Machine Learning Techniques for Cybersecurity (網路安全的機器學習技術)

​Elisa Bertino is a Samuel D. Conte Professor of Computer Science at Purdue University. Prior to joining Purdue in 2004, she was a Professor and department head at the Department of Computer Science and Communication of the University of Milan. She has been a postdoc at the IBM Research Laboratory (now Almaden) in San Jose and a Visiting Professor at the Singapore National University and the Singapore Management University. She has worked for more than 30 years in data security and privacy. Recently she has been working on security of cellular networks, mobile applications and IoT systems, zero-trust architectures, and machine learning techniques for cybersecurity.She is a Fellow member of IEEE, ACM, and AAAS. She received the 2002 IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award for "For outstanding contributions to database systems and database security and advanced data management systems", the 2005 IEEE Computer Society Tsutomu Kanai Award for "Pioneering and innovative research contributions to secure distributed systems", the 2019-2020 ACM Athena Lecturer Award, and the 2021 IEEE Innovation in Societal Infrastructure Award.
Sonam Bhardwaj is a visiting Ph.D. student at the Department of Computer Science at Purdue University. She is pursuing her Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, India. Her research area is focused on Attack detection and evidence preservation in network forensics. Before joining as a Ph.D. student, she gained her master's degree from the University Institute of Engineering and Technology (UIET), Kurukshetra, India, with her thesis on A Novel Technique for Data De-Duplication with SHA-1 in Hadoop Framework. Her Bachelor's degree was awarded in the year 2013 by Lingayas University, Faridabad, India. In her past, she also worked with NIELIT, Delhi, India, on a project based on Big Data Hadoop and Spark. She is also a reviewer of manyrenowned journals and a student member of ACM and IEEE.
Fabrizio Cicala is a Ph.D. student at the Department of Computer Science at Purdue University, advised by Professor Elisa Bertino. His research area is in Information Security, focusing on vulnerability analysis of communication protocol implementations through automatic software testing methodologies. Prior to joining as a Ph.D. student, he was a visiting scholar at Purdue, where he developed his master thesis on the analysis of ransomware encryption models and encryption key generation. During his time at Purdue, he also collaborated on a project on vulnerabilities in modern smartphones basebands; the paper reporting this work received the ACSAC 2019 distinguished paper award. He also worked on designing and implementing a framework for automatic network policy generation in the context of zero-trust architectures. He obtained his master's and Bachelor's degree from the Department of Computer Science Engineering at Roma Tre University in Rome.
Sishuai Gong is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science at Purdue University. Before joining Purdue in 2019, he received a Bachelor's degree from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). His research focuses on improving the efficiency, safety, and reliability of real-world kernels, with particular interests in kernel performance (e.g., memory management) and kernel testing (e.g., concurrency testing, fuzzing).
Imtiaz Karim is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Computer Science at Purdue University, advised by Professor Elisa Bertino. He received his Bachelor's in Computer Science and Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in 2017. His research interests lie in the security and privacy of networked systems, communication protocols, and mobile computing. His research aim is to develop tools to systematically analyze real-world systems and widely used protocols using formal verification, program analysis, machine learning, and software testing techniques. He has been inducted into GSMA Mobile Security Research Hall of Fame three times for identifying security and privacy flaws and coordinating mitigation in the 4G/5G cellular network standards. He also received the distinguished paper award at Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) 2019 and the best paper award nomination at International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) 2021. For outstanding research in Software, Security Imtiaz received the Maurice H. Halstead Memorial Award from Purdue University in 2020.

Charalampos Katsis is a Ph.D. student at the Department of Computer Science at Purdue University, advised by Professor Elisa Bertino. His research area is Network Security, with a focus on zero-trust network architectures andmachine learning techniques for network security. During his time at Purdue, he also worked on efficient message authentication techniques for Named Data Networks. He received a combined bachelor's and master's degree with honors from the Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering, School of Engineering at the University of the Aegean in Greece.
Hyunwoo Lee is an assistant professor at Korea Institute of Energy Technology (KENTECH). Before joining KENTECH in 2022, he was a postdoc research associate under Prof. Bertino at Purdue University. He received B.S. and M.S./Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Seoul National University. His research interests lie in a broad range of network security, including intrusion detection systems, design of security protocols, security verification of network protocols, and applied cryptography.

