Workshop at a Glance

The DMV Security Workshop is launching its second event in the 2024-2025 academic year! This series aims to unite researchers in computer security and privacy from Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia.

This workshop will be an in-person event at the Virginia Tech Research Center - Arlington, 900 N. Glebe Road, Second Floor, Arlington, VA 22203, on March 28th, 2025. The program will include speed advising, lightning talks by faculty and students, and breakout discussion sessions. Unlike traditional conferences, the DMV Security Workshop emphasizes future collaborations over past work presentations, offering a unique platform for seeding new partnerships and ideas.

The event is open to all researchers in the field from the DMV area. To encourage broad participation, registration is free. Coffee and light snacks will be provided during breaks; however, participants are on their own for covering the costs of meals, transportation, accommodations, and other logistics.

Registration

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Schedule

Time (EST)  
9:30 Registration and Coffee
9:50 Welcome and Overview
10:00 Keynote Talk
Prof. Giuseppe Ateniese
(George Mason University)



Biography
Giuseppe Ateniese is a Professor, Eminent Scholar in Cybersecurity and CCI Faculty Fellow in the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Cyber Security Engineering at George Mason University. He was Farber Endowed Chair in Computer Science and Department Chair at Stevens Institute of Technology. In addition, he was with Sapienza-University of Rome (Italy), Assistant/Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins University (USA), and one of the JHU Information Security Institute founders. He was a researcher at IBM Zurich Research lab (Switzerland) and scientist at the Information Sciences Institute of the University of Southern California (USA). He also briefly worked as visiting professor at Microsoft in Redmond (USA). He received the NSF CAREER Award for his research in privacy and security, and the Google Faculty Research Award, the IBM Faculty Award, and the IEEE CISTC Technical Recognition Award for his research on cloud security. He has contributed to areas such as proxy re-cryptography, anonymous communication, two-party computation, secure storage, and provable data possession. He is currently working on privacy-preserving machine learning and decentralized secure computing based on the blockchain technology.
11:00 Lightning Talks
12:00 Lunch and Student Poster Session
1:30 Speed Advising
Speed advising sessions enable students to meet for 15 minutes each with faculty from other universities. Mentors will stay in place, and students will come to them
2:45 Break
3:00 Lightning Talks
4:00 Panel Discussion
4:45 Concluding Remarks

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