Call for Papers
20th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS 2020)
Virtual
Sometime around July 14–18, 2020
General information: https://petsymposium.org
Submission server: https://submit.petsymposium.org
The annual Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS) brings together privacy experts from around the world to present and discuss recent advances and new perspectives on research in privacy technologies. The 20th PETS event will be organised by Concordia University and the Université du Québec à Montréal and held in Montreal, Canada, on a date in 2020 yet to be determined. Papers undergo a journal-style reviewing process, and accepted papers are published in the journal Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PoPETs).
PoPETs, a scholarly, open-access journal for research papers on privacy, provides high-quality reviewing and publication while also supporting the successful PETS community event. PoPETs is published by Sciendo, part of De Gruyter, which has over 260 years of publishing history. PoPETs does not have article processing charges (APCs) or article submission charges.
Authors can submit papers to PoPETs four times a year, every three months, and are notified of the decisions about two months after submission. In addition to accept and reject decisions, papers may receive resubmit with major revisions decisions, in which case authors are invited to revise and resubmit their article to one of the following two issues. We endeavor to assign the same reviewers to revised submissions. Each paper accepted in the PoPETs 2020 volume must be presented in person at the PETS 2020 symposium. Please view our FAQ for more information about the process.
Submission Guidelines The submission guidelines contain important submission information for authors. Please note especially the instructions for anonymizing submissions and for ensuring ethical research. Papers must be submitted via the PETS 2020 submission server. The submission URL is: https://submit.petsymposium.org.Important Dates for PETS 2020
All deadlines are 23:59:59 Anywhere on Earth (UTC-12)
Issue 1
Paper submission deadline: May 31, 2019 (firm)
Rebuttal period: July 9 – 11, 2019
Author notification: August 1, 2019
Camera-ready deadline for accepted papers and minor revisions (if accepted
by the shepherd): September 15, 2019
Issue 2
Paper submission deadline: August 31, 2019 (firm)
Rebuttal period: October 8 – 10, 2019
Author notification: November 1, 2019
Camera-ready deadline for accepted papers and minor revisions (if accepted
by the shepherd): December 15, 2019
Issue 3
Paper submission deadline: November 30, 2019 (firm)
Rebuttal period: January 7 – 9, 2020
Author notification: February 1, 2020
Camera-ready deadline for accepted papers and minor revisions (if accepted
by the shepherd): March 15, 2020
Issue 4
Paper submission deadline: February 29, 2020 (firm)
Rebuttal period: April 9 – 11, 2020
Author notification: May 1, 2020
Camera-ready deadline for accepted papers and minor revisions (if accepted
by the shepherd): June 15, 2020
Authors invited to resubmit with major revisions can submit the revised (full) paper two weeks after the stated deadline. Such papers must, however, be registered with an abstract by the usual deadline. All other papers than these major revision resubmissions must be submitted by the stated deadline, including papers submitted to and rejected from previous issues. To benefit from the two-week deadline extension, major revisions must be submitted to one of the two issues following the decision. Major revisions submitted to later issues are treated as new submissions, due by the regular deadline and possibly assigned to new reviewers.
Scope
Papers submitted to PETS/PoPETs should present novel practical and/or
theoretical research into the design, analysis, experimentation, or fielding of
privacy-enhancing technologies. Note that a paper's relevance to privacy
applications is crucial for our community. PETS is friendly to topics from the
wider area of security and privacy (cryptographic primitives, security
mechanisms, differentially-private mechanisms, etc.) as long as it is clear how
these serve to improve or understand privacy in technology (e.g., it includes a
use case, evaluation on real data, integration with an application, etc.).
- Access control and identity management with privacy
- Anonymous communication and censorship resistance
- Blockchain privacy
- Building and deploying privacy-enhancing systems
- Cloud computing and privacy
- Cryptographic tools for privacy
- Data protection technologies
- Defining and quantifying privacy
- Differential privacy and private data analysis
- Economics and game-theoretical approaches to privacy
- Forensics and privacy
- Genomic and medical privacy
- Human factors, usability, and user-centered design of privacy technologies
- Information leakage, data correlation, and abstract attacks on privacy
- Interdisciplinary research connecting privacy to economics, law, psychology, etc.
