CROSSING Conference 2021
Agenda

You can find the agenda of the CROSSING Conference 2021 below.

Agenda Day 1

Thursday, September 30
TIME (CEST) PROGRAM
10:00 – 10:15 Opening and Welcome

Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, Technical University of Darmstadt (TU Darmstadt)
10:15 – 10:35 CROSSING: Goals and Vision

Marc Fischlin, Technical University of Darmstadt (TU Darmstadt)
10:35 – 11:20 Demystifying Quantum Technologies

Johanna Sepúlveda, AIRBUS
11:20 – 12:05 How Secure Hardware can Improve Secure Multiparty
Computations


Jörn Müller-Quade, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
LUNCH BREAK

Pitch-Talks on Emerging Technologies with Q&A-Session
13:00 – 13:20 Automated power-analysis leakage evaluation and elimination: from Elmo to Rosita
Lejla Batina, Radboud University
13:20 – 13:40 Security on plastics: How far can we go?

Nele Mentens, KU Leuven and Leiden University
13:40 – 14:00 Deep Learning-based Side-channel Analysis: How deep should we go?

Stjepan Picek, Radboud University and Delft University of Technology
BREAK
14:15 – 15:00 On Distributive Justice through Machine Learning

Hoda Heidari, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
15:00 – 15:45 Security and Privacy Compromises in COVID Time

Serge Vaudenay, Swiss Federal Institute of Technologies (EPFL)
BREAK
16:45 – 17:30 Why Google Stopped Logging Contact Tracing Data

Joel Reardon, University of Calgary
BREAK
17:45 – 18:30 Keynote: New Results on Deniable Encryption
Shafi Goldwasser, University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Turing Award Winner
18:30 – 19:15 Keynote: Finding Vulnerabilities in Embedded Software

Christopher Krügel, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)
BREAK
19:30 – 20:15 Securing Secure Aggregation: Mitigating Multi-Round Privacy Leakage in Federated
Learning


Salman Avastimehr, University of Southern California (USC),
USC-Amazon Center on Trusted AI
20:15 – 20:30 Closing Day 1

Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, Technical University of Darmstadt (TU Darmstadt)

Agenda Day 2

Friday October 1
TIME (CEST) PROGRAM
10:00 – 10:15 Opening and Welcome

Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, Technical University of Darmstadt (TU Darmstadt)
10:15 – 11:00 The Search for Meanings and Values in Programs and Systems

LIANG Zhenkai, National University of Singapore (NUS)
11:00 – 11:45 Practical aspects of distributing cryptographic keys using quantum information channels

Gerd Leuchs, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light
LUNCH BREAK
12:30 – 13:15 AI for Security and Resilience and Resilient AI

Igor Linkov, US Army Engineer Research and Development Center
13:15 – 13:45 Cybersecurity as Key Technology: Are we Losing the Game?

Ammar Alkassar,
Chief Information Officer (CIO), State Commissioner for Strategy and Innovation, State of Saarland
BREAK
Panel Discussion
14:00 – 15:30 Panel: On Pains and Gains of Start-ups
with

Ammar Alkassar,
Chief Information Officer (CIO), State Commissioner for Strategy and Innovation, State of Saarland
Sebastian Stammler, PolyCrypt
Sergej Dechand, Code Intelligence
Harald Holzer, Managing Director of Innovation & Spin-off Center, TU Darmstadt
Emmanuel Stapf, Sanctuary
15:30 – 16:15 Privacy-aware Data Mining for Online Advertising: Theory and Practice

Vahab Mirrokni, Google Research
BREAK
16:30 – 17:15 Keynote: Private (Collaborative) Learning via Data Transformation

Srini Devadas, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
17:15 – 18:00 Hardware at the Heart of System Security: Threats and Opportunities

Keith Rebello, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
BREAK
18:15 – 19:00 Turning Art into Science: Towards Scalable Hardware Security Assurance

Jason Fung, Intel Corporation
19:00 – 19:30 Closing Day 2

Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, Technical University of Darmstadt (TU Darmstadt)