Keynote Speakers
Prof Sridevan Parameswaran
The University of Sydney
Bio: Sri Parameswaran is a Professor and the Head of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Sydney. Prior this, he was a Professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of New South Wales, and has also held the position of Acting Head of School at the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of New South Wales from 2019 to 2020. He has also served as the Program Director for Computer Engineering and Post Graduate Research Coordinator at the University of New South Wales, and was previously an academic at the University of Queensland. Sri Parameswaran has held visiting academic positions at Kyushu University in Japan and the University of California, Irvine, worked as a consultant at NEC Research Labs in Princeton and the Asian Development Bank, and served as a member of the Australian Research Council College of Experts. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.
Title: Jittery When Faced with Power: Remote Side Channels in Reconfigurable Systems.
Summary: As computing moves from the desktop to the data center and the cloud, we have begun to learn an uncomfortable truth: even the most isolated systems still leak. This talk examines two emerging and intertwined phenomena: remote power attacks and jitter-based side-channel attacks, which challenge long-held assumptions about hardware security. In remote power analysis, adversaries extract secrets by observing minute variations in power consumption from afar, exploiting the shared fabric of cloud FPGAs and SoCs. In jitter-based attacks, those same power ripples manifest as timing instabilities—measurable “jitters” that can carry hidden information across supposedly secure boundaries. Together, these effects expose a new class of vulnerabilities where power causes jitter and jitter betrays power. Drawing on recent experimental work—spanning on-chip sensors and jitter filters —this keynote demonstrates how attackers can recover cryptographic keys without physical access, and how defenders can respond with dynamic frequency tuning, randomized clocking, and cross-layer jitter mitigation. Ultimately, this talk argues that security must extend further into digital systems. Power and timing are no longer afterthoughts in engineering; they are the next frontier in security.
Prof Sandeep Shukla
International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH)
Bio: Prof. Sandeep Kumar Shukla is currently serving as Director and full professor at International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Hyderabad. Prof. Shukla headed the department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Kanpur between 2017 and 2020 and served as the Poonam & Prabhu Goel Chair Professor from 2016 to 2019. He also acted as a joint coordinator of the National Interdisciplinary Centre for Cyber Security & Cyber Defense of Critical Infrastructures (C3i Center) at IIT Kanpur which he also founded and as a joint coordinator of the National Blockchain Project funded by the National Security Council Secretariat. He served as a project director of the C3i Hub—a Technology Innovation Hub on Cyber Security created by the DST, Government of India until March 2025. In August 2025, he moved from IIT Kanpur to IIIT Hyderabad. He worked at GTE Labs as a Principal Member of Technical Staff, as Senior Staff Design Engineer at Intel Corporation, as research faculty at the University of California, Irvine, and as a Professor of Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA. His major research areas are cybersecurity, cyber-resilient system design, risk assessment, critical infrastructure security, and blockchain technology. Prof. Shukla had published over 300 peer-reviewed conference papers, journal articles, and book chapters, authored 12 books, and served as editor for several noted journals and technical publications.
Title: Ransomware Detection and Prevention: The stories of RANDART and LARM
Summary: TBC.