EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences

Summer Research Institute 2023

on Security and Privacy

July 6th – July 7th 2023

New location at
INF 1

Also available on zoom:

Send us an email at c4dt@epfl.ch and we will send you the link

Overview

The Summer 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 2023, please register to facilitate the event's organization. The registration deadline is June 15th 2023.

Program (Overview)


Thursday, July 6th

08:15 – 08:45 Welcome coffee
09:00 – 11:00
Session: Learning (about) security Topics include: Cryptography, Privacy, Network security
11:00 – 11:30 BREAK
11:30 – 12:55 Session: Software Security "Sauce"
12:55 – 14:00 LUNCH
14:00 – 15:20 Session: Crypto PETS
15:20 – 16:00 BREAK
16:00 – 16:40 Session: Understanding people
17:00 – 18:00 Poster session
18:30 – 22:00 BBQ on BC 4th floor terrasse

Friday, July 7th

09:00 - 11:00
Session: Reversing and testing Topics include: Software Security, Mobile Security, Formal Methods
11:00 - 11:30 BREAK
11:30 - 12:55
Session: Connective Security Topics include: Software Security, Mobile Security, Formal Methods
12:55 - 13:40 LUNCH
13:40 - 14:40 Mentoring session
14:40 - 16:00 Session: Cloud defenses
16:00 - 16:40 BREAK
16:40 - 18:00
Session: show me the data Topics include: Crypto, Usable Security

Detailed Program


Thursday, July 6th

08:15 – 08:45 Welcome coffee
Session: Learning (about) security
09:00 – 09:40 Florian Kerschbaum Selected Problems in Security and Privacy of Data Science
09:40 – 10:20 Sebastian Angel Flamingo: Multi-Round Single-Server Secure Aggregation with Applications to Private Federated Learning
10:20 – 11:00 Alina Oprea Privacy Attacks in Machine Learning
11:00 - 11:30 BREAK
Session: Software Security "Sauce"
11:30 - 12:15 Marcel Böhme Counterintuitive Results in Fuzzing: Code Coverage as (Un)reliable Predictor of Vulnerability Discovery
12:15 - 12:55 Shweta Shinde It's TEEtime: Bringing User Sovereignty to Smartphones
12:55 - 14:00 LUNCH
Session: Crypto PETS
14:00 - 14:40 Sarah Meiklejohn Adaptivity and Asynchrony in Distributed Key Generation
14:40 - 15:20 Henry Corrigan-Gibbs Simple and Fast Private Information Retrieval
15:20 - 16:00 BREAK
Session: Understanding people
16:00 - 16:40 Aditya Akella A Quantitative Verification Framework for Systems Heuristics
17:00 – 18:00 Poster session BC 410
18:30 - 22:00 BBQ on BC 4th floor terrasse

Friday, July 7th

Session: Reversing and testing
9:00 - 9:40 Davide Balzarotti Memory Forensics 2.0
9:40 - 10:20 Alessandra Gorla Detecting Third-Party Libraries in iOS Apps
10:20 - 11:00 Xi Wang Specification and verification in the field: Applying formal methods to BPF just-in-time compilers in the Linux kernel
11:00 - 11:30 BREAK
Session: Connective security
11:30 - 12:15 Martina Lindorfer Watching the Watchmen - Shedding Light on Data Collection in Mobile Apps
12:15 - 12:55 Keith Winstein Computation as a Service
12:55 - 13:40 LUNCH
13:40 - 14:40 Mentoring INF 213
Session: Cloud defenses
14:40 - 15:20 Xiaoqian Jiang A Decade of Community Collaboration: Privacy-Preserving Techniques for Human Genomes through iDASH/GenoPri
15:20 - 16:00 Minlan Yu Rearchitecting the network stack for high performance applications
16:00 - 16:40 BREAK
Session: show me the data
16:40 - 17:20 David Wu Spiral: Fast, High-Rate Single-Server PIR via FHE Composition
17:20 - 18:00 Michelle Mazurek Revisiting what it means to be Usable: Usable Security Beyond End Users

Speakers

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 from the EPFL M1 metro station, please check the map below.

Archive

EPFL's Summer Research Institute has a long and successful history. For more information on past editions of the event refer to the links below.

2022 - 2020 - 2019 - 2018 - 2017 - 2016 - 2015 - 2014 - 2013 - 2012 - 2011 - 2010 - 2009
2008 - 2007 - 2006 - 2005 - 2004 - 2003 - 2002 - 2001 - 2000