Workshop Chairs
Liang Zhao, Kennesaw State University
Fangyu Li, Kennesaw State University
Keynote Speaker
Shouling Ji, Zhejiang University
Title: Security and Privacy of Federated Learning
Scope
With the rapid development of emerging computing systems such as Cloud computing, Fog/edge computing, Cyber Physical Systems (CPS), Internet of Things (IoT), smart applications in energy, public safety, healthcare, and other sectors have been becoming increasingly prosperous. Those computing systems reply on interconnected and collaborative environments, which integrate cooperation of communication and computation among all the system participants. Therefore, embedding secure computation is imperative for those new computing paradigms to be fully adopted in various security-centric domains and applications.

Recently, Homomorphic Encryption (HE) has been investigated as a possible solution for secure computation as it differs from typical encryption methods in that it allows computation to be performed directly on encrypted data. This key feature enables computation of sensitive information on even trustless entities. However, due to the characteristics and complexity of interconnected computing systems including IoT and CPS, integration of HE for secure distributed computation infrastructure is still challenging and remains underexplored.

The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers with practitioners and industry to share their new ideas, latest findings and results to push the limits and extend HE to new use cases and applications.

Topics
Particular topics of interest include:

HE based techniques for IoT
HE based technologies for CPS
HE based technologies for Cloud computing
HE based technologies for Fog/Edge computing
HE based secure machine learning/deep learning
HE for Big Data security
HE for security of critical infrastructures
HE for medical/health data privacy
HE for security in Social Networks
HE based techniques for Smart City
HE based techniques for secure control in Smart Grid
HE based techniques for Smart Connected Vehicles


Paper submission: 20 January 2021 (new date)

Notification deadline: 15 February 2021

Camera Ready: 8 March 2021
Publication
Accepted and presented technical papers will be submitted for publication by Springer and made available through SpringerLink Digital Library. Workshop Papers will be published as a part of the (EAI AC3 2021) Conference Proceedings. Proceedings will be submitted for inclusion in leading indexing services, including Ei Compendex, ISI Web of Science, Scopus, CrossRef, Google Scholar, DBLP, as well as EAI’s own EU Digital Library (EUDL).

Technical Program Committee of the Workshop
Hossain Shahriar, Kennesaw State University,
Dan Huang, Sun Yat-sen University,
Zhuojun Duan, James Madison University,
Meng Han, Kennesaw State University,
Song Tan, MathWorks,
Qingjun Xiao, Southeast University of China,
Zhen Hong, Zhejiang University of Technology,
Wei Zhong, University of South Carolina Upstate,