Last updated: Wednesday, November 13th, 7:02pm
Below, please find the agenda for MSW 9 on Saturday, November 16th, 2024. All events will be held at Purdue University, specifically at the Wilmeth Active Learning Center (WALC, 340 Centennial Mall Dr, West Lafayette, IN 47907, Google Maps). Rooms numbered 1XXX are on the first floor, 2XXX are on the second floor, 3XXX are on the third floor, and B0XX are in the basement.
As the attending universities span two different time zones, please note that Purdue is on Eastern Time. Please plan to arrive between 10:15am and 11:00am (Eastern Time). Like past MSW events, the focus is on facilitating interaction and seeding new collaborations between security and privacy researchers. That is, rather than just presenting your past work, we want to help you find new collaborators for your future work and new friends for the rest of your career.
| TIME (EASTERN) | EVENT | ROOM |
|---|---|---|
| 10:15am–11:00am | Arrival and Registration Please aim to arrive on the early side of this window to pick up your badge from WALC B091 (in the basement). Coffee and light snacks will be available in WALC B093. | WALC B091 (name tags) and WALC B093 (food) |
| 11:00am–11:15am | Welcome and Overview  | WALC 1018 or WALC 1132 or WALC B074 based on which lightning talk track you plan to attend |
| 11:15am–11:45am | Lightning Talks Senior Ph.D. students and postdocs will give short lightning talks. We will split into three tracks: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in WALC 1018 (Moderator: Aarushi Goel, Purdue) • Xinyao Ma (Indiana): Integrating Human Decision-Making and Artificial Intelligence for Privacy, Security, and Safety • Qingying Hao (UIUC): Evaluate the Robustness of Similarity Learning Based Search in Practice • Zhuolin Yang (UChicago): Identifying and Mitigating Personalized Privacy Attacks • Nan Jiang (Purdue): Toward Accurate and Practical AI Assistants in Software Development: Leveraging Domain Knowledge • Wenxin Ding (UChicago): Poisoning Attacks against Text-to-Image Generative Models • Arman Behnam (IIT): Graph Neural Network Causal Explanation via Neural Causal Models Systems and Applied Cryptography in WALC 1132 (Moderator: Anrin Chakraborti, UIC) • Mazharul Islam (Wisconsin): Detecting Compromise of Synced Passkeys • Sourav Das (UIUC): Theory and Practice of Fault-tolerant Distributed Cryptographic Systems • Akul Goyal (UIUC): Moving Provenance Based Threat Detection Closer To Reality • Xiangmin Shen (Northwestern): Enhancing System Security Through the Interplay of Offensive and Defensive Techniques • Mohammad Kavousi (Northwestern): CloudWiz: Simplifying Configuration of Cloud-native Environments • Qingzhao Zhang (Michigan): Enhancing Security, Safety, and Reliability of Cyber-physical Systems • Ziqi Zhang (UIUC): On the (In-)Security of TEE-Shielded DNN Partition for On-Device ML • Abdullah Imran (Purdue): Usability and Security of Android Trusted Execution Environments (TEE) Usable Security and Privacy in WALC B074 (Moderator: Blase Ur, UChicago) • Sophie Stephenson (Wisconsin): Interpersonal Security & Privacy • Zitao Zhang (Indiana): Larger or Smaller - Why No One Is Using 2FA Hardware Token • Arjun Arunasalam (Purdue): Human-Centered Security, Privacy and Trust of Sociotechnical Systems • Lu Xian (Michigan): Towards Human-Centered Interventions for Mitigating AI Harms • Naman Gupta (Wisconsin): Technological Bottlenecks of the Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Relatives (MMIWR) crisis: Invisible not Forgotten • Emma Peterson (UChicago): Human-in-the-Loop Redaction of Unstructured Text Transcripts | WALC 1018 (AI/ML) or WALC 1132 (systems/crypto) or WALC B074 (usable security) |
