Program


Academic Research Track
Building 37, Auditorium 202
Thursday, 21 June 2018


    08:30 - 09:00
    Gathering and Registration
    09:00 - 09:15
    Welcoming Address
    09:15 - 10:00
    Keynote Invited Talk I
    • The Abyss is Waving Back…
      The four paths that human evolution is charging down, and how we choose which one’s right
      ,
      Chris Roberts
    10:00 - 10:30
    Coffee Break
    10:30 - 12:20
    Academic Research Track - Morning Session
    10:30 - 10:45
    • Invited Paper - Optical Cryptography for Cyber Secured and Stealthy Fiber-Optic Communication Transmission,
      Zeev Zalevsky
    10:45 - 11:00
    • Efficient Construction of the Kite Generator Revisited,
      Orr Dunkelman and Ariel Weizman
    11:00 - 11:15
    • Using Noisy Binary Search for Diffrentially Private Anomaly Detection,
      Daniel Bittner, Anand Sarwate and Rebecca Wright
    11:15 - 11:30
    • Distributed Web Mining of Ethereum,
      Trishita Tiwari, David Starobinski and Ari Trachtenberg
    11:30 - 11:45
    • An Information-Flow Control model for Online Social Networks based on user-attribute credibility and connection-strength factors,
      Nadav Voloch and Ehud Gudes
    11:45 - 12:00
    • Detecting and Coloring Anomalies in real cellular network using Principle Component Analysis,
      Yoram Segal, Dan Vilenchik and Ofer Hadar
    12:00 - 12:15
    • Self-Stabilizing Byzantine Tolerant Replicated State Machine Based on Failure Detectors,
      Shlomi Dolev, Chryssis Georgiou, Ioannis Marcoullis and Elad Michael Schiller
    12:15 - 12:20
    • Brief Announcement: Providing End-to-End Secure Communication in Low-Power Wide Area Networks (LPWANs),
      Ioannis Chatzigiannakis, Vasiliki Liagkou and Paul Spirakis
    12:20 - 12:40 Coffee Break
    12:40 - 14:10 Academic Research Track - Noon Session
    12:40 - 12:55
    • Highway State Gating for Recurrent Highway Networks: Improving information flow through time,
      Ron Shoham and Haim Permuter
    12:55 - 13:10
    • Privacy Via Maintaining Small Similitude Data for Big Data Statistical Representation,
      Philip Derbeko, Shlomi Dolev and Ehud Gudes
    13:10 - 13:25
    • Secured Data Gathering Protocol for IoT Networks,
      Alejandro Cohen, Asaf Cohen and Omer Gurewitz
    13:25 - 13:40
    • Towards building active application defense systems,
      Zara Perumal and Kalyan Veeramachaneni
    13:40 - 13:55
    • Secure Non-Interactive User Re-Enrollment in Biometrics-based Identification and Authentication Systems,
      Ivan de Oliveira Nunes, Karim Eldefrawy and Tancrede Lepoint
    13:55 - 14:00
    • Brief Announcement: Image authentication using Hyperspectral layers,
      Guy Leshem and Menachem Domb
    14:00 - 14:05
    • Brief Announcement: Graph-based and Probabilistic Discrete Models Used in Detection of Malicious Attacks,
      Sergey Frenkel and Victor Zakharov
    14:05 - 14:50 Lunch Break
    14:50 - 17:50 Capture the Flag - Mini Hackathon
    14:50 - 16:20 Academic Research Track - Afternoon Session
    14:50 - 15:05
    • Intercepting a Stealthy Network,
      Mai Ben Adar - Bessos and Amir Herzberg
    15:05 - 15:20
    • Privacy in E-Shopping Transactions: Exploring and Addressing the Trade-Offs,
      Jesus Diaz, Seung Geol Choi, David Arroyo, Angelos Keromytis, F. B. Rodriguez and Moti Yung
    15:20 - 15:35
    • Detection in the Dark - Exploiting XSS Vulnerability in C&C Panels as a New Technique to Detect Malwares,
      Shay Nachum, Assaf Schuster and Opher Etzion
    15:35 - 15:50
    • A Planning Approach to Monitoring Computer Programs' Behavior,
      Alexandre Cukier, Ronen Brafman, Yotam Perkal and David Tolpin
    15:50 - 16:05
    • One-Round Secure Multiparty Computation of Arithmetic Streams and Functions,
      Dor Bitan and Shlomi Dolev
    16:05 - 16:10
    • Brief Announcement: Gradual Learning of Deep Recurrent Neural Network,
      Ziv Aharoni, Gal Rattner and Haim Permuter
    16:10 - 16:15
    • Brief Announcement: Adversarial Evasion of Western Electric Rules,
      Oded Margalit
    16:15 - 16:20
    • Brief Announcement: Deriving Context for Touch Events,
      Moran Azran, Niv Ben Shabat, Tal Shkolnik and Yossi Oren
    16:20 - 16:35 Coffee Break
    16:35 - 17:20
    Keynote Invited Talk II
    • Limits on the Computational Capacity of the Human Brain and its Implications,
      Prof. Bezalel Gavish
    17:20 - 17:50
    Entrepreneurship Pitch Track
    • Entrepreneurship Pitch Track summary and naming the three best pitches finalists,
      Sitaram Chamarty
    17:50 - 18:20
    Panel
    • Cyber security, cryptography and machine learning, from basic research to industry,
      TBA
    18:20 - 18:50 Business Meeting
    18:50 - Dinner

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PhD Student Research and
Entrepreneurship Pitch Track
Building 37, Room 201
Thursday , 21 June 2018


    08:30 - 09:00
    Gathering and Registration
    09:00 - 09:15
    Welcoming Address
    09:15 - 10:00
    Keynote Invited Talk I
    • TBA,
      Liza Lichtinger
    10:00 - 10:30
    Coffee Break
    10:30 - 12:20
    PhD Student Research Track - Morning Session
    12:20 - 12:40
    Coffee Break
    12:40 - 14:10
    PhD Student Research Track - Noon Session
    14:50 - 17:50 Capture the Flag - Mini Hackathon
    14:10 - 14:50 Lunch Break
    14:50 - 16:20
    Entrepreneurship Pitch Track - Afternoon Session
    16:20 - 16:35
    Coffee Break
    16:35 - 17:20
    Keynote Invited Talk II
    • Limits on the Computational Capacity of the Human Brain and its Implications,
      Prof. Bezalel Gavish
    17:20 - 17:50
    Entrepreneurship Pitch Track
    • Entrepreneurship Pitch Track summary and naming the three best pitches finalists,
      Sitaram Chamarty
    17:50 - 18:20
    Panel
    • Cyber security, cryptography and machine learning, from basic research to industry,
      TBA
    18:20 - 18:50 Business Meeting
    18:50 - Dinner

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Field Seminar
Friday , 22 June 2018


    07:50 - 08:00
    Gathering
    08:00 - 09:00
    Transportation to location Mitzpe Ramon
    09:00 - 10:45
    Tour at Mitzpe Ramon Crater
    10:45 - 11:15
    Field Seminar Keynote Invited Talk
    • Scaling Israeli Startups in the US through Innosphere,
      Gili Elkin
    11:15 - 11:45
    Discussion - Academic Research and Entrepreneurship
    11:45 - 12:15
    Lunch Break
    12:15 - 14:15
    Jeep Tour
    14:15 - 15:00
    Transportation to Be'er Sheva
    15:15 - 16:30
    Transportation to Ben-Gurion Airport
    16:30 - 17:15
    Transportation to Tel Aviv Savidor Center Train Station

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