WISA 2019| Keynote 1: Wenjing Lou | |
| Email: wjlou@vt.edu | |
| Title: “Blockchain, Smart Contract, and Private Data Usage Control” | |
| Date : August 22nd, 2019 |
Abstract:
Blockchain, the technology behind Bitcoin, has drawn widespread attention in recent years. As a popular “secure by design” technology, Blockchain has great potential to enable a wide range of distributed applications across a broad spectrum of industries. While blockchain promises decentralization, irreversible record keeping, public verifiability, transparency, and user anonymity, etc., some of these properties are not guaranteed and they come at a very high price. At the same time, excessive overhead and performance deficits may place a fundamental limit on the use of blockchain in many applications. In this talk, we will first examine some fundamental properties of blockchain. We will then introduce “PrivacyGuard”, a blockchain-based private data usage control system that enforces data usage control and thus prevents second-hand data misuse, like the case happened in the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal. PrivacyGuard seamlessly integrates two technologies, smart contract and trusted execution environment (TEE), to overcome the contract execution efficiency problem with a novel trustworthy off-chain contract execution engine.
Biography:
Wenjing Lou is the W. C. English Professor of Computer Science at Virginia Tech and a Fellow of the IEEE. She holds a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Florida. Her research interests cover many topics in the cybersecurity field, with her current research interest focusing on privacy protection in networked information systems and security and privacy problems in the Internet of Things (IoT) systems.
Prof. Lou is currently on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networking (ToN), IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), and Journal of Computer Security. She is the TPC chair for IEEE INFOCOM 2019, SecureCom 2019, and ACM WiSec 2020. She chairs the steering committee of IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (IEEE CNS) and is also a member of the steering committees of IEEE INFOCOM and IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.
| Keynote 2: Adrian Perrig | |
| Email: adrian.perrig@inf.ethz.ch | |
| Title: “Is it possible to construct a scalable and secure global communication infrastructure?” | |
| Date : August 23rd, 2019 |
Abstract:
An interesting research question is how secure a global communication infrastructure can be. Can we fundamentally protect against DDoS attacks? How can we ensure global routing security? Is it possible to set up a secure global PKI infrastructure? Can we prove formal properties of the security claims of an Internet-scale architecture? If we seek a highly secure network, what limitations in terms of scalability, efficiency, economic cost, flexibility, etc. do we need to endure? In this talk, we will discuss security efforts over the past decade to achieve a highly secure communication infrastructures, to answer these exciting questions.
Biography:
Adrian Perrig is a Professor at the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zürich, Switzerland, where he leads the network security group. He is also a Distinguished Fellow at CyLab, and an Adjunct Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. From 2002 to 2012, he was a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Engineering and Public Policy, and Computer Science(courtesy) at Carnegie Mellon University, becoming Full Professor in 2009. From 2007 to 2012, he served as the technical director for Carnegie Mellon's Cybersecurity Laboratory (CyLab). He earned his MS and PhD degrees in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University,and spent three years during his PhD at the University of California at Berkeley. He received his BSc degree in Computer Engineering from EPFL. Adrian's research revolves around building secure systems -- in particular his group is working on the SCION secure Internet architecture.
He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award in 2004, IBM faculty fellowships in 2004 and 2005, the Sloan research fellowship in 2006, the Security 7 award in the category of education by the Information Security Magazine in 2009, the Benjamin Richard Teare teaching award in 2011, the ACM SIGSAC Outstanding Innovation Award in 2013. He is an IEEE senior member and became an ACM Fellow in 2017.
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