Events
Here are some events I am, or have been, involved with:
Ongoing Events:
- Organizer: CapCHI is a local chapter of ACM SIGCHI, the Special Interest Group on Human-Computer Interaction. I assist in planning the events for CapCHI.
Upcoming Events:
Program Committee: Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2012). July 11-13, 2012, Washington, DC. This symposium will bring together an interdisciplinary group of researchers and practitioners in human computer interaction, security, and privacy. The program features technical papers, workshops and tutorials, a poster session, panels and invited talks, and discussion sessions.
Past Events of Interest:
- Presenter: Privacy & Information Security Congress 2011, November 28-29, 2011, Ottawa. I will be presenting about privacy and location-based services.
- Attending: Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2012. February 27 – March 2, 2012, Bonaire.
Financial Cryptography and Data Security is a major international forum for research, advanced development, education, exploration, and debate regarding information assurance, with a specific focus on commercial contexts. The conference covers all aspects of securing transactions and systems. Original works focusing on both fundamental and applied real-world deployments on all aspects surrounding commerce security are solicited. - Program Committee: Workshop on Usable Security. March 2, 2012. Part of Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2012, Bonaire.
- Of Interest: Workshop on Ethics in Computer Security Research. March 2, 2012. Part of Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2012, Bonaire.
- Presenter: Privacy & Information Security Congress 2010. November 15 – 16th, 2010, Ottawa.
I will be presenting on the topic of biometric identification systems and privacy. - Presenter: ECrimes Summit 2010. Nov.17-18, 2010. Concordia University, Montreal.
A variety of technical and social methods are being used to track people online and build detailed personal profiles. Web tracking is being done using cookies, web bugs, browser databases, analytics, and browser fingerprinting. Computer tracking is being done with malware, spyware, and keyloggers. Other devices are also being tracked, including mobile devices (using cellular towers, Wi-Fi networks, and GPS coordinates) and entertainment devices (e.g., game consoles). Profiles are also built using social methods including luring, pretexting, and spear phishing, not to mention the information people volunteer on social networks. These methods and profiles are used to deliver behavioural advertising, to assist business decisions, but also to commit real-world and electronic crimes, and to conduct cyber espionage. It is important to understand the technical threats, as well as the corporate and personal risks, in this rapidly changing landscape. - Director: Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2011. February 28–March 4, 2011, St. Lucia.
Financial Cryptography and Data Security is a major international forum for research, advanced development, education, exploration, and debate regarding information assurance, with a specific focus on commercial contexts. The conference covers all aspects of securing transactions and systems. Original works focusing on both fundamental and applied real-world deployments on all aspects surrounding commerce security are solicited. - Program Committee: TRUST 2011. June 22-24, 2001, Pittsburgh.
TRUST 2011 is an international conference on the technical and soci-economic aspects of trustworthy infrastructures. It provides an excellent interdisciplinary forum for researchers, practitioners, and decision makers to explore new ideas and discuss experiences in building, designing, using and understanding trustworthy computing systems. - Program Committee: Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2011). July 20-22, 2011, Pittsburgh.
This symposium will bring together an interdisciplinary group of researchers and practitioners in human computer interaction, security, and privacy. The program features technical papers, workshops and tutorials, a poster session, panels and invited talks, and discussion sessions. - Technical Papers Co-Chair: Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2010).
This symposium will bring together an interdisciplinary group of researchers and practitioners in human computer interaction, security, and privacy. The program features technical papers, workshops and tutorials, a poster session, panels and invited talks, and discussion sessions. - IFCA Director: Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2010, January 25-28, 2010, Tenerife, Canary Islands.
Financial Cryptography and Data Security is a major international forum for research, advanced development, education, exploration and debate regarding information assurance in the context of finance and commerce. - Trust Theme Chair: 2009 World Congress on Privacy, Security, Trust and the Management of e-Business, August 25-27, 2009, Saint John, NB.
