<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="auto">Hi all,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">This is a reminder that we will have our reading group at <b>11am</b> today. Xiao will present her project on "<span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt">Resilient Object Partitioning and Replication</span>". Since the manuscript itself is still under submission, she provided its abstract as follows.</div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div><b>Abstract</b>: Inter-organizational systems where subsystems with partial trust need to cooperate are common in finance, healthcare, and the military. In the face of malicious Byzantine attacks, the ultimate goal is to assure end-to-end policies for the three aspects</div>of trustworthiness: confidentiality, integrity, and availability. In contrast to confidentiality and integrity, provision and validation of availability is often missing. This paper enforces end-to-end policies simultaneously for all three aspects of trustworthiness. It presents a security-typed object-based language, a partitioning transformation, an operational semantics, and an information flow type inference system for partitioned and replicated classes. The type system provably guarantees that well-typed methods enjoy noninterference and that their types quantify their resilience to Byzantine attacks. Type inference results in automatic placement and replication of fields and methods that lead to automatic synthesis of trustworthy-by-construction distributed systems. The resulting systems can gracefully tolerate faults that are as strong as their resiliency specifications.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div>Please use the link <a href="https://ucr.zoom.us/j/2957702345">https://ucr.zoom.us/j/2957702345</a> to join. This would be the last group for Spring. See you all very soon!</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>- Shitong</div><div><br></div></div><div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, May 31, 2021 at 10:37 AM Shitong Zhu <<a href="mailto:shitong.zhu@email.ucr.edu" target="_blank">shitong.zhu@email.ucr.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>This is a reminder that we <b>don't</b> have the reading group in observance of Memorial Day. Sorry I didn't realize this when I wrote the previous email. Enjoy the holiday and see you all next Monday!<br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Best, </div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>- Shitong</div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 10:39 AM Shitong Zhu <<a href="mailto:shitong.zhu@email.ucr.edu" target="_blank">shitong.zhu@email.ucr.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>Since many people are attending Oakland today, let us skip the reading group this week. Hope you enjoy the conference and see you all next Monday!<br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Best, <div>- Shitong</div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 10:37 AM Shitong Zhu <<a href="mailto:shitong.zhu@email.ucr.edu" target="_blank">shitong.zhu@email.ucr.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi all,<br><br>This is a friendly reminder that we will start our security reading group at <b>11AM PST</b> today. Mingjun will present the Chia Business Whitepaper for us.<br><br>Please use the Zoom link <a href="https://ucr.zoom.us/j/2957702345" target="_blank">https://ucr.zoom.us/j/2957702345</a> to join. See you all very soon!<br><br>Best,<br>- Shitong<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 10:37 AM Shitong Zhu <<a href="mailto:shitong.zhu@email.ucr.edu" target="_blank">shitong.zhu@email.ucr.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi all,<br><br>This is a friendly reminder that we will start our security reading group at <b>11AM PST</b> today. Ali will present the paper titled "<b>Sys: A Static/Symbolic Tool for Finding Good Bugs in Good (Browser) Code</b>" from Usenix Security 2020. <br><br>Please use the Zoom link <a href="https://ucr.zoom.us/j/2957702345" target="_blank">https://ucr.zoom.us/j/2957702345</a> to join. See you all very soon!<br><br>Best, <br>- Shitong<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, May 3, 2021 at 10:33 AM Shitong Zhu <<a href="mailto:shitong.zhu@email.ucr.edu" target="_blank">shitong.zhu@email.ucr.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>This is a friendly reminder that we will start our security reading group at <b>11AM PST</b> today. Sheng will present the paper titled "<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial"><b>On the Feasibility of Stealthily Introducing Vulnerabilities in Open-Source Software via Hypocrite Commits</b></span>" (accepted at and recently withdrawn) from IEEE S&P 2020. </div><div><br></div><div>As usual, please use the Zoom link <a href="https://ucr.zoom.us/j/2957702345" target="_blank">https://ucr.zoom.us/j/2957702345</a> to join. See you all very soon!</div><div><br></div><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Best, <font color="#888888"><div>- Shitong</div></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 10:32 AM Shitong Zhu <<a href="mailto:shitong.zhu@email.ucr.edu" target="_blank">shitong.zhu@email.ucr.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>This is a friendly reminder that we will start our security reading group at <b>11AM PST</b> today. Haochen will present the paper titled "<span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt"><b>FuzzGen: Automatic Fuzzer Generation</b></span>" from Usenix Security 2020. I would like to also take this chance to thank all the participants, volunteers and faculty members who have helped us keep a lineup of presentations. Moving forward, I will also do my best to guarantee the continuity of the group.</div><div><br></div><div>As usual, please use the Zoom link <a href="https://ucr.zoom.us/j/2957702345" target="_blank">https://ucr.zoom.us/j/2957702345</a> to join. See you all soon!