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CS Colloquium: Vassilis Zikas (UCLA) - Cryptography & Secure Computation: Theory and Applications

Speaker: Vassilis Zikas, UCLA

Talk Title: Cryptography & Secure Computation: Theory and Applications

Series: CS Colloquium

Abstract: As more complex security challenges emerge, cryptography is called to provide provably secure solutions for a wide range of applications. Bridging the gap between theory and applications is perhaps the biggest challenge of contemporary cryptography. In this talk I discuss how combining ideas from game theory and cryptography provides the basis for the design of highly efficient, more resilient, and simpler provably secure protocols. I demonstrate this for the problem of secure computation, which has numerous applications, e.g., privacy preserving data mining and secure cloud computing. I further discuss recent developments on concrete efficiency of secure multi-party computation protocols which indicate that we can realistically expect large scale deployments in the next few years.

Biography: Dr. Vassilis Zikas is a researcher at the Computer Science Department of the University of California, Los Angeles. His research interests include cryptography, information security, and game theory. Prior to his current appointment, he was a postdoctoral researcher at University of Maryland. He received his PhD in Computer Science from ETH Zurich.

Host: Shanghua Teng

Location: Henry Salvatori Computer Science Center (SAL) - 101

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Assistant to CS chair