- Technical Papers Co-Chair: Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2009), July 15-17, 2009, Google, Mountain View, CA.
This symposium will bring together an interdisciplinary group of researchers and practitioners in human computer interaction, security, and privacy. The program features technical papers, workshops and tutorials, a poster session, panels and invited talks, and discussion sessions. 
Reviewer: CHI 2009 (ACM Conference on Computer-Human Interaction), April 4-9, 2009, Boston.
Computing is reaching into all parts of modern life. CHI 2009 will be the showcase for the technologies, designs and ideas that will form the new world of digital life.
Program Committee: Trust 2009: 2nd International Conference on Trusted Computing: Socioeconomic Strand 6th – 8th April 2009, St. Hugh’s College, University of Oxford, UK. Building on the success of Trust 2008 (held in Villach, Austria, in March 2008), this conference focuses on trusted and trustworthy computing, both from the technical and social perspectives. The conference itself will have two main strands, one devoted to technical aspects and one devoted to the socioeconomic aspects of trusted computing.- IFCA Director: Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2009, February 23-26, 2009, Barbados.
Financial Cryptography and Data Security is a major international forum for research, advanced development, education, exploration and debate regarding information assurance in the context of finance and commerce. - Interactive and Indepth Sessions Co-Chair: Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2008)
July 23-25, 2008; Pittsburgh, PA
This symposium will bring together an interdisciplinary group of researchers and practitioners in human computer interaction, security, and privacy. The program features technical papers, workshops and tutorials, a poster session, panels and invited talks, and discussion sessions. 
Sunbelt XXVIII – International Sunbelt Social Network Conference.
St. Pete Beach, Florida, January 22-27, 2008- Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2008, 28-31 January 2008, Cozumel, Mexico
- Interactive and Indepth Sessions Co-Chair: Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2007)
July 18-20, 2007; Pittsburgh, PA
This symposium will bring together an interdisciplinary group of researchers and practitioners in human computer interaction, security, and privacy. The program features technical papers, workshops and tutorials, a poster session, panels and invited talks, and discussion sessions. - Program Committee: Usable Security (USEC’07)
February 15-16, 2007; Scarborough, Trinidad/Tobago
USEC’07 is a forum for novel research from academia and industry on all theoretical and practical aspects of usable security in the context of finance and commerce. The workshop will bring together an interdisciplinary group of researchers and practitioners, allowing experts in human-computer interaction, cryptography, data security and public policy to explore emerging problems and solutions. - Program Committee: PST’06: Fourth Annual Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust
October 30 – November 1, 2006; Markham, Ontario, Canada
PST is a forum for researchers, scientists, educators, business people, technologists, futurists, and industry practitioners, who have a vision and an understanding of the large challenges (and accompanying advances), to exchange information regarding advancements in the state of the art and practice of privacy, security and trust, as well as to identify the emerging research topics and define the future of PST. - Program Committee: Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security
The second Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS) was held July 12-14, 2006 at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. This symposium brought together an interdisciplinary group of researchers and practitioners in human computer interaction, security, and privacy. The program featured technical papers, workshops and tutorials, a poster session, panels and invited talks, and discussion sessions. - Program Committee: Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2006
February 27 to March 2, 2006. Anguilla, British West Indies.
At its 10th year edition, Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC’06) is a well established and major international forum for research, advanced development, education, exploration, and debate regarding security in the context of finance and commerce. - Program Committee: Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS) July 6-8, 2005 Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA USA
The Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS) will bring together an interdisciplinary group of researchers and practitioners in human computer interaction, security, and privacy. The program will feature refereed papers, tutorials, a poster session, panels and invited talks, and discussion sessions. - Program Committee: PST’05: Third Annual Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust October 12-14, 2005 The Fairmont Algonquin, St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada.
