Call for Papers

The annual Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS) brings together experts from around the world to present and discuss recent advances and new perspectives on research in privacy technologies. The 23rd PETS will be a hybrid event with a physical gathering held in Lausanne, Switzerland and a concurrent virtual event. Papers undergo a journal-style reviewing process, and accepted papers are published in the journal Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PoPETs). Authors of accepted papers are encouraged to attend and present at the physical event, where their presentations can be recorded for the virtual event and where they can participate directly in in-person research, technical, and social activities. However, in-person attendance is not required for publication in the proceedings. We will carefully monitor the COVID-19 situation, and may change the organization of the event as necessary

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 self-published and 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 endeavour to assign the same reviewers to major revisions. 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 2023 submission server. The submission URL is: https://submit.petsymposium.org/.

Important: There is a new LaTeX template for PETS 2023. Additional instructions are provided in the submission guidelines.

Important Dates for PETS 2023

All deadlines are 23:59:59 Anywhere on Earth (UTC-12)

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 papers other than major revision resubmissions must be submitted in full 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 requirements, design, analysis, experimentation, or fielding of privacy-enhancing technologies and the social, cultural, legal, or situational contexts in which they are used. Note that a paper's relevance to privacy applications is crucial for our community. PETS is open 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.). PETS is also open to interdisciplinary research examining people’s and communities’ privacy needs, preferences, and expectations as long as it is clear how these findings can impact the design, development, or deployment of technology with privacy implications.

Suggested topics include but are not restricted to:

• 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.
• Internet of Things privacy
• 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 Chair (gc23@petsymposium.org)

Kévin Huguenin, University of Lausanne

Carmela Troncoso, EPFL

Program Chairs/Co-Editors-in-Chief (pets23-chairs@petsymposium.org)

Michelle Mazurek, University of Maryland

Micah Sherr, Georgetown University

Senior Program Committee/Editorial Board:

Adam Aviv, George Washington University

Lujo Bauer, Carnegie Mellon University

Kevin Butler, University of Florida

Sherman Chow, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Nicolas Christin, Carnegie Mellon University

Chris Clifton, Purdue University

Serge Egelman, International Computer Science Institute

Christina Garman, Purdue University

Carrie Gates, Bank of America

Ian Goldberg, University of Waterloo

Nick Hopper, University of Minnesota

Aaron Johnson, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory

Stefan Katzenbeisser, University of Passau, Germany

Damon McCoy, New York University

Bryan Parno, Carnegie Mellon University

Florian Schaub, University of Michigan

Paul Syverson, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory

Nina Taft, Google

Blase Ur, University of Chicago

Christo Wilson, Northeastern University

Matthew Wright, Rochester Institute of Technology

Program Committee/Editorial Board:

Ruba Abu-Salma, King's College London

Gunes Acar, Radboud University

Omer Akgul, University of Maryland

Mario Alvim, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Abdelrahaman Aly, Centre of Cryptography, TII

Frederik Armknecht, Universität Mannheim

Hassan Asghar, Macquarie University

Saikrishna Badrinarayanan, LinkedIn

Diogo Barradas, University of Waterloo

Zinaida Benenson, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

Alastair Beresford, University of Cambridge

Pascal Berrang, University of Birmingham

Gergely Biczok, Budapest University of Technology and Economics

Igor Bilogrevic, Google

Eleanor Birrell, Pomona College

Erik-Oliver Blass, Airbus

Jonas Böhler, SAP SE

Glencora Borradaile, Oregon State University

Varun Chandrasekaran, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Melissa Chase, Microsoft Research

Rahul Chatterjee, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Sze Yiu Chau, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Omar Chowdhury, Stony Brook University