</div><div><br></div><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Best, <div>- Shitong</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 10:31 AM Zhiyun Qian <<a href="mailto:zhiyunq@cs.ucr.edu" target="_blank">zhiyunq@cs.ucr.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Thanks for Heng's and everyone's initiative. From my observation, presentation is a critical skill that unfortunately does not receive much attention. I wish we can all learn from the experience and presenting and paying attention to others' presentations. Hopefully you will form some ideas on what presentations are effective. One common issue I see is too many details are presented which is not friendly to many who do not work directly in that space. I'd suggest that we pick papers that have interesting ideas and strong results that most people can relate to (and focus only on those points). Note that I think many of the presentations need to have more background slides also to motivate the problem. I see many presentations glossed over this in only one or two sentences (that is typically insufficient to set up the context for others to understand why this problem is worthwhile solving).<div><br><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">-Zhiyun</div></div></div> </div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 10:04 AM Heng Yin <<a href="mailto:heng.yin@ucr.edu" target="_blank">heng.yin@ucr.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>So far, ten students responded, and only one doesn't want to participate in the reading group. This is a completely voluntary event that is organized by students. <br></div><div><br></div><div>One common suggestion I can see is that the moderator needs to plan several presentations in advance by reaching out more proactively to those students who have not presented or presented recently to fill out vacant spots. I think this is a good idea. In most cases, students just need a nudge to step forward.<br></div><div><br></div><div>One student dislikes the idea of a cash award. I agree with that. <br></div><div><br></div><div>In the end, this event should be totally run by students. I hope that in the future if we encounter any issues, you guys can find ways to resolve them by yourselves. <br></div><div><br></div><div>-Heng<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 11:45 AM Shitong Zhu <<a href="mailto:shitong.zhu@email.ucr.edu" target="_blank">shitong.zhu@email.ucr.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Thanks Heng for your proposal and tentative incentives. While I believe we do have quite some audience participation each time, the lack of presenters have been inevitably causing pauses of the great group. I’ll also do my best to reach out to students this week that I personally know who might have something to present, and thus keep a lineup to avoid disrupting the continuity. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Again, for this who are interested, use this sheet to sign up please: <div dir="auto"><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FJanYoWV1WlVXMVTg4hJ_O-wyZcOxGsCcAYAAHKOhIY/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FJanYoWV1WlVXMVTg4hJ_O-wyZcOxGsCcAYAAHKOhIY/edit?usp=sharing</a>.</div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Best,</div><div dir="auto">Shitong</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 11:23 AM Heng Yin <<a href="mailto:heng.yin@ucr.edu" target="_blank">heng.yin@ucr.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>It is quite disappointing that nobody signs up to present in the security reading group, despite we emphasize its importance repeatedly. If this is what people want, I am fine with it. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Here I create an anonymous survey to collect your feedback: <a href="https://forms.gle/eefgNpQtR7SvwyYJ8" target="_blank">https://forms.gle/eefgNpQtR7SvwyYJ8</a></div><div><br></div><div>I'd propose to give some incentive to those who present and actively participate in this by giving out some cash awards (e.g., $100 as a stipend) for best presenters and best participants. I welcome other ideas too. <br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>-Heng<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 11:19 AM Shitong Zhu <<a href="mailto:shitong.zhu@email.ucr.edu" target="_blank">shitong.zhu@email.ucr.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Hi all,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">This is a (late) reminder that we don’t have the reading group today because no presenter has signed up for today. Please consider doing so for future groups using the sheet <div dir="auto"><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FJanYoWV1WlVXMVTg4hJ_O-wyZcOxGsCcAYAAHKOhIY/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FJanYoWV1WlVXMVTg4hJ_O-wyZcOxGsCcAYAAHKOhIY/edit?usp=sharing</a>. Thanks!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Best,</div><div dir="auto">Shitong</div></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Apr 5, 2021 at 12:06 PM Yizhuo Zhai <<a href="mailto:yzhai003@ucr.edu" target="_blank">yzhai003@ucr.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hi All:<div><font style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)" face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Thanks for attending the group meeting today and your valuable questions.</span></font></div><div><font style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)" face="arial, sans-serif"><font style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></font></font><div><font style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)" face="arial, sans-serif">I'm following Zhiyun's question here about the granularity of the spatial context.