Following on from a successful PST workshop in Montr̩al in 2003 and PST2004 coference in Fredericton, this conference will bring together researchers, practitioners and policy makers in the areas of Privacy, Security and Trust in a unique setting to share ideas, thoughts, and inspirations. - Program Co-Chair: Financial Cryptography 05 February 28 РMarch 3 2005, Dominica, Caribbean.
Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC’05) is the premier international forum for research, advanced development, education, exploration, and debate regarding security in the context of finance and commerce. We have augmented our conference title and expanded our scope to cover all aspects of securing transactions and systems.
These aspects include a range of technical areas such as: cryptography, payment systems, secure transaction architectures, software systems and tools, user and operator interfaces, fraud prevention, payment systems, secure IT infrastructure, and analysis methodologies. Our focus will also encompass legal, financial, business and policy aspects. Material both on theoretical (fundamental) aspects of securing systems and on secure applications and real- world deployments will be considered. <>The conference goal is to bring together top cryptographers, data-security specialists, and scientists with economists, bankers, implementers, and policy makers. Intimate and colorful by tradition, the FC’05 program will feature invited talks, academic presentations, technical demonstrations, and panel discussions. This conference is organized annually by the International Financial Cryptography Association ( IFCA). - Program Committee: Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society Washington, DC, USA, October 28, 2004. http://seclab.dti.unimi.it/wpes2004/
Privacy issues have been the subject of public debates and the need for privacy-aware policies, regulations, and techniques has been widely recognized. The goal of this workshop is to discuss the problems of privacy in the global interconnected societies and possible solutions to it. The workshop seeks submissions from academia and industry presenting novel research on all theoretical and practical aspects of electronic privacy, as well as experimental studies of fielded systems. We encourage submissions from other communities such as law and business that present these communities’ perspectives on technological issues. Submissions are due June 11, 2004. - Organizer: DIMACS Workshop on Usable Privacy and Security Software. July 7 – 9, 2004 – DIMACS Center, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ
http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/Workshops/Tools/
This workshop and working group is intended to bring together security and privacy experts with human-computer interaction experts to discuss approaches to developing more usable privacy and security software. The workshop sessions on July 7 and July 8 will include invited talks and discussion. July 9 will feature a “working group” of invited participants who will spend the day identifying important problems, discussing some of the research issues raised during the workshop in more depth, and brainstorming about approaches to future research, collaboration, and more user-centered design of security and privacy software. - Participant: CHI2004 Workshop on “Considering Trust in Ambient Societies”, April 26, 2004, Vienna Austria. Submissions due Jan. 12, 2004.
This workshop will bring together theorists and practitioners in HCI, CSCW, Ambient Intelligence, AI, agent-based systems, and others to discuss one of the most important topics of the first decade of this century — the exploitation of trust. The result will be a roadmap of scenarios, requirements, pitfalls, solutions, and new applications of trust in Ambient Intelligence which will facilitate the use and, vitally, an understanding of the behaviour of this technology and a genuine feel for its potential. - Organizer and presenter: Panel session on “Building Usable Security Systems” presented at the Eighth International Financial Cryptography 2004 Conference, February 9-12, 2004, Key West, Florida, USA. Panelists: Andrew Patrick, L. Jean Camp, Bill Yurcik, Ka-Ping Yee
This panel reviewed some of the human-factors issues encountered when building usable security systems. It explored the roles and demands placed on users of security systems, and provide examples of design solutions that can assist in making security systems usable and effective. The goal of the panel was to bring awareness of human-factors issues to the conference community, build a network of interested people, discuss high priority areas for research and development, and explore opportunities for collaboration. - Presenter: SC2003 – SC Global BoF session on Quality of Experience in Advanced Collaborative Environments November 18 2003, 3:30PM – 5:00PM , Pheonix AZ and worldwide via the Access Grid.
- Program Committee: Workshop on Collaboration Agents: Autonomous Agents for Collaborative Environments. October 13, 2003 – Halifax Canada http://www.cs.unb.ca/~ghorbani/cola
- I prepared a summary for the CHI 2002 Conference