Invited Talks

David Arroyo

Wednesday, June 21, 2023

David Arroyo, Scientific Researcher, CSIC

Cybersecurity through openness

Abstract: Although in many occasions the protection of information systems is achieved by implementing obscure procedures, the pro...


Abstract: In this talk, we present a new framework, called polyhedral abstraction, for checking safety properties on Petri nets, t...


Mahak Pancholi

Wednesday, June 14, 2023

Mahak Pancholi, PhD Student, Aarhus University, Denmark

How to make SNARKs non-malleable

Abstract: Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge proofs (NIZKs) allow a prover to convince a verifier about the validity of a claim withou...


Abstract: In this talk, we give a brief introduction to probabilistic programming and present Zar: a formally verified compiler pi...


Abstract: Many proofs of interactive cryptographic protocols (e.g., as in Universal Composability) operate by proving the protocol...


Christos Mavridis

Thursday, April 20, 2023

Christos Mavridis, Post-doctoral Researcher, University of Maryland, USA

Progressive Learning for Inference, Verification, and Control of Cyber-Physical Systems

Abstract: The continuously increasing interest in intelligent autonomous systems underlines the need for new developments in cyber...


Georgios Portokalidis

Friday, April 14, 2023

Georgios Portokalidis, Associate Professor, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA

Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger: Establishing Trustworthy Software and Systems

Abstract: Computer systems and software play a vital role in the functioning of our society. Ensuring their security is of utmost ...


Bineet Ghosh

Tuesday, April 11, 2023

Bineet Ghosh, PhD Student, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

Design and Verification of Autonomous Systems in the Presence of Uncertainties

Abstract: Autonomous Systems offer hope towards moving away from mechanized, unsafe, manual, often inefficient practices. Last dec...


Divya Ravi

Tuesday, March 28, 2023

Divya Ravi, Post-doctoral Researcher, Aarhus University, Denmark

Secure Multi-party Computation: Computing on Private Data

Abstract: Secure Multiparty Computation (MPC) allows a set of mutually distrusting parties to jointly perform a computation on the...


Abstract: Open Access (OA) is a mechanism that allows for free and immediate access to research results and data. It aims to enhan...


Albert Rubio

Monday, February 13, 2023

Albert Rubio, Professor, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

Circom: Scalability and security for building ZK proving systems

Abstract: The most widely studied language for expressing statements in the context of Zero-Knowledge (ZK) proofs is arithmetic ci...


Pierre Sutra

Tuesday, February 7, 2023

Pierre Sutra, Associate Professor, Telecom SudParis, France

J-NVM: Off-heap Persistent Objects in Java

Abstract: Non-volatile main memory (NVMM) is a new tier in the memory hierarchy that offers jointly the durability of spinning dis...


Sebastian Uchitel

Thursday, February 2, 2023

Sebastian Uchitel, Professor, Departamento de Computación, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad De Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Runtime Synthesis for Self-Adptation

Abstract: Self-adaptation is often defined as the ability of systems to alter at runtime their behaviour in response to changes in...


Dmitry Chistikov

Tuesday, January 31, 2023

Dmitry Chistikov, Associate Professor, University of Warwick, United Kingdom

Subcubic certificates for the CFL reachability problem

Abstract: The context-free language (CFL) reachability problem on graphs (as well as a closely related problem of language emptine...


Sebastian Uchitel

Monday, January 30, 2023

Sebastian Uchitel, Professor, Departamento de Computación, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad De Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Predicate Abstractions for Smart Contract Validation

Abstract: Smart contracts are immutable programs deployed on the blockchain that can manage significant assets. Because of this, v...