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Previous Synergetic Activities 

  • Invited talk: “Should We Put Our Trust in the Implementation of MPC?” at the NIST Crypto Reading Club (https://csrc.nist.gov/presentations/2024/crclub-2024-10-02), 2024.  

  • Invited talk: “Boolean Analysis for Security Assessment of Physically Unclonable Functions” at the Women In Circuits Workshop on Hardware Security affiliated with IEEE European Solid-State Electronics Research Conference (https://www.esserc2024.org/w12-hardware-security), 2024.

  • Presentation: “FaultyGarble: Fault Attack on Secure Multiparty Neural Network Inference” at the Workshop on Fault Detection and Tolerance in Cryptography (FDTC), 2024.

  • Invited talk: “AI for Side-channel Analysis” at the Cisco Offensive Security Summit, 2024.

  • Presentation: “Time is money, friend! Timing side-channel attack against garbled circuit constructions” at the 22nd International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS), 2024.

  • Invited lecture: “Classic Rewind and Fast-forward to PQC: Lessons Learned from AI-assisted SCA” at DISTANT Training School affiliated with the annual Summer School on Real-world Crypto and Privacy (https://summerschool-croatia.cs.ru.nl/2024/DISTANT.html) , 2024. 

  • Panelist on “WPI’s Beyond These Towers: Data Science and AI in Our Lives (https://www.wpi.edu/news/calendar/events/beyond-these-towers-data-science-and-ai-our-lives), 2023.

  • Presentation: “Information Theory-based Evolution of Neural Networks for Side-channel Analysis” at the annual Conference on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES), 2023.

  • Panelist on “Crypto meets AI: AI and cryptanalysis” at GHTC (https://ghtcworkshop.tii.ae/2023/), affiliated event of the Crypto conference, 2023.

  • Invited talk: “Side-Channel Protected NNs Through Secure and Private Function Evaluation” at the Workshop on Security for Custom Computing Machines (SCCM, https://sccm-workshop.github.io), 2023.

  • Invited lecture: “From (Less Careful) Standardization of Intellectual Property Protection to Secure and Private Electronic Design Automation” at the annual Summer School on Real-world Crypto and Privacy (https://summerschool-croatia.cs.ru.nl/2023/), 2023.

  • Panelist on “WPI’s Beyond These Towers: Data Science and AI in Our Lives (https://www.wpi.edu/news/calendar/events/beyond-these-towers-data-science-and-ai-our-lives), 2023.

  • Presentation: “Information Theory-based Evolution of Neural Networks for Side-channel Analysis” at the annual Conference on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES), 2023.

  • Panelist on “Crypto meets AI: AI and cryptanalysis” at GHTC (https://ghtcworkshop.tii.ae/2023/), affiliated event of the Crypto conference, 2023.

  • Invited talk: “Side-Channel Protected NNs Through Secure and Private Function Evaluation” at the Workshop on Security for Custom Computing Machines (SCCM, https://sccm-workshop.github.io), 2023.

  • Invited lecture: “From (Less Careful) Standardization of Intellectual Property Protection to Secure and Private Electronic Design Automation” at the annual Summer School on Real-world Crypto and Privacy (https://summerschool-croatia.cs.ru.nl/2023/), 2023.

  • Invited talk: “Neural Networks: predators and prey,” Dagstuhl Seminar 22412-Intelligent Security: Is AI for Cybersecurity a Blessing or a Curse, October 9-14, 2022, Saarbrücken, Germany.

  • Invited talk: “Neural Networks: predators and prey,” WPI’s Midsummer Workshop on Hardware Security, August 28-9, 2022, Worcester, USA.

  • Invited talk: “Garbled EDA: Privacy-Preserving Electronic Design Automation,” June 7, 2022, MITRE principal locations, Bedford, Massachusetts.

  • Keynote speech: “Machine Learning for Hardware Security: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants,” at Artificial Intelligence in Hardware Security (AIHWS), June 21, 2021, Kamakura, Japan (Online) https://aihws2021.aisylab.com.

  • Invited talk: “From Cryptography to Property Testing,” Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Cryptography (AICrypt), October 16, 2021, Zagreb, Croatia (Online) http://aicrypt.zemris.fer.hr.

  • Invited panel: “Ask Me Anything III: Fatemeh Ganji”, Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES), 2021. 

  • Invited panel: “Women in Science: Challenges, Opportunities, and Motivations,” as part of the Gender-Equality measures in SPP (Priority Program, Nano Security: From Nano-Electronics to Secure Systems).

  • Invited talk “ML for Security of “things” and human beings” at the WPI’s ECE Graduate Seminar.

  • Security of PUFs: Lessons Learned after Two Decades of Research," CHES Tutorial, Atlanta, Georgia, 2019.

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