SensorsS&P 2023

November 12, 2023
Istanbul, Turkiye

The International Workshop on
Security and Privacy of Sensing Systems

The First International Workshop on Security and Privacy of Sensing Systems (Sensors S&P 2023) will be held in conjunction with ACM SenSys 2023.

As sensing systems become increasingly ubiquitous in various safety-critical IoT applications, such as smart cities, healthcare, environmental monitoring, and industrial automation, providing security and privacy guarantees becomes increasingly elusive. The widespread deployment of networked sensors and the rapid advancements in black-box deep learning models capable of encoding large amounts of information into embeddings have led to heightened concerns about the potential misuse of sensitive data and the vulnerability of these systems to malicious attacks. The shift from specialized, domain-specific sensors to universal sensor paradigms necessitates novel approaches to ensuring security and privacy in these complex IoT ecosystems.

The Sensors S&P workshop addresses the above and other unique challenges to providing security and privacy guarantees in IoT sensor systems. We will provide a forum for researchers, practitioners, and industry partners to exchange ideas, present novel research findings, and foster collaborations among participants related to sensor security and privacy. The event will cover a wide range of topics related to security and privacy in sensing systems, including but not limited to:

• Assessing and mitigating security risks in safety-critical IoT applications
• Privacy-enhancing technologies for sensor data protection
• Secure communication protocols for sensor networks
• Secure and private sensor-fusion pipelines
• Authentication and access control mechanisms in IoT sensing systems
• Privacy-preserving machine learning and AI techniques for sensing systems
• Intrusion detection and response techniques for sensor networks
• Security and privacy challenges in IoT system interoperability
• Security and privacy issues in deep learning models for distributed sensing system
• Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies for secure IoT sensing
• Lightweight cryptographic algorithms for resource-constrained IoT devices
• End user security and privacy with human sensing interfaces
• Legal, regulatory, and ethical considerations in IoT security and privacy

Submission Instructions

Formatting: Submissions should be previously unpublished, and not currently under review by another conference or journal. Papers should be submitted for consideration via the workshop website, prior to the submission deadline, and must adhere to the provided formatting guidelines. All submissions must use the LaTeX styles found here . Papers that do not meet the size and formatting requirements will not be reviewed. Please note that ACM uses 9pt fonts in all conference proceedings, and the LaTeX style implicitly defines the font size to be 9pt.

Guidelines: Technical Papers up to 6 pages (including everything except references), reporting on novel research, to be presented at the workshop as an oral presentation. The submissions are double-blind.

Submission site: HotCRP link

Important Dates

• Workshop Papers Due 8 September, 2023 22 September, 2023, 23:59 AoE
• Workshop Paper Notification 6 October, 2023 13 October, 2023
• Workshop Paper Camera Ready 20 October, 2023 25, October, 2023 23:59 AoE
• Workshop Day 12 November 2023

Organizing Committee

Program Chairs

• Fatima Anwar (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
• Luis Garcia (University of Utah)

Program Committee

• Yasser Shoukry (University of California, Irvine)
• Akash Deep Singh (Ownwell)
• Yuan Tian (University of California, Los Angeles)
• Taegyu Kim (Pennsylvania State University)
• Alan Liu (Boston University)
• Sriharsha Etigowni (NREL)
• Salma Elmalaki (University of California, Irvine)
• Taqi Raza (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
• Faysal Shezan (University of Texas, Arlington)
• Ruoyu Wu (Purdue University)
• Ilias Giechaskiel (Jump Trading)
• Yan Long (University of Michigan)
• Aolin Ding (Accenture Labs)
• Atefeh Mohseni-Ejiyeh (University of California, Santa Barbara)

We are excited to announce Berkay Celik as our keynote speaker for Sensors SP 2023. Dr. Celik is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Purdue University, co-director of the PurSec Lab and member of CERIAS. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the Penn State University, where he was advised by Professor Patrick McDaniel and led graduate students of the Systems and Internet Infrastructure Security Labratory (SIIS). His research investigates the design and evaluation of security for software and systems, specifically on emerging computing platforms and the complex environments in which they operate. Through systems design, program analysis and formal methods, his research seeks to improve security and privacy guarantees in commodity computer systems. His research approach is best illustrated by his extensive work in safety, security and privacy of IoT systems.