Kevin Butler
Professor, Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering University of Florida
I am Director of the Florida Institute for Cybersecurity Research and a University Term Professor. I also direct the Center for Privacy and Security for Marginalized and Vulnerable Populations (PRISM), a National Science Foundation Frontiers project. I am also a member of the Computing Research Association's Community Computing Council. I joined the University of Florida in 2014 as part of the UF Rising to National Preeminence Hiring Program and was the Arnold and Lisa Goldberg Rising Star Associate Professor in Computer Science prior to promotion to Professor. My research focuses on the security of computing devices, systems, networks, and users of computing technology. Recent work in my group has included securing embedded systems and protocols, mobile device security and privacy, cellular device and network security, side channel analysis, establishing the trustworthiness of data and maintaining its provenance, protection of Internet traffic and examination of censorship, and attacks and defenses against the cloud infrastructure, and needs of marginalized and vulnerable users, particularly populations with impairments and survivors of abuse. Some of my other research areas of interest include securing Internet routing, malware propagation, applied cryptosystems, adversarial machine learning, cyber-physical systems, and trustworthy computing. I received a National Science Foundation CAREER award in 2013, and was named International Educator of the Year within the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering in 2017 for my work on developing global standards for securing digital financial services in the developing world. From 2017-2022 I was co-chair of the International Telecommunications Union's Security, Infrastructure, and Trust Working Group as part of the Financial Inclusion Global Initiative. I am a Senior Member of the IEEE and ACM. I was technical program co-chair of the 2022 USENIX Security Symposium and conference general chair for ACSAC 2020 and ACSAC 2021. I am also an affiliate faculty member of the Center for Children and Families within the University of Florida's Levin College of Law. |
Vijay MaureeProgramme Coordinator, Standardization Bureau, ITU
Vijay Mauree works at the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), since 2010 and has over 27 years of experience in project management and cybersecurity. He is the focal point for Digital Finance and Fintech at the Standardization Bureau in ITU. He leads the Digital Financial Services Security Lab at ITU. The Lab conducts security audits on mobile payment applications used in emerging economies and collaborates with DFS regulators and providers to enhance security of digital finance and adoption of international standards and best practices for security of digital financial inclusion and fintech. In addition, Vijay coordinates the secretariat for the ITU-T Focus Group on Costing Models for affordable data services and the Digital Currency Global Initiative which is a collaboration between ITU and Stanford University Future Digital Currency Initiative. The Digital Currency Global Initiative is investigating areas where technical standards for Central Bank Digital Currency, Stablecoins and cryptocurrency are required. He coordinated the work of the ITU-T Focus Group Digital Financial Services and ITU-T Focus Group Digital Currency including Digital Fiat Currency and also the Financial Inclusion Global Initiative (FIGI) from 2017 to 2021. FIGI was a joint programme of the ITU, World Bank, Bank for International Settlements and supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He led the FIGI Security, Infrastructure and Trust Working Group which investigated the security threats to the DFS Ecosystem and developing technical reports and guidelines to enhance trust in DFS. He was previously responsible for the implementation of projects under Bridging the Standardization Gap programme and undertaking research for production of Technology Watch reports. He published four Technology Watch reports on Optical networks, Smart Water Management, Privacy in the Cloud and Mobile Money. Vijay received his first degree in Computer Science with Electronic Engineering from University College London, UK and obtained his Masters degree in Information Technology from Imperial College, Science and Technology, UK. He holds an MBA from Cranfield School of Management in UK. |