NYU Abu Dhabi · Center for Cyber Security
Cybersecurity Seminar Series
Weekly research talks on cybersecurity and many adjacent fields.
2026-2025 · 22 talks
Prof. Ting Yu
Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
Overcoming the Retrieval Barrier: Indirect Prompt Injection in the Wild for LLM Systems
14 May
Yash Vekaria
University of California, Davis
Black-Box Audits of Personalization Ecosystems
7 May
Sihem Bouhenniche
University of Lille
EXADPrinter: Semi-Exhaustive Permissionless Device Fingerprinting Within the Android Ecosystem
30 Apr
JC
Joshua Clarke
NYU Abu Dhabi
Formalizing System-Level Measurement of Human Risk in Cybersecurity
26 Mar
Julia Kieserman
NYU - NYC
Tracker Installations Are Not Created Equal: Understanding Tracker Configuration of Form Data Collection
12 Feb
Prof. Khaled Nabil Salama
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Advancing Monitoring Capabilities: The Role of Wearable Sensors in Advancing Healthcare, Environmental, and Marine Studies
5 Feb
Guillermo Christensen
K&L Gates
Ransomware and Cybercrime: How Cybercrime Groups Operate
28 Jan
Dr. Youngkwang Han
NYU Abu Dhabi
Robust Verifiable Privacy-preserving ML Using Cryptographic and Hardware Guarantees
22 Jan
Prof. Brian Wong
University of Hong Kong
Ethics of AI and Geopolitics
11 Dec
Prof. Subhash Lakshminarayana
University of Warwick
From Threats to Resilience: Strengthening Power Grids Against Cyber Risks in the Demand-Side Response Ecosystem
9 Dec
Prof. Yi Fang
NYU Abu Dhabi
How academic research in AI and robotics can evolve into impactful real-world solutions
27 Nov
Martin Perešíni
Brno University of Technology
Securing the Blockchain Technology Stack: Wallets, Consensus, and Beyond
25 Nov
Dr. Vahan Babushkin
NYU Abu Dhabi
Multimodal Approach to Writer Identification from Arabic Handwriting
20 Nov
Dr. Ajith Suresh
Technology Innovation Institute
MPC Meets ML: Advancing Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning
6 Nov
Prof. Pavlos Eleftheriadis
NYU Abu Dhabi
CCS Seminar on the Tech Reg Lab Proposal, presented by Prof. Pavlos Eleftheriadis & Prof. Winston Ma
30 Oct
Dr. Adel Abusitta
Polytechnique Montréal
Can Robust Defenses Be Secure? Rethinking AI Adversarial Protection
22 Oct
Prof. Mathy Vanhoef
KU Leuven
Remote Timing Attacks via TCP Timestamps: Attacks and Mitigations
16 Oct
Prof. Rabia Tugce Yazicigil
Boston University
The Circuit Frontier: Innovating and Expanding ASIC Solutions for Enhanced Biosensing
15 Oct
Dr. Michele Guerra
NYU Abu Dhabi
Android user privacy and limitations of the current permission model: towards a contextualized and dynamic permission management system
9 Oct
Varun Darshana Parekh
Pennsylvania State University
Thermal-Stress-Aware 2.5D Integration with Surrogates to enable Rapid Design Space Exploration
2 Oct
Jimena Sofía Viveros Álvarez
IQuilibriumAI
AI Safety and Governance in Practice: Insights from the Frontlines of International Policy
22 Sep
Dr. Soumyadyuti Ghosh
NYU Abu Dhabi
Privacy-Enhancing Technologies for Smart Grid Metering Systems: Limitations and Practical Alternatives
18 Sep
2025-2024 · 27 talks
Dr. Christos Laoudias
KIOS
Human-centric cyber hygiene for raising cybersecurity and data privacy awareness: lessons
22 May
Dr. Tamer Abdelaziz
NYU Abu Dhabi
Proactive Defense: Real-Time Detection of Malicious Ethereum Transactions
15 May
HA
Dr. Heba Ahmad
Dubai Government
A bit of both worlds: a career shaped by research and policy making
8 May
Daniil Tiganov
Black Duck
Application Security Testing at Black Duck
1 May
Prof. Gabriel Falcao
University of Coimbra
Rethinking Memory: Harnessing PiM to Eliminate the Data Wall in Modern Computing
24 Apr
Prof. Debdeep Mukhopadhyay
NYU Abu Dhabi
Computer Security and Machine Learning: Miss or Match?
