Keynote Speakers

:: Keynote Speakers

Dr. Pedro Peris-Lopez
Associate Professor (accredited as a full professor) with the Department of Computer Science, Carlos III University of Madrid

Biosignals: a powerful tool in the world of cybersecurity

In recent years, we can observe a proliferation of the use of vital signals for the design of novel cryptographic solutions. Likewise, incorporating telemetry in implanted or semi-implanted medical devices requires solutions that guarantee the patient's safety and the device's security. We will review state of the art in the use of biosignals in the world of cybersecurity, starting from identification/authentication solutions, through key generation algorithms or random number generators, to distance verification algorithms, among others.

Biography: Pedro Peris-Lopez received an M.Sc. degree in telecommunications engineering and a PhD in computer science from the Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain, in 2004 and 2008, respectively. He is currently an Associate Professor (accredited as a full professor) with the Department of Computer Science, Carlos III University of Madrid. His research interests are in the field of cybersecurity and e-health, digital forensics and hardware security. He has published many articles in specialized journals (62) and conference proceedings (45). His works have more than 4800 citations, and his h-index is 31. For additional information, see https://www.lightweightcryptography.com/.

Dr. Sushmita Ruj

Senior Lecturer in the School of Computer Science and Engineering, UNSW, Sydney

Title: Proofs of Storage and Applications
Abstract: Cloud service providers can be malicious and tamper with the data. Proofs of storage enable clients to verify data integrity. We will discuss the concept of proofs of storage and present some of our constructions. We will then discuss limitations of existing proofs of storage and show how blockchains can address these limitations. We will discuss applications of proofs of storage for secure, privacy preserving and accountable data sharing and trading.

Bio: Sushmita Ruj is Senior Lecturer at UNSW, Sydney. Before joining UNSW, she was a Senior Research Scientist at CSIRO's Data61, an Associate Professor at Indian Statistical Institute and an Assistant Professor at Indian Institute of Technology, IIT, Indore. She was a researcher/visiting faculty at University of Ottawa, Canada, Lund University, Sweden, NTU, Singapore, KDDI R&D Labs, Japan, INRIA, France, Kyushu University, Japan and intern at Microsoft Research Labs, India. She received her B.E. degree from Indian Institute of Engineering, Science and Technology (IIEST), Shibpur, India and Masters and Ph.D. from Indian Statistical Institute, India, all in Computer Science. Her research interests are in applied cryptography, blockchains, cybersecurity and data privacy. Sushmita serves on the Editorial board of Elsevier Journal of Information Security and Applications (JISA) and Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC). She served as a Program Co-Chair for ACISP 2021 and Indocrypt 2019. She won best paper awards at ISPA 2007, IEEE PIMRC 2011 and IEEE ANTS WIE'17. She received Samsung GRO award, NetApp Faculty Fellowship, Cisco University Research Grant, OCSP grant from IBM Research. Sushmita is a Senior member of ACM and IEEE.
More details can be found on her Homepage: https://research.unsw.edu.au/people/dr-sushmita-ruj-0

Prof. Lejla Batina

Professor, applied cryptography and embedded systems security, Radboud University, The Netherlands.

Title: Side-channel analysis of cryptographic implementations: Lessons learned and future directions

Abstract: In this talk we give an overview of side-channel attacks on implementations of cryptography and countermeasures. We survey the approaches to analysis and attacks, from mutual information to deep learning and recent efforts on leakage simulators for attack prevention. In the end, we identify some avenues for future research.

Bio: Lejla Batina received her Ph.D. from KU Leuven, Belgium (2005) and prior to that studied at the Eindhoven University of Technology, (Professional Doctorate in Engineering in 2001) and worked as a cryptographer for SafeNet B.V. (2001–2003). Currently, she is a professor in embedded systems security at the Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

She has coauthored more than 150 refereed articles. Her current research interests include implementations of cryptography and physical security. Her research group at Radboud consists of 10+ researchers and 10 Ph.D. students have graduated under her supervision.

She is a senior member of IEEE and an Editorial board member of top journals in security, such as IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security and ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems. She was program co-chair of CHES 2014, ACM WiSec 2021 and Africacrypt 2022. Currently, she serves as a program co-chair for SPACE 2022.

Dr. Mahmoud Khaleghi

Information Technology Organization

Prof. Behrouz Tork Ladani
Department of Computer Engineering, University of Isfahan

ISC