The Frontier of Cybersecurity Research, Fall 2022, USTC

Teaching Team

Instructors:

• Xianghang (Scott) Mi, Professor

  Email: xmi [at] ustc.edu.cn

Time and Location:

• Lectures: Th 9:45AM - 12:10PM
  • 09:45~10:30
  • 10:35~11:20
  • 11:25~12:10
• Q&A: In-class discussion and 1:1 meetings on request
• Location: USTC

Course Description

The course is graduate-level seminar course dedicated to discussing cutting-edge cybersecurity studies as conducted in recent years. Most works are published in top security venues including ACM CCS, IEEE S&P, Usenix Security, and NDSS. Also, these studies span a broad areas including web/network security, system/hardware security, ML security, and privacy, as well as presenting security techniques of exciting categories, e.g., trusted execution environment, formal analysis, side channel attacks, fuzing, and static/dynamic analysis.

Grading Policies

(Tentative and subject to change)

• Individual review and presentation of one paper: 30%
  • A critical review
  • A presentation of 30~40 minutes with the Q&A session
• A research project: 60%
  • A team project with each group consisting of 3~5 members
• Class participation: 10%
  • Join in-class discussions
  • Ask and anwser questions