- Location privacy
- Machine learning and privacy
- Measurement of privacy in real-world systems
- Mobile devices and privacy
- Policy languages and tools for privacy
- Profiling and data mining
- Social network privacy
- Surveillance
- Traffic analysis
- Transparency, robustness, and abuse in privacy systems
- Web privacy
We also solicit Systematization of Knowledge (SoK) papers on any of these topics: papers putting together existing knowledge under some common light (adversary model, requirements, functionality offered, etc.), providing novel insights, identifying research gaps or challenges to commonly held assumptions, etc. Survey papers, without such contributions, are not suitable. SoK submissions should include "SoK:" in their title and check the corresponding option in the submission form.
- General Chairs (gc20@petsymposium.org)
- Jeremy Clark, Concordia University
- Sébastien Gambs, Université du Québec à Montréal
- Program Chairs/Co-Editors-in-Chief (pets20-chairs@petsymposium.org)
- Kostas Chatzikokolakis, University of Athens
- Aaron Johnson, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
- Program Committee/Editorial Board:
- Ruba Abu-Salma, University College London
- Gergely Acs, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
- Mario Alvim, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
- Abdelrahaman Aly, KU Leuven
- Sebastian Angel, University of Pennsylvania
- Erman Ayday, Bilkent University
- Lujo Bauer, Carnegie Mellon University
- Sonia Ben Mokhtar, CNRS
- Nataliia Bielova, Inria
- Igor Bilogrevic, Google
- Cecylia Bocovich, University of Waterloo
- Aylin Caliskan, George Washington University
- Bogdan Carbunar, Florida International University
- Melissa Chase, Microsoft Research
- Giovanni Cherubin, EPFL
- Scott Coull, FireEye
- Anupam Das, NC State University
- Claudia Diaz, KU Leuven
- Roya Ensafi, University of Michigan
- David Evans, University of Virginia
- Julien Freudiger, Apple
- Sébastien Gambs, Université du Québec À Montréal (UQAM)
- Chaya Ganesh, Aarhus University
- Simson Garfinkel, U.S. Census Bureau
- Paolo Gasti, New York Institute
- Yossi Gilad, MIT
- Rachel Greenstadt, NYU
- Jamie Hayes, University College London
- Xi He, University of Waterloo
- Amir Herzberg, Bar Ilan University / University of Connecticut
- Nick Hopper, University of Minnesota
- Amir Houmansadr, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Kévin Huguenin, Université de Lausanne
- Mathias Humbert, Swiss Data Science Center (SDSC)
- Rob Jansen, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
- Philipp Jovanovic, EPFL
- Marc Juarez, University of Southern California
- Dali Kaafar, CSIRO
- Peter Kairouz, Stanford University
- Stefan Katzenbeisser, University of Passau, Germany
- Florian Kerschbaum, University of Waterloo
- Boris Koepf, IMDEA Software Institute
- Markulf Kohlweiss, University of Edinburgh
- Yoshi Kohno, University of Washington
- Alptekin Küpçü, Koç University
- Douglas Leith, Trinity College Dublin
- Patrick Loiseau, Inria
- Wouter Lueks, EPFL
- Abigail Marsh, Macalester College
- Nick Mathewson, Tor Project
- Travis Mayberry, U.S. Naval Academy
- Jonathan Mayer, Princeton University
- Michelle Mazurek, University of Maryland
- Susan McGregor, Tow Center for Digital Journalism & Columbia Journalism School
- Sebastian Meiser, University College London
- Ian Miers, Cornell Tech
- Alan Mislove, Northeastern University
- Aziz Mohaisen, University of Central Florida
- Esfandiar Mohammadi, ETH Zurich
- Pedro Moreno Sanchez, TU Wien
- Takao Murakami, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
- Kartik Nayak, VMWare Research / Duke University
- Rishab Nithyanand, University of Iowa
