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 GarfinkelSenior 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-NaeiniCMU
[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 BatesUIUC
Can Data Provenance Put an End to the Data Breach?

12/3

Prof. Elaine ShiCornell Univ.
Rethinking Large-Scale Consensus

12/10

Prof. Michelle MazurekUniv 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"