Keynote Speaker

Dr. Murat Kantarcioglu is a Professor in the Computer Science Department and Director of the Data Security and Privacy Lab at The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD). He received a PhD in Computer Science from Purdue University in 2005 where he received the Purdue CERIAS Diamond Award for Academic excellence. He is also a visiting scholar at Harvard Data Privacy Lab since 2013. Dr. Kantarcioglu's research focuses on the integration of cyber security, data science and blockchains, creating technologies that can efficiently and securely process and share data. His research has been supported by grants including from NSF, AFOSR, ARO, ONR, NSA, and NIH. He has published over 170 peer reviewed papers in top tier venues such as ACM KDD, SIGMOD, IEEE ICDM, ICDE, PVLDB, NDSS, USENIX Security and several IEEE/ACM Transactions as well as served as program chair for conferences such as ACM SACMAT, IEEE Cloud, ACM CODASPY. Some of his research work has been covered by the media outlets such as the Boston Globe, ABC News , PBS/KERA, DFW Television, and has received multiple best paper awards. He is the recipient of various awards including NSF CAREER award, the AMIA (American Medical Informatics Association) 2014 Homer R Warner Award and the IEEE ISI (Intelligence and Security Informatics) 2017 Technical Achievement Award presented jointly by IEEE SMC and IEEE ITS societies for his research in data security and privacy. He is also a Distinguished Scientist of ACM.

Title: Securing Big Data - New Access Control Challenges and Approaches TBA

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Junior Keynote Talk

Dr. Adam Doupé is an Assistant Professor in the School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering at Arizona State University and is the Associate Director of the Center for Cybersecurity and Digital Forensics in the Global Security Initiate at Arizona State University. Dr. Doupé was awarded the Top 5% Faculty Teaching Award for the Fulton Schools of Engineering at ASU in 2016 and 2019, the Fulton Schools of Engineering Best Teacher Award in 2017 and 2018, the Fulton Schools of Engineering Outstanding Assistant Professor Award in 2017, and the NSF CAREER award in 2017. Dr. Doupé has co-authored over 20 peer-reviewed scholarly publications and served on program committees of well-known international security conferences. As a founding member of the Order of the Overflow, Dr. Doupé has organized the DEF CON Capture The Flag competition since 2018.

Title: History and Future of Automated Vulnerability Analysis TBA