General Program

Presenter Instructions (PDF)

Pre-Conference

Thursday, August 20

PST Cybersecurity Summit 2026

Three days of industry engagement, keynotes, technical sessions, workshops, tutorials, posters, and community events. All times are Eastern Time (ET). Driving to the Kanata North or Desmarais Building venues? See our parking information.

Day 1

Wednesday, August 26

Industry Day & Conference Reception

8:15 a.m. || 3:30 p.m.

Shuttles to Kanata North Campus

Departs from the — one morning and one afternoon departure. Please be present at the location 15 minutes before the departure.

4:30 p.m. 6:00 p.m.

Conference Reception & Networking

Kanata North uOttawa Campus

6:30 p.m.

Shuttle to Downtown Ottawa

Departs from Kanata North Campus

Day 2

Thursday, August 27

Main Conference & Parallel Program

8:30 a.m.

Registration opens

DMS 4th floor elevator lobby, Desmarais Hall — 55 Laurier Avenue East, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5

9:00 a.m. 9:15 a.m.

Opening Remarks

Main room: DMS 4101

9:15 a.m. 10:15 a.m.

Keynote

Dr. Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi

Professor of Computer Science, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany

Session Chair: Dr. Suryadipta Majumdar

Main room: DMS 4101

Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi
10:15 a.m. 10:45 a.m.

Coffee break

Main room: DMS 4101

10:45 a.m. 12:15 p.m.

Parallel program

Session 1 (DMS 4120) Privacy-Preserving & Federated Learning Session Chair: Dr. Rongxing Lu
10:45 #183 Exact and One-Shot Predictive Modeling with Vertically Partitioned Data: Privacy-Protecting Approaches for Binary Responses
Domingue et al.
11:07 #216 Uncertainty-Aware Feature and Label Transformations for Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning under Local Differential Privacy
Yagishita et al.
11:29 #109 Cross-Round Leakage: Enabling Multiclass Property Inference under Aggregate-Only Federated Updates [REMOTE]
Jerry-Akpan et al.
11:51 #28 Towards Fairness in Federated Client Selection via JS-Similarity Voting on Distilled Knowledge [S] [REMOTE]
Okay et al.
Session 2 (DMS 4130) Malware Detection & Analysis Session Chair: Dr. Suryadipta Majumdar
10:45 #170 Domain Adaptation for Cross-Architecture IoT Malware Detection under Data Scarcity
Lin et al.
11:07 #98 Cost-Aware Active Learning with Noisy LLM Annotations for Android Malware Detection
Deng et al.
11:29 #83 ANDROVEIL: A Reproducible Dataset of Obfuscated Android Malware
Fu et al.
11:51 #95 Explaining Provenance-Based GNN Detectors with Interpretable Graph Structural Features [S] [REMOTE]
Mukherjee et al.
Session 3 (DMS 4170) Access Control & Security Policy Session Chair: Dr. Honghao Fu
10:45 #151 A Feasibility Analysis of Network-Layer Enforcement for Data Usage Control Requirements
Qarawlus et al.
11:07 #72 Research-Practice Gap in Access Control: An Empirical Study of 56 Interviews with Cybersecurity Practitioners [S]
Kuate et al.
11:29 #105 Fine-Grained Access Control for MongoDB [S]
Abdelgawad et al.
11:51 #168 NGAC Policy Learning using Access Logs through Constrained Matrix Factorization
Chawla et al.
3-Minutes Thesis Competition DMS 4140
12:15 p.m. 1:30 p.m.

Lunch

Main room: DMS 4101

1:30 p.m. 2:40 p.m.

Parallel program

Session 4 (DMS 4120) Post-Quantum & Quantum-Resilient Security Session Chair: Dr. Jake Doliskani
1:30 #53 PAPQUIC: Performance Analyzer of Post-Quantum QUIC [S]
Rigon et al.
1:52 #141 A Hybrid PQC-TLS Gateway with Integrated Passkeys Authentication [REMOTE]
Al-Hakawati et al.
2:14 #14 Quantum Resilient Identity Federation for OIDC and SAML with Hybrid Post Quantum Trust Chains [REMOTE]
Gupta et al.
Session 5 (DMS 4130) Differential Privacy & Synthetic Data Session Chair: Dr. Carlisle Adams
1:30 #163 Dual-Path Discriminator Architecture for Differentially Private Synthetic Tabular Data Generation
Padalko et al.
1:52 #214 Beyond the Stitching Assumption: A Unified Framework for Multimodal Synthetic Data Evaluation via Semantic Quantization
Yuan
2:14 #100 Concentrated Reference-Panel Exposure in HAPNEST-Generated Synthetic Genomic Data: A Membership Inference Attack Evaluation on the CanPath Cohort
Al-Saidi et al.
Session 6 (DMS 4170) Blockchain, Supply Chain & Chains of Trust Session Chair: Dr. Jeremy Clark
1:30 #24 DarkChain: Weaponizing the Ethereum State Trie as a Censorship-Resistant Distribution Network for Illicit Content
Beard et al.
1:52 #143 A Logic for Chains of Trust [S]
Voorneveld et al.
2:14 #49 STEPchain: Platform for Secure, Scalable, and Privacy-Preserving Supply Chain Tracing and Counterfeit Protection [REMOTE]
Finke et al.
Workshop (DMS 4140) SECURE-AGRO 2026
1:30 Opening Remarks – Dr. Ali Dehghantanha
1:40 Keynote – Dr. Rongxing Lu
2:20 Paper 1: Cross-Platform Binary Code Similarity Detection for IoT Firmware Vulnerability Analysis: A Review of Compiler, Optimization, Architecture, and LLM-Era Challenges
Mohammadhossein Amouei1 and Benjamin C. M. Fung1
1: School of Information Studies, McGill University, Canada
2:30 Paper 2: Towards Deep Research for Multi-Document Question Answering in Food Safety
Arin Tashfiq1, Adam Davis2, Ivan Aiwerioghene-Eribo2 and Havva Alizadeh Noughabi2
1: The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong; 2: University of Guelph, Canada
2:40 p.m. 3:00 p.m.

