HCSS 2022 Program Agenda
PROGRAM AGENDA
Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday  
 
  Conference Timezone: EDT
 
MONDAY, MAY 16 
Theme: Autonomous IoT

1200 - 1215

Welcome & Opening Remarks 
HCSS Chairs: 
Patrick Lincoln (SRI International) 
Lee Pike (Amazon Web Services) 
 
1215 - 1315 KEYNOTE PRESENTATION: A Navy of Things: The Role of IoT at War 
Roger Hallman1,2 and Megan Kline1 
1Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) Pacific 2Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth 
 
1315 - 1345 High Assurance Rigorous Digital Engineering for Nuclear Safety (HARDENS) 
Joseph Kiniry (Galois, Inc.) 
 
1345 - 1415 BREAK 
 
1415 - 1445 Analyzing Code Stability Using Control Theoretic Techniques 
Jessa Lee (Apogee Research) 
 
1445 - 1515 Cyber Assured Systems Engineering at Scale  
Darren Cofer (Collins Aerospace) 
 
1515 - 1545 BREAK 
 
1545 - 1630

MINI TALKS

Correct-by-Learning Methods for Reliable Control  
Sicun Gao (UCSD)

A Method for Formal Verification of Neural Network Collision Avoidance Controller  
Daniel Genin (JHU APL)

Model-checking State Machines In the Wild  
Vaibhav Sharma (Amazon.com Services LLC)

1630 - 1700 Machine Learning and the Unknown Unknowns 
Darren Cofer (Collins Aerospace) 
 
1700 Adjourn for the day 
 
   
TUESDAY, MAY 17 
Themes: Cyber Defense of the Supply Chain / 
Identifying and Controlling Weird Machines
1155 - 1200 Welcome 
Patrick Lincoln (SRI International) and Lee Pike (AWS)

1200 - 1300

KEYNOTE PRESENTATION: Limiting Weird Machines 
Thomas Dullien (Elastic) 
 
1300 - 1330 Tiffin and MGen: An Expressive Policy Language with Multiple Runtime Monitoring Tools  
Zak Fry (GrammaTech, Inc.) 
 
1330 - 1345 BREAK 
 
1345 - 1415 Model Validation for DARPA DPRIVE 
Ian Blumenfeld (Two Six Technologies) 
 
1415 - 1500 HCSS Formal Methods Education Panel 
Moderator: Perry Alexander (The University of Kansas) 
Panelists: 
Kevin Hamlen (UT Dallas) 
Marijn Heule (CMU) 
Pete Manolios (Northeastern) 
Yan Shoshitaishvili (Arizona State) 
 
1500 - 1530 BREAK 
 
1530 - 1600 Lifting Formal Proof to Practice via an Assurance Case  
Mark Thober (JHU APL) 
 
1600 - 1630

MINI TALKS

CSAADE: Cryptographically Secure, Automatic Assurance Software Development Environment  
Leonardo Babun (JHU APL)

Binary Software Composition Analysis with CodeSentry  
Antonio Flores Montoya (GrammaTech, Inc.)

1630 Adjourn for the day 
 
   
WEDNESDAY, MAY 18 
Theme: Driving Formal Methods to Practice I
1155 - 1200 Welcome 
Patrick Lincoln (SRI International) and Lee Pike (AWS) 
 
1200 - 1300 Keynote: What Log4j teaches us about the Software Supply Chain 
Stephen Magill (Sonatype)
1300 - 1330 P: Formal Modeling and Analysis of Distributed Systems 
Ankush Desai (Amazon) 
 
1330 - 1345 BREAK 
 
1345 - 1415 Reasoning about Deltas — Even Doing Nothing is Difficult 
Hira Syeda (AWS) 
 
1415  - 1445 Evolving Verified Cloud Authorization 
Sean McLaughlin (AWS) 
 
1445 - 1530

MINI TALKS

Applying Formal Methods to Incident Recovery  
Aleksandar Chakarov (AWS Identity)

Automated Evidence Generation for Continuous Certification  
Mauricio Castillo-Effen (Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories)

Lowering the Barrier to Formal Modeling and Analysis  
Daniel Balasubramanian (VU-ISIS)

1530 - 1600 BREAK 
 
1600 - 1630 Proof, but at What Cost?  
Robin Salkeld (AWS)
1630 - 1700 Scaling Formal Verification with Specification Extraction  
Edwin Westbrook (Galois, Inc.)
1700 Adjourn for the day
   
THURSDAY, MAY 19 
Theme: Driving FM to Practice II
1155 - 1200 Welcome 
Patrick Lincoln (SRI International) and Lee Pike (AWS)

1200 - 1300
Keynote Presentation: Supply Chain Events: Hardware vs. Software 
Saverio Fazzari (Booz Allen Hamilton)
1300 - 1330 
 
Unified Configuration Modeling Infrastructure  
Denis Gopan (GrammaTech, Inc.)
1330 - 1345 BREAK 
 
1345 - 1415 Formally Verifying Security and Compliance Mandates using AWS Network Access Analyzer 
Dan DaCosta (AWS)
1415 - 1445 Demystify your trust boundary with interactive refinement  
Vaibhav Sharma (Amazon.com Services LLC)
1445 - 1515 BREAK
1515 - 1545 Using lightweight formal methods to validate a key-value storage node in Amazon S3 
James Bornholt (AWS & UT Austin)
1545 - 1615 Fiat Cryptography: A Formally Verified Compiler for Finite-Field Arithmetic 
Adam Chlipala (MIT)
1615 - 1645 Kani Rust Verifier 
Daniel Schwartz-Narbonne (AWS)
1645 - 1700 Closing Remarks 
HCSS Co-Chairs: Lee Pike (AWS) and Patrick Lincoln (SRI International)
1700 
 
Conference Adjourned
   
CONFERENCE ADJOURNED

 

 

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