16 Apr
Prof. Maria Mushtaq
Telecom Paris
Expanding Microarchitectural Battlefield: The Invisible Threats (Side-Channel Attacks) Inside Our Processors
10 Apr
Prithwish Basu Roy
NYU Abu Dhabi
NiLoPher: Breaking a Modern SAT-Hardened Logic-Locking Scheme via Power Analysis Attack
20 Feb
Dr. Akashdeep Saha
NYU Abu Dhabi
CODE: Circuit Obfuscation using Data Encryption
13 Feb
Dr. Chloé Bakalar
Meta
AI Ethics
6 Feb
Dr. Navajit Singh Baban
NYU Abu Dhabi
Securing Biochips Against IP Attacks with Advanced Authentication
30 Jan
Dr. Antonio Sanfilippo
QEERI
AI and Digitalization in Energy Management
24 Jan
Dr. Navid Asadi
University of Florida
Physical assurance for advanced packaging
18 Dec
Prof. Anna Maria Mandalari
University College London
Benchmarking IoT Devices: Privacy and Security Challenges in Emerging Connected Ecosystems
9 Dec
Zeng Wang
NYU Abu Dhabi
OptiLock: Automated Optimization of Learning-Resilient Logic Locking
5 Dec
Prof. Vijaykrishnan Narayanan
Pennsylvania State University
Accelerating Deep Learning Recommendation Models using Disaggregated Memories
28 Nov
Dr. Vaibhav Kumar
NYU Abu Dhabi
Physical Layer Security for Integrated Sensing and Communication: Open Questions and Some Recent Results
21 Nov
Prof. Sandra Siby
NYU Abu Dhabi
Towards better ad and tracker blocking on the web
14 Nov
YB
Yazan Barbar
American University in Cairo
Blockchain-Based Cyber-Attack Detection in Protective Relaying
7 Nov
Prof. Emanuela Marasco
George Mason University
Trustworthy Identity Verification: The Science of Who You Are
31 Oct
Prof. Chinmay Hegde
NYU Tandon
The Science of Benchmarking: Robust Approaches for Measuring Capabilities of AI in the Real World
24 Oct
Eduardo Chielle
NYU Abu Dhabi
Recurrent Private Set Intersection for Unbalanced Databases with Cuckoo Hashing and Leveled FHE
17 Oct
Prof. Karim Ali
NYU Abu Dhabi
Finding an Optimal Set of Static Analyzers To Detect Software Vulnerabilities
3 Oct
Homer Gamil
NYU Abu Dhabi
Coalescion-based Acceleration of Polynomial Multiplication for GPU Execution
26 Sep
Corban Villa
NYU Abu Dhabi
Reverse-Engineering and Jailbreaking Safety Filters in DALL·E Text-to-Image Pipelines
19 Sep
Dr. Abhinav Dhall
Flinders University
Human-Centric Approaches for Multimodal Deepfakes Analysis
12 Sep
Dr. Rupesh Raj Karn
NYU Abu Dhabi
Selective Forgetting in Task-Progressive Learning through Machine Unlearning
5 Sep
2024-2023 · 22 talks
Corban Villa
NYU Abu Dhabi
ICS-QUARTZ: Scan Cycle-Aware and Vendor-Agnostic Fuzzing for Industrial Control Systems
23 May
Prof. Chun Jason Xue
Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
On Optimizing Mobile Memory and Storage
7 May
Dr. Haiyan Jiang
Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
An Introduction to Spiking Neural Networks
21 Mar
Prof. Damon McCoy
NYU Tandon
Demystifying Social Media Feeds: A Taxonomy and Transparency for Algorithmic Feed Systems Designs
27 Feb
Prof. Debdeep Mukhopadhyay
IIT Kharagpur
Every Contact Leaves a Trace": Side Channel and Micro-architectural Attacks on Modern Cryptosystems
22 Feb
Daniel Yao
NYU Abu Dhabi
Developing Machine Learning Models to Assess Cyber Risk in the Construction Industry: Addressing a Critical Gap in Cybersecurity
8 Feb
Dr. Jeffrey Howard
University College London
Moderation by Machine: The Ethics of Censorship by AI
1 Feb
Dr. Syed Khandker
NYU Abu Dhabi
Advancing Aviation Security: Developing a Digital Signature-Based Secure ADS-B Communication System
11 Jan
Dr. Eleanna Kafeza
Zayed University
Shapelet-based Classification for Identifying Hate Speech on Twitter Using Range Queries in Multidimensional Data Structures
14 Dec
Murad Sanouri
Avaya
Securing Seamless Connections: Cybersecurity in Unified Communication and Contact Center Technologies
7 Dec
Dr. Hazım Kemal Ekenel
Istanbul Technical University
Human Centered Computer Vision
23 Nov
KL
Dr. KC Lalropuia
NYU Abu Dhabi
Evolutionary game model of unintentional malicious insider attacks
16 Nov
Dr. Youngkwang Han
KAIST
Crash-consistent Secure NVM in Energy Harvesting Systems
9 Nov
Dr. Sukanta Bhattacharjee
IIT Guwahati
Microfluidic Lab-on-a-Chip: Design Automation of Sample Preparation
2 Nov
Dr. Manaar Alam
NYU Abu Dhabi
Double-Edged Sword of Backdoor Attacks in Federated Learning: Persistent Injection and Stealthy Removal
26 Oct
Prof. Simon See
NVIDIA AI Technology Center
The New frontier of Science Discovery : Machine Learning for Science
19 Oct
Dr. Ruchit Agrawal
University of Birmingham Dubai
From Bag of Words to Large Language Models: Unveiling the power of generative AI for Natural Language Processing
12 Oct
Hana Selmani
NYU Abu Dhabi
GNN4Circuits: A Unified Platform for Circuit Analysis and Prediction
5 Oct
KK
Karl Kalinkewicz
NYU Abu Dhabi
Seminar on Public Presentation Skills
28 Sep
Likhitha Mankali
NYU Abu Dhabi
VIGILANT: Vulnerability Detection Tool against Fault-Injection Attacks for Locking Techniques
21 Sep
OM
Oleg Mazonka
NYU Abu Dhabi
Discrete Gaussian Transformation in application to modular polynomial multiplication
14 Sep
Dr. Lilas Alrahis
NYU Abu Dhabi
Graph Neural Networks for Hardware Vulnerability Analysis-- Can you Trust your GNN?