Coffee break

Main room: DMS 4101

3:00 p.m. 4:00 p.m.

Parallel program

Keynote Dr. Jeremy Clark Associate Professor, Concordia University, Canada Session Chair: Dr. Rongxing Lu Main room: DMS 4101
Jeremy Clark
Workshop (DMS 4140) SECURE-AGRO 2026
  • 3:00 Keynote – Dr. Benjamin Fung
  • 3:30 Paper 3: Byzantine-Robust Federated Hypernetworks for Smart-Farm Intrusion Detection
    Jun Meng1, Benjamin C. M. Fung1 and Claude Fachkha2
    1: McGill University, Canada; 2: University of Dubai, UAE
  • 3:40 Paper 4: An Experimental Analysis of Supervised and Unsupervised RFFI under Temporal Drift
    Xinyi Li1, Samer Lahoud1 and Nur Zincir-Heywood1
    1: Dalhousie University, Canada
  • 3:50 Paper 5: Food Safety under Adaptive Attack: A Cross-Model Evaluation of LLM Jailbreaks
    Mohamed Amine Ben Mosbah1 and Havva Alizadeh Noughabi2
    1: University of Sousse, Tunisia; 2: University of Guelph, Canada
4:15 p.m. 10:30 p.m.

Group Photo, City Walk, Museum Visit, Banquet Dinner

Banquet: , Canadian Museum of History — 100 Laurier Street, Gatineau, QC K1A 0M8

The evening concludes with a banquet dinner in the River View Salon, a private event space offering panoramic views of the Ottawa River and Parliament Hill.

Parking information at the museum
View of the Canadian Museum of History at nightfall
Canadian Museum of History
Canadian Museum of History
Poster session & EDI in the Age of AI Research Initiative (Main room: DMS 4101)

Day 3

Friday, August 28

Main Conference, Tutorials & Closing

8:30 a.m.

Registration opens

DMS 4th floor elevator lobby, Desmarais Hall — 55 Laurier Avenue East, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5

9:00 a.m. 10:30 a.m.

Parallel program

Session 7 (DMS 4120) LLM Security & Safety Session Chair: Dr. Ali Miri
9:00 #67 Black-Box Behavioral Distillation Breaks Safety Alignment in Medical LLMs
Duniawi et al.
9:22 #205 CDDO: Consensus Driven Diagnostic Override Through Adaptive Exploitation of Medical LLMs
Safi et al.
9:44 #13 Payload-as-Data: A Structural Argument and Measurement Study of Prompt Injection in LLM-Integrated SOCs
Chu et al.
10:06 #139 From Prompt to Physical Actuation: Holistic Threat Modeling of LLM-Enabled Robotic Systems [S] [REMOTE]
Nagaraja et al.
Session 8 (DMS 4130) CPS, Smart Grid & Automotive Security Session Chair: Dr. Jun Yan
9:00 #142 GridWhisper: Disrupting an Islanded Campus Microgrid via Protocol-Layer Attacks
Oskouei et al.
9:22 #32 Blocking Post-Aggregation Tampering in Federated Net-Load Forecasting: A Real-Data Study with PTProsumer [S]
Murthy et al.
9:44 #144 OTARQ: Adaptive and Automated Risk Quantification Method for OTA Updates in SDVs [REMOTE]
Sghaier et al.
10:06 #23 From Tabular Flow Features to LLMs: Text Serialization for Smart Grid Intrusion Detection [REMOTE]
Saleh et al.
Session 9 (DMS 4170) Systems, Hardware & Device Security Session Chair: Dr. Jake Doliskani
9:00 #47 What's My Age Again? How Old is Too Old For Small Office/Home Office (SOHO) Router Use?
Healy et al.
9:22 #66 Write Data, Wrong Address: ECC-Based Detection of DRAM Aliasing in Trusted Execution Environments [S]
Young et al.
9:44 #125 Canary in the Container: Deception-Based Monitoring for Private Container Images [S]
Tsouvalas et al.
10:06 #211 Practical Stabilization of XLATE/Primer-Probe Cache Attacks under Noisy Execution Conditions [S] [REMOTE]
Pulkit et al.
Tutorial 1 (DMS 4140) Towards Autonomous and Sustainable Machine Learning for IoT Cybersecurity: From Theory to Practice
10:30 a.m. 11:00 a.m.

