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USENIX Security '26

Mehdi Ziazi, ETH Zurich; Khalid Aleem, Independent; Harshad Sathaye, ETH Zurich; Martin Strohmeier, Cyber-Defence Campus, armasuisse Science + Technology

Zheng Zhang, Purdue University; Qi Ling, Purdue University; Kian Kasad, Purdue University; Brendan Ryan Sweeney, UT Austin; Deepak Gupta, Meta Platforms Inc.; Tal Garfinkel, Google; Kazem Taram, Purdue University

Stephan Dübler, Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy (MPI-SP); Jana Hofmann, Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy (MPI-SP); Boris Köpf, Azure Research, Microsoft; Stavros Volos, Azure Research, Microsoft

Oluwole A. Adewusi, Carnegie Mellon University Africa; Assane Gueye, Carnegie Mellon University Africa; Jema David Ndibwile, Carnegie Mellon University Africa; David Nkundineza, Carnegie Mellon University Africa; Okemawo Obadofin, Carnegie Mellon University Africa; Wilson Rutaremara, Carnegie Mellon University Africa; Blase Ur, University of Chicago

Na Li, School of Cyber Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China; Yansong Gao, Southeast University; Hongsheng Hu, School of Computer Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China; Boyu Kuang, School of Cyber Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China; Anmin Fu, School of Cyber Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China; and School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China

Tim Vlummens, COSIC, KU Leuven; Aniketh Girish, IMDEA Networks Institute; Nipuna Weerasekara, IMDEA Networks Institute; Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius, Radboud University; Gunes Acar, Radboud University; Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez, IMDEA Networks Institute

David Baelde, Univ Rennes, CNRS, IRISA; Adrien Koutsos, Inria; Justine Sauvage, Inria

Ntezi Mbabazi, Royal Holloway, University of London; Rikke Bjerg Jensen, Royal Holloway, University of London

Quan Shi, National University of Singapore; Liying Wang, Peking University; Prosanta Gope, University of Sheffield; Qi Liang, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications; Haowen Wang, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications; Qirui Liu, Peking University; Chenren Xu, Peking University and Key Laboratory of High Confidence Software Technologies, Ministry of Education (PKU); Shangguang Wang, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications; Qing Li, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications; Biplab Sikdar, National University of Singapore

Kasra EdalatNejad, Technical University of Darmstadt; Sebastian Faust, Technical University of Darmstadt; Jonas Hofmann, Technical University of Darmstadt; Philipp-Florens Lehwalder, Technical University of Darmstadt; Thomas Schneider, Technical University of Darmstadt

Louis Jannett, Ruhr University Bochum; Andreas Mayer, Heilbronn University of Applied Sciences; Maximilian Westers, Heilbronn University of Applied Sciences; Vladislav Mladenov, Ruhr University Bochum; Christian Mainka, University of Wuppertal; Jörg Schwenk, Ruhr University Bochum

Robert Merget, Technology Innovation Institute; Nurullah Erinola, Ruhr University Bochum; Marcel Maehren, Ruhr University Bochum; Lukas Knittel, Ruhr University Bo­chum; Sven Hebrok, Paderborn University; Marcus Brinkmann, Ruhr University Bochum; Juraj Somorovsky, Paderborn University; Jörg Schwenk, Ruhr University Bochum

Sam Collins, The University of Birmingham; Tom Chothia, The University of Birmingham; William Burgess, The University of Birmingham; Marius Muench, The University of Birmingham; David Oswald, Durham University

Joseph Bursey, UC Irvine; Christoph Sendner, UC Irvine; Ardalan Amiri Sani, UC Irvine; Zhiyun Qian, University of California, Riverside

WOOT '26

Han Zheng, EPFL; Flavio Toffalini, Ruhr-Universität Bochum; Qiang Liu, EPFL; Mathias Payer, EPFL

