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Detailed Program

Note:
- All times in the program are in PDT time zone.
- Each research paper has 20 minutes including Q&A. Please share your presentation slides with your session chair by May 15, 2023. You can find the session chair's email address below.
​- Participants are on their own for breakfast. The hotel provides breakfast for the hotel guests only.
- The detailed program can be changed a little depending on the availability and the schedule conflicts. Please check the agenda later around 5/10/23 again. 
May 17

May 17

Room

Time Zone in PST

8:20 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.

Open remarks from PC Chairs

Embassy Room

8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.

Keynote 1: Why cybersecurity will be central to 6G!
by Mischa Dohler, VP Ericsson

Session Chair: Younghee Park, San Jose State University

9:30 a.m. - 9:40 a.m.

Break

Embassy Room

Research Session 1: Blockchain and Hardware Security
9:40 a.m. - 11:40 a.m.
Session Chair: Jinoh Kim, Texas A&M University-Commerce

( Jinoh.Kim@tamuc.edu)

Papers with Authors
1. Creating False Cache Hits and Misses To Mitigate Side-Channel Attacks
Fernando Mosquera, Krishna Kavi, Gayatri Mehta and Lizy John
2. Malware Detection through Contextualized Vector Embeddings
Vinay Pandya and Fabio Di Troia
3. Anomaly Detection in Embedded Devices Through Hardware Introspection
David Llanio Reyes, Alexander Perez-Pons and Rogelio Bofill
4. Autonomous Lending Organization on Ethereum with Credit Scoring
Thomas Austin, Katerina Potika and Chris Pollett
5. HoneyContainer: Container-based Webshell Command Injection Defending and Backtracking
Kuan-Chie Wang, Jie Zhang, Wei-Jun Cheng, Min-Te Sun, Kazuya Sakai and Wei-Shinn Ku

Waterfront Room

11:40 a.m. - 13:00 p.m. 

Lunch

Ambassador A

13:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. 

CyberWarrior (Charis: Yeongjin Jang, OSU & Sang-Yoon Chang, UCCS, Kelei Zhang, FHSU)
Note that you need to bring your own laptop. 

Embassy Room          

Special Topic Session 2: Blockchain Security
Session Chair: Sang-Yoon Chang, University of Colorado at Colorado Spring (schang2@uccs.edu )
14:00 p.m. - 14:45 p.m.


14:45 p.m. - 15:30 p.m.  


15:30 p.m. - 16:00 p.m.

16:00 - 16:45  p.m.
 

16:45 - 17:30 p.m.
 
17:30 p.m. - 19:30 p.m.

Special Topics & Speakers  





1. Proof of Storage on L2 Dynamic Datasets with an Ethereum L1 Contract
Frank Liu, chief scientist of EthStorage & QuarkChain
2.  The future of Zero Knowledge technologies
Gokay Saldamli , co-founder at Semiotic AISemiotic and San Jose State University
Break
3. Mitigating DAO Governance Takeover Attacks with Reputation
Jordan Rein (co-founder) and Alexander Gusev (Lead Architect), Soulbound Labs
4. Panel Discussion and Q&A 
Break (Happy hours by the hotel at 17:00 p.m. - 19:30 p.m.)

May 18

May 18

Embassy Room

8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.

Keynote 3: Are we done yet? Our journey to fight against memory-safety bugs by Taesoo Kim, Professor at Georgia Tech
Session Chair: Vikrant Nanda, Google

9:30 a.m. - 9:40 a.m.

Break

Embassy Room

Research  Session 2: Network Security
9:40 a.m. - 11:40 a.m.
Session Chair: Eric Chan-Tin, Loyola University Chicago 
(chantin@cs.luc.edu )

Papers with Authors
1. Trustworthy of Implantable Medical Devices using ECG BiometricNima Karimian, Sara Tehranipoor and Thomas Lyp 
2. EGO-6: Enhancing Geofencing Security Systems with Optimal Deployment of 6G TRPs
Alireza Famili, Angelos Stavrou, Haining Wang and Jung-Min Park
3. OFMCDM/IRF: A Phishing Website Detection Model based on Optimized Fuzzy Multi-Criteria Decision-Making and Improved Random Forest
Md Abdullah Al Ahasan, Mengjun Hu and Nashid Shahriar
4. Autonomous Network Defense using Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning
Robert G. Campbell, Magdalini Eirinaki and Younghee Park
5. Multivariate Time Series Anomaly Detection with Deep Learning Models Leveraging Inter-Variable Relationships
Changmin Seong, Jiho Jang, Dongjun Lim, Jonghoon Lee, Jong-Geun Park and Yun-Gyung Cheong

Embassy Room

11:40 a.m. - 13:30 p.m.
12: 25 p.m. - 13:10 p.m. 