Adrian Shuai Li is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Purdue University, advised by Professor Elisa Bertino. Prior to that, he was a researcher at the Institute for Security, Privacy, and Information Assurance (ISPIA) at the University of Calgary from 2020 to 2021, advised by Professor Reihaneh Safavi -Naini. His research interests include Security, Privacy, and Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning. In particular, his research focuses on building effective cyber security defenses using AI-based technologies. He received an M.Sc. from the University of Calgary, where he was a recipient of the Mitacs Globalink Graduate Fellowship. Before that, he conferred his Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Wuhan University. In the past, he has interned at TELUS research.
Ashraf Y. Mahgoub is a Ph.D. candidate in the Computer Science Department at Purdue University. He is a member of the Dependable Computing Systems Laboratory and is advised by Professor Saurabh Bagchi. His research interest is in cloud-hosted distributed systems with a focus on automated performance and cost optimization under dynamic workloads. Before joining Purdue, Ashraf received his M.S. and B.S. degrees from the Computer Engineering Department at Cairo University. During his Ph.D., Ashraf interned at Microsoft Cognitive Services, Facebook, and Microsoft Systems Research Group. He is a recipient of two conference student grants from Middleware'17 and Usenix ATC'21.

Elisa Bertino是普渡大學的Samuel D. Conte計算機科學教授。在2004年加入普渡大學之前，她曾是米蘭大學計算機科學和通信系的教授和系主任。她曾在IBM研究實驗室（現在是Almaden）和新加坡國立大學以及新加坡管理大學擔任訪問教授。她在數據安全和隱私方面已經工作了30多年。最近，她一直在研究蜂窩網絡、移動應用和物聯網系統的安全性、零信任架構以及用於網絡安全的機器學習技術。她是IEEE、ACM和AAAS的會士成員。她獲得了2002年IEEE計算機學會技術成就獎，以表彰她對數據庫系統、數據庫安全和先進數據管理系統的傑出貢獻；2005年IEEE計算機學會Tsutomu Kanai獎，以表彰她對安全分散系統的開創性和創新性研究貢獻；2019-2020年ACM Athena講座獎；以及2021年IEEE創新社會基礎設施獎。

Sonam Bhardwaj是普渡大學計算機科學系的訪問博士生。她正在印度國家技術研究所Kurukshetra的計算機工程系攻讀博士學位。她的研究領域專注於網絡取證中的攻擊檢測和證據保存。在成為博士生之前，她在印度Kurukshetra的大學工程和技術學院（UIET）獲得碩士學位，論文研究了Hadoop框架中SHA-1的數據去重新技術。她於2013年獲得Lingayas大學的學士學位。在過去，她還在印度德里的NIELIT（國家電子信息技術研究所）從事基於大數據Hadoop和Spark的項目工作。她還是許多知名期刊的審稿人，並且是ACM和IEEE的學生會員。

Fabrizio Cicala是普渡大學計算機科學系的博士生，由Elisa Bertino教授指導。他的研究領域是信息安全，專注於通過自動軟件測試方法脆弱性分析通信協議實現。在成為博士生之前，他曾在普渡大學擔任訪問學者，並在那裡完成了有關勒索軟件加密模型和加密密鑰生成的碩士論文。在普渡大學期間，他還參與了關於現代智能手機基帶漏洞的項目；報告這項工作的論文獲得了ACSAC 2019傑出論文獎。他還參與設計和實施了一個在零信任架構下自動生成網絡策略的框架。他在羅馬第三大學的計算機科學工程系獲得碩士和學士學位。

Sishuai Gong是普渡大學計算機科學系的博士生。在2019年加入普渡大學之前，他在中國科學技術大學的計算機科學系獲得學士學位。他的研究重點是提高現實世界內核的效率、安全性和可靠性，特別關注核性能（例如內存管理）和核測試（例如並發測試、模糊測試）。

Imtiaz Karim是普渡大學計算機科學系的博士候選人，由Elisa Bertino教授指導。他於2017年從孟加拉國工程和技術大學獲得計算機科學和工程學士學位。他的研究興趣在於網絡系統、通信協議和移動計算的安全和隱私。他的研究目標是開發工具，系統地分析現實世界中廣泛使用的系統和協議。