Jefferson's Wheel

At the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy in San Jose, CA, Samee Zahur presented on Square-Root ORAM and Anant, Jack, and Sam presented posters.

Anant Kharkar Evading Web Malware Classifiers using Genetic Programming

Jack Doerner Secure Gale-Shapley: Efficient Stable Matching for Multi-Party Computation

Samuel Havron Secure Multi-Party Computation as a Tool for Privacy-Preserving Data Analysis

I presented two tutorials on oblivious computation at Notre Dame’s Summer School on Secure and Oblivious Computation and Outsourcing. SRG PhD Yan Huang, now at Indiana University, was one of the other tutorial presenters. I also learned a lot about verifiable computation and argument systems from Justin Thaler. Thanks to Marina Blanton for organizing a great summer school!

Slides for my tutorials on garbling techniques and memory for data oblivious computation are below.

Top row: Anant Kharkar, Glenn Field, Ethan Robertson, David Evans, Hao Bai (BSCS 2016), Wenjiang Fan (honorary), Mohammad Etemad, Samee Zahur (PhD 2016), Jack Doerner, Weilin Xu, Longze Chen (MCS 2015), Kevin Zhao.
Front row: Mahnush Movahedi, Ziqi Liu (BACS DMP 2016), Hannah Li

Congratulations to our 2016 SRG Graduates:

Dr. Samee Zahur, PhD 2016
Dissertation: Demystifying Secure Computation: Familiar Abstractions for Efficient Protocols
Dr. Zahur will be joining Google, and working in the group that works on secure computation (broadly) led by SRG alumnus Jonathan McCune.

Hao Bai, BSCS 2016
Thesis project: Mitigating Memory Trace Side-Channels through Cache Loading
Hao will be starting graduate school at Harvard University in the fall.

Ziqi Liu, Distinguished Major with High Distinction in Computer Science (BACS) 2016
DMP project: A Proxy for Mitigating Threats from Embedded Third-party Scripts
Ziqi will be joining Microsoft (Redmond).