Hi Security Folks,

Lok Yan, a program manager at AFRL and also my prior student, will come to visit next Friday. He would like to present his experience about DARPA CGC from an organizer's point of view, in our reading group. Please come. 

If any of you wants to meet with him on that day, please let me know.

Thanks,

Heng

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From: YAN, LOK K CIV USAF AFMC AFRL/RIGA <lok.yan@us.af.mil>
Date: Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 12:08 PM
Subject: RE: Visit Next Friday
To: Heng Yin <yinheng@gmail.com>

Title:

What I learned from the DARPA CGC.
-Don't be afraid of the unknown.

Short abstract

Being an applied researcher is hard. We are not only faced with theoretical challenges but also practical ones when we try to apply novel concepts into real world systems. Some call the latter work "engineering" and its contributions are often valued less.

My experience working in the DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge infrastructure team has taught me that engineering is never just engineering. It can be intellectually challenging, it can be invigorating, and in computer security it is indispensable.

I will share these lessons learned with you in this talk. The talk will be in the context of CGC Qualification Event challenge sets that were designed to differentiate human participants from machines. Despite the "engineering" nature of the work, the experience has been enlightening and rewarding.

Short bio

Lok is currently a Senior Computer Engineer at the Air Force Research Laboratory, Information Directorate. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Information Science and Engineering from Syracuse University and has research interests in computer security, virtualization and program analysis.

-----Original Message-----
From: Heng Yin [yinheng@gmail.com]

Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2016 02:01 PM Eastern Standard Time
To: YAN, LOK K CIV USAF AFMC AFRL/RIGA
Subject: Re: Visit Next Friday

Can you send me a talk abstract and a short bio, so I can make an announcement to the department?

Heng

On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 10:59 AM Heng Yin <yinheng@gmail.com> wrote:

Yes. Please come to my office in Winston Chung Hall 316. It would take around 1.5 hours to get there though. You can park your car in Lot 13 in the meter parking area and it takes about 7 minutes to walk to the building. 

Looking forward to seeing you soon.

-Heng

On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 9:34 AM YAN, LOK K CIV USAF AFMC AFRL/RIGA <lok.yan@us.af.mil> wrote:

Prof. Yin,

Are we still on for next Friday? If so, can you please tell me where we shall meet? I am going to be staying near the convention center and will be leaving the night of the 9th for the redeye from LA.

Looking forward to seeing you again.

Enjoy,

Lok

Lok Yan
Computer Engineer, PhD
AFRL / RIGA
(315) 330 - 2756