Center for Secure Information Systems
Securing the World's Cyber Infrastructure
George Mason University
Past Seminars
June 10, 2024
On Inclusive Privacy and Security in Digital Platforms for Empowering Marginalized Communities
Speaker: Sanchari Das, University of Denver
May 2, 2024
Why do small language models underperform?
Speaker: Benoît Sagot, Director of Research at INRIA
April 19, 2024
Advances in Adversarial Risk Analysis
Speaker: Fabrizio Ruggeri, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy
March 25, 2024
“Scrambling for Privacy” - Inside the Encryption Wars 1986-2000 and the battle over privacy, security, and the future of a secure Internet
Speaker: James Bidzos, CEO/Founder of Verisign
March 20, 2024
Human versus Machine Perception of Patterns - A visual Turing Test: “Are you a human or a robot?”
Speaker: Yanxi Liu, Penn State University
March 13, 2024
A Preliminary Study on Using Large Language Models in Software Pentesting
Speaker: Dr. Simon Ou, University of South Florida
February 16, 2024
Reinforcement Learning for Safety-Critical Systems
Speaker: Enrique Mallada, Johns Hopkins University
February 9, 2024
Unsupervised Learning of Depth Perception and Beyond
Speaker: Alex Wong, Yale University
November 30, 2023
High-Level Approaches to Hardware and Embedded Security
Speaker: Ramesh Karri, New York University
November 17, 2023
The Biodesign of Computing
Speaker: Stephanie Forrest, Arizona State University,
October 23, 2023
The Science of Generative AI: Focus on Reasoning
Speaker: Dan Roth, University of Pennsylvania
September 22, 2023
PAC Privacy: Automatic Privacy Measurement and Control of Data Processing
Speaker: Srini Devadas, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
September 6, 2023
Biometrics in a Deep Learning World
Speaker: Arun Ross, Michigan State University
September 1, 2023
Data Science at the Singularity
Speaker: David Donoho, Stanford University
May 5, 2023
Offensive Language Identification in Social Media
Speaker: Dr. Marcos Zampieri, Assistant Professor, George Mason University
April 19, 2023
Differential Privacy without Centralization
Speaker: Albert Cheu, Georgetown University
April 17, 2023
Cache-based Attacks against ARM TrustZone
Speaker: Kun Sun, George Mason University
April 12, 2023
AI-Enhanced Software Vulnerability and Security Patch Analysis
Speaker: Xinda Wang, George Mason University
March 31, 2023
Large-Scale Collaborative Data Management in Untrusted Environments
Speaker: Mohammad Amiri, University of Pennsylvania
March 29, 2023
Secure by Design, What does it mean? What does it take?
Speaker: Mehdi Mirakhorli, Rochester Institute of Technology
March 28, 2023
Cybersecurity Research in the Era of Quantum, IoT, AI, and 6G
Speaker: Zhengdao Wang, Iowa State University
March 24, 2023
Internet-Scale Discovery and Security Analysis of EV Charging Management Systems
Speaker: Dr. Sadegh Torabi, Assistant Professor, George Mason University
March 22, 2023
Leveraging Multimodal Sensing for Enhancing the Security and Privacy of Mobile Systems
Speaker: Habiba Farukh, Purdue University
February 3, 2023
AI-Enhanced Software Vulnerability and Security Patch Analysis
Speaker: Ms. Xinda Wang
January 26, 2023
Towards a Hardware/Software Co-Design Approach for CPS and IoT Security
Speaker: Anomadarshi Barua, University of California, Irvine
January 20, 2023
Cyber security over AI-empowered Internet-of-Things
Speaker: Chong Yu, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
October 28, 2022
Non-invasive Wireless Sensing with Machine Learning
Speaker: Xiaonan Guo, George Mason University
October 14, 2022
CSIS Seminar 10/14/2022
Speaker: Dr. Lei Yang, George Mason University
March 11, 2022
Specializing Computing Systems for Graph Algorithms
Speaker: Xuhao Chen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
March 8, 2022
Towards Trustworthy Knowledge Sharing of Language Models
Speaker: Chenguang Wang, University of California, Berkeley
March 7, 2022
Securing Operating System Kernels with Fewer Shots
Speaker: Yueqi Chen, Penn State University
March 3, 2022
Strengthening and Enriching Machine Learning for Cybersecurity
Speaker: Wenbo Guo, Penn State
February 28, 2022
Memristive Nanoelectronics in Neuromorphic Computing and
Considerations for Hardware Security
Speaker: Garrett S. Rose, Ph.D., University of Tennessee, Knoxville
February 24, 2022
Automating the Protection of Internet Freedoms
Speaker: Kevin Bock, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Maryland
February 23, 2022
