CSCML 2026
Tenth International Symposium on Cyber Security, Cryptology and Machine Learning
December 3-4, 2026, Beer-Sheva, Israel - Virtual
https://www.cscml.org/

Dates:
Academic Track Submission deadline June 29, 2026;
Academic Track Acceptance notification July 29, 2026;
Academic Track Camera-ready copy due August 16, 2026;
Pitch Track Submission deadline November 29, 2026;
PhD Track Submission deadline November 29, 2026;

Keynote Speakers: partial list
Martin Hellman, Turing Award Winner
and Professor Emeritus @ Standford University
Silvio Micali, Turing Award Winner
  and Professor @ MIT
Stuart J. Russell, Professor of Computer Science @ UC Berkeley
Yossi Vardi, Chairman @ International Techonologies

Q&A Panel: partial list
Charles Bennett, Turing Award Winner
  Distinguished Professor @ Johns Hopkins
Gilles Brassard, Turing Award Winner
  and Professor @ Universit´e de Montr´eal
Ralph Merkle, President of Nanofactory CBN
  & Nanofactory Corporation
Ronald Rivest, Turing Award Winner
  and Professor @ MIT

Academic Research Track PC

Yehuda Afek, PC Co-Chair Tel-Aviv University, Israel;
Paulo Barreto, University of Washington Tacoma, United States
Daniel Berend, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Alex Biryukov, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Sherman S. M. Chow, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Valerio Cini, Bocconi University, Italy
Hadassa Daltrophe, Shamoon College of Engineering, Israel
Orr Dunkelman, University of Haifa, Israel
and Technische Universit¨at Berlin, Germany
Nir Drucker, IBM Research – Israel, Israel
Stefan Dziembowski, PC Co-Chair University of Warsaw, Poland;
Karim Eldefrawy, SRI International, United States
Tako Boris Fouotsa, The University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Ehud Gudes, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Shay Gueron, University of Haifa and Meta, USA
Ofer Hadar, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Stefan Katzenbeisser, University of Passau, Germany
Marcel Keller, Data61 (CSIRO), Australia
Lukasz Krzywiecki, Wrocław University of Science
and Technology, Poland
Manish Kumar, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Ropar, India
Alexei Lisitsa, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
Subhamoy Maitra, Indian Statistical Institute, India
Odelia Melamed, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Arup Mondal, Ashoka University, India
Tamer Mour, Universit`a Bocconi, Italy
Panagiotis Nastou, University of the Aegean, Greece
Hussien Othman, Technische Universit¨at Darmstadt, Germany
Carles Padr´o, Universitat Polit`ecnica de Catalunya, Spain
Aris Pagourtzis, National Technical University of Athens
and Archimedes AI, Greece
Nisha Panwar, Augusta University, United States
Souradyuti Paul, Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai, India
Sikhar Patranabis, IBM Research India, India
Dorottya Papp, CrySyS Lab, Hungary
Carla R`afols, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
Eyal Ronen, Tel Aviv University's School of Computer Science, Israel
Sushmita Ruj, UNSW Sydney, Australia
Dhiman Saha, Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai, India
Maciej Skorski, University of Warsaw, Poland
Yannis Stamatiou, University of Patras, Greece
Paul Spirakis, PC Co-Chair University of Liverpool,
United Kingdom;
Tamir Tassa, The Open University of Israel, Israel
Daniele Venturi, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Dan Vilenchik, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Anyu Wang, Tsinghua University, China
Gera Weiss, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Entrepreneurship Track PC
(Partial)
Yonah Alexandre Bronstein, Chair, AS-TAV inc, Israel
Rafael (Roman) Gold, Managing General Partner
@ VentureIsrael, Israel
Yaron Wolfsthal, Partner @ ICI Fund
PhD Masters Track PC
Oded Margalit Chair, Ben-Gurion University and NextSilicon, Israel
Chairs and Conference Committee:
Yehuda Afek, PC Co-Chair Tel-Aviv University, Israel;
Yonah Alexandre Bronstein, Pitch Co-Chair ASTAV inc, Israel;
Shlomi Dolev, General Chair Ben-Gurion Univ., Israel;
Stefan Dziembowski, PC Co-Chair University of Warsaw, Poland;
Dayana Dyachenko, Org. Co-Chair Ben-Gurion Univ., Israel;
Oded Margalit, PhD Track Chair Ben-Gurion University and Next Silicon, Israel;
Paul Spirakis, PC Co-Chair University of Liverpool, United Kingdom;
Orah Zur, Org. Co-Chair Ben-Gurion Univ., Israel;

