STOC 2025 (June 23-27, Prague) Theory Fest is looking for workshop proposals! Deadline March 9, so please hurry and submit your great proposals and please repost! Link: stoc2025theoryfest.netlify.app

I am extremely excited and honored to receive the NSF CAREER award!

George Mason CS@georgemasoncs.bsky.social · 2y ago

#GeorgeMasonResearch Unlocking privacy with encrypted ingenuity: Prof. Evgenios Kornaropoulos receives NSF CAREER award cec.gmu.edu/news/2025-01...

Enigma will be back as a track at USENIX Security: https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity25/enigma-cfp

USENIX Security '25 Enigma Track Call for Participation

Submissions due: Wednesday, March 5, 2025 Notification to submitters: Wednesday, May 7, 2025

usenix.org

Another thought-provoking* talk by @thejonullman.bsky.social at the #EnCOREPrivacy25 workshop, on auditing differentially private algorithms by designing membership inference attacks(and why we should, and how). encoredp.github.io *The thoughts! They were provoked!

Hello aspiring cybersecurity professors! ASU is hiring faculty in all security disciplines and all levels, and the first deadline is TONIGHT! Apply at apply.interfolio.com... and don't worry --- you can still apply tomorrow if tonight is impossible :-)

Looking for a place to pursue a PhD in theoretical computer science? Consider applying to one of the open positions in the Copenhagen area! We have a large and diverse community within TCS, including the BARC center (barc.ku.dk) and its affiliated research projects in...

Here is a list of amazing (applied) crypto folks I found here: bsky.app/profile/did:...

This is one of the best talks I've seen recently! It highlights how skill sets translate across disciplines and how attacking a problem as an outsider may yield unexpected results. If you are excited about a new area, you should get outside your comfort zone and contribute in your own unique way

Kasper Green Larsen@kasperglarsen.bsky.social · 2y ago

Recorded an extended version of my MFCS'24 invited talk. The talk presents my personal experiences in entering learning theory with a TCS background. The target audience is mostly TCS researchers. Hope some of you might enjoy it. youtu.be/ZYe2mITwww4

#GeorgeMasonResearch George Mason faculty and students presented 10 papers at this year's flagship ACM Computer Security Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) 2024. Two of these papers won a Distinguished Paper Award!

Patriot papers aplenty at prestigious ACM CCS conference

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.

cec.gmu.edu

It's tough to gain visibility as a young researcher, and it's job market season! Are you a theoretical computer science PhD/postdoc on the job market? I don't have a crazy juge audience but I'll try to help a bit: fill this form, and I'll tweet your pitch and info! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Theoretical CS Job Market 2024

docs.google.com

We had a great discussion with @robertlemos.bsky.social from Dark Reading about our new paper "Hacking Back the AI-Hacker: Prompt Injection as a Defense Against LLM-driven Cyberattacks"(arxiv.org/abs/2410.20911). Mantis turns the hardness of dealing with prompt injections into an opportunity!

AI About-Face: 'Mantis' Turns LLM Attackers Into Prey

Experimental counter-offensive system responds to malicious AI probes with their own surreptitious prompt-injection commands.

darkreading.com

I am here cause I am hedging my bets. Let's hope that this is the one that will replace the you-know-who