In this talk, the speaker will introduce the state-of-art techniques in both defense and attack. More specifically, he will summary the most effective attack approach and the defense mechanisms. He will also share the approaches their team adopted for the competition. Wenbo Guo is a Ph.D. student in the College of Information Science and Technology at Pennsylvania State University. Currently, he is a research intern at JD security research center in Silicon Valley. Before joining the Penn State, he got his Master degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2017. His research mainly focuses on deep learning as well as its applications in program analysis and security. He has published several research papers in the high-quality journals and conferences, such as KDD. Alejandro Cuevas, originally from Paraguay, graduated in May 2018 from The Pennsylvania State University with a B.S. Security and Risk Analysis. As an undergraduate, Alejandro co-authored 2 papers in different areas within computer security. At Penn State, Alejandro has worked on analyzing the challenges in the reproduction of crowd-reported vulnerabilities and is currently involved in a project presenting a novel RNN for memory alias analysis. Furthermore, Alejandro has also extensively collaborated with EPFL, exploring the security challenges faced by the ICRC and helping in the deployment of an anonymous communication protocol with provable traffic-analysis resistance. Alejandro is currently applying to Ph.D. programs and hopes to start in the fall of 2019. |