Joint-FRS workshop on Internet Resilience on 1 Aug

Go behind the scenes with Adrian Perrig and Richard Ma as they discuss how to make the Internet resilient and its implications for daily life.

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Date: Mon, 1 Aug
Time: 10am - 12 noon
Location: Value Lab Asia, Singapore-ETH Centre, Level 6 CREATE building (in person)
Topic: Internet Resilience

Speakers:

  • Adrian PERRIG, Head of the Network Security Group, D-INFK ETH Zürich
  • Richard MA, Head of the Systems, Analytics, Network, Economics Group, NUS School of Computing
     

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Urban systems, the economy, and society rely on various internet services. As a result, the internet itself has evolved into an infrastructure system with multiple interdependences, making internet resilience crucial. In this workshop, Adrian Perrig and Richard Ma will provide a look behind the scenes of the internet and discuss the implications for daily life. Topics covered are the components that form the internet, its ecosystem, the growing cyber-attack threat, and how it can be mitigated with new solutions.

After the keynotes, we will open the stage for a Q&A panel to allow all SEC researchers to ask questions and discuss the impact and intersections with their research topics.

The workshop will conclude at noon with a lunch provided by the Singapore-ETH Centre to celebrate Swiss National Day on 1 August.

Speakers' Profiles:

Adrian Perrig heads the Network Security Group at the Department for Computer Science at ETH Zurich. His research activities cover broadcast authentication, DDoS defense, and secure routing. His work on TESLA, a protocol for broadcast stream authentication, is used by industry (e.g., for smart meters that authenticate utility signals). Perrig’s group proposed several new approaches that profoundly influenced the research community in the area of DDoS defence. These defence mechanisms have also influenced SCION, a next-generation Internet architecture he developed and which is fully implemented and deployed in the production networks of multiple internet service providers and the Swiss Secure Finance Network.  

Richard T. B. Ma is an associate professor with the Department of Computer Science, School of Computing, National University of Singapore. His research interests include cloud computing, distributed data, AI systems, and Internet economics and evolution. He leads the external pageSystems, Analytics, Networks, Economics (SANE) group, which develops cloud-based data systems and performance models and analyses of network systems. His group has extensively studied the net neutrality debate and provided desirable regulatory policies under various market structures.

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