Industrial Forum B

Introduction
Sakir Sezer, Queen’s University Belfast & CTO Titan IC, United Kingdom

Abstract: TBA

Biography: Prof Sakir Sezer is Director of Secure Digital Systems (SDS) research at Queen’s. His research interests include cloud, SDN/VNF and mobile security, traffic forensics, malware analysis and high-performance networks and content processing. He has successfully managed numerous EPSRC and EU research projects comprising consortia of academic and industrial partners. His patented research has led to major advances in the field of high-performance content and security processing and is being commercialised by Titan IC Systems. He has published 146 research papers, has given many plenary and keynote talks at major international (e.g. IEEE, IET) conferences.

SoC challenges enabling server-based networking
Ron Swartzentruber, Senior Principal Engineer, Netronome

Abstract: The demands placed on silicon for higher packet processing performance due to the needs of server-based networking have required the engineering community to seek creative and alternative solutions in order to deliver competitive products for the data center.  If ever there were a time for a cohesive silicon and software solution, that time is now.  Software defined networks have dramatically increased the requirements on silicon, and as a result numerous innovations across the industry have taken place.This session will present a scalable, chip multi-threaded, latency tolerant multi-processor architecture developed by Netronome.  The techniques invented in order to design a modular architecture allowing software to scale as packet processing requirements increase will be described during this presentation.

Open-NFP is a worldwide, community-driven organization that will be introduced during this talk.  This initiative enables open and collaborative research in the area of network function processing for server networking hardware. The organization is designed to serve the growing need from the academic and data center networking communities to conduct cutting-edge research and development in the areas of server-based networking data-path offload and acceleration.

Biography: Ron Swartzentruber is a Senior Principal Engineer for Netronome and is technical lead responsible for next generation silicon development programs.  He is currently working on the development of a 200G Network Flow Processor SoC targeted for high performance server based networking applications. He is a 20+ year industry veteran in the field of semiconductor design and has authored numerous patents and publications related to advancements in semiconductor architectures, logic and circuit design.  He has led numerous silicon development programs, and has successfully brought large scale SoC designs from inception through manufacturing and into the marketplace.

Netronome is an industry leader and pioneer in the field of Software Defined Networks and has applied their Network Flow Processor to the data center for virtualization, security and load balancing applications. The team has developed a line of Intelligent Server Adapters that enable a higher level of performance for Server Based Networking.

In silicon we trust - How to fix the Internet of broken things
Cesare Garlati, Chief Security Strategist,
 prpl Foundation

Abstract: In this live-demo session Cesare Garlati, Chief Security strategist at prpl Foundation and Co-Chair of the Mobile Working Group at Cloud Security Alliance, will address four key areas which have introduced serious weaknesses into the IoT: the myth of security through obscurity, connectivity, unsigned firmware, and system promiscuity. Mr. Garlati will then demonstrate a new approach to IoT security - based on open source software, hardware virtualization and interoperable protocols - that can address these vulnerabilities, which have already been shown to have potentially life-threatening consequences.

Biography: Cesare Garlati is an internationally renowned leader in information security. Former VP of mobile security at Trend Micro, he currently serves as Chief Security Strategist at prpl Foundation and Co-chair of the Mobile Working Group at Cloud Security Alliance. Cesare holds a U.C. Berkeley MBA, an MS in EECS and numerous professional certifications from Microsoft, Cisco and Oracle/Sun.

Safe Planning and Control Under Uncertainty
Ashish Kapoor, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research

Abstract: Safe  control  of  dynamical  systems  that  satisfy  temporal invariants expressing various safety properties is a challenging  problem  that  has  drawn  the  attention  of  many  researchers. However,  making  the  assumption  that  such  temporal  properties are  deterministic  is  far  from  the  reality.  For  example,  a  robotic system  might  employ  a  camera  sensor  and  a  machine  learned system  to  identify  obstacles.  Consequently, the  safety  properties the  controller  has  to  satisfy,  will  be  a  function  of  the  sensor data  and  the  associated  classifier.  We  propose  a framework  for achieving  safe  control.  At  the  heart  of  our  approach  is  the new Probabilistic Signal Temporal Logic (PrSTL), an expressive language to define stochastic properties, and enforce probabilistic guarantees  on  them.  We  also  present  an  efficient  algorithm  to reason about safe controllers given the constraints derived from the  PrSTL  specification.  One  of  the  key  distinguishing  features of PrSTL is that the encoded logic is adaptive and changes as the system  encounters  additional  data  and  updates  its  beliefs  about the latent random variables that define the safety properties. We demonstrate our approach by deriving safe control of quadrotors and  autonomous  vehicles  in  dynamic  environments.

Biography: Ashish Kapoor is a senior researcher at Microsoft Research, Redmond. Currently, his research focuses on Aerial Informatics and Robotics with an emphasis on building intelligent and autonomous flying agents that are safe and enable applications that can positively influence our society. The research builds upon cutting edge research in machine intelligence, robotics and human-centered computation in order to enable an entire fleet of flying robots that range from micro-UAVs to commercial jetliners. Various applications scenarios include Weather Sensing, Monitoring for Precision Agriculture, Safe Cyber-Physical Systems etc.  Ashish received his PhD from MIT Media Laboratory in 2006. He also holds FAA Commercial Pilot certificate (SEL), FAA Flight Instructor certificate (Airplane Single Engine and Instrument Airplane) and is an avid amateur aircraft builder.