USENIX Security '21

Join us for the 30th USENIX Security Symposium, which will be held as a virtual event on August 11–13, 2021. USENIX Security brings together researchers, practitioners, system administrators, system programmers, and others to share and explore the latest advances in the security and privacy of computer systems and networks.

View the technical sessions program and register today.

Keynote Address

Susan Landau, Bridge Professor in Cyber Security and Policy at The Fletcher School and the School of Engineering, Department of Computer Science, Tufts University and Visiting Professor, Department of Computer Science, University College London.

Apply for a grant! The grant application deadline for Student Grants, Diversity Grants, and Grants for Black Computer Science Students is Wednesday, July 28, 2021. See the USENIX Conference Grant Programs page for details.

2021 USENIX Security Test of Time Award: Call for Nominations

Please suggest significant USENIX Security papers published at least 10 years ago to be considered for the 2021 USENIX Security Test of Time Award. The deadline for 2021 nominations is Friday, July 16, 2021. Nominations received after that date will be considered for future years.

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Symposium Organizers

Michael Bailey

University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

Program Co-Chair

Rachel Greenstadt

New York University

Program Co-Chair

Program Committee

Yousra Aafer, University of Waterloo

Ruba Abu-Salma, University College London and Inria

Gunes Acar, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

David Adrian, Censys

Sadia Afroz, International Computer Science Institute (ICSI), University of California, Berkeley, and Avast

Devdatta Akhawe, Figma

Ardalan Amiri Sani, University of California, Irvine

Benjamin Andow, Google

Sebastian Angel, University of Pennsylvania

Pauline Anthonysamy, Google

Manos Antonakakis, Georgia Institute of Technology

Daniele Antonioli, EPFL

Elias Athanasopoulos, University of Cyprus

Mohammad Atiqul Islam, The University of Texas at Arlington

David Barrera, Carleton University

Jethro G. Beekman, Fortanix

Matthew Bernhard, University of Michigan

Antonio Bianchi, Purdue University

Battista Biggio, University of Cagliari, Italy

Leyla Bilge, NortonLifeLock Research Group

Vincent Bindschaedler, University of Florida

Tamara Bonaci, Northeastern University

Joseph C Bonneau, New York University

Sven Bugiel, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security

Nathan Burow, MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Kevin Butler, University of Florida

Joseph Calandrino, Federal Trade Commission

Aylin Caliskan, George Washington University

Stefano Calzavara, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia

Yinzhi Cao, Johns Hopkins University

Alvaro A. Cardenas, University of California, Santa Cruz

Michael Carl Tschantz, International Computer Science Institute (ICSI)

Nicholas Carlini, Google

Lorenzo Cavallaro, King's College London

Z. Berkay Celik, Purdue University

Sang Kil Cha, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

Rahul Chatterjee, University of Wisconsin—Madison

Sze Yiu Chau, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Kai Chen, IIE, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Qi Alfred Chen, University of California, Irvine

Marshini Chetty, University of Chicago

Sherman S. M. Chow, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Omar Haider Chowdhury, The University of Iowa

Mihai Christodorescu, Visa Research

Erinn Clark, Google

Camille Cobb, Carnegie Mellon University

Shaanan Cohney, Princeton University and University of Melbourne

Andrea Continella, University of Twente

Scott Coull, FireEye

Cas Cremers, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security

Bruno Crispo, University of Trento

Michel Cukier, University of Maryland

George Danezis, University College London and Facebook Calibra

Anupam Das, North Carolina State University

Sanchari Das, Indiana University Bloomington

Sauvik Das, Georgia Institute of Technology

Nathan Dautenhahn, Rice University

Lucas Davi, University of Duisburg-Essen

Roger Dingledine, The Tor Project

Alexandra Dmitrienko, University of Wuerzburg

Brendan Dolan-Gavitt, New York University

Adam Doupé, Arizona State University

Zakir Durumeric, Stanford University

Manuel Egele, Boston University

Serge Egelman, International Computer Science Institute (ICSI), University of California, Berkeley, and AppCensus, Inc.

Thomas Eisenbarth, University of Lübeck

Mohamed Elsabagh, Kryptowire

Pardis Emami-Naeini, University of Washington

William Enck, North Carolina State University

Roya Ensafi, University of Michigan

Sascha Fahl, Leibniz University Hannover

Giulia Fanti, Carnegie Mellon University

Kassem Fawaz, University of Wisconsin—Madison

Nick Feamster, University of Chicago

Ariel J. Feldman, Google

Wu-chang Feng, Portland State University

Earlence Fernandes, University of Wisconsin—Madison

Tobias Fiebig, TU Delft

David Fifield, Unaffiliated

Simone Fischer-Hubner, Karlstad University

Christopher Wardlaw Fletcher, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

Michael Franz, University of California, Irvine

Yanick Fratantonio, Cisco Talos

Matt Fredrikson, Carnegie Mellon University

David Freeman, Facebook Inc.