Lunch & Lunch Keynote Speaker
Keynote 2 : How AI helps keeping Gmail inboxes malware free by Elie Bursztein, Research Director at Google
Session Chair: Sean Choi, Santa Clara University

Embassy Room

Research Session 3: Software Security I
Session Chair: Gokay Saldamli, San Jose State University 
(gokay.saldamli@sjsu.edu )
13:30 p.m. - 15:15 p.m. 

Papers with Authors
1. Investigation and Countermeasure toward Unintentional Access to Docker Container
Yueyang Li, Luyi Li, Ruxue Luo, Yuzhen Chen, Arijet Sarker, Sang-Yoon Chang and Wenjun Fan
2. BlockNIC: SmartNIC assisted Blockchain
Eish Kapoor, Gavin Jampani and Sean Choi
3. WebTracker: Real Webbrowsing Behaviors
Daisy Reyes, Eno Dynowski, Taryn Chovan, John Mikos, Eric Chan-Tin, Mohammed Abuhamad and Shelia Kennison
4. Privacy-Preserving Trust Management For Vehicular Communications and Federated Learning
SangHyun Byun, Arijet Sarker, Ken Lew, Jugal Kalita and Sang-Yoon Chang
5. Lightweight and Effective Website Fingerprinting over Encrypted DNS
Yong Shao, Kenneth Hernandez, Kia Yang, Eric Chan-Tin and Mohammed Abuhamad

15:15 p.m. - 15:30 p.m.

Break

Embassy Room

Special  Topic Session 2: AI for Cybersecurity Session Chair: Meenakshi Jindal at Netflix
15:30 p.m. - 16:15 p.m.  


16:15 p.m. - 17:00 p.m.  


17:00 p.m. - 17:45 p.m.

Special Topics & Speakers  



1. Elevating Cyber Governance Risk and Compliance
Khushboo Kashyap, Director, Information Security at Rubrik, Inc.
2. The rise of the Lakehouse for Cybersecurity and AI
Lipyeow Lim, Technical Director for Cybersecurity GTM at Databricks
3. The AI Revolution of Traffic Analytics
David C. Anastasiu, Assistant Professor at Santa Clara University

17:45 p.m. - 18:10 p.m.

Break (Happy hours by the hotel at 17:00 p.m. - 19:30 p.m.)

Embassy Room

18:10 p.m. - 20:30 p.m.
18:40 p.m. - 19:00 p.m.
19:00 p.m. - 19:50 p.m.

Dinner Reception & Evening Keynotes Speakers Report and ceremony by PC chairs
Keynote 4: Bet on Cyber Security Hope or Strategies? By Sujata Ramamoorthy, Executive Director at Verizon
Session Chair: Yeongjin Jang, Oregon State University

May 19

May 19

Embassy Room

8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.

Keynote 5: Identity and Authentication: The Road Ahead by Sunpreet Singh Arora, Director at VisaSession Chair: Nima Karimian, West Virginia University

9:30 a.m. - 9:40 a.m.

Break

Embassy Room

Special  Topic Session 3: The Quantum Leap for Cybersecurity
Session Chair: Vishnu Pendyala, Chair of IEEE Computer Society & San Jose State University.  
9: 40 a.m. - 11:50 a.m.

Special Topics & Speakers
1. Post-Quantum Internet Security Protocols: Overheads and Optimization Strategies
Dimitrios Sikeridis, Innovative Engineer, Vmware
2. Post-Quantum Cryptography Solution Considerations
Sunny Dosanjh, CEO Duo Space
3. The path to real-world Quantum Advantage and Quantum-Safe enterprise security
Das Pemmaraju (Technical Lead), Michael Maximilien (Distinguished Engineer) at IBM
Final Q&A for all

Embassy Room

Final Session

12:00 p.m. - 14:00 p.m.
12:20 p.m. 12:40 p.m.  

12:40 a.m. - 13:50 p.m.

13:50 p.m. - 14:00 p.m. 

Lunch & Panel Discussion & CyberWarrior Award Ceremony
Lunch  
CyberWarrior Award Ceremony by Yeongjin Jang, OSU & Sang-Yoon Chang, UCCS
Women-in-Cybersecurity: Session Chair: Radhika Rastogi, Capital One
Closing SVCC 2023 by Nima Karimian, West Virginia University

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