SPSquared final meeting and workshop

This is the final meeting of the PRIDE SPSquared project (Security and Privacy for System Protection). We will have several talks from PhD students that have graduated as part of the project, as well as invited talks connected to the project and its topics.

Date and place: 6 June in Maison du Nombre, Belval, room 1.020 

Program

09.15 – 09.30 Welcome coffee

09.30 – 10.15 Semen Yurkov (SP2 graduate) – Analysis of Smartcard-based Payment Protocols in the Applied pi-calculus using Quasi-Open Bisimilarity  

10.15 – 11.00 Lucian Andrei Trestioreanu (SP2 graduate) – Enabling Resilient and Efficient Communication for the XRP Ledger and Interledger    

11.00 – 11.15 Coffee break 

11.15 – 12.00 Verena Distler (SP2 graduate) – The Human Side Of Cybersecurity: Strengthening Human Resilience against Social Engineering  

12.00 – 12.20 Borce Stojkowski (SP2 graduate) – Responsible data management with TPOmap: security, privacy and UX challenges and opportunities  

12.30-14.00: Lunch break   

14.00-15:00 Yang Zhang (CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, invited talk) – Attacking Machine Learning Models  

15.00-15.45 Zhiqiang Zhong (SP2 graduate) – Knowledge-augmented Graph Machine Learning for Drug Discovery: from Precision to Interpretability  

15.45-16.00 – Coffee break 

16.00 – 17.00 Alwen Tiu (Australian National Universty, invited talk) – Privacy and security issues in crowd-sourced location tracking systems  

17.00 – 17.30 – Agnese Gini (University of Luxembourg, invited talk) – About Hidden Subset Sum Problem and its cryptographic applications.    

17.30-17.50 Jim Jean-Pierre Barthel (SP2 graduate) – On the Chinese Remainder Problem   

17.50 – 18.10 Luan Cardoso Dos Santos (SP2 graduate) – Polynomial commitments on elliptic curves for non-mathematicians