Steering Committee: Orna Berry CTO Google Cloud, Israel; 
Shlomi Dolev, Chair, Ben-Gurion Univ., Israel; 
Yuval Elovici, Ben-Gurion Univ., Israel; 
Bezalel Gavish Southern Methodist Univ., USA; 
Ehud Gudes Ben-Gurion Univ., Israel; 
Jonathan Katz Univ. of Maryland, USA; 
Rafail Ostrovsky UCLA, USA; 
Jeffrey D. Ullman Stanford Univ., USA; 
Kalyan Veeramachaneni MIT, USA; 
Yaron Wolfsthal ICI Fund, Israel; 
Moti Yung Columbia Univ. & Google, USA

Scope.

Original contributions to the theory, design, analysis,
implementation, or application of cyber security, cryptography, and
machine learning systems and networks. In particular, conceptually
innovative results are solicited. Topics of interest include, but are
not limited to:

 o Cyber Security Design Secure Software Development methodologies,
Formal methods, Semantics and verification of secure systems, Fault
tolerance, Reliability,

Availability of distributed secure systems, Game-theoretic approaches
to secure computing,
Automatic recovery, 
Self-stabilizing systems, 
Communication, Authentication
and identification, 
Cyber security for mobile and Internet of Things, 
Cyber security of
corporations, 
Security and privacy for cloud, 
Edge and fog computing, 
Cryptocurrency,
and Blockchain. 

 o  Cryptology 
Cryptographic implementation analysis and construction,
Secure multi-party computation, 
Privacy-enhancing technologies and anonymity,
Post-quantum cryptography and security. 

 o  Machine Learning & Big Data 
Anomaly detection and malware identification, 
Business Intelligence and Security, 
Digital forensics, 
Digital rights management. 

Submissions related to AI, LLMs, and privacy and security agents are
especially encouraged this year.

Trust management and reputation systems, 
Information retrieval, 
Risk analysis, 
DoS.

Conference presentations will have two formats (you can find more
information about the submission formats for CSCML 2026 by clicking on
the following link (see website):

1. Regular presentations (to be published in LNCS) of 20-25 minutes
accompanied by papers of up to 15 pages in the proceedings. This form
is intended for contributions reporting on original research,
submitted exclusively to this conference.

2. Short Papers (to be published in LNCS) of 5-10 minutes accompanied
by papers of 6-11 pages in the proceedings. No appendices are
allowed. Such submissions may describe work in progress or work
presented elsewhere.

3. Entrepreneurship Pitch of 5-10 minutes accompanied by six page
abstracts/pitch presentation.

Submission. Papers are to be submitted electronically, following the
guidelines available on the conference web page.

Each submission must be in English, in PDF format, and begin with a
cover page including: (1) the title, (2) the names and affiliations of
all authors, (3) contact author's email and address, (4) a couple of
paragraphs abstract of the paper, (5) indication whether the paper is
a regular submission, a short paper, an entrepreneurship pitch
submission (the authors of the entrepreneurship pitch track please
note that the submissions will not be NDA protected), or PhD / Masters
Track.

A regular submission must not exceed 15 (LNCS formatted) single-column
pages (excluding cover page and references). Additional necessary
details may be included in a clearly marked appendix that will be read
at the discretion of the program committee. A short paper submission
must not exceed 6 single-column pages. All submissions must use LNCS
format. Any submission deviating from these guidelines may be rejected
without consideration of its merit.

It is recommended that a regular submission begin with a succinct
statement of the problem or the issue being addressed, a summary of
the main results or conclusions, a brief explanation of their
significance, a brief statement of the key ideas, and a comparison
with related work, all tailored to a non-specialist. Technical
development of the work, directed to the specialist, should
follow. Papers outside of the conference scope will be rejected
without review. If requested by the authors on the cover page, a
regular submis- sion can also be considered as a short
paper. Additional Planned Events. PhD Track and "Capture the Flag"
Hackathon are planned to take place during CSCML 2026.
Publication. Regular papers will be included in the Springer LNCS
conference proceed- ings. Extended and revised versions of selected
papers will be considered for a special issue of the Journal of
Cryptography and Communications.