VehicleSec '26

Marco Calipari, Technical University of Munich; Michael Kühr, Technical University of Munich; Dominik Kulmer, Technical University of Munich; Maximilian Luedecke, Technical University of Munich; Mohammad Hamad, Technical University of Munich; Sebastian Steinhorst, Technical University of Munich

OSDI '26

Luofan Chen, University of Science and Technology of China and ByteDance Seed; Chenhan Wang, University of Science and Technology of China and ByteDance Seed; Weidong Zhang, ByteDance Seed; Jinxin Chi, ByteDance Seed; Hequan Zhang, ByteDance Seed; Zanbo Wang, ByteDance Seed; Chenyuan Wang, ByteDance Seed; Lishu Luo, ByteDance Seed; Sijin Wu, ByteDance Seed; Junqi Hu, ByteDance Seed; Jun Wang, ByteDance Seed; Cheng Chen, ByteDance Seed; Lixin Huang, ByteDance; Liyang Zhao, ByteDance; Yong Tian, ByteDance; Jun Guo, ByteDance; Youhui Bai, University of Science and Technology of China; Wencong Xiao, ByteDance; Kang Chen, Tsinghua University; Cheng Li, University of Science and Technology of China and Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center

Li Lin, Xiamen University; Liehang Chen, Xiamen University; Rongxin Wu, Xiamen University

Jiyang Chen, Technical University of Munich; Anubhav Panda, Technical University of Munich; Harshavardhan Unnibhavi, Technical University of Munich; Atsushi Koshiba, Tokyo University of Science; Pramod Bhatotia, Technical University of Munich

Evangelos Lamprou, Brown University; Tianyu (Ezri) Zhu, Stevens Institute of Technology; Di Jin, Brown University; Grigoris Ntousakis, Brown University; Georgios Liargkovas, Columbia University; Calvin Eng, Brown University; Konstantinos Kallas, University of California, Los Angeles; Michael Greenberg, Stevens Institute of Technology; Nikos Vasilakis, Brown University

Neil Giridharan, University of California, Berkeley; Shubham Mishra, University of California, Berkeley; Lorenzo Alvisi, Cornell University; Natacha Crooks, University of California, Berkeley; Benjamin Marsh, Sei Labs; Hein Meling, University of Stavanger; Kartik Nayak, Duke University; Grzegorz Prusak, Sei Labs

NSDI '26

Dehui Wei, National University of Singapore; Jiao Zhang, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, and Purple Mountain Laboratories; Haozhe Li, ByteDance; Rui Han, ByteDance; Zhichen Xue, ByteDance; Yajie Peng, ByteDance; Xiaofei Pang, ByteDance; Yan Ma, ByteDance; Jialin Li, National University of Singapore

Ke Han, Purdue University; Sruthi P C, Purdue University; Yayu Wang, The University of British Columbia; Yaoxu Song, Purdue University; Bishal Basak Papan, Purdue University; Junwen Yang, Meta; Pedro Fonseca, Purdue University; Yongle Zhang, Purdue University

