[Security-meetings] Security Reading Group for Winter 2021

[Ju Chen]

Slides for today's presentation. Thanks!


On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 10:35 AM Shitong Zhu <shitong.zhu at email.ucr.edu>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> This is a friendly reminder that we will have our first reading group for
> this quarter at 11AM PST. Ju will present and discuss the paper titled "Efficient
> Sampling of SAT Solutions for Testing" from ICSE '18.
>
> Please use the Zoom link https://ucr.zoom.us/j/2957702345 to join (@Ju:
> I'll let you share your screen once you join). See you all soon!
>
> Best,
> - Shitong
>
> On Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 10:29 AM Shitong Zhu <shitong.zhu at email.ucr.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> This is a friendly reminder that we will have our first reading group for
>> this quarter at 11AM PST. Zhenxiao will present and discuss two papers
>> today: (1) SymCC (https://www.usenix.org/system/files/sec20-poeplau.pdf)
>> and (2) SymQEMU (
>> https://www.ndss-symposium.org/wp-content/uploads/ndss2021_2B-2_24118_paper.pdf
>> ).
>>
>> Please use the Zoom link https://ucr.zoom.us/j/2957702345 to join
>> (@Zhenxiao: I'll let you share your screen once you join). See you all soon!
>>
>> Best,
>> - Shitong
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 7:58 PM Shitong Zhu <shitong.zhu at email.ucr.edu>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> This is a reminder that we *WON'T* have the reading group tomorrow (Feb
>>> 22) as the presenter will be attending NDSS at the same time. Sorry for the
>>> consecutive delays -- I am sure we will finally start the group on
>>> next Monday (Feb 29). Hope everyone going to NDSS will enjoy the talks and
>>> all the virtual events there!
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> - Shitong
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 10:56 AM Shitong Zhu <shitong.zhu at email.ucr.edu>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> First, I would like to thank all of you for signing up for the
>>>> presentations. Now we already have four presenters for the coming weeks
>>>> (thanks to @Zhenxiao, @Ju, @Zheng and @Jinghan).
>>>>
>>>> Second, this is a friendly reminder we *WON’T* have our reading group
>>>> today due to President's Day holiday. I’ll send another reminder later this
>>>> week for next Monday's group (Feb 22) including its details.
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>> Shitong
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 12:14 AM Shitong Zhu <shitong.zhu at email.ucr.edu>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> Hope you all had a great weekend!
>>>>>
>>>>> Unfortunately, our signup sheet is still empty at the moment without
>>>>> any volunteers, which is why I have to postpone our reading group
>>>>> indefinitely, until there is at least one showing up in the sheet.
>>>>>
>>>>> I’m sincerely encouraging anyone who has read, or even written
>>>>> interesting papers recently, to participate in the upcoming presentations.
>>>>> Also, I’m hoping faculty members can encourage your students in doing so.
>>>>> Even though I’m doing my best to keep this event voluntary, I’ll have no
>>>>> choice but start asking around if there is still no one showing up later
>>>>> this week. Please consider participating in this and share the work you are
>>>>> interested in. Thanks and looking forward to starting the group as soon as
>>>>> next Monday (Feb 15)!
>>>>>
>>>>> Best,
>>>>> Shitong
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 6:02 PM Shitong Zhu <shitong.zhu at email.ucr.edu>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks a lot for marking your availability in the poll. Based on all
>>>>>> votes, *Monday 11AM to noon (PST)* is the most shared time slot.
>>>>>> Let's tentatively schedule our group meetings for this time then.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> For presentations, unfortunately we don't have any volunteers who
>>>>>> have signed up on
>>>>>> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FJanYoWV1WlVXMVTg4hJ_O-wyZcOxGsCcAYAAHKOhIY/edit?usp=sharing at
>>>>>> the point. Therefore, let's wait for another week and start the group
>>>>>> meeting on *Feb 8*. Again, please feel free to share any paper that
>>>>>> you find interesting and present it. There were quite some conferences that