Patrick Gage Kelley, Google

Flavio Garcia, University of Birmingham, UK

Siddarth Garg, New York University

Christina Garman, Purdue University

Carrie Gates, Bank of America

Gennie Gebhart, Electronic Frontier Foundation

Daniel Genkin, University of Michigan

Arthur Gervais, Imperial College London

Irene Giacomelli, Protocol Labs

Yossi Gilad, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Ian Goldberg, University of Waterloo

Neil Gong, Duke University

Daniel Gruss, Graz University of Technology

Guofei Gu, Texas A&M University

J. Alex Halderman, University of Michigan

Mike Hamburg, Rambus

Hamza Harkous, Google

Wajih Ul Hassan, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

Marcella Hastings, University of Pennsylvania

Xiali (Sharon) Hei, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Nadia Heninger, University of California, San Diego

Ryan Henry, University of Calgary

Alejandro Hevia, University of Chile

Matthew Hicks, Virginia Tech

Avesta Hojjati, Digicert Inc

Thorsten Holz, Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Nicholas Hopper, University of Minnesota

Amir Houmansadr, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Danny Yuxing Huang, New York University

Mathias Humbert, Cyber-Defence Campus, armasuisse S+T

Sotiris Ioannidis, Technical University of Crete

Cynthia Irvine, Naval Postgraduate School

Suman Jana, Columbia University

Yeongjin Jang, Oregon State University

Rob Jansen, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory

Ramya Jayaram Masti, Intel Corporation

Yuseok Jeon, UNIST

Somesh Jha, University of Wisconsin—Madison

Anthony D Joseph, University of California, Berkeley

Brent ByungHoon Kang, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

Chris Kanich, University of Illinois at Chicago

Apu Kapadia, Indiana University Bloomington

Alexandros Kapravelos, North Carolina State University

Gabriel Kaptchuk, Boston University

Aniket Kate, Purdue University

Vasileios Kemerlis, Brown University

Florian Kerschbaum, University of Waterloo

Yongdae Kim, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

Sam King, University of California, Davis

Engin Kirda, Northeastern University

Tadayoshi Kohno, University of Washington

Kevin T. Kornegay, Morgan State University

Katharina Krombholz, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security

Christopher Kruegel, University of California, Santa Barbara

Deepak Kumar, Stanford University

Anil Kurmus, IBM Research Europe

Negar Kyavash, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

Andrea Lanzi, University of Milan

Pierre Laperdrix, University of Lille, CNRS, and Inria

Pavel Laskov, University of Liechtenstein

Mathias Lécuyer, Microsoft Research

Byoungyoung Lee, Seoul National University

Sangho Lee, Microsoft Research

Wenke Lee, Georgia Institute of Technology

Anja Lehmann, Hasso-Plattner-Institute, University of Potsdam

Corrado Leita, VMWare

Tancrède Lepoint, Google

Dave Levin, University of Maryland

Frank Li, Georgia Institute of Technology

Qi Li, Tsinghua University

David Lie, University of Toronto

Zhiqiang Lin, The Ohio State University

Fangfei Liu, Intel Corporation

Mingyan Liu, University of Michigan

Kangjie Lu, University of Minnesota

Wouter Lueks, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

Shiqing Ma, Rutgers University

Mateo Maffei, Technische Universität Wien

Stefan Mangard, Graz University of Technology

Michail Maniatakos, New York University Abu Dhabi

Shri Mare, Western Washington University

Ivan Martinovic, University of Oxford

Clémentine Maurice, CNRS, IRISA

Michelle Mazurek, University of Maryland

Stephen McCamant, University of Minnesota

Jon McCune, Google

Patrick McDaniel, The Pennsylvania State University

Susan E. McGregor, Columbia University

Nele Mentens, Leiden University and KU Leuven

Andrew Miller, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

Brad Miller, Google

Jiang Ming, The University of Texas at Arlington

Esfandiar Mohammadi, University of Lübeck

Veelasha Moonsamy, Radboud University and Ruhr-University Bochum

Tyler Moore, The University of Tulsa

Takao Murakami, AIST

Toby Murray, University of Melbourne

Adwait Nadkarni, College of William & Mary

Nick Nikiforakis, Stony Brook University

Shirin Nilizadeh, The University of Texas at Arlington

Rishab Nithyanand, The University of Iowa

Guevara Noubir, Northeastern University

Hamed Okhravi, MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Cristina Onete, University of Limoges/XLIM/CNRS 7252

Yossi Oren, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Rebekah Overdorf, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

Chris Palmer, Google

Dimitrios Papadopoulos, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Nicholas Papernot, University of Toronto and Vector Institute

Aleatha Parker-Wood, Unaffiliated

Mathias Payer, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

Paul Pearce, Georgia Institute of Technology and International Computer Science Institute (ICSI)

