Berkeley Security Seminar: Spring 2022
The Berkeley Security Seminar strives to foster greater discussion and collaboration between researchers at Berkeley and outside researchers and engineers who work on large-scale security and privacy. Once or twice a month, we bring in an external speaker for a technical talk on Fridays from 11:00AM to 12:00pm on Zoom and in-person, followed by individual meetings with students, postdocs, and faculty. Please see the Current Seminar Schedule for this semester's talks. We also have a public Google calendar you can subscribe to for up-to-date changes and talk reminders.
Speaker Schedule
| Date | Speaker | Title | Abstract |
|---|---|---|---|
| February 11 | Alex Ozdemir (Stanford) | CirC: Unifying Compilers for SNARKs, SMT, and More | [LINK] |
| February 18 | Sacha Servan-Schreiber (MIT) | Private Nearest Neighbor Search with Sublinear Communication | [LINK] |
| February 25 | Katerina Sotiraki (UC Berkeley) | Towards post-quantum cryptography: complexity and protocols | [LINK] |
| April 15 | Jack Cable and Kris Oosthoek | Ransomware: A Tale of Two Markets | [LINK] |
| April 22 | Caroline Trippel (Stanford) | Scalable Assurance via Formal and Verifiable Security Contracts | [LINK] |
| May 6 | Tom Ristenpart (Cornell) | Mitigating Technology Abuse in Intimate Partner Violence and Encrypted Messaging | [LINK] |
| June 3 | Alex Ozdemir (Stanford) | Collaborative zk-SNARKs: Zero-Knowledge Proofs for Distributed Secrets | [LINK] |
| June 15 | Henry Corrigan-Gibbs (MIT) | Lightweight Techniques for Private Heavy Hitters | [LINK] |
| June 17 | Ling Ren (UIUC) | Practical Single-server Private Information Retrieval | [LINK] |
| June 24 | Nelly Porter (Google) | Protecting Your Data on Google Cloud with Confidential Computing | [LINK] |
| July 29 | Aurore Fass | DoubleX: Statistically Detecting Vulnerable Data Flows in Browser Extensions at Scale | [LINK] |