| 11:45am–12:45pm | Breakout Discussion Sessions We will have different rooms, each representing a clustering around a research topic and with the discussion led by the moderator(s) listed below. We hope for these discussions to spread awareness about each other's research and especially to seed future collaborations. • Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning Security in WALC 2051   • Cryptography and Blockchain in WALC 3122   • Generative AI / Large Language Models in WALC 2088   • Hardware and Physical Security in WALC 3084  • Mobile, Embedded Systems, and IoT Security in WALC 3148   • Network Security and Measurement in WALC 3132   • Privacy and Privacy-Enhancing Technologies in WALC 3154   • Software Security in WALC 2124  • Systems Security in WALC 3090   • Usable Security / Human-Computer Interaction / Policy in WALC 3138   • Web Security in WALC 3121   | See per-session locations on the left |
| 12:45pm–2:00pm | Lunch With Structured Meetings Lunch (pizza, sandwiches from Panera, and salads from Panera) will be provided in WALC B093. Faculty members have been pre-assigned to tables, each with various themes, in WALC 1087, WALC 1121, WALC 2124, WALC 3122, and WALC B091. Student attendees should go to one of those rooms and choose a table for lunch based on the theme. See this sheet that describes the themes, moderators, and location of each table. | Get food in WALC B093 and then head to a room based on which topic sounds most interesting to you. |
| 2:00pm–2:30pm | Poster Session A total of 25 students will present posters of their work. | WALC B074 |
| 2:30pm–3:30pm | Speed Advising Our popular speed advising sessions enable students to meet for 10 minutes each with faculty and staff from other universities. Mentors will stay in place, and students will come to them. When not meeting with a mentor (or if not participating at all in speed advising), you are encouraged to continue the poster session. Speed advising assignments are now available (but are subject to change). | See the assignments and room locations. If you are not participating, please keep enjoying the poster session. |
| 3:30pm‐4:15pm | Panel Discussion: Debugging and Demystifying the Paper Submission/Review Process | WALC 1018 (livecast in WALC 1132 and WALC B074) |
| 4:15pm–4:45pm | Coffee Break We will provide coffee and light snacks. | WALC B093 |
| 4:45pm–5:15pm | Keynote: From Unlearning to Relearning: An Academician's Journey in Industry
 Aniket Kate, Purdue University In 2022, I embarked on an exciting journey from a settled academic career into the ever-dynamic world of blockchains. In this talk, I will share my experiences as a research lead in a blockchain startup, highlighting the challenges with this transition. I had to unlearn many traditional research strategies ingrained in academia and adapt my approach to ensure relevance in an industrial context while maintaining academic rigor. I will discuss my insights on modeling adversaries, navigating the safety-vs-liveness tradeoffs, and building secure distributed systems at scale. Prof. Aniket Kate is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and a University Faculty Scholar at Purdue University. He is also the Chief Research Officer at Supra. He is an applied cryptographer and a privacy researcher. His research builds on and expands applied cryptography, distributed computing, and game theory to solve security/privacy problems in decentralized environments. His current projects focus on distributed ledgers (or blockchains) and secure computations. He is a recipient of the 2019 NSF CAREER Award. Before joining Purdue in 2015, he was a junior faculty member at Saarland University, Germany. He completed his postdoctoral fellowship at Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS) in Germany. He received his PhD from the University of Waterloo, Canada, and his masters from IIT-Bombay, India. | WALC 1018 (livecast in WALC 1132 and WALC B074) |
| 5:15pm–6:00pm | Student/Postdoc AMA and MSW Faculty Town Hall Current students and postdocs will have a no-faculty-allowed AMA ("ask-me-anything") session in WALC 1018 while faculty and staff will convene separately in WALC 1121 for a town hall on the future of security and privacy research in the Midwest. | Students/postdocs in WALC 1018; faculty/staff in WALC 1121 |
| 6:00pm–6:10pm | Closing Remarks | WALC 1018 (livecast in WALC 1132 and WALC B074) |
