Seminar on Systems Security

Course Overview:

The seminar will focus on fundamental and recent topics in systems security.

Objective: The learning objective is to analyze selected research papers published at top systems+security venues and then identify open problems in this space. The seminar will achieve this via several components: reading papers, technical presentations, writing analysis and critique summaries, class discussions, and exploring potential research topics.

Content: Each student will pick one paper from the selected list, present it in the class, and lead the discussion for that paper. All students will read at most two research papers per week and submit their critique summaries before each class.

Additional Info: Student who are either interested in security research or are exploring thesis topics are highly encouraged to take this course. Students with systems/architecture/verification/PL expertise and basic security understanding are welcome.