Experiences on Promoting Computer Science Studies
- Christina Pöpper and Adrian Altenhoff
What Drives Young Women to Study Computer Science in Switzerland?
Experiences on Promoting Computer Science Studies for Female High School Graduates
In Proceedings of the 5th European Symposium on Gender & ICT, Bremen, March 2009. [PDF]
News Archival
1/2024: Programs for NDSS’24 and ACNS’24 are getting finalized. Very excited about both!
11/2023: Attending CCS’23 in Copenhagen. Excited to contribute to the iMentor Workshop 2023.
9/2023: Starting as Program Head of Computer Science at NYUAD (please bear with me if my responses are slower than usual).
6/2023: All good things come in threes :-): Three papers accepted at USENIX Security’23: CodexLeaks: Privacy Leaks from Code Generation Language Models in GitHub Copilot [PDF] (congrats Liang, Shujaat & Zayd), Freaky Leaky SMS: Extracting User Locations by Analyzing SMS Timings [PDF] (congrats Vaggelis & Theo), and Bypassing Tunnels: Leaking VPN Client Traffic by Abusing Routing Tables [PDF] (congrats Nian, Yashaswi, & Zihang)! Thank you Mathy & Aanjhan for the collaboration!
5/2023: Paper published at WiSec’23: UE Security Reloaded: Developing a 5G Standalone User-Side Security Testing Frameworks [PDF] [code]. Congratulations, Vaggelis, Syed, and the whole team, and big thanks to Google!
4/2023: CACM SIGSAC update II: Excited to have joined the Viewpoints section of CACM as Associate Editor. From now on: I am on the search for great contributions.
4/2023: CACM SIGSAC update I: The SIGSAC Research Highlights Committee concluded its work with recommendations for the Communications of the ACM (CACM) Research Highlights team. It has been amazing to review many excellent security contributions.
3/2023: It is only a few weeks until the Cycle 1 submission deadline of NDSS’24, on April 19, 2023. Please make Mathias Payer, me, and the TPC we are currently assembling very busy :-).
3/2023: ACNS 2024, the 22nd International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security, is going to take place at NYUAD in Abu Dhabi, March 5-8, 2024! Looking forward to your submissions and shaping an exciting program together with Lejla Batina.
2/2023: Excited about being accepted as an NYU 19WSN Faculty Fellow, an NYU & NYUAD collaboration fellowship, which will make us work more with Damon McCoy from NYU Tandon. Updates to follow.
1/2023: Syed Khandker is joining the CSP-lab to work on aviation and mobile network security challenges as postdoctoral researcher. Welcome Syed, we are excited that you are joining us!
12/2022: It is hiring season again. NYUAD is hiring in Computer Science, Open Rank Tenured/Tenure-Track. Also in Cyber Security. Application Deadline: Dec 15, 2022. https://apply.interfolio.com/114806
10/2022: Interested in earning a PhD in Computer Science from NYU, with focus in security and/or privacy? Visit https://cs.nyu.edu/home/phd/admission.html (NYU Courant) and http://engineering.nyu.edu/academics/programs/computer-science-phd (NYU Tandon) and get in touch with me. Application deadline: Dec 12, 2022 (specify NYUAD).
10/2022: Paper accepted at ACSAC’22: You have been warned: Abusing 5G’s Warning and Emergency Systems [PDF]. Congratulations, Vaggelis!
09/2022: Two papers accepted at NDSS’23: On Tactics, Threats & Targets: Modeling Disinformation and its Mitigation [PDF] and Hope of Delivery: Extracting User Locations From Mobile Instant Messengers [PDF]. Kudos and many thanks to all co-authors!
07/2022: The CSP-lab needs to say goodbye to Evangelos Bitsikas. Good luck with starting your PhD at Northeastern University! It has been a pleasure working with you – all the best!
05/2022: Thanks for a number of great talk opportunities this semester: AFO seminar series at MSR, security talks at Ericsson & at Google.
03/2022: Reviewing for all Big-4 security conferences (I am back, CCS’22 ;-)).
12/2021: NYUAD is hiring. Open Rank. Tenured/Tenure-Track. Also in Cyber Security. Application Deadline: Dec 15. https://apply.interfolio.com/92057
11/2021: Team member dynamics II: Sarah Pardo is joining the CSP-lab and HuDa-lab to tackle the thread of misinformation campaigns. Welcome Sarah!
