Speakers

     

Thorsten Holz is a faculty member at the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security. Before joining CISPA in October 2021, he was a full professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. His research interests include technical aspects of secure systems, with a specific focus on systems security. Thorsten received a Dipl.-Inform. degree in Computer Science from RWTH Aachen University (2005) and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Mannheim (2009). In 2011, he was awarded the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize from the German Research Foundation (DFG), in 2014 an ERC Starting Grant, and in 2023 an ERC Consolidator Grant. He serves on the steering committees of USENIX Security and the IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy.

     

Engin Kirda is a professor of computer science at Northeastern University. Before that, he held faculty positions at Institute Eurecom in the French Riviera and the Technical University of Vienna, where he co-founded the Secure Systems Lab that is now distributed over five institutions in Europe and the United States. Engin’s research has focused on malware analysis (e.g., Anubis, Exposure, and Fire) and detection, web application security, and practical aspects of social-networking security. He was a co-founder of Lastline, Inc., a Silicon-Valley based company that specialized in the detection and prevention of advanced targeted malware that was acquired by VMWare in 2020. Engin was the program chair of the International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection in 2009, the program chair of the European Workshop on Systems Security in 2010 and 2011, the program chair of the well-known USENIX Workshop on Large Scale Exploits and Emergent Threats in 2012, the program chair of the security flagship conference Network and Distributed System Security Symposium in 2015 and USENIX Security in 2017. Currently, he is one of the co-chairs of ACM CCS.

     

Tadayoshi Kohno (Yoshi) is a professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. He is also the Associate Dean for Faculty Success at the University of Washington College of Engineering. He has adjunct appointments in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, the Information School, and the School of Law. He co-directs the University of Washington Computer Security & Privacy Research Lab and the Tech Policy Lab. Kohno was a founding member of the National Academies Forum on Cyber Resilience and is currently a member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation Board of Directors and the USENIX Security Steering Committee. Kohno received his Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego.

    

Clémentine Maurice is a full-time CNRS researcher in the Spirals group at CRIStAL (Lille, France). She was previously in the EMSEC group at IRISA (Rennes, France). Prior to that, she obtained her PhD from Telecom ParisTech, and then worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Graz University of Technology, Austria. Her research interests span software-based side-channel and fault attacks on commodity computers and servers, leveraging micro-architectural components. She also enjoys reverse-engineering processor parts. Beyond academic conferences, she presented her research at venues like the Chaos Communication Congress and BlackHat Europe. She is a regular program committee member at conferences such as USENIX Security, CCS and S&P, and has chaired multiple Artifact Evaluations.

     

Kaveh Razavi is an assistant professor (tenure track) at ETH Zürich with a focus on systems and hardware security. His research has received many awards over the years, including best paper awards at IEEE S&P and MICRO, and five Pwnies. He has also received two early-career personal grants (a Dutch Veni and an ERC Starting) and the Jochen Liedtke young researcher award.

     

     

     

     

    

Tamara Rezk is a research director at Inria and a part-time lecturer at Université Côte d’Azur, Sophia Antipolis, France. Since 2023, she is also a WASP guest professor at Chalmers, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Her main research interests are in the field of system security. She has supervised Ph.D. students on topics such as static and dynamic security analyses, web security, formal methods for security, and provable cryptography. She currently focuses her research on defenses and principled methods to deal with microarchitectural attacks, and web application attacks.

 

          

     

     

Thomas Ristenpart is a Professor at Cornell Tech and a member of the Computer Science department at Cornell University. Before joining Cornell Tech in May, 2015, he spent four and a half years as an Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He completed his PhD at UC San Diego in 2010.  His research spans a wide range of computer security topics, with recent focuses including digital privacy and safety in intimate partner violence, anti-abuse mitigations for encrypted messaging systems, improvements to authentication mechanisms including passwords, and topics in applied and theoretical cryptography.  His work is routinely featured in the media and has been recognized by numerous distinguished paper awards, two ACM CCS test-of-time awards, an Advocate of New York City award, an NSF CAREER Award, and a Sloan Research Fellowship.

     

Franziska (Franzi) Roesner is the Brett Helsel Associate Professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, where she co-directs the Security and Privacy Research Lab. Her research focuses broadly on computer security and privacy for end users of existing and emerging technologies. Her work has studied topics including online tracking and advertising, security and privacy for marginalized and/or vulnerable user groups, security and privacy in emerging augmented reality (AR) and IoT platforms, and online mis/disinformation. She is the recipient of a Google Security and Privacy Research Award and a Google Research Scholar Award, a Consumer Reports Digital Lab Fellowship, an MIT Technology Review "Innovators Under 35" Award, an Emerging Leader Alumni Award from the University of Texas at Austin, and an NSF CAREER Award. She has received paper awards or runners-up at the USENIX Security Symposium, the IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy, the Internet Measurement Conference, and the WebConf; as well as Test of Time Awards at NSDI and the IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy. She serves on the USENIX Security and USENIX Enigma Steering Committees (having previously co-chaired both conferences). She received her PhD from the University of Washington in 2014 and her BS from UT Austin in 2008.

     

Caroline Trippel is an assistant professor in the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Departments at Stanford University. Her research interests are in the area of computer architecture, with a focus on promoting correctness and security as first-order computer systems design metrics. A central theme of her work is leveraging formal methods techniques to design and verify hardware systems. Caroline’s research has been recognized with IEEE Top Picks distinctions, an NSF CAREER Award, the 2020 ACM SIGARCH/IEEE CS TCCA Outstanding Dissertation Award, and the 2020 CGS/ProQuest® Distinguished Dissertation Award in Mathematics, Physical Sciences, & Engineering.

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