Toward Resilience of Civil Infrastructures: Machine Learning-based Probabilistic Assessment
Speaker: Farahnaz Soleimani, Ph.D., Georgia Insititute of Technology
February 15, 2022
Artificial Intelligence in Biometrics: Past, Present, and Future Challenges
Speaker: Dr. Damon L. Woodard, University of Florida
February 14, 2022
Squashing Bugs and Empowering Programmers with User-Centered Programming Language Design
Speaker: Michael Coblenz, University of Maryland, College Park
February 11, 2022
Watermarking for Protecting Deep Image Classifiers against Adversarial Attacks: A Framework and Algorithms
Speaker: Dr. En-hui Yang, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
January 25, 2022
An Eigenmodel for Dynamic Multilayer Networks
Speaker: Joshua Loyal, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
November 12, 2021
Algorithmic Fairness: Collisions and Collaborations Between Technology and Society
Speaker: Suresh Venkatasubramanian, PhD
October 21, 2021
Cache-based Attacks Against ARM TrustZone
Speaker: Dr. Kun Sun, George Mason University
July 26, 2021
Implementation and Assessment of Strong Logic Encryption Techniques
Speaker: Shervin Roshanisefat, Volgenau School of Engineering, George Mason University
July 22, 2021
Towards Efficient and Scalable SDN-based Data Center Monitoring and Management
Speaker: Zili Zha, Volgenau School of Engineering, George Mason University
June 4, 2021
Machine Learning for Wireless Cyber-Physical Systems Security
Speaker: Amir Alipour-Fanid, The Volgenau School of Engineering, George Mason University
June 1, 2021
Vulnerability Assessment of Logic Locking Techniques: Towards Next Generation Attacks on Logic Locking
Speaker: Kimia Zamiri Azar, The Volgenau School of Engineering, George Mason University
May 28, 2021
Secure Hardware Implementations of Lightweight and Post-Quantum Cryptography; Trade-offs, Applicability, and Tools
Speaker: Abubakr Abdulgadir, The Volgenau School of Engineering, George Mason University
April 6, 2021
CYSE Faculty Candidate Seminar: AI for Cyber-Physical Systems: Cyber Security and Efficiency
Speaker: Dr. Yanhai Xiong, Dartmouth College
April 5, 2021
CYSE Faculty Candidate Seminar: Explore Security and Privacy in Deep Image Retrieval Systems
Speaker: Dr. Cong Wang, Old Dominion University
April 2, 2021
CYSE Tenure-Track Faculty Candidate Seminar: Malware in the Electrical Power Grid: Attacks and Defenses
Speaker: Dr. Julian Rrushi, Oakland University, Michigan
April 1, 2021
CYSE Tenure-Track Faculty Candidate Seminar #4: Measurement Integrity in Network Tomography and Resource Allocation: Attacks and Defenses
Speaker: Shangqing Zhao, University of South Florida
March 31, 2021
CYSE Tenure-Track Faculty Candidate Seminar #3: Artificial Intelligence-Driven 5G and Beyond Radio Access Networks (RANs)
Speaker: Vijay Shah, Virginia Tech
March 30, 2021
Towards Trustworthy Decision-Making and AI: Explainability and Safety
Speaker: Bo Liu, Auburn University
March 29, 2021
CYSE Tenure-Track Faculty Candidate Seminar #2: Toward Safe and Secure Vehicular Networked Systems
Speaker: Bin Hu, Old Dominion University
March 26, 2021
CYSE Tenure-Track Faculty Candidate Seminar #1
Speaker: Linghan Zhang, Florida State University
March 25, 2021
Toward a Securer, Smarter, and Healthier World!
Speaker: Rajesh Kumar, Syracuse University
March 23, 2021
Sensitive Data Analytics with Local Differential Privacy
Speaker: Tianhao Wang, Purdue University
March 5, 2021
Machine Learning, Security, and Privacy: Challenges and Opportunities
Speaker: Binghui Wang, Duke University
March 4, 2021
Wireless AI for the Internet of Things
Speaker: Chenshu Wu, University of Maryland, College Park
March 2, 2021
Detecting and Visualizing Internet Failures: From Measurements to Streaming Analytics
Speaker: Alberto Dainotti, University of California San Diego
February 15, 2021
Mining and Learning from Graph Processes
Speaker: Arlei Silva, University of California, Santa Barbara
February 11, 2021
Opportunities and Barriers to Facilitating Evidence-Based Discussion about Civic Issues
Speaker: Brian McInnis, UC San Diego
February 5, 2021
Building Trustworthy Systems for Fighting Modern Threats
Speaker: Peng Gao, Postdoctoral Researcher in Computer Science at UC Berkeley
February 3, 2021
Side-Channel Threats on Modern Platforms
Speaker: Xiaokuan Zhang, Ohio State University
January 25, 2021
Decentralized cryptography eliminates identity and transaction fraud for everyone
Speaker: Manu Fontaine, CEO, Hushmesh Inc.
