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. Talks are advertised on this page.

Fall 2023

Date Title Speaker
Nov 6 How to make YOUR computer more secure than the Internet? Wenke Lee (Georgia Tech)
Nov 9 From pandas and gibbons to malware detection:
Attacking and defending real-world uses of machine learning		 Lujo Bauer (Carnegie Mellon University)
Nov 15 Fast and Furious: How the web got turbo charged just in time… Michael Franz (UC Irvine)
Nov 16 Cyber Attacks and Defenses: Trends, Challenges, and Outlook Michael Franz (UC Irvine)
Nov 30 Ethical Frameworks and Computer Security Trolley Problems Tadayoshi Kohno (University of Washington)
Dec 1 Understanding and Mitigating Online Abuse Deepak Kumar (UC San Diego)
Dec 11 Helping Developers with Privacy Jason Hong (Carnegie Mellon University)

Fall 2021

Date Title Speaker
Nov 19 Keystone: Flexible trusted execution with commodity hardware David Kohlbrenner (University of Washington)
Dec 10 Cryptographic Enforcement of End-to-End Data Privacy Anwar Hithnawi (Privacy Preserving Systems Lab)

Spring 2021

Date Title Speaker
Mar 03 Game-Set-MATCH: Using Mobile Devices for Seamless External-Facing Biometric Matching Saikrishna Badrinarayanan (Visa Research)

Fall 2020

Date Title Speaker
Sep 14 Threat Hunting, Evolved: Efficient and Secure Approaches to Investigating System Intrusions Adam Bates (UIUC)
Sep 18 Resource-Aware Session Types for Digital Contracts Ankush Das (Carnegie Mellon University)
Oct 26 Formalizing Data Deletion in the Context of the Right to be Forgotten Sanjam Garg (UC-Berkeley)
Nov 13 SandTrap: Securing JavaScript-driven Trigger-Action Platforms Andrei Sabelfeld (Chalmers University of Technology-Gothenburg, Sweden)
Nov 20 How To Find ML Bugs That Expose Data and Bias Outcomes Matt Fredrikson (Carnegie Mellon University)
Dec 4 Expanding the Reach of Fuzz Testing Caroline Lemieux (UC-Berkeley)