Software Seminar Series (S3)
Tuesday, December 1, 2020
Martin Ceresa, PhD Student, IMDEA Software InstituteEffectful Improvement Theory
Abstract: Optimising programs is hard. Not only one must preserve semantics, but also one needs to ensure that an optimisation rea...
Tuesday, November 24, 2020
Dimitris Kolonelos, PhD Student, IMDEA Software InstituteIncrementally Aggregatable Vector Commitments and Applications to Verifiable Decentralized Storage
Abstract: Vector commitments with subvector openings (SVC) [Lai-Malavolta, Boneh-Bunz-Fisch; CRYPTO’19] allow one to open a commit...
Tuesday, October 27, 2020
Gibran Gómez, PhD Student, IMDEA Software InstituteMalicious TLS Traffic Detection using Unsupervised Machine Learning
Abstract: Transport Layer Security (TLS) is utilized by several applications to secure network communication through encryption. M...
Tuesday, July 21, 2020
Zachary Grannan, Research Intern, IMDEA Software InstituteREST: Rewriting for SMT Verification with User-Defined Functions
Abstract: We introduce REST, a rewrite technique for SMT-based verifiers that supports user-defined terminating functions. Our tec...
Tuesday, June 23, 2020
Zsolt Istvan, Assistant Research Professor, IMDEA Software InstituteThe Good, The Bad and the Road Ahead: Hardware Acceleration for BFT Consensus
Abstract: Permissioned blockchains can offer a mechanism for transacting across several, not necessarily trusting, entities but th...
Tuesday, June 16, 2020
Elena Gutierrez, PhD Student, IMDEA Software InstituteA Congruence-based Perspective on Automata Minimization Algorithms
Abstract: Getting the deterministic finite-state automaton with the least possible number of states is an essential question in ma...
Tuesday, March 3, 2020
Isabel García, PhD Student, IMDEA Software InstituteModular verification of C programs
Abstract: To obtain scalability, software model checkers often employ modular analysis techniques that analyze each of the procedu...
Tuesday, February 18, 2020
Avinash Sudhodanan, Post-doctoral Researcher, IMDEA Software InstituteCross-Origin State Inference (COSI) Attacks: Leaking Web Site States through XS-Leaks
Abstract: This talk will be a rehearsal of my Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) 2020 paper presentation. I ...
Tuesday, February 4, 2020
Pedro Valero, PhD Student, IMDEA Software InstituteLossless Compression of Textual Data
Abstract: This talk is a combination of what I have learned about grammar-based compression while developing our tool -zearch- for...
Tuesday, January 28, 2020
Pepe Vila, PhD Student, IMDEA Software InstituteCacheQuery: Learning Replacement Policies from Hardware Caches
Abstract: We show how to infer deterministic cache replacement policies using off-the-shelf automata learning and program synthesi...