EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences

Summer Research Institute 2024

on Systems, Security, and Privacy

July 11th – July 12th 2024

Overview

The Research Institute (SuRI) is an annual event that takes place at the School of Computer and Communication Sciences of the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland. The workshop brings together researchers and experts from academia and industry for research talks and informal discussions.

The event is open to everyone and attendance is free of charge.
In case you plan to attend SuRI 2024, please register to facilitate the event’s organization. Registration covers attendance, coffee breaks, lunches, and dinner on the first day.

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Detailed Program

Room location: BC Building/ BC 05

Thursday, July 11th

8:15 – 8:45	Welcome coffee
	Session: Diving into Security
9:00 – 9:50	Patrick Traynor	System and HW Security
9:50 – 10:20	BREAK
	Session: Privacy and architectures
10:20 – 11:00	Reza Shokri	ML privacy
11:00 – 11:50	Kaveh Razavi	Micro-architectures
12:00 – 13:15	LUNCH/ Coffee
	Session: Mentoring
13:15 – 15:00	Mentoring
	Session: Systems and firmwares
15:00 – 15:50	Yan Shoshitaishvili	System security/ Readiness
15:50 – 16:40	Alyssa Milburn	Firmware/ SoC security
17:00 – 18:30	Poster session and drinks	Atrium BC
from 18:30	Pizza on the patio	on the patio

Friday, July 12th

8:30 – 9:00	Morning coffee
	Session: Applied crypto and attacks
9:00 – 9:50	Alexandra Henzinger	Applied Crypto Systems
9:50 – 10:40	Anwar Hithnawi	Applied Crypto and Privacy
10:40 – 11:00	BREAK
	Session: Real-World Security + Usability
11:00 – 11:50	Soheil Khodayari	Web Security
11:50 – 12:40	Sebastian Köhler	Wireless Attacks
12:40 – 13:30	McKenna McCall	Formal Methods/Usable Sec
from 13:30	LUNCH/ Coffee and Farewell

Invited Speakers

Alexandra Henzinger
MIT

Anwar Hithnawi
ETHZ

Soheil Khodayari
CISPA

Sebastian Koehler
Oxford

Clémentine Maurice
CRNS

McKenna McCall
CMU

Alyssa Milburn
Intel

Kaveh Razavi
ETHZ

Reza Shokri
NUS

Yan Shoshitaishvili
ASU

Patrick Traynor
U of Florida

Organizers

Directions

If you’re flying in, Genève-Cointrin is the nearest international airport. By train, it takes ~45 minutes to reach Lausanne. Zürich Airport is about ~2.5 hours away by train. To get information on train schedules, please see the Swiss Rail website.

To reach the SuRI venue( BC building – room BC 05) from the EPFL M1 metro station, please check the map below.