The 10ᵗʰ International Symposium on Cyber Security, Cryptology and Machine Learning (CSCML)

Ph.D. and Masters Student Research Track Submission 

Deadline November 25, 2026

There is an opportunity for PhD and Masters students to submit their work in progress. This offers an opportunity to present their work in progress and to solicit comments from their peers, academicians, and industry experts. Accepted submissions will be gathered in a Technical Report of NHSA (just like previous year, CSCML 2023).​

See more information on the PhD/Masters Track Page.

​​​​​​​​​Please make sure to fill out and send to nhsa 'at' post.bgu.ac.il the LNCS License to Publish form.

The form has to be signed by the corresponding author from each paper.

CSCML 2026 – Full Conference Program

The Tenth Symposium on Cyber Security, Cryptology and Machine Learning

December 3–4, 2026 • Online (Zoom) • Hosted by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

All times are Israel Time (UTC+2).

Thursday, December 3

08:20 – 08:30

Opening Ceremony

Shlomi Dolev

08:30 – 09:20

Keynote Speaker 1: Yossi Vardi

Talk Titled: The Human Dimension of Machine Learning

Introduction by: Shlomi Dolev

09:20 – 10:30

Parallel sessions

Academic Track: Morning Session

Moderator: Panos Nastou

09:20 – 09:35

Post-Quantum Migration of Electronic National Lotteries: A Verifiable Generator-Verifier-Auditor Architecture

Vasiliki Liagkou, Panagiotis Nastou, Paul Spirakis and Yannis Stamatiou

09:35 – 09:50

Quantum-Inspired Zero-Noise Extrapolation for Robust Physical Layer Security

Rajnish Kumar and Shlomi Arnon

09:50 – 10:05

Privacy-Preserving Uniswap: A Comparison-Free Encrypted AMM Protocol

Allon Adir, Ehud Aharoni, Nir Drucker, Eyal Kushnir, Omri Soceanu and Hayim Shaul

10:05 – 10:20

Fully Dynamic Hop-Countered Cuckoo Hashing for Secure Distributed Directory Systems

Shlomi Dolev, Ehud Gudes and Daniel Shlomo

10:20 – 10:30

Multi-Party Computation in Machine Learning: Privacy-Preserving Ridge Regression

Radosław Trzmielewski

PhD / Masters Track — Session 1

Moderator: Oded Margalit

09:20 – 09:30  Welcome and Instructions

Presentations to be announced

10:30 – 10:40

Break

10:40 – 12:35

Parallel sessions

Academic Track: Mid-Morning Session

Moderator: Hadassa Daltrophe

10:40 – 10:55

Extraction meets Distillation – Cryptanalytic techniques to recover Parameters from a Deep Neural Network

Biprarshi Biswas, Subhamoy Maitra, Arya Anshuman Ojha, Yubaraj Das, Devansh Khosla, Kamran Rais and Saankhya Samanta

10:55 – 11:10

Reasoning Under Promised Distributions: Evaluating LLMs on Black-Box Reduction Rigor

Shay Gueron, Isaac Elbaz and Philip Woods

11:10 – 11:25

Evolving Character-String Suffixes: A Black-Box Genetic-Algorithm Attack on the Text-Conditioning Stage of Diffusion Models

Shachar Shmueli, Ofir Kruzel, Amit Peled, and Ofer Hadar

11:25 – 11:40

Hybrid AI-Driven Bug Localization in SoC RTL

Oren Nishry and Ronen Gal

11:40 – 11:55

Sole Control over SSCD: Misuse Detection with Power-of-2-Choices

Mirosław Kutyłowski, Dominik Bojko, Jacek Cichoń, Oliwer Sobolewski and Gabriel Wechta

11:55 – 12:10

I Know Where Your Private Bucket Is Located

Moshe Azulay, Anat Bremler-Barr and Yaniv Harel

12:10 – 12:25

Optimizing Decoy-Vulnerability Placement for Attack Graph Obfuscation under Adversarial Awareness

Ortal Geva, Ehud Gudes and Rami Puzis

12:25 – 12:35

An Interactive AIS Protocol Simulator for Maritime Anomaly Detection and Spatio-Temporal Analytics

Silvie Levy and Shlomy Benjo

PhD / Masters Track — Session 2 (10:40 – 11:30)