>>>>>> took place over the past months -- in security, software engineering, PL,
>>>>>> ML and even other domains. I am sure there were many interesting and worthy
>>>>>> papers that study security-related topics on those venues. I very much look
>>>>>> forward to seeing volunteers to sign up!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Best,
>>>>>> - Shitong
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 3:31 PM Shitong Zhu <
>>>>>> shitong.zhu at email.ucr.edu> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> According to the Doodle poll (we only have 9 participants so far),
>>>>>>> Monday 10AM-11AM, Monday 11AM-noon, Thursday 2PM to 3PM have the most votes
>>>>>>> (8 for each). I'll keep the poll open for this week and if the
>>>>>>> availability remains the same at the end of the week, I'll pick one from
>>>>>>> these three slots as the recurring reading group time and start the group
>>>>>>> from next week.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> In order to maximize the coverage for the reading group, I hope all
>>>>>>> security faculty members can encourage your students to participate, as
>>>>>>> they would probably be the ones who benefit the most from the presentations
>>>>>>> and discussions -- thanks for your support in advance!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Best,
>>>>>>> - Shitong
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 4:10 PM Shitong Zhu <
>>>>>>> shitong.zhu at email.ucr.edu> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Welcome back and hope you all are well and had a wonderful new year!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I'm Shitong Zhu, a final-year CS PhD student. I'll be helping
>>>>>>>> organize the security reading group for Winter 2021. As you know, our
>>>>>>>> reading group has been suspended for a while since mid-2020, due to the
>>>>>>>> pandemic and other reasons. Entering a new year, both students and faculty
>>>>>>>> members have been gradually noticing that without a venue where
>>>>>>>> students can present and discuss latest research in the community, many
>>>>>>>> folks have found it challenging to keep a fresh/update-to-date research
>>>>>>>> mindset, and more importantly, engaging discussions with
>>>>>>>> other participants. Moreover, due to the pandemic, people are becoming
>>>>>>>> disconnected socially. In these regards, we have decided to resume the
>>>>>>>> reading group, and hope that its reopening would bring not only new ideas,
>>>>>>>> ignite the research sparkles, but also re-connect people together with the
>>>>>>>> wide reach this group has been covering.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> As usual, we plan to reserve 1 hour per week for presenting papers
>>>>>>>> and follow-up discussions. Additionally, we will keep the Zoom channel open
>>>>>>>> after the 1 hour so that folks can have free chats if they are interested.
>>>>>>>> I have created a Doodle poll for converging on a time slot for the 1 hour
>>>>>>>> presentation/discussion allocation: *https://doodle.com/poll/t4f52syt8w5qegxy?utm_source=poll&utm_medium=link
>>>>>>>> <https://doodle.com/poll/t4f52syt8w5qegxy?utm_source=poll&utm_medium=link>*.
>>>>>>>> Note that even the poll shows times for this week, it presents all weeks
>>>>>>>> until the end of Winter 2021.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Besides the poll, please also sign up/volunteer for the upcoming
>>>>>>>> presentations in this sheet: *https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FJanYoWV1WlVXMVTg4hJ_O-wyZcOxGsCcAYAAHKOhIY/edit?usp=sharing
>>>>>>>> <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FJanYoWV1WlVXMVTg4hJ_O-wyZcOxGsCcAYAAHKOhIY/edit?usp=sharing>*.
>>>>>>>> With all the conferences held over the past months, I believe there are
>>>>>>>> tons of interesting papers that are worth presentations and discussions.
>>>>>>>> Please don't be shy -- both literature review and presentation skills are
>>>>>>>> at the very core for the development of graduate students.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thanks a lot and have a great weekend!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Best,
>>>>>>>> - Shitong
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>
>>>>> Best,
>>>>> - Shitong
>>>>>
>>>> --
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>> - Shitong
>>>>
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