- Melek Önen, EURECOM
- Cristina Onete, University of Limoges / XLIM
- Rebekah Overdorf, EPFL
- Catuscia Palamidessi, Inria
- Panagiotis Papadimitratos, KTH
- Charalampos Papamanthou, University of Maryland
- Paul Pearce, UC Berkeley
- Fabian Prasser, TU Munich
- Bart Preneel, KU Leuven
- Ananth Raghunathan, Google
- Michael Reiter, UNC Chapel Hill
- Daniel S. Roche, U.S. Naval Academy
- Stefanie Roos, TU Delft
- Nitesh Saxena, University of Alabama at Birmingham
- Florian Schaub, University of Michigan
- Zubair Shafiq, University of Iowa
- Micah Sherr, Georgetown University
- Reza Shokri, National University of Singapore
- Claudio Soriente, NEC
- Anna Squicciarini, Penn State University
- Theresa Stadler, Privitar
- Paul Syverson, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
- Nina Taft, Google
- Hassan Takabi, University of North Texas
- Shruti Tople, Microsoft Research
- Blase Ur, University of Chicago
- Narseo Vallina, IMDEA Networks Institute
- Joris Van Hoboken, Vrije Universiteit Brussels / University of Amsterdam
- Tao Wang, HKUST
- Christo Wilson, Northeastern University
- Matthew Wright, Rochester Institute of Technology
- Jason Xue, Macquarie University
- Attila Yavuz, University of South Florida
- Arkady Yerukhimovich, George Washington University
- Thomas Zacharias, University of Edinburgh
- Daniel Zappala, Brigham Young University
- Yang Zhang, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
- Yupeng Zhang, Texas A&M University
- Publicity Chairs (publicity20@petsymposium.org)
- Kat Hanna, The Tor Project
- Rebekah Overdorf, EPFL
- Publication Chairs (publication20@petsymposium.org)
- Vasilios Mavroudis, University College London
- Tobias Pulls, Karlstad University
- Artifact Chairs (artifact-pets@petsymposium.org)
- Cecylia Bocovich, The Tor Project
- Jack Grigg, Electric Coin Company
- Video Chair (video20@petsymposium.org)
- Ryan Henry, University of Calgary
- PET Award Chairs (award-chairs20@petsymposium.org)
- Simone Fischer-Hübner, Karlstad University
- Ross Anderson, University of Cambridge
- Sponsorship Chairs (sponsorship@petsymposium.org)
- Rachel Greenstadt, Drexel University
- Steven Murdoch, University College London
- Web Chairs
- Ian Goldberg, University of Waterloo
- Kat Hanna, The Tor Project
- Stipend Chairs (pets2020-stipend@petsymposium.org)
- Roger Dingledine, The Tor Project
- Emiliano De Cristofaro, University College London
- Damon McCoy, New York University
- Andrei Serjantov
Caspar Bowden Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies
You are invited to submit nominations
for the 2020 Caspar Bowden Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing
Technologies. The Caspar Bowden PET award is presented annually to researchers
who have made an outstanding contribution to the theory, design,
implementation, or deployment of privacy enhancing technologies. It is awarded
at PETS and carries a cash prize as well as a physical award statue.
Any paper by any author written in the area of privacy enhancing technologies is eligible for nomination. However, the paper must have appeared in a refereed journal, conference, or workshop with proceedings published in the period from April 1, 2018 until March 30, 2020.
Andreas Pfitzmann Best Student Paper Award
The Andreas Pfitzmann PETS 2020 Best Student Paper Award will be selected at
PETS 2020. Papers written solely or primarily by a student who is presenting
the work at PETS 2020 are eligible for the award.
HotPETs
As usual, part of the symposium will be devoted to HotPETs — the
"hottest," most exciting research ideas still in a formative state. Further
information will be published on the PETS 2020 website soon.