ESORICS 2021 in Darmstadt

Chairs & committees



General chair

Michael Waidner, Fraunhofer SIT, Germany | National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity ATHENE, Germany


Program committee chairs

Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA
Haya Shulman, Fraunhofer SIT, Germany | National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity ATHENE, Germany


Program committee members

Ruba Abu-Salma, ICSI/UC Berkeley, USA
Yehuda Afek, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Mitsuaki Akiyama, NTT, Japan
Cristina Alcaraz, UMA, Spain
Mark Allman, International Computer Science Institute (ICSI), USA
Vijay Atluri, Rutgers University, USA
Erman Ayday, Case Western Reserve University, USA
Guangdong Bai, University of Queensland, Australia
Lejla Batina, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Steven M. Bellovin, Columbia University, USA
Antonio Bianchi, Purdue University, USA
Marina Blanton, University at Buffalo, USA
Carlo Blundo, Università degli Studi di Salerno, Italy
Tamara Bonaci, Northeastern University, USA
Nora Boulahia Cuppens, Polytechnique Montréal, Canada
Alejandro Cabrera Aldaya, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Lorenzo Cavallaro, King's College London, UK
Berkay Celik, Purdue University, USA
Aldar C-F. Chan, BIS Innovation Hub Hong Kong Centre, Hong Kong
Liqun Chen, University of Surrey, UK
Rongmao Chen, National University of Defense Technology, China
Xiaofeng Chen, Xidian University, China
Yu Chen, School of Cyber Science and Technology, Shandong University, China
Sherman Chow, Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Hong Kong
Mauro Conti, University of Padua, Italy
Scott Coull, FireEye, Inc., USA
Bruno Crispo, University of Trento, Italy
Michel Cukier, University of Maryland, USA
Frédéric Cuppens, Polytechnique Montréal, Canada
George Danezis, UCL, UK
Sanchari Das, University of Denver, USA
Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Università degli studi di Milano, Italy
Hervé Debar, Télécom SudParis, France
Roberto Di Pietro, Hamad Bin Khalifa University - College of Science and Engineering, Qatar
Wenrui Diao, Shandong University, China
Tassos Dimitriou, Computer Technology Institute, Greece and Kuwait University, Kuwait, Kuwait
Shlomi Dolev, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain
Changyu Dong, Newcastle University, UK
Haixin Duan, Tsinghua University, USA
François Dupressoir, University of Surrey, UK
Pardis Emami Naeini, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Paulo Esteves-Veríssimo, Université du Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Jose-Luis Ferrer-Gomila, University of the Balearic Islands, Spain
Sara Foresti, Università degli studi di Milano, Italy
Michael Franz, University of California Irvine, USA
David Galindo, University of Birmingham, UK
Debin Gao, Singapore Management University, Singapore
Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro, Telecom SudParis, France
Siddharth Garg, New York University, USA
Thanassis Giannetsos, Technical University of Denmark, Department of Computer Science (DTU Compute), Denmark
Dieter Gollmann, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany
Neil Gong, Duke University, USA
Stefanos Gritzalis, University of Piraeus, Greece
Daniel Gruss, Institute for Applied Information Processing and Communications, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Zhongshu Gu, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Thomas Haines, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Feng Hao, University of Warwick, UK
Juan Hernández-Serrano, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Xinyi Huang, Fujian Normal University, China
Syed Hussain, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
Sotiris Ioannidis, Technical University of Crete, Greece
Tibor Jager, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany
Philipp Jeitner, Fraunhofer SIT, Germany
Yuseok Jeon, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), South Korea
Shouling Ji, Zhejiang University, China
Ghassan Karame, NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany
Sokratis Katsikas, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Aggelos Kiayias, University of Edinburgh, UK
Hyoungshick (Hyoung) Kim, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), South Korea
Ryan Ko, University of Queensland, Australia
Juliane Krämer, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Steve Kremer, INRIA, France
Marina Krotofil, Honeywell Industrial Cyber Security Lab, USA
Christopher Kruegel, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Yonghwi Kwon, University of Virginia, USA
Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece
Shir Landau-Feibish, The Open University of Israel, Israel
Kyu Hyung Lee, University of Georgia, USA
Corrado Leita, VMware, UK
Shujun Li, University of Kent, UK
Zitao Li, Purdue University, USA
Kaitai Liang, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Xiaojing Liao, Indiana University Bloomington, USA
Hoon Wei Lim, Trustwave, Singapore
Zhiqiang Lin, Ohio State University, USA
Xiangyu Liu, Alibaba Group, China
Joseph Liu, Monash University, Australia
Rongxing Lu, University of New Brunswick, Canada
Xiapu Luo, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Shiqing Ma, Rutgers University, USA
Leandros Maglaras, De Montfort University, UK
Fabio Martinelli, IIT-CNR, Italy
Sjouke Mauw, Université du Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Weizhi Meng, Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Technical Universtiy of Denmark, Denmark
Nele Mentens, KU Leuven, Belgium
Mira Mezini, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Chris Mitchell, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Tal Moran, Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, Israel
Tatsuya Mori, Waseda University, Japan