Giancarlo Pellegrino, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security

Roberto Perdisci, University of Georgia

Radia Perlman, Dell Technologies

Peter A. H. Peterson, University of Minnesota Duluth

Zachary Peterson, California Polytechnic State University

Van-Thuan Pham, University of Melbourne

Stjepan Picek, TU Delft

Jason Polakis, University of Illinois at Chicago

Christina Pöpper, New York University Abu Dhabi

Niels Provos, Stripe

Zhiyun Qian, University of California, Riverside

Syed Rafiul Hussain, The Pennsylvania State University

Amir Rahmati, Stony Brook University

Sara Rampazzi, University of Michigan and University of Florida

Damith Ranasinghe, The University of Adelaide

Aanjhan Ranghanathan, Northeastern University

Bradley Reaves, North Carolina State University

Elissa M. Redmiles, Microsoft Research

Konrad Rieck, Technische Universität Braunschweig

Thomas Ristenpart, Cornell Tech

William Robertson, Northeastern University

Eyal Ronen, Tel Aviv University

Stefanie Roos, Delft University of Technology

Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, Technische Universität Darmstadt

Merve Sahin, SAP Security Research

Brendan Saltaformaggio, Georgia Institute of Technology

Nolen Scaife, University of Colorado Boulder

Bruce Schneier, Harvard Kennedy School

Michael Schwarz, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security

Jörg Schwenk, Ruhr University Bochum

Kent Seamons, Brigham Young University

Vyas Sekar, Carnegie Mellon University

Wendy Seltzer, W3C and Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Srinath Setty, Microsoft Research

Fatemeh Shirazi, Web3 Foundation

Haya Shulman, Fraunhofer SIT

Juraj Somorovsky, Paderborn University

Sooel Son, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

Chengyu Song, University of California, Riverside

Drew Springall, Auburn University

Angelos Stavrou, Virginia Tech

Deian Stefan, University of California, San Diego

Ben Stock, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security

Gianluca Stringhini, Boston University

Cynthia Sturton, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Nick Sullivan, Cloudflare

Yixin Sun, University of Virginia

Paul Syverson, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory

Patrick Tague, Carnegie Mellon University

Qiang Tang, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Juan Tapiador, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Kurt Thomas, Google

Dave (Jing) Tian, Purdue University

Yuan Tian, University of Virginia

Laura Tinnel, SRI International

Nils Ole Tippenhauer, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security

Jacob Torrey, DARPA

Florian Tramèr, Stanford University

Patrick Traynor, University of Florida

Blase Ur, University of Chicago

Anjo Vahldiek-Oberwagner, Intel Labs

Mayank Varia, Boston University

Ingrid Verbauwhede, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Bimal Viswanath, Virginia Tech

Daniel Votipka, Tufts University

David Wagner, University of California, Berkeley

Ryan Wails, Georgetown University and U.S. Naval Research Laboratory

Gang Wang, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

Ruoyu Wang, Arizona State University

Ting Wang, The Pennsylvania State University

Byron Williams, University of Florida

Christian Wressnegger, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

Matthew Wright, Rochester Institute of Technology

Eric Wustrow, University of Colorado Boulder

Xusheng Xiao, Case Western Reserve University

Xinyu Xing, The Pennsylvania State University

Dongyan Xu, Purdue University

Wenyuan Xu, Zhejiang University

Jason Minhui Xue, The University of Adelaide

Yuval Yarom, The University of Adelaide and Data61

Tuba Yavuz, University of Florida

Heng Yin, University of California, Riverside

Daniel Zappala, Brigham Young University

Qiang Zeng, University of South Carolina

Fengwei Zhang, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech)

Xiangyu Zhang, Purdue University

Yang Zhang, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security

Mary Ellen Zurko, MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Invited Talks Chair

Carrie Gates, Bank of America

Test of Time Awards Committee

Dan Boneh, Stanford University

Lorrie Faith Cranor, Carnegie Mellon University

Nick Feamster, University of Chicago

Kevin Fu, University of Michigan

Fabian Monrose, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Paul van Oorschot, Carleton University

David Wagner, University of California, Berkeley

Dan Wallach, Rice University

Wenyuan Xu, Zhejiang University

Steering Committee

Matt Blaze, University of Pennsylvania

Dan Boneh, Stanford University

Srdjan Capkun, ETH Zurich

William Enck, North Carolina State University

Kevin Fu, University of Michigan

Casey Henderson, USENIX Association

Nadia Heninger, University of California, San Diego

Thorsten Holz, Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Engin Kirda, Northeastern University

Tadayoshi Kohno, University of Washington

Thomas Ristenpart, Cornell Tech

Franziska Roesner, University of Washington

Patrick Traynor, University of Florida

David Wagner, University of California, Berkeley

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