Shaofeng Wu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Microsoft Research Asia; Zhixiong Niu, Microsoft Research Asia; Riff Jiang, Microsoft; Lawrence Lee, Microsoft; Junhua Zhai, Microsoft; Ze Gan, Microsoft; Vasundhara Volam, Microsoft; Prabhat Aravind, Microsoft; Prince Sunny, Microsoft; Prince George, Microsoft; Qi Luo, Microsoft; Evan Langlais, Microsoft; Soumya Tiwari, Microsoft; Venkat Satish Katta, Microsoft; Weixi Chen, Microsoft; Rishiraj Hazarika, Microsoft; Sachin Jain, Microsoft; Deven Jagasia, Microsoft; Michal Zygmunt, Microsoft; Avijit Gupta, Microsoft; Neeraj Motwani, Microsoft; Pranjal Shrivastava, Microsoft; Qiang Su, The Chinese University of Hong Kong; Anil Reddy Pannala, Microsoft; Kristina Moore, Microsoft; James Grantham, Microsoft; Anupam Pandey, Microsoft; Xin Liu, Microsoft; Guohan Lu, Microsoft; Gerald De Grace, Microsoft; Rishabh Tewari, Microsoft; Lihua Yuan, Microsoft; Erica Lan, Microsoft; Deepak Bansal, Microsoft; Dave Maltz, Microsoft; Yongqiang Xiong, Microsoft Research Asia; Hong Xu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Zhaochen Zhang, Nanjing University; Feiyang Xue, Nanjing University; Rui Ning, Nanjing University; Keqiang He, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Gianni Antichi, Politecnico di Milano; Jiaqi Gao, Unaffiliated; Zhimeng Yin, City University of Hong Kong; Kexin Liu, Nanjing University; Rui Li, Nanjing University; Zhengqi Cui, Nanjing University; Zhehao Lin, Nanjing University; Peirui Cao, Nanjing University; Guihai Chen, Nanjing University; Chen Tian, Nanjing University

Ze Xia, Xi'an Jiaotong University; Hao Li, Xi'an Jiaotong University; Jinyu Fu, Xi'an Jiaotong University; Xin Wan, Xi'an Jiaotong University; Yihan Dang, Xi'an Jiaotong University; Danfeng Shan, Xi'an Jiaotong University; Li Chen, harnets.ai; Peng Zhang, Xi'an Jiaotong University

Tianyuan Wu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Lunxi Cao, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Hanfeng Lu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Xiaoxiao Jiang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Yinghao Yu, Alibaba Group; Siran Yang, Alibaba Group; Guodong Yang, Alibaba Group; Jiamang Wang, Alibaba Group; Lin Qu, Alibaba Group; Liping Zhang, Alibaba Group; Wei Wang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Jingyuan Zhu, University of Michigan; Huanchen Sun, University of Southern California; Harsha V. Madhyastha, University of Southern California

FAST '26

Shaoxun Zeng, Tsinghua University; Tingxu Ren, Tsinghua University; Jiwu Shu, Tsinghua University; Youyou Lu, Tsinghua University

Qingyuan Liu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Mo Zou, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Hengbin Zhang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Dong Du, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Yubin Xia, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Haibo Chen, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Guoli Wei, University of Science and Technology of China; Yongkun Li, University of Science and Technology of China and Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory of High Performance Computing, USTC; Haoze Song, The University of Hong Kong; Tao Li, University of Science and Technology of China; Lulu Yao, University of Science and Technology of China; Yinlong Xu, University of Science and Technology of China and Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory of High Performance Computing, USTC; Heming Cui, The University of Hong Kong

Leping Yang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Yanbo Zhou, Alibaba Group; Gong Zeng, Alibaba Group; Li Zhang, Alibaba Group; Saisai Zhang, Alibaba Group; Ruilin Wu, Alibaba Group; Chaoyang Sun, Alibaba Group; Shiyi Luo, Alibaba Group; Wenrui Li, Alibaba Group; Keqiang Niu, Alibaba Group; Xiaolu Zhang, Alibaba Group; Junping Wu, Alibaba Group; Jiaji Zhu, Alibaba Group; Jiesheng Wu, Alibaba Group; Mariusz Barczak, Solidigm; Wayne Gao, Solidigm; Ruiming Lu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Erci Xu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Guangtao Xue, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

USENIX Security '25

Yuancheng Jiang, National University of Singapore; Chuqi Zhang, National University of Singapore; Bonan Ruan, National University of Singapore; Jiahao Liu, National University of Singapore; Manuel Rigger, National University of Singapore; Roland H. C. Yap, National University of Singapore; Zhenkai Liang, National University of Singapore

