The City College of New York welcomes top cryptography researchers to its campus on Friday, Feb. 20 for “NY CryptoDay.” Sponsored by Google, the program is aimed at promoting research in cryptography in the New York area.
Presentations, in CCNY’s ASRC Auditorium at 85 St. Nicholas Terrace, in Manhattan, include a talk, 11 –11:50 a.m., by doctoral degree candidate Tugce Ozdemir of Distinguished Professor Rosario Gennaro’s Center for Algorithms and Interactive Scientific Software (CAISS) research group. It is entitled “Towards Verifiable AI with Lightweight Cryptographic Proofs of Inference.”
Following are the other presentations by leading researchers from metropolitan area universities and industry labs:
- 10 – 10:50 a.m. “Limitations of Input Filtering for LLM from a Cryptographic Lens,” Mingyuan Wang (NYU Shanghai);
- 2 – 2:50 p.m., “Gödel in Cryptography: Zero-Knowledge for NP With No Interaction, No Setup, and Perfect Soundness,” Rahul Ilango (IAS); and
- 3 – 3:50 p.m., “Golden: Lightweight Non-Interactive Distributed Key Generation,” Chelsea Komlo (NEAR).
Events are free and open to the public, but registration is mandatory. The registration deadline is 11:59 p.m., Feb. 18. Click here for more information and for abstracts about the talks.
NY CryptoDay is organized by Fabrice Benhamouda (Amazon Web Services), Daniel Escudero (TACEO), Tal Rabin (Amazon Web Services), Mariana Raykova (Google), with the help and support of Rosario Gennaro.
This is the latest CCNY-GOOGLE collaboration in cybersecurity. Currently, The City College is a participant in a $12 million Google initiative to stimulate the cybersecurity ecosystem and establish New York City as the global leader in cybersecurity. CUNY, Columbia University, Cornell, and New York University are the other institutions involved in the Google Cyber NYC Institutional Research Program.
Four CCNY faculty -- Gennaro, Nelly Fazio (both computer science), Samah Saeed and Tushar Jois (both electrical engineering) were among the beneficiaries of the $12 million grant that has gone towards cutting-edge research.
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