10/2021: Team member dynamics I: Goodbye to Dr. Mathy Vanhoef! Good luck with joining the faculty at KU Leuven. It has been an immense pleasure working with you!
08/2021: Paper accepted at ACSAC’21: “Don’t hand it Over: Vulnerabilities in the Handover Procedure of Cellular Telecommunications” [PDF]. Congratulations, Vaggelis!
07/2021: Excited to start my term as ACM SIGSAC Treasurer 2021-2023. Looking forward to collaborating with SIGSAC Chair Xiaofeng Wang and Vice-Chair Danfeng Yao.
06/2021: ACM WiSec 2021 is taking place! Excited to welcome everyone virtually to NYUAD/Abu Dhabi. You missed it? Recordings and Material available on YouTube.
6/2021: Keynote on “Wireless Witnessing and Crowdsourcing for Air-Traffic Communication Security” given at CPSS’21, the 7th ACM Cyber-Physical System Security Workshop.
05/2021: Labeeba Begum is (re)joining the CSP-lab. Welcome Labeeba!
03/2021: Our view on cyber security research in the Arab region is part of the CACM Arab World Special Issue. Joint article with Mihalis Maniatakos (NYUAD) and Roberto di Pietro (HBKU, Qatar).
02/2021: Excited to start a new collaboration on misinformation campaigns. Sponsored by the Center for Cyber Security (CCSAD) and by the Center for Interacting Urban Networks (CITIES) at NYUAD.
01/2021: New Year, New Luck with Paper Submissions: Plan to submit to ACM WiSec’21, submission deadline: Mar 18, 2021! Greetings from the happy organizer.
12/2020: Paper accepted at NDSS’21: “Trust the Crowd: Wireless Witnessing to Detect Attacks on ADS-B-Based Air-Traffic Surveillance” [PDF, video]
10/2020: I am looking for U! Postdoctoral, PhD, and research assistant positions available. Do you enjoy working with real-world systems and devices, are you a creative challenge/puzzle solver with much technical depth, do you have excellent programming skills? Want to work on 5G security, aviation security, network security, anonymity or privacy? Please reach out to me (christina.poepper@nyu.edu)! Adding your CV and sharing any ideas and/or relevant previous research experience will be beneficial.
9/2020: Paper accepted at PETS’21: “SoK: Managing Longitudinal Privacy of Publicly Shared Personal Online Data” [PDF]
8/2020: Paper accepted at ACSAC’20: “DeepSIM: GPS Spoofing Detection on UAVs using Satellite Imagery Matching” [PDF, source code + dataset]
6/2020: Paper accepted at Usenix Security’20: “Timeless Timing Attacks: Exploiting Concurrency to Leak Secrets over Remote Connections” [PDF]
6/2020: Teaser Video for Ala’s ACM WiSec’20 paper presentation (“MAVPro: ADS-B Message Verification for Aviation Security with Minimal Numbers of On-Ground Sensors“, PDF)
6/2020: Pratyush Tiwari is joining our group for a virtual summer research stay. Welcome Pratyush!
5/2020: ACM WiSec’20 will take place virtually from Jul 8-10 this year. Early bird registration of conference participation for 20 EUR will expire on June 6 – do register!
3-5/2020: Learning about and experiencing social distancing and e-working …
3/2020: Paper accepted at USENIX Security’20: “Call Me Maybe: Eavesdropping Encrypted LTE Calls with ReVoLTE” [PDF, Website, Video, App]
2/2020: The submission deadline for ACM WiSec’20 is approaching: Feb 28. CFP.
1/2020: Our group has been selected for funding from the ADEK Award for Research Excellence (AARE) 2019.
1/2020: Raluca-Georgia Diugan is joining our group. Welcome Raluca!
12/2019: Proceedings of the 7th OpenSky Workshop 2019 have been published. Thanks to all authors and contributors to the workshop!
12/2019: Paper accepted at NDSS’20: “IMP4GT: IMPersonation Attacks in 4G NeTworks” [PDF]
10/2019: NYUAD has three openings for positions in Computer Science for next year: Open Rank Professor, Lecturer, and Visiting Professor. Please apply by Dec 1, 2019 (Link). I am glad to answer questions.
09/2019: Interested in earning a PhD in Computer Science from NYU, with focus in security and/or privacy? Visit https://cs.nyu.edu/home/phd/admission.html and http://engineering.nyu.edu/academics/programs/computer-science-phd and get in touch with me. Application deadline: Dec 12/15, 2019 (specify NYUAD).
