Berkeley Security Seminar: Spring 2023
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 Wednesdays 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 18 | Ulfar Erlingsson (Lacework) | The New Normal: Achieving Security in an Ever-Changing Cloud | [LINK] |
| February 1 | Derek Leung (MIT) | Aardvark: An Asynchronous Authenticated Dictionary with Applications to Account-based Cryptocurrencies | [LINK] |
| February 8 | Neekon Vafa (MIT) | MacORAMa: Optimal Oblivious RAM with Integrity | [LINK] |
| February 15 | Jiaheng Zhang (UC Berkeley) | Efficient Zero-Knowledge Proof: Theory and Practice | [LINK] |
| February 22 | Baltasar Dinis | Restart-Rollback: a novel fault model for persistent distributed systems | [LINK] |
| March 8 | Elissa Redmiles (Max Planck Institute) | Learning from the People: Responsibly Encouraging Adoption of Privacy-Sensitive Contact Tracing Apps | [LINK] |
| March 15 | Christian Knabenhans (ETH Zurich) | Verifiable Fully Homomorphic Encryption | [LINK] |
| March 22 | Alexandra Henzinger (MIT) | One Server for the Price of Two: Simple and Fast Single-Server Private Information Retrieval | [LINK] |
| March 29 | Srinath Setty (MSR) | High-speed proof systems for general-purpose computation | [LINK] |
| April 5 | Miranda Christ (Columbia) | Limits on revocable proof systems, with applications to stateless blockchains | [LINK] |
| April 12 | Rahul Sharma | Can Secure Inference be as Fast as Plaintext? | [LINK] |
| April 19 | Erwin Quiring | Adversarial Preprocessing. An overlooked threat for ML | [LINK] |
| May 3 | Megha Srivastava and Neil Perry (Stanford) | Do Users Write More Insecure Code with AI Assistants? | [LINK] |
| June 28 | Shweta Shinde | TEEtime: A New Architecture for Bringing Sovereignty to Smartphones | [LINK] |
| July 26 | Sourav Das (UIUC) | Practical Asynchronous High-threshold Distributed Key Generation and Distributed Polynomial Sampling | [LINK] |