2024 CERIAS Annual Security Symposium Agenda

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Last Updated: 04/15/2024

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Tuesday, April 2nd
08:00am Registration
Coffee in STEW 218 		STEW 214
08:30am Welcome - Dr. Dongyan Xu, Director, CERIAS, Purdue University STEW 214
08:45am Opening Comments
Dr. Mung Chiang, President, Purdue University 		STEW 214
09:00am Opening Keynote
"Emerging and Future Cybersecurity Risks for National Security"
Dr. Daniel “Rags” Ragsdale, Deputy Assistant National Cyber Director, White House Office of the National Cyber Director 		STEW 214
10:00am Networking Break STEW 214
10:15am Lightning Talk #1
"Strategies for Launching Successful Data Poisoning Attacks on Machine Learning Models"
Dr. Jing Gao, Associate Professor, Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University 		STEW 214
10:35am Panel Discussion #1: The Security and Trustworthiness of AI in the era of LLM
  • Moderator: Dr. Greg Shannon, Laboratory Fellow, Idaho National Laboratory
  • Dr. Evercita Eugenio, Statistician, Cyber Operations Research Engineering Group, Sandia National Laboratories
  • Dr. Nate Gleason, Program Leader, Cyber and Infrastructure Resilience, Global Security, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
  • Dr. Julia Rayz, Professor and Associate Department Head, Computer and Information Technology, Purdue University
  • Dr. Lin Tan, Mary J. Elmore New Frontiers Professor of Data Science & Professor of Computer Science, Purdue University
 STEW 214
11:35am "Introducing Purdue Applied Research Institute (PARI)" Dr. Mark Lewis, President and CEO, Purdue Applied Research Institute STEW 214
12:05pm Lightning Talk #2
"Security of AI-enabled CPS and Leveraging LLM to Improve AI-enabled CPS Security" Dr. Ashok Vardhan Raja, Assistant Professor of Cybersecurity, Computer Information Technology and Graphics (Purdue Northwest) 		STEW 214
12:25pm Lunch STEW 214
01:30pm Tech Talk #1:
"How Cyber is Revolutionizing Contemporary Conflict"
Christopher Cleary, Vice President, Global Cyber Practice Innovation & Capabilities Organization, ManTech 		STEW 214
02:15pm Panel Discussion #2: Cyber-physical - Secure Lessons Learned for Different Domains
  • Moderator: Dr. Dongyan Xu, Director, CERIAS, Purdue University
  • Randall Brooks, Principal Technical Fellow, RTX
  • Doug Kiehl, Senior Director at Eli Lilly and Company
  • Dave Rottier, Chief Engineer, System Software Technology and Embedded Product Cybersecurity, Caterpillar, Inc.
  • Dr. Michael Sangid, Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics/Professor of Materials Engineering, Purdue University
 STEW 214
03:15pm Networking Break STEW 214
03:30pm Fireside Chat
  • Dr. Eugene Spafford, Executive Director Emeritus & Founder, CERIAS, Purdue University
  • Dr. Heidi Shyu, Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, U.S. Dept. of Defense
STEW 214
04:15pm Lightning Talk #3
"Debugging and Explaining Unfairness in Machine Learning Models"
Dr. Romila Pradhan, Assistant Professor, Computer & Information Technology, Purdue University 		STEW 214
04:35pm Course Preview: MGT 480-W/ MGT 492-W "Cybersecurity Awareness and Strategies to Enhance Resilience of Recovery and Response Operations During Disaster" Dr. Umit Karabiyik, Associate Professor, Computer and Information Technology, Purdue University MGT-480-MGT-492_Flyer_2024.pdf STEW 214
04:45pm Research Poster Session Preview
Students present their research in an “elevator pitch” format 		STEW 214
05:25pm End of Session 1 STEW 214
06:30pm Research Poster Session Highlighting research conducted by CERIAS students (CONV) Convergence Lobby
08:30pm End of Day 1 (CONV) Convergence Lobby

Wednesday, April 3rd
08:00am Registration
Coffee in STEW 218 		STEW 214
08:45am Opening Comments and CERIAS Awards
Joel Rasmus, Managing Director, CERIAS
  • Diamond Award
  • Pillar of CERIAS Award
  • Poster Awards
 STEW 214
09:00am Keynote Day 2: "Cyberspace, Cybersecurity, and a New World Order"
Samuel Visner, Tech Fellow, Aerospace Corporation, Chair for the Board of Directors, Space ISAC, Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University 		STEW 214
10:00am Networking Break STEW 214
10:15am Tech Talk #2:
"The Mythical LLM-Month"
Dr. Claudionor N. Coelho Jr, Chief AI Officer, Zscaler, Inc. 		STEW 214
11:00am Lightning Talk #4
"Three-body Problem in Privacy Protection: Chaos or New Hope?"
Dr. Wenhai Sun, Assistant Professor, Computer and Information Technology, Purdue University 		STEW 214
11:20am CERIAS Tech Talk #3
"Valid Statistical Inference for Privatized Data"
Dr. Jordan Awan, Assistant Professor, Statistics, Purdue University 		STEW 214
12:05pm Lunch
01:10pm Lightning Talk #5
“Assuring High Consequence Systems at Sandia National Labs”
Dr. Ruby E. Booth, Principal Member, Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories 		STEW 214
01:30pm CERIAS Tech Talk #4
“Toward an Internet of Secure Things”
Dr. Saurabh Bagchi, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University 		STEW 214
02:15pm Lightning Talk #6
"Hierarchical Adversarial Inverse Reinforcement Learning"
Dr. Vaneet Aggarwal, Professor, Industrial Engineering, Purdue University 		STEW 214
02:35pm Lightning Talk #7
"An Interview Study on Third-Party Cyber Threat Hunting Processes in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security"
Dr. James Davis, Assistant Professor, The Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering , Purdue University 		STEW 214
02:55pm Dr. Matthew Huber Professor of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences and Director for the Institute for a Sustainable Future Dr. Matthew Huber - NATO Sponsored Research STEW 214
03:00pm Networking Break STEW 214
03:10pm Panel 3: Where Code Meets Chip
  • Moderator: Dr. Anand Raghunathan, Silicon Valley Professor and Chair of the VLSI area in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University
  • Max Dewees, Product Security Architect, Analog Devices, Inc.
  • Dr. Nathaniel Husted, Chief Scientist Cyber & EW technology, Naval Surface Warfare Center, CRANE
  • Dr. Dave Tian, Assistant Professor, Computer Science, Purdue University
 STEW 214
04:10pm Lightning Talk #8
"Packing Arithmetic to Improve Security and Performance of Privacy Technologies"
Dr. Hemanta Maji, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Purdue University 		STEW 214
04:30pm Closing Keynote / Weekly Security Seminar
"A Cyber Journey"
Philippe Biondi, Executive Expert Cyber Security, Airbus 		STEW 214
05:30pm End of Symposium STEW 214

Thursday, April 4th
08:45am CERIAS External Advisory Board (EAB) Meeting (for members only) Coffee/Light Breakfast - CERIAS Board Room - Convergence Building: 101 Foundry Drive, WL Campus CONV 3800
09:00am EAB Meeting CONV 3800
12:00pm Lunch Break CONV 3800
03:00pm End of EAB Meeting CONV 3800