ACM India Winter School on “Topics in Digital Trust”
ACM India Winter School on
“Topics in Digital Trust”
Hosted by IIT Bombay
Sponsored by Trust Lab, IIT Bombay
12–22 December 2022
Name of the school: ACM India Winter School on “Topics in Digital Trust”
Host institution’s name and address: IIT Bombay, Powai, Mumbai 400076
Industry sponsor: Trust Lab, IIT Bombay
12 December 2022–22 December 2022
Academic coordinators(s)
Name: Prof. Manoj Prabhakaran and Prof. Kameswari Chebrolu
Email: Email: [email protected] & [email protected]
Description of school: The proposed school aims to create awareness among the under-graduate and postgraduate students about various topics related to Digital Trust. The school will focus on foundational knowledge in Digital Trust, the current state-of-the-art research challenges and opportunities, and future trends. A salient aspect of this school is to emphasize hands-on sessions with suitable lab assignments and case studies.
At the completion of the school, a few selected students may be offered internships and/or final semester projects with Trust Lab @IIT Bombay.
The school strongly encourages applications from women students. Depending on the response, there may be additional selections offered to women students, over and above the intended strength of the school.
Tentative list of sub-topics:
- Foundations of Security
- Advanced Cryptography
- Network Security
- Hardware & System Security
- Program Verification & Correctness
- Privacy
- Blockchains
- Applications of AI in Security
- State-of-the-art Industry perspective on security
List of speakers (with affiliation):
- Prof. Manoj Prabhakaran (IIT Bombay)
- Prof. Kameswari Chebrolu (IIT Bombay)
- Prof. G. Sivakumar (IIT Bombay)
- Prof. Vinay Ribeiro (IIT Bombay)
- Prof. Biswabandan Panda (IIT Bombay)
- Prof. Ashutosh Gupta (IIT Bombay)
- Prof. Virendra Singh (IIT Bombay)
- Prof. Saravanan Vijayakumaran (IIT Bombay)
Background / prior recommended:
- Programming (Must have: C/C++, Good to have: Python)
- Data structures and algorithms
- Discrete Mathematics
- Operating Systems
- Computer Networks
Software to be used:
- OS Labs will use C code/libraries