Review: WISC 2021
The first Women in Security and Cryptography (WISC) workshop of the CASA cluster of excellence took place from 21-23 September 2021. International female* doctoral candidates and outstanding female* students from the field of IT security participated in the digital workshop.
Programme with selected lectures from science and industry
The conference programme focused on top-class lectures by leading female* scientists in the field of IT security. These enabled participants to gain relevant insights into the industry, to get to know role models and to establish lasting connections with important players in the scientific community.
The outstanding speakers at the WISC and their presentation topics
- Tal Rabin, University of Pennsylvania & Algorand Foundation, USA
"MPC in the YOSO (You Only Speak Once) Model". - Elette Boyle, FACT Research Center, IDC Herzliya, Israel
"Pseudorandom Correlation Generators" - Kenza Ait Si Abbou, Senior Manager for Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
"Artificial intelligence needs more women!" - Michelle Mazurek, Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Maryland, USA
"Investigating Secure Development In Practice: A Human-Centered Perspective" - Adrienne Porter Felt, Director of Engineering, Google, USA
"An Industry Career Path, in Security and Beyond" - Carmela Troncoso, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
"Why Synthetic Data Is Not a Solution to Any Machine Learning Problem".
Exchange, training and meeting like-minded people
In addition to the exciting talks by the speakers and the diverse contributions by the participants during the lightning talks, the WISC was dedicated to scientific exchange between all attendees. The aim was not only to create an attractive continuing education programme, but also to bring together women* from the various fields of IT security research and to promote a collaborative exchange within the community. To this purpose, there were targeted opportunities for networking and conversations during social activities.