Coffee break

Main room: DMS 4101

11:00 a.m. 12:00 p.m.

Parallel program

Keynote Dr. Vyas Sekar Tan Family Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University Session Chair: Dr. Paria Shirani Main room: DMS 4101
Vyas Sekar
Tutorial 1 (DMS 4140) Towards Autonomous and Sustainable Machine Learning for IoT Cybersecurity: From Theory to Practice
12:15 p.m. 1:15 p.m.

Lunch

Main room: DMS 4101

1:15 p.m. 2:45 p.m.

Parallel program

Session 10 (DMS 4120) Trustworthy AI Agents & LLM Privacy Session Chair: Dr. Indrakshi Ray
1:15 #97 Argox: A Framework for Securing Large Language Models from Model Inversion Attacks
Modi et al.
1:37 #76 A Reinforcement Learning Framework for Reducing Sensitive-Data Leakage in Locally Deployed Open-Source Large Language Models [S]
Greige et al.
1:59 #165 ToolMinimize: Auditing and Rewriting LLM Agent Tool Calls to Minimize Privacy Exposure
Li et al.
2:21 #43 A framework for the estimation of policy-based trustworthiness of AI agents [REMOTE]
Basu et al.
Session 11 (DMS 4130) Cryptographic Foundations & Confidential Computing Session Chair: Dr. Carlisle Adams
1:15 #35 The ABCs of Jolt: Advice and Bytecode Commitments
Dao et al.
1:37 #89 Search to Decision Reduction for Dihedral Cosets and a Quantum Public–Key Encryption
Doliskani
1:59 #58 Trustless Confidential Containers: Verifiable Execution from Code to Runtime [S]
Higo et al.
2:21 #33 Rational Deterrence for FHE Integrity: A Hybrid TEE–ZKP Architecture with Probabilistic Auditing [REMOTE]
Dumlu
Session 12 (DMS 4170) Authentication, Fraud & Media Forensics Session Chair: Dr. Rongxing Lu
1:15 #217 Enforcing Sender Authenticity by Construction: A Document-Oriented, Sessional Signature Scheme for Email Anti-Phishing [REMOTE]
Li
1:37 #31 Forensic Schema for Psychological Manipulation in Cyber Fraud: LLM-Driven Victim Reports Analysis [REMOTE]
Wen et al.
1:59 #4 A Million Keys to Try: The Economics of OTP Brute-Force Attacks [S]
Chu et al.
2:21 #155 Interpretable Deepfake Detection in Videos via Explicit Forensic Features and Temporal Modeling
Chahira et al.
Tutorial 2 (DMS 4140) DevSecOpsTwin: Toward a Digital Twin for Secure Agile Software Development Lifecycle
2:45 p.m. 3:15 p.m.

Coffee break

Main room: DMS 4101

3:15 p.m. 4:30 p.m.

Parallel program

Session 13 (DMS 4120) Vulnerability Analysis & Software Security Session Chair: Dr. Suryadipta Majumdar
3:15 #25 Measuring Security Hardening Adoption in Infrastructure as Code: An Empirical Study of Public Repositories
Yang et al.
3:37 #209 A Lifecycle-Aware EPSS Correction for Trustworthy Vulnerability Prioritization [S]
You
3:59 #169 ReVEX: DSPy-Optimized ReAct Agents for Exploitability Verification of Container Vulnerabilities [REMOTE]
Thakur et al.
Session 14 (DMS 4130) Network & Wireless Security Session Chair: Dr. Lianying Zhao
3:15 #194 Unsupervised DoS Attack Detection in O-RAN with Adaptive Thresholding and Autoencoder Models
Abdelhalim et al.
3:37 #158 Information flow detection in the Internet of Things [S]
Kourko et al.
3:59 #152 Replicating the Signature: Unsupervised Targeted Impersonation Attack on RF Fingerprinting [REMOTE]
Albousayri et al.
Session 15 (DMS 4170) Model Protection & Trustworthy ML Session Chair: Dr. Jun Yan
3:15 #96 Model Protection in CNNs via Partial Parameter Concealment [S]
Arai et al.
3:37 #200 Human-Aware Trust Framework for AI-Driven Vulnerability Patch Generation [S]
Naorem
3:59 #127 Prismo: A Decision Support System for Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning Frameworks Selection [REMOTE]
Njungle et al.
Tutorial 2 (DMS 4140) DevSecOpsTwin: Toward a Digital Twin for Secure Agile Software Development Lifecycle
4:30 p.m. 4:45 p.m.

Closing Remarks

Main room: DMS 4101

Poster session & EDI in the Age of AI Research Initiative (Main room: DMS 4101)
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[S] = short paper · [REMOTE] = approved remote presentation