</font></div><div>They refine the spatial context for not only drivers, but arch, net and fs subsystems as well, for example, drivers/media and drivers/dma are </div><div>different spatial contexts. Moreover, the spatial context of sound/soc and sound/x86 is sound. </div></div><div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)" face="arial, sans-serif"></font></span><br></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Apr 5, 2021 at 10:33 AM Yizhuo Zhai <<a href="mailto:yzhai003@ucr.edu" target="_blank">yzhai003@ucr.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>This is a friendly <span>reminder</span> that we will have the reading group at 11AM PST today. I (Yizhuo) will present the paper titled "Exaggerated Error Handling Hurts! An In-Depth Study and Context-Aware Detection" from CCS '20. </div><div><br></div><div>Please attend the meeting via Zoom:<br></div><div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://ucr.zoom.us/j/8171761639" target="_blank">https://ucr.zoom.us/j/8171761639</a></div><div dir="auto">Meeting ID: 817 176 1639</div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)" face="arial, sans-serif">See you all soon!</font></span><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 11:06 AM Shitong Zhu <<a href="mailto:shitong.zhu@email.ucr.edu" target="_blank">shitong.zhu@email.ucr.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Sorry for the wrong presenter and paper title -- Zheng in fact already presented last week and this week it should be Jinghan with the paper titled "WEIZZ: Automatic Grey-box Fuzzing for Structured Binary Formats" from <span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">ISSTA 2020. The presentation will start in 5 minutes in case you are interested but have not joined yet. Thanks a lot.</span><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Best, <div>- Shitong</div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 10:59 AM Shitong Zhu <<a href="mailto:shitong.zhu@email.ucr.edu" target="_blank">shitong.zhu@email.ucr.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Sorry for the last minute notice: we are starting today's reading group at <a href="https://ucr.zoom.us/j/2957702345" style="font-family:Lato,Helvetica,Arial;font-size:14px" target="_blank">https://ucr.zoom.us/j/2957702345</a>. Zheng is going to present the paper titled "<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">Precisely Characterizing Security Impact in a Flood of Patches via Symbolic Rule Comparison</span>" from NDSS '20.<br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Best, <div>- Shitong</div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 10:33 AM Shitong Zhu <<a href="mailto:shitong.zhu@email.ucr.edu" target="_blank">shitong.zhu@email.ucr.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Hi all,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">This is a friendly reminder that we DON’T have the reading group today due to the spring break. Enjoy your break and let’s meet next Monday!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Best,</div><div dir="auto">Shitong</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 12:19 PM Zheng Zhang <<a href="mailto:zzhan173@ucr.edu" target="_blank">zzhan173@ucr.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>It seems that I cannot send the slides directly due to the size limitation</div><div>This is the link to the slides:</div><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kSRAVnzKUNVKifQXnRanNlPViUDJQsjr/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kSRAVnzKUNVKifQXnRanNlPViUDJQsjr/view?usp=sharing</a><br><div>Thanks!</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 12:09 PM Zheng Zhang <<a href="mailto:zzhan173@ucr.edu" target="_blank">zzhan173@ucr.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">These are the slides.<div>This is the link to the paper: <a href="https://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~kjlu/papers/sid.pdf" target="_blank">https://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~kjlu/papers/sid.pdf</a></div><div>This is the link to the related paper in our discussions: <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2003.05620.pdf" target="_blank">https://arxiv.org/pdf/2003.05620.pdf</a><br><div>Thanks!</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 10:40 AM Shitong Zhu <<a href="mailto:shitong.zhu@email.ucr.edu" target="_blank">shitong.zhu@email.ucr.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>This is a friendly reminder that we will have the reading group at 11AM PST today. Zheng will present and discuss the paper titled "<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">Precisely Characterizing Security Impact in a Flood of Patches via Symbolic Rule Comparison</span>" from NDSS '20. </div><div><br></div><div>Please use the Zoom link <span style="font-family:Lato,Helvetica,Arial;font-size:14px;color:rgb(35,35,51)"><a href="https://ucr.zoom.us/j/2957702345" style="font-family:Lato,Helvetica,Arial" target="_blank">https://ucr.zoom.us/j/2957702345</a> to join (@</span>Zheng<span style="font-family:Lato,Helvetica,Arial;font-size:14px;color:rgb(35,35,51)">: I'll let you share your screen once you join). See you all soon!</span><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Best,<font style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><br></font></div><div>- Shitong</div></div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 4:18 PM Ju Chen <<a href="mailto:jchen757@ucr.edu" target="_blank">jchen757@ucr.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Slides for today's presentation. Thanks!<div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 10:35 AM Shitong Zhu <<a href="mailto:shitong.zhu@email.ucr.edu" target="_blank">shitong.zhu@email.ucr.