Moritz Schloegel, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security; Daniel Klischies, Ruhr University Bochum; Simon Koch, TU Braunschweig; David Klein, TU Braunschweig; Lukas Gerlach, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security; Malte Wessels, TU Braunschweig; Leon Trampert, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security; Martin Johns, TU Braunschweig; Mathy Vanhoef, DistriNet, KU Leuven; Michael Schwarz, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security; Thorsten Holz, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security; Jo Van Bulck, DistriNet, KU Leuven

Yufan You, Tsinghua University; Jianjun Chen, Tsinghua University; Zhongguancun Laboratory; Qi Wang, Tsinghua University; Haixin Duan, Tsinghua University; Zhongguancun Laboratory

Joseph Spracklen, University of Texas at San Antonio; Raveen Wijewickrama, University of Texas at San Antonio; A H M Nazmus Sakib, University of Texas at San Antonio; Anindya Maiti, University of Oklahoma; Bimal Viswanath, Virginia Tech; Murtuza Jadliwala, University of Texas at San Antonio

Klim Kireev, EPFL, MPI-SP Max Plank Institute for Security and Privacy; Yevhen Mykhno; Carmela Troncoso, EPFL, MPI-SP Max Plank Institute for Security and Privacy; Rebekah Overdorf, Ruhr University Bochum (RUB), Research Center Trustworthy Data Science and Security in University Alliance Ruhr, University of Lausanne

Cristian Munteanu, Max Planck Institute for Informatics; Georgios Smaragdakis, Delft University of Technology; Anja Feldmann, Max Planck Institute for Informatics; Tobias Fiebig, Max Planck Institute for Informatics

Jan H. Klemmer, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security; Juliane Schmüser, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security; Fabian Fischer, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security; Jacques Suray, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security; Jan-Ulrich Holtgrave, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security; Simon Lenau, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security; Byron M. Lowens, Indiana University Indianapolis; Florian Schaub, University of Michigan; Sascha Fahl, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security

Sandro Rüegge, ETH Zurich; Johannes Wikner, ETH Zurich; Kaveh Razavi, ETH Zurich

WOOT '25

Jannik Hartung, Technische Universität Braunschweig; Simon Koch, Technische Universität Braunschweig; Martin Johns, Technische Universität Braunschweig

VehicleSec '25

Jakob Löw, Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt; Dominik Bayerl, Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt; Kevin Mayer, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg; Hans-Joachim Hof, Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt

SOUPS 2025

Laura Marie Abels, University of Bonn; Matthew Smith, University of Bonn and Fraunhofer FKIE; Anna-Marie Ortloff, University of Bonn

USENIX ATC '25

Ori Ben Zur, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology; Jakob Krebs, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology; Shai Aviram Bergman, Huawei Zurich Research Center; Mark Silberstein, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

Evangelos Lamprou, Brown University; Ethan Williams, Brown University; Georgios Kaoukis, National Technical University of Athens; Zhuoxuan Zhang, Brown University; Michael Greenberg, Stevens Institute of Technology; Konstantinos Kallas, University of California, Los Angeles; Lukas Lazarek, Brown University; Nikos Vasilakis, Brown University

OSDI '25

Tony Nuda Zhang, University of Michigan; Keshav Singh, University of Michigan; Tej Chajed, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Manos Kapritsos, University of Michigan; Bryan Parno, Carnegie Mellon University

Leon Schuermann, Princeton University; Jack Toubes, Princeton University; Tyler Potyondy, University of California San Diego; Pat Pannuto, University of California San Diego; Mae Milano, Princeton University; Amit Levy, Princeton University

NSDI '25

Zechun Li, Xi'an Jiaotong University; Peng Zhang, Xi'an Jiaotong University; Yichi Zhang, Xi'an Jiaotong University; Hongkun Yang, Google

William Sentosa, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran, VU Amsterdam; P. Brighten Godfrey, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Broadcom; Haitham Hassanieh, EPFL

FAST '25

Jing Liu, Microsoft Research; Yifan Dai, University of Wisconsin–Madison; Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin–Madison; Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin–Madison