08/2019: We are soliciting paper abstracts for the OpenSky19 Workshop. Are you working with air-traffic control (ADS-B) data? Submit your abstract by: Sep 2, 2019.
08/2019: Evangelos Bitsikas is joining our group. Welcome Evangelos!
05/2019: Our S&P’19 paper “Attacks against LTE on Layer 2” [PDF] will be presented this month. Here is a teaser: Video.
04/2019: Two visitors to our group, David Rupprecht & Katharina Kohls: Welcome David & Katharina!
03/2019: Two papers on LTE Security accepted at ACM WiSec’19: “Lost Traffic Encryption: Fingerprinting LTE/4G Traffic on Layer Two” [PDF] and “LTE Security Disabled – Misconfiguration in Commercial Networks” [PDF].
01-02/2019: Tom Van Goethem is visiting our group. Welcome Tom!
01/2019: The submission deadline for ACM WiSec’19 is approaching: Jan 25. CFP.
11/2018: How to use Tor while avoiding certain geographic regions? New paper “On the Challenges of Geographical Avoidance for Tor” accepted at NDSS 2019 [PDF].
10/2018: Dr. Mathy Vanhoef is joining the CSP-Lab. Welcome Mathy!
09/2018: Interested in earning a PhD in Computer Science from NYU, with focus in security and/or privacy? Visit https://cs.nyu.edu/home/phd/admission.html and http://engineering.nyu.edu/academics/programs/computer-science-phd and get in touch with me. Application deadline: Dec 12, 2018 (specify NYUAD).
08/2018: The Computer Science Program at New York University Abu Dhabi invites applications for faculty at the Professor, Associate Professor, Assistant Professor and Visiting Professor ranks. One particular focus is cyber-security: https://nyuad.nyu.edu/en/
06/2018: Attacks against LTE on Layer 2 – OR – Why to insist on HSTS? Find details about aLTEr in our paper “Breaking LTE on Layer Two” accepted at IEEE S&P 2019 [PDF, Pre-Print] (to appear) and online.
03/2018: Article “On Security Research Towards Future Mobile Network Generations” accepted at IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, 2018, [PDF, TR, Pre-Print]
01/2018: Our group has been selected for funding from the ADEK Award for Research Excellence (AARE) 2017.
01/2018: ACM WiSec’18 is taking place in Stockholm this year. I am happy to co-chair the TPC. Consider submitting (Feb 22 / Mar 1) and/or attending in June!
12/2017: Two new papers to appear: “Crowd-GPS-Sec: Leveraging Crowdsourcing to Detect and Localize GPS Spoofing Attacks” [PDF, Youtube Video] at IEEE S&P 2018 and “Forgetting with Puzzles: Using Cryptographic Puzzles to support Digital Forgetting” [PDF] at ACM CODASPY 2018.
11/2017: Considering a PhD program at NYUAD in Computer Science, with focus in security and/or privacy? Visit https://cs.nyu.edu/home/phd/admission.html and http://engineering.nyu.edu/academics/programs/computer-science-phd and get in touch with me. Application deadline: Dec 12, 2017.
11/2017: Multiple faculty positions at New York University Abu Dhabi in Computer Science (Tenure Track and Tenured). Area of interest is cybersecurity, among others. For more information, please visit: https://nyuad.nyu.edu/en/about/careers/faculty.html
09/2017: Brice Tedongmo is joining the group as research assistant. Have a good start, Brice!
06/2017: Nian Xue will be joining the group as PhD student in July. Have a good start, Nian!
05/2017: Opinion Paper on Multi-device attackers on satellite-based localization systems at WiSec 2017 [PDF]
04/2017: ASIACCS is taking place at NYUAD
12/2016: Open PostDoc position in cyber/wireless security. Click here for more information and to apply. For inquiries, please get in contact with me (christina.poepper@nyu.edu).
12/2016: Paper on GPS multi-receiver spoofing detection and countermeasures at ACSAC 2016 [PDF]
11/2016: ASIACCS 2017 will take place in Abu Dhabi at NYUAD in Apr. 2017 – consider attending (submission deadline was extended to Nov 15th)
8/2016: Paper on implementation correctness of LTE security functions at WOOT 2016 [PDF]
5/2016: Paper on VoIP steganography at ASIACCS 2016 [PDF]
3/2016: Outstanding paper award for “Neuralyzer: Flexible Expiration Times for the Revocation of Online Data” at ACM CODASPY 2016 [PDF]