January 22, 2021
Demystifying Leakage in Encrypted Systems
Speaker: Evgenios Kornaropoulos, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California, Berkeley
February 28, 2020
Policy Compliance in Online Services
Speaker: Aastha Mehta, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS)
February 6, 2020
(Em)powering Users and Their Devices
Speaker: Matthew Lentz, University of Maryland
November 1, 2019
Data Privacy and Statistical Inference
Speaker: Adam Smith, Boston University
October 30, 2019
Why Don't People ... Use Security, Protect Their Data, and Adopt the Available Solutions?
Speaker: Jean Camp, Indiana University
May 23, 2019
Machine Learning through Graph Algorithms, Systems and Cybersecurity Applications
Speaker: Howie Huang, George Washington University
April 29, 2019
Cyber Resilience in Japan and US-Japan Cybersecurity Relationships
Speaker: Kenzo FUJISUE, Ph.D, Member of Japanese House of Councillors (Upper House)
April 22, 2019
Cybersecurity Dynamics: Framework, Some Results, and Future Research Directions
Speaker: Shouhuai Xu, University of Texas at San Antonio
April 17, 2019
Is my GPU Secure? Covert and Side Channel Attacks on GPUs
Speaker: Dr. Nael Abu-Ghazaleh, University of California, Riverside
April 12, 2019
FingerPIN: A Novel Authentication Scheme Combining Fingerprints and Numeric PINs
Speaker: Tanmoy Chowdhury, George Mason University
April 5, 2019
Deep Learning in the Biomedical Sciences
Speaker: Pierre Baldi, University of California Irvine
April 3, 2019
From Theory to Practice: From Zero-Knowledge via Secure Computation to a Next-Generation Signature Scheme
Speaker: Jonathan Katz, University of Maryland
March 22, 2019
Computational Social Science with Latents
Speaker: Prof. Il-Chul Moon, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
March 8, 2019
Robust Phishing URL Detection via Generative Models and Graphical Inference
Speaker: Prof. Noseong Park, George Mason University
March 1, 2019
Adversarial learning on deep graph generative models and applications
Speaker: Liang Zhao, George Mason University
February 22, 2019
Mission Dependency Analysis with Physical Network Relationships*
Speaker: Dr. Les Servi, The MITRE Corporation
February 15, 2019
Probabilistic Reasoning Meets Heuristic Search
Speaker: Rina Dechter, University of California, Irvine
February 8, 2019
Network Analysis for Time Series Data
Speaker: Brandon Park, George Mason University
February 7, 2019
Assuring the Root of Trust for Internet-of-Things (IoTs)
Speaker: Qiaoyan Yu, University of New Hampshire
January 23, 2019
Machine Learning for Time Series via Optimally Compressed Bayesian Methods
Speaker: Dr. Alec Koppel, Army Research Laboratory
November 19, 2018
Information Based Sensor Management for ISR
Speaker: Ken Hintz, George Mason University
November 16, 2018
A Hierarchical Framework to Detect Targeted Attacks using Deep Neural Network
Speaker: Dr. Nahid Farhady Ghalaty, Accenture Technology Labs
November 9, 2018
Explainable AI
Speaker: Ricardo Baeza-Yates, NTENT & Northeastern University
November 8, 2018
Falling Out of Love with Science
Speaker: Milan P. Yager, American Institute for Medical & Biological Engineering
November 5, 2018
Building Cyber Resilience in the "Age of Accelerations"
Speaker: Linton Wells II, George Mason University
October 24, 2018
Digital Artifact Persistence, Extraction, Analysis, and Manipulation
Speaker: Jim Jones, George Mason University
October 22, 2018
GAN based Privacy Attacks on Decentralized Deep Learning
Speaker: Briland Hitaj, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy
October 19, 2018
Designing and Fabricating Trusted Hardware in an Untrusted Manufacturing Supply Chain, a Seminar on Hardware Level Attacks and Defenses
Speaker: Avesta Sasan, George Mason University
October 18, 2018
Distributed Optimization and Resource Allocation: Algorithms and the Mirror Relation
Speaker: Wilbur Shi, Princeton University
October 12, 2018
The Impact of AI and IT Synergies on Healthcare and Biomedicine
Speaker: Dr. Nikolaos Bourbakis, Wright State University
October 11, 2018
Self Monitoring Goal Driven Autonomous Agents
Speaker: Dr. Dustin Dannenhauer, Naval Research Lab
October 5, 2018
The Internet of Acoustic Things (IoAT)