Moderator: Oded Margalit

Presentations to be announced

12:35 – 12:50

Lunch Break

12:50 – 14:10

Parallel sessions

Academic Track: Noon Session

Moderator: Ofer Hadar

12:50 – 13:00

Multi-Platform Payment Fraud Detection via Behavioral Velocity Profiling and Cost-Sensitive Gradient Boosting

Lohith R D and Shaila S G

13:00 – 13:10

Privacy-Preserving Document Summarization

Itai Assraf and Mark Last

13:10 – 13:25

Dynamic Data Usage Prediction for Mobile Telecom Networks

Linoy Arami and Lee-Ad Gottlieb

13:25 – 13:40

GDS-for-AI-RAG: Gradient-Learned Navigable Graphs with Independent Multi-Hub Parallel Beam Search

Hillel Avni, Shlomi Dolev, Shira Rad Shilo and Michael Segal

13:40 – 13:50

Interference-Based Non-Quantum Key Distribution

Shlomi Dolev, Yizhak Kahana and Yaakov Stein

13:50 – 14:00

Can Induced Emotions Predict Movie Success?

Milka Kaplan, Armin Shmilovici and Mark Last

14:00 – 14:10

BeeVision: Marked Bee Detection and Tracking

Almog Babila, Ariel Ariav, Hadassa Daltrophe and Tammar Shrot

Entrepreneurship (Pitch) Track

12:50 – 14:10

Moderator: Yonah Alexandre Bronstein

12:50 – 12:55  Welcome and Instructions

14:05 – 14:10  Judge Deliberations and Tally

Presentations to be announced

14:10 – 15:00

Keynote Speaker 2: Stuart Russell

Talk Titled: How Not to Destroy the World With AI

Introduction by: Paul Spirakis

15:00 – 15:10

Break

15:10 – 16:30

Academic Track: Afternoon Session

Moderator: Ehud Gudes

15:10 – 15:25

JetStream: Privacy-preserving Memoryless Aggregate Computations on Large Data Streams

George Alter, Chongwon Cho, Quinn Grier, Steve Lu, Tod Massa and Rafail Ostrovsky

15:25 – 15:40

Pruning Merkle-Tree Consistent Accumulator

Anna Mendonca, Hudson Shi, Ivan Pryvalov and Amir Herzberg

15:40 – 15:55

Private Identity-based Bulletin Boards for Anonymous Messaging and Online Services

Karim Eldefrawy, Benjamin Terner, Stanislaw Jarecki and Gene Tsudik

15:55 – 16:10

AMUSE: Asynchronous Multi-Agent Multi-String Uncoordinated Secure Encryption

Hillel Avni, Shlomi Dolev, Stav Elbar, Zvi Galil, Komal Kumari, Shantanu Sharma, Jeffrey Ullman and Moti Yung

16:10 – 16:20

Calibration and False-Claim Accounting in Composed AI Workflows

Karim Eldefrawy

16:20 – 16:30

MergeML: Privacy-Preserving Federation of Decision Layers over Private Feature Extractors with Single-Key and Multi-Key CKKS

Devharsh Trivedi

16:30 – 17:30

Keynote Speaker 3: Silvio Micali

Talk Titled: Smart Institutional Platforms

Introduction by: Stefan Dziembowski

17:30 – 18:00

Pitch Finalist Ceremony

Hosted by: Yonah Alexandre Bronstein

The three finalists from the Entrepreneurship (Pitch) Track will each have 5 minutes to present their pitch again to the entire CSCML audience. The audience will then vote for the best pitch.

18:00 – 19:00

Evening Keynote: Martin Hellman

Talk Titled: Public Key Cryptography and Peace

Interviewer: Yehuda Afek

19:00 – 20:00

Panel Discussion: Modern Cryptography: From Its Foundation to the Post-Quantum, AI Era and Beyond

Panel Speakers: Ronald Rivest, Ralph Merkle, Gilles Brassard and Charles Bennett

Moderator: Shlomi Dolev

20:00 – 20:15

Closing Ceremony / Remarks — Day 1

Shlomi Dolev

Friday, December 4

11:00 – 11:10

Welcome

Hosted by: Shlomi Dolev

11:10 – 12:00

Virtual Tour: To be announced

Format: Live virtual tour, followed by audience Q&A

12:00 – 12:50

Keynote Speaker 4: To be announced

12:50 – 13:40

Keynote Speaker 5: To be announced

13:40 – 14:00

Closing Ceremony / Blessing

Shlomi Dolev