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George Mason University computer science faculty and students are demonstrating once again why the program is so highly ranked, with an impressive showing at an upcoming top-tier academic conference.
The Association for Computing Machinery Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), October 14-18 in Salt Lake City, accepted 10 papers from George Mason. This is the flagship annual conference of the Special Interest Group on Security, Audit and Control (SIGSAC), convening information security researchers, practitioners, developers, and users from around the world.
Evgenios Kornaropoulos, assistant professor in the department and one of the paper authors, said that CCS, with thousands of attendees, is among the most important computer security conferences. “Our 10 papers are more than any other university in the U.S., which is a huge honor and helps us with global recognition.”
Having a paper at the conference can also have considerable professional impact for students. Ioanna Karantaidou, a recent PhD graduate and one of the authors, said, “CCS is a prestigious venue that is great for students and their CVs. My CCS submissions have consistently attracted attention and questions during interviews. When I connect with researchers at conferences, many are already familiar with my work due to my CCS submissions.”
Kornaropoulos said, “Our computer science department is growing, and the combination of established faculty and the motivation of up-and-coming faculty makes a great blend and we’re seeing the results now at these types of conferences with these papers.” He added that there is a good “mix of flavors of computer security” in the department.
Faculty members and students who are coauthors on the conference papers are: Foteini Baldimtsi, S. Dov Gordon, Ioanna Karantaidou, Evgenios Kornaropoulos, Kun Sun, Shu Wang, Yichang Xiong, Kailun Yan, Xiaokuan Zhang. The list of George Mason coauthored papers is below.
(Editor’s addendum, October 24, 2024: The conference occurred since publication of this story. We’re happy to report that “Stealing Trust: Unraveling Blind Message Attacks in Web3 Authentication” and “Fast Two-party Threshold ECDSA with Proactive Security” from the list below both won a Distinguished Paper designation.)
- AITIA: Efficient Secure Computation of Bivariate Causal Discovery
- Blind Multi-Signatures for Anonymous Tokens with Decentralized Issuance and Public Verifiability
- BlueSWAT: A Lightweight State-Aware Security Framework for Bluetooth Low Energy
- Dye4AI: Assuring Data Boundary on Generative AI Services
- Fast Two-party Threshold ECDSA with Proactive Security
- Stealing Trust: Unraveling Blind Message Attacks in Web3 Authentication
- Towards Fine-Grained Webpage Fingerprinting at Scale
- Unveiling Collusion-Based Ad Attribution Laundering Fraud: Detection, Analysis, and Security Implications
- VPVet: Vetting Privacy Policies of Virtual Reality Apps
- zkLogin: Privacy-Preserving Blockchain Authentication with Existing Credentials