Speaker: Romit Roy Choudhury, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
September 21, 2018
Privacy, Stability and Generalization
Speaker: Adam Smith, Boston University
July 9, 2018
Limitations of Data-driven Frequency-based Approaches for Social Computing
Speaker: Prof. Valerie Shalin, Wright State University
June 21, 2018
Data Series Management: Fulfilling the Need for Big Sequence Analytics
Speaker: Themis Palpanas, Institut Universitaire de France (IUF) and Paris Descartes University
June 8, 2018
The Importance of Protecting Critical Transportation Infrastructure
Speaker: Michael Lowder, Retd. Director of Office of Intelligence, Security, & Emergency Response at U.S. DOT; Principal, MWL Global Associates
April 23, 2018
Studying and Exploiting the "naturalness" of code
Speaker: Prem Devanbu, Computer Science Department University of California at Davis
April 12, 2018
Mining in Big Networks with Incomplete Information
Speaker: Xiang Li, University of Florida
April 4, 2018
Formal- and Data-driven Analytics for High-Assurance Decision-Making in Cyber Defense
Speaker: Prof. Ehab Al-Shaer, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
April 3, 2018
Towards Autonomous Cyber Defense for Effective Attack Mitigating
Speaker: Prof. Ehab Al-Shaer, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
March 29, 2018
Supporting Smart Exploratory Data Analysis
Speaker: Professor Xiaoyang Sean Wang
March 27, 2018
Lateral Smart Network Security
Speaker: Dr. Edoardo Serra, Boise State University
March 26, 2018
Addressing Real-world Societal Challenges: Advanced Game-Theoretic Models and Algorithms
Speaker: Dr. Thanh H. Nguyen, University of Michigan
March 22, 2018
Generative Model and Knowledge Graph Query Processing and their Applications to Cybersecurity
Speaker: Dr. Noseong Park, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
February 23, 2018
Privacy, security, and ethical challenges in the era of ubiquitous data collection
Speaker: Dr. Jessica Vitak, University of Maryland, College Park
April 7, 2011
A Framework for Scalable Analysis of Attack Scenarios
Speaker: Dr. Massimiliano Albanese, University of Maryland, College Park
January 12, 2018
Collaborative Robotics
Speaker: Dr. Hao Zhang, Colorado School of Mines
June 30, 2017
DRWFM: Readers Writers Flow Model - A Complete Generative Label Model for Decentralized Information Flow Control
Speaker: Dr. R. K. Shyamasundar, Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India
April 08, 2016
Pipelined Symbolic Taint Analysis on Multi-core Architectures
Speaker: Jiang Ming, Ph.D. candidate, College of Information Sciences and Technology, Pennsylvania State University
April 06, 2016
Attack-Resilient Systems and Networks
Speaker: Dr. Aron Laszka, Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California, Berkeley
April 05, 2016: How to secure your outsourced data and computations without harming utility
Speaker: Dr. Nikos Triandopoulos, Adjunct Assistant Professor in Computer Science at Boston University.
April 01, 2016: Hardware-assisted Trusted Execution Environments on ARM Processors
Speaker: Dr. Kun Sun, Assistant Professor at College of William and Mary
March 30, 2016: New Techniques for Secure Computation
Speaker: Dr. Alessandra Scafuro, Postdoctoral Researcher at Boston University
April 06, 2015: Efficient Cryptographic Tools for Privacy-Preserving Applications
Speaker: Dr. Foteini Baldimtsi, Postdoctoral Researcher at Boston University
April 02, 2015: Practice-Oriented Cryptography: A Definition-Centric Approach
Speaker: Dr. Viet Tung Hoang, Postdoctoral Researcher at Georgetown University and University of Maryland College Park
March 23, 2015: Practical Methods for Computing on Encrypted Data
Speaker: Dr. Samuel Dov Gordon, Research Scientist at Applied Communication Sciences
March 20, 2015: The Success of Question Answering Communities: How Diversity Influences Ad Hoc Groups
Speaker: Mr. Emanuel Alsina, PhD Student at University of Modena and Reggio Emilia in Italy
March 19, 2015: Computing on Unbounded Private Data
Speaker: Dr. Omkant Pandey, Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
March 05, 2015: Distributed Data Usage Control
Speaker: Prof. Alexander Pretschner, Technische Universität München