S&P Seminar is UW-Madison’s Security and Privacy Seminar where presentations are given broadly in the area of computer security and privacy research. Presentations range from informal discussions on current events to invited talks from external researchers.
Fall 2025
Unless otherwise noted, seminars take place in Morgridge Hall 5621 from 2-3pm on Mondays.
| Date | Location | Title/Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 22 | MH 5621 | Informal discussion on “slopsquatting” and package hallucination attacks |
Julia N |
| Sep 29 | MH 5621 | Discussion: LTrack: Stealthy Tracking of Mobile Phones in LTE | Ben K |
| Oct 6 | MH 5621 | CCS Practice Talks | Asmit N & Julia N |
| Oct 13 | MH 5621 | Discussion: Towards More Practical Threat Models in Artificial Intelligence Security |
Kyle D |
| Oct 20 | MH 5621 | Discussion: Share Your Tools & Tips | Tim L |
| Oct 27 | MH 5621 | Invited talk: QUICstep: Evaluating connection migration based QUIC censorship circumvention |
Seungju Lee (Princeton) |
| Nov 3 | MH 5631 | ||
| Nov 10 | MH 5621 | ||
| Nov 17 | MH 5621 | ||
| Nov 24 | MH 5621 | ||
| Dec 1 | MH 5621 | ||
| Dec 8 | MH 5621 |
Spring 2025
| Date | Title |
|---|---|
| Jan 28 | Guest talk by Wenxin Ding |
| Feb 4 | Guest talk by Avital Shafran |
| Feb 18 | Paper Discussion Collaborative Verification of Information Flow for a High-Assurance App Store |
| Feb 25 | CHI Practice Talk |
| Mar 4 | Guest talk by Anvith Thudi |
| Mar 11 | “I can’t believe it’s not better!” discussion session |
| Mar 18 | “I can’t believe it IS better” discussion section |
| Apr 1 | Guest talk by Jake Chanenson |
| Apr 15 | Guest talk by Jennifer Vander Loop |
| Apr 22 | Guest talk by Farhana Shahid |
| Apr 29 | End of semester research group chat |
Fall 2024
| Date | Title |
|---|---|
| Sep 10 | Lightning Round Research Activity |
| Sep 17 | Adversarial Examples Are Not Bugs, They Are Features |
| Sep 24 | Artifact reviewing - “Get in Researchers; We’re Measuring Reproducibility” |
| Oct 1 | A fuzzy Vault scheme |
| Oct 8 | Practice for CCS |
| Oct 15 | A Researcher’s Guide to Some Legal Risks of Security Research |
| Oct 22 | How to Zotero |
| Oct 29 | On the Feasibility of Stealthily Introducing Vulnerabilities in Open-Source Software via Hypocrite Commits |
| Nov 5 | “Edna: Disguising and Revealing User Data in Web Applications” SOSP ‘23 |
| Nov 12 | Preparing for Midwest Security Workshop |
| Nov 19 | Investigating How Practitioners Scope, Motivate, and Conduct Privacy Work When Developing AI Products |
| Dec 3 | End of semester wrap up/social |
Summer 2024
| Date | Title |
|---|---|
| May 10 | Guest Speaker - Nick (Hengrui) Jia |
| May 17 | Practice Talks IEEE S&P |
| Jun 7 | Diving into Robocall Content with SnorCall |
| Jun 14 | Guest Speaker - Zhuolin Yang - Identifying and Mitigating AI-enhanced Privacy Attacks |
| Jun 21 | Data Redaction from Conditional Generative Models |
| Jun 28 | The Effect of Population and “Structural” Biases on Social Media-based Algorithms: A Case Study in Geolocation Inference Across the Urban-Rural Spectrum |
| Jul 8 | Guest Speaker - Jaron Mink - Human Factors in Secure and Non-abusive AI |
| Jul 19 | Lightning round research activity |
| Jul 30 | Practice Talk USENIX |
| Aug 6 | Tooling/Environment/Code style… Activity |
| Aug 13 | Practical No-box Adversarial Attacks with Training-free Hybrid Image Transformation |
| Aug 20 | DP use by the 2020 US Census |
| Aug 27 | The Process Matters: Ensuring Data Veracity in Cyber-Physical Systems |
| Sep 3 | Top Score on the Wrong Exam: On Benchmarking in Machine Learning for Vulnerability Detection |
Spring 2024
Fall 2023
Fall 2023 (Distinguished Lecture Series)
Summer 2023
| Date | Title |
|---|---|
| Jun 9 | SoK: Science, Security, and the Elusive Goal of Security as a Scientific Pursuit |
| Jun 16 | Are Consumers Willing to Pay for Security and Privacy of IoT Devices? |
| Jun 23 | Power in Computer Security and Privacy: A Critical Lens |
| Jul 21 | Practice Talk USENIX Security Sneaky Spy Devices and Defective Detectors: The Ecosystem of Intimate Partner Surveillance with Covert Devices |
| Jul 28 | Practice Talk USENIX Security DScope: A Cloud-Native Internet Telescope Talk |
| Aug 4 | Practice Talk USENIX Security “It’s the Equivalent of Feeling Like You’re in Jail”: Lessons from Firsthand and Secondhand Accounts of IoT-Enabled Intimate Partner Abuse & Discovering password guessing attacks in practice |
Spring 2023
| Date | Title |
|---|---|
| Feb 24 | Provably-Safe Multilingual Software Sandboxing using WebAssembly |
| Mar 3 | Welcome week |
| Mar 31 | Fighting for our sisters: Community advocacy and action for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls |
| Apr 7 | How to read & write research papers? |
| Apr 14 | CS Research symposium |
| May 5 | Blind My - An Improved Cryptographic Protocol to Prevent Stalking in Apple’s Find My Network |
Fall 2022
| Date | Title |
|---|---|
| Sep 9 | Ubicomp Practice Talk |
| Sep 16 | Meetup and elevated speech about everyone’s own research |
| Sep 23 | OpenVPN is Open to VPN Fingerprinting |
| Sep 30 | ABY3 a secure framework for ML models |
| Oct 7 | Spinning Language Models: Risks of Propaganda-As-A-Service and Countermeasures |
| Oct 21 | Ethics in Internet measurement |
| Oct 28 | Building a Privacy-Preserving Smart Camera System |
| Nov 4 | Dos and Don’ts of Machine Learning in Computer Security |
| Nov 18 | Discussion of recent papers in CCS, TCC |
| Dec 2 | Gender Shades: Intersectional Accuracy Disparities in Commercial Gender Classification |
| Dec 9 | Discussion of S&P for victims of intimate partner violence |
Spring 2022
| Date | Title |
|---|---|
| Feb 25 | Macaroons: Cookies with Contextual Caveats for Decentralized Authorization in the Cloud |
| Mar 11 | CrawlPhish: Large-scale Analysis of Client-side Cloaking Techniques in Phishing |
| Apr 8 | Dual use of artificial-intelligence-powered drug discovery |
| May 6 | IEEE S&P Practice Talk |
| Jul 1 | PETS Practice Talk |
| Jul 15 | USENIX Security Practice Talk |
Fall 2021
Spring 2021
| Date | Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Mar 03 | Game-Set-MATCH: Using Mobile Devices for Seamless External-Facing Biometric Matching | Saikrishna Badrinarayanan (Visa Research) |