7 Sep
2023-2022 · 30 talks
KL
Dr. KC Lalropuia
NYU Abu Dhabi
Game theoretic modeling of malicious insider threats to Common Data Environment (CDE) in the AEC industry
8 Jun
SK
Siwar Kriaa
NYU Abu Dhabi
AI-based fake base stations detection
1 Jun
Liang Niu
NYU Abu Dhabi
Privacy Leaks from Code Generation Language Models
18 May
Constantine Doumanidis
NYU Abu Dhabi
ICSML: Industrial Control Systems ML Framework for native inference using IEC 61131-3 code
11 May
Nian Xue
NYU Abu Dhabi
Bypassing Tunnels: Leaking VPN Client Traffic by Abusing Routing Tables
4 May
OM
Oleg Mazonka
NYU Abu Dhabi
Flexible Modular Multiplier
27 Apr
Prashant Hari Narayan Rajput
NYU Abu Dhabi
Hardware-Assisted Non-Intrusive Security Controls for Modern Industrial Control Systems
13 Apr
Semih Sonkor
NYU Abu Dhabi
Cybersecurity Aspects of Operational Technologies in Construction
30 Mar
Dr. Mathy Vanhoef
KU Leuven
Leaking & Injecting Wi-Fi Traffic and the Ethics of Surveying Networks
23 Mar
Dr. Damon McCoy
NYU Tandon
Cart-ology: Intercepting Targeted Advertising via Ad Network Identity Entanglement
16 Mar
Roger Dingledine
The Tor Project
How Russia is trying to block Tor
15 Mar
Prof. Anderson Rocha
University of Campinas
Artificial Intelligence meets Digital Forensics: a panorama
10 Mar
Daniel Yao
NYU Abu Dhabi
ChatGPT-like Large Language Model as Knowledge Base: Intelligent Cyber Risk Identification in Construction
2 Mar
Dr. Navajit Singh Baban
NYU Abu Dhabi
Cyber-physical security of flow-based microfluidic biochips (FMBs) in the era of global pandemics
23 Feb
KL
Dr. KC Lalropuia
NYU Abu Dhabi
Game theoretical modeling of EDoS attack in cloud computing
16 Feb
Prof. Salim El Rouayheb
Rutgers University
How to Opt In and Out of Online Privacy: A 300 Billion Dollar Question
9 Feb
Prof. Ajay Joshi
Boston University
There and Back Again: Leveraging Photonics for Designing Computing Systems
5 Jan
Prof. Karthik Nandakumar
Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
Security, Privacy and Trustworthiness in the AI World
15 Dec
Prof. Elaheh Sadredini
University of California, Riverside
Enabling Fast and Energy-Efficient Cryptography in Edge with Data-Centric Computing
5 Dec
Dr. Chiara Marcolla
TII
Introduction to Fully Homomorphic Encryption
24 Nov
Prof. Moustafa Youssef
American University in Cairo
Quantum Computing for Location Determination Systems
17 Nov
Yue Wang
NYU Abu Dhabi
BACKDOOR ATTACKS AND DEFENSE IN TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS
3 Nov
Shujaat Mirza
NYU Abu Dhabi
Tactics, Threat, & Targets: Modeling Disinformation as a Cybersecurity Threat
27 Oct
Dr. Eduardo Chielle
NYU Abu Dhabi
Accelerating Fully Homomorphic Encryption by Bridging Modular and Bit-Level Arithmetic
20 Oct
Dr. Jorge David de Hoz Diego
KAUST
Security decoupling applied on Internet of Things applications
13 Oct
Dr. Marc Dacier
KAUST
Defeating RESIP-based Web Scrapers by Looking at their Network Traces
6 Oct
Dr. Lilas Alrahis
NYU Abu Dhabi
Graph Neural Networks for Hardware Security and Reliability
29 Sep
Nisha Thorakkattu Madathil
United Arab Emirates University
An Efficient and Privacy Preserving Algorithm for Federated Learning (FL)
22 Sep
Dr. Johann Knechtel
NYU Abu Dhabi
2.5D and 3D Integration - Another Dimension Toward Secure Hardware
15 Sep
OM
Oleg Mazonka
NYU Abu Dhabi
Fast Modular Multiplier
8 Sep
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