercard
  • Attila Yavuz - University of South Florida