SoS Virtual Institutes Mid-Year Review 2024
  
  
    
                    
          Date: Jul 09, 2024 – Jul 10, 2024         
      
                    
          Location: ICSI - Berkley, CA
        
      
                
    
      
            The SoS VI July 2024 Mid-Year Review 2024 will be held on July 9 & 10 at ICSI in Berkeley, CA. 
ICSI is located at 2150 Shattuck Ave. #250, Berkeley, CA 94704.
PROGRAM AGENDA
July 9, 2024
 
 
TIME 
TOPIC 
SPEAKER/UNIVERSITY 
 
9:00-9:05 
Welcome & Logistics 
ICSI 
 
9:05-9:15 
Opening Remarks 
Adam Tagert & Shavon Donnell 
 
VI 1: Trusted Systems
 
 
9:15-9:45 
Advancing Security & Privacy of Bluetooth IoT 
 Ohio State University 
 
9:45-10:15 
Predictable & Scalable Remote Attestation 
University of Kansas 
 
10:15-10:30 
BREAK 
  
 
10:30-11:00 
Quantitative Threat Modeling and Risk Assessment in the Socio-Technical Critical Infrastructure 
Towson University 
 
11:00-11:30 
Continuous Reasoning with Gradual Verification 
Carnegie Mellon University 
 
11:30-12:30 
LUNCH 
  
 
VI 2: Defensive Mechanisms
 
 
12:30-1:00 
Neurosymbolic Autonomous Agents for Cyber Defense 
Vanderbilt University 
 
1:00-1:30 
Resilient Systems through Adaptive Architecture 
Carnegie Mellon University 
 
1:30-2:15 
GUEST SPEAKER
AI Safety and How Will Frontier AI Change the Landscape of Cyber Security 
Professor Dawn Song
Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science UC Berkeley 
 
2:15-2:30 
BREAK 
  
 
VI 2: Defensive Mechanisms (cont.)
 
 
2:30-3:00 
Towards Trustworthy Autonomous Cyber Defense for Dynamic Intrusion Response 
Carnegie Mellon University 
 
3:00- 3:30 
Vulnerabilities for Social Attack Surface 
University of Kansas 
 
3:30-3:45 
BREAK 
  
 
3:45-5:00 
Closed PI Meeting 
  
 
July 10, 2024
 
 
TIME 
TOPIC 
SPEAKER/UNIVERSITY 
 
VI 3: AI & Cybersecurity
 
 
9:00-9:30 
Improving Malware Classifiers with Plausible Novel Samples 
Vanderbilt University 
 
9:30-10:00 
Leveraging Machine Learning for Binary Software Understanding 
Arizona State University 
 
10:00-10:30 
Improving Security and Safety of Neural Networks 
ICSI 
 
10:30- 10:45 
BREAK 
  
 
10:45-11:45 
VI Breakout Meetings 
  
 
11:45-12:00 
Closing Remarks 
Adam Tagert/Shavon Donnell 
 
      
    
    
          
        Submitted by Amy Karns
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          Date: Jul 09, 2024 – Jul 10, 2024         
      
                    
          Location: ICSI - Berkley, CA
        
      
                The SoS VI July 2024 Mid-Year Review 2024 will be held on July 9 & 10 at ICSI in Berkeley, CA. 
ICSI is located at 2150 Shattuck Ave. #250, Berkeley, CA 94704.
PROGRAM AGENDA
| July 9, 2024 | ||
| TIME | TOPIC | SPEAKER/UNIVERSITY | 
| 9:00-9:05 | Welcome & Logistics | ICSI | 
| 9:05-9:15 | Opening Remarks | Adam Tagert & Shavon Donnell | 
| VI 1: Trusted Systems | ||
| 9:15-9:45 | Advancing Security & Privacy of Bluetooth IoT | Ohio State University | 
| 9:45-10:15 | Predictable & Scalable Remote Attestation | University of Kansas | 
| 10:15-10:30 | BREAK | |
| 10:30-11:00 | Quantitative Threat Modeling and Risk Assessment in the Socio-Technical Critical Infrastructure | Towson University | 
| 11:00-11:30 | Continuous Reasoning with Gradual Verification | Carnegie Mellon University | 
| 11:30-12:30 | LUNCH | |
| VI 2: Defensive Mechanisms | ||
| 12:30-1:00 | Neurosymbolic Autonomous Agents for Cyber Defense | Vanderbilt University | 
| 1:00-1:30 | Resilient Systems through Adaptive Architecture | Carnegie Mellon University | 
| 1:30-2:15 | GUEST SPEAKER AI Safety and How Will Frontier AI Change the Landscape of Cyber Security | Professor Dawn Song Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science UC Berkeley | 
| 2:15-2:30 | BREAK | |
| VI 2: Defensive Mechanisms (cont.) | ||
| 2:30-3:00 | Towards Trustworthy Autonomous Cyber Defense for Dynamic Intrusion Response | Carnegie Mellon University | 
| 3:00- 3:30 | Vulnerabilities for Social Attack Surface | University of Kansas | 
| 3:30-3:45 | BREAK | |
| 3:45-5:00 | Closed PI Meeting | |
| July 10, 2024 | ||
| TIME | TOPIC | SPEAKER/UNIVERSITY | 
| VI 3: AI & Cybersecurity | ||
| 9:00-9:30 | Improving Malware Classifiers with Plausible Novel Samples | Vanderbilt University | 
| 9:30-10:00 | Leveraging Machine Learning for Binary Software Understanding | Arizona State University | 
| 10:00-10:30 | Improving Security and Safety of Neural Networks | ICSI | 
| 10:30- 10:45 | BREAK | |
| 10:45-11:45 | VI Breakout Meetings | |
| 11:45-12:00 | Closing Remarks | Adam Tagert/Shavon Donnell | 
        Submitted by Amy Karns
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