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>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 "<span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt">Efficient Sampling of SAT Solutions for Testing</span>" from ICSE '18. </div><div><br></div><div>Please use the Zoom link <span style="font-family:Lato,Helvetica,Arial;font-size:14px;color:rgb(35,35,51)"><a href="https://ucr.zoom.us/j/2957702345" style="font-family:Lato,Helvetica,Arial" target="_blank">https://ucr.zoom.us/j/2957702345</a> to join (@Ju: I'll let you share your screen once you join). See you all soon!</span><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Best,<font style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><br></font></div><div>- Shitong</div></div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 10:29 AM Shitong Zhu <<a href="mailto:shitong.zhu@email.ucr.edu" target="_blank">shitong.zhu@email.ucr.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>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 (<a href="https://www.usenix.org/system/files/sec20-poeplau.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.usenix.org/system/files/sec20-poeplau.pdf</a>) and (2) SymQEMU (<a href="https://www.ndss-symposium.org/wp-content/uploads/ndss2021_2B-2_24118_paper.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.ndss-symposium.org/wp-content/uploads/ndss2021_2B-2_24118_paper.pdf</a>). </div><div><br></div><div>Please use the Zoom link <span style="font-family:Lato,Helvetica,Arial;font-size:14px;color:rgb(35,35,51)"><a href="https://ucr.zoom.us/j/2957702345" style="font-family:Lato,Helvetica,Arial" target="_blank">https://ucr.zoom.us/j/2957702345</a> to join (@Zhenxiao: I'll let you share your screen once you join). See you all soon!</span><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Best, <div>- Shitong</div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 7:58 PM Shitong Zhu <<a href="mailto:shitong.zhu@email.ucr.edu" target="_blank">shitong.zhu@email.ucr.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>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!<br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Best, <div>- Shitong</div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 10:56 AM Shitong Zhu <<a href="mailto:shitong.zhu@email.ucr.edu" target="_blank">shitong.zhu@email.ucr.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div><div dir="auto">Hi all,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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).</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Best,</div><div dir="auto">Shitong</div></div></div><div><div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 12:14 AM Shitong Zhu <<a href="mailto:shitong.zhu@email.ucr.edu" target="_blank">shitong.zhu@email.ucr.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Hi all,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Hope you all had a great weekend!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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)!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Best,</div><div dir="auto">Shitong</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 6:02 PM Shitong Zhu <<a href="mailto:shitong.zhu@email.ucr.edu" target="_blank">shitong.zhu@email.ucr.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>Thanks a lot for marking your availability in the poll. Based on all votes, <b>Monday 11AM to noon (PST)</b> is the most shared time slot. Let's tentatively schedule our group meetings for this time then. </div><div><br></div><div>For presentations, unfortunately we don't have any volunteers who have signed up on <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FJanYoWV1WlVXMVTg4hJ_O-wyZcOxGsCcAYAAHKOhIY/edit?usp=sharing" style="text-decoration-line:underline;color:rgb(0,0,255)" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FJanYoWV1WlVXMVTg4hJ_O-wyZcOxGsCcAYAAHKOhIY/edit?usp=sharing</a><font style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> at the point. Therefore, let's wait for another week and start the group meeting on <b>Feb 8</b>. 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!</font><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Best, </div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>- Shitong</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 3:31 PM Shitong Zhu <<a href="mailto:shitong.zhu@email.ucr.edu" target="_blank">shitong.zhu@email.ucr.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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!</div><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Best, <div>- Shitong</div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 4:10 PM Shitong Zhu <<a href="mailto:shitong.zhu@email.ucr.edu" target="_blank">shitong.zhu@email.ucr.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>Welcome back and hope you all are well and had a wonderful new year!</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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: <u><font style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><a href="https://doodle.com/poll/t4f52syt8w5qegxy?utm_source=poll&utm_medium=link" target="_blank">https://doodle.com/poll/t4f52syt8w5qegxy?utm_source=poll&utm_medium=link</a></font></u>. Note that even the poll shows times for this week, it presents all weeks until the end of Winter 2021.</div><div><br></div><div>Besides the poll, please also sign up/volunteer for the upcoming presentations in this sheet: <u><font style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FJanYoWV1WlVXMVTg4hJ_O-wyZcOxGsCcAYAAHKOhIY/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FJanYoWV1WlVXMVTg4hJ_O-wyZcOxGsCcAYAAHKOhIY/edit?usp=sharing</a></font></u>. 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. </div><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>Thanks a lot and have a great weekend!</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Best, <div>- Shitong</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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