About the Keynotes speakers

Carmela Troncoso is a Scientific Director at the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy where she heads the SPRING Lab.

Her work focuses on building and deploying secure and privacy-preserving systems that minimize societal harms; and on critically analyzing technologies with respect to the protection they provide to social values. She received her PhD from KU Leuven in 2011.

Her work on privacy has received multiple awards including best paper awards and awards from Data Protection Agencies. She has been named 40 under 40 in technology by Fortune in 2020.

Frank Piessens is a full professor in the Department of Computer Science at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.

His research focuses on software and systems security, encompassing both attack techniques and defenses. On the defense side, he has made contributions to formal verification techniques for C-like languages, enforcement of information flow security, hardening against memory safety exploits, mitigating micro-architectural side-channels, and designing and implementing embedded security architectures.

On the attack side, he has contributed to the development of novel attack techniques for transient execution attacks, memory safety attacks, and controlled channel attacks.

Frank has served on the program committee of numerous prestigious security and software conferences including ACM CCS, Usenix Security, IEEE Security & Privacy, and ACM POPL. He acted as program chair for the International Conference on Principles of Security and Trust (POST 2016), for the IEEE European Symposium on Security & Privacy (Euro S&P 2018 & 2019), and for the IEEE Secure Development Conference (SecDev 2021 & 2022).