Johannes Mueller, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Max Mühlhäuser, TU Darmstadt, Germany
David Naccache, Ecole normale suprieure, France
Siaw-Lynn Ng, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Nick Nikiforakis, Stony Brook University, USA
Jianting Ning, National University of Singapore / Singapore Management University, Singapore
Satoshi Obana, Hosei University, Japan
Martín Ochoa, AppGate Inc., Colombia
Rolf Oppliger, eSECURITY Technologies, Switzerland
Rebekah Overdorf, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Sikhar Patranabis, Visa Research, Palo Alto, CA, USA
Jiaxin Pan, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Radia Perlman, DELL EMC, USA
Günther Pernul, Universität Regensburg, Germany
Tran Viet Xuan Phuong, University of Wollongong , Australia
Frank Piessens, KU Leuven, Belgium
Joachim Posegga, Univ. of Passau, Germany
Jean-Jacques Quisquater, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Siddharth Prakash Rao, Nokia Bell Labs, USA
Awais Rashid, University of Bristol, UK
Michael Reiter, Duke University, USA
Kui Ren, Zhejiang University, China
Junghwan "John" Rhee, University of Central Oklahoma, USA
Giovanni Russello, Dept of Computer Science, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
Peter Y A Ryan, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Reihaneh Safavi-Naini, University of Calgary, Canada
Merve Sahin, SAP Security Research, France
Amin Sakzad, Monash University, Australia
Pierangela Samarati, Università degli studi di Milano, Italy
Damien Sauveron, XLIM (UMR University of Limoges/CNRS 7252), France
Sebastian Schinzel, FH Münster, Germany
Steve Schneider, University of Surrey, UK
Bruce Schneier, BT, USA
Dominique Schröder, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany
Michael Schwarz, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Germany
Joerg Schwenk, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
Kent Seamons, Brigham Young University, UK
Bardin Sébastien, CEA LIST, France
Jean-Pierre Seifert, TU Berlin, Germany
Siamak F. Shahandashti, University of York, UK
Kris Shrishak, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Radu Sion, Stony Brook University, USA
Nigel Smart, KU Leuven, Belgium
Einar Snekkenes, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway
Juraj Somorovsky, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
Thorsten Strufe, KIT, Germany
Willy Susilo, University of Wollongong, Australia
Paul Syverson, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, USA
Qiang Tang, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg
Qiang Tang, NJIT/University of Sydney, USA
Dave Tian, Purdue University, USA
Laura Tinnel, SRI International, USA
Nils Ole Tippenhauer, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Germany
Jacob Torrey, Amazon Web Services, USA
Ari Trachtenberg, Boston University, USA
Helen Treharne, University of Surrey, UK
Aggeliki Tsohou, Ionian University, Greece
Mathy Vanhoef, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi
Luca Viganò, King's College London, UK
Michael Waidner, Fraunhofer SIT, Germany | National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity ATHENE, Germany
Cong Wang, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Haining Wang, Virginia Tech Research Center - Arlington, USA
Lingyu Wang, Concordia University, Canada
Weihang Wang, SUNY University at Buffalo, China
Bing Wang, University of Connecticut, USA
Edgar Weippl, University of Vienna & SBA Research, Austria
Avishai Wool, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Christos Xenakis, University of Piraeus, Greece
Yang Xiang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Minhui Xue, The University of Adelaide, Australia
Guomin Yang, University of Wollongong, Australia
Jie Yang, Florida State University, USA
Kang Yang, State Key Laboratory of Cryptology, China
Yuval Yarom, University of Adelaide, Australia
Xun Yi, RMIT University, Australia
Yu Yu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Fengwei Zhang, SUSTech, China
Kehuan Zhang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Yang Zhang, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Germany
Yinqian Zhang, Southern University of Science and Technology, China
Yuan Zhang, Fudan University, China
Zhenfeng Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Yunlei Zhao, Fudan University, China
Jianying Zhou, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore
Sencun Zhu, The Pennsylvania State University, USA


Workshops chairs

David Hay, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Adrian Perrig, ETH Zurich, Switzerland


Posters chair

Simone Fischer-Hübner, Karlstad University, Sweden


Posters program committee members

Patricia Arias, KIT, Germany
Xinlei He, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Germany
Juliane Krämer, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Erwin Quiring, TU Braunschweig, Germany
Neta Shiff Rozen, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Tobias Urban, Westphalian University of Applied Sciences, Gelsenkirchen, Germany
Di Wang, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia
Zhikun Zhang, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Germany


Tutorials chair

Haya Shulman, Fraunhofer SIT, Germany | National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity ATHENE, Germany


Publication chairs

Philipp Jeitner, Fraunhofer SIT, Germany
Hervais Simo, Fraunhofer SIT, Germany


Publicity chairs

Oliver Küch, Fraunhofer SIT, Germany
Anna Spiegel, Fraunhofer SIT, Germany


Sponsorship chair

Ute Richter, Fraunhofer SIT, Germany


Local arrangements chair

Linda Schreiber, National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity ATHENE, Germany


Web chair

Ingo Siedermann, Fraunhofer SIT, Germany

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