Shaanan Cohney, University of Melbourne

Jean-François Couchot, FEMTO-ST Institute

Scott Coull, Mandiant

Jed Crandall, Arizona State University

Robert Cunningham, University of Pittsburgh

Anupam Das, North Carolina State University

Martin Degeling, Ruhr University Bochum

Soteris Demetriou, Imperial College London

Damien Desfontaines, Tumult Labs

Roger Dingledine, The Tor Project

Nir Drucker, IBM Research - Haifa

Markus Dürmuth, Leibniz University Hannover

Christoph Egger, IRIF, Université Paris Cité

Tariq Elahi, University of Edinburgh

Pardis Emami-Naeini, Duke University

Zeki Erkin, TU Delft

Saba Eskandarian, UNC Chapel Hill

Álvaro Feal, IMDEA Networks Institute

Ellis Fenske, US Naval Academy

Matt Fredrikson, Carnegie Mellon University

Kevin Gallagher, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa

Sébastien Gambs, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)

Simson Garfinkel, George Washington University

Paolo Gasti, New York Institute of Technology

Gennie Gebhart, Electronic Frontier Foundation

Badih Ghazi, Google Research

Thomas Gross, Newcastle University, UK

Cheng Guo, Clemson University / Google

Mehmet Emre Gürsoy, Koç University, Turkey

Andreas Haeberlen, University of Pennsylvania

Florian Hahn, University of Twente

Rakibul Hasan, Arizona State University

Weijia He, Dartmouth College

Urs Hengartner, University of Waterloo

Dominik Herrmann, University of Bamberg, Germany

Jens Hiller, Google

Thang Hoang, Virginia Tech

Yuan Hong, Illinois Institute of Technology

Amir Houmansadr, UMass Amherst

Roberto Hoyle, Oberlin College

Murtuza Jadliwala, The University of Texas at San Antonio

Rob Jansen, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory

Limin Jia, Carnegie Mellon University

Jinyuan Jia, Duke University

Marc Juarez, University of Southern California

Bailey Kacsmar, University of Waterloo

Ghassan Karame, Ruhr University Bochum

Marcel Keller, CSIRO's Data61

Steve Kremer, Inria Nancy

Christiane Kuhn, NEC Laboratories Europe

Piyush Kumar Sharma, KU Leuven

Alptekin Küpcü, Koç University

Peeter Laud, Cybernetica AS

Arnaud Legout, Inria

Brian Levine, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Ming Li, The University of Texas at Arlington

Saeed Mahloujifar, Princeton

Mohammad Malekzadeh, Imperial College London

Pasin Manurangsi, Google Research

Piotr Mardziel, Truera

Shrirang Mare, Western Washington University

Rahat Masood, The University of New South Wales (UNSW)

Fabio Massacci, University of Trento, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Peter Mayer, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Shagufta Mehnaz, Dartmouth College

Ian Miers, University of Maryland

Veelasha Moonsamy, Ruhr University Bochum

Victor Morel, Sustainable Computing Lab

Pedro Moreno-Sanchez, IMDEA Software Institute

Sumit Mukherjee, insitro

Steven Murdoch, University College London

Adwait Nadkarni, William & Mary

Sashank Narain, University of Massachusetts Lowell

Milad Nasr, Google Brain

Chan Nam Ngo, Kyber Network, Vietnam

Benjamin Nguyen, INSA Centre Val de Loire

Shirin Nilizadeh, The University of Texas at Arlington

Rebekah Overdorf, University of Lausanne

Simon Oya, University of Waterloo

Nisha Panwar, Assistant Professor School of Computer and Cyber Sciences Augusta University

Stefano Paraboschi, Università degli Studi di Bergamo

Paul Pearce, Georgia Tech

Balazs Pejo, CrySyS Lab, BME

Andreas Peter, University of Twente

Christina Pöpper, New York University Abu Dhabi

Tobias Pulls, Karlstad University, Sweden

Apostolos Pyrgelis, EPFL

Ananth Raghunathan, Facebook

Sazzadur Rahaman, University of Arizona

Abbas Razaghpanah, Cisco/ICSI

Joel Reardon, University of Calgary and AppCensus, Inc.

Alfredo Rial, Nym Technologies

Vera Rimmer, KU Leuven

Daniel Roche, U.S. Naval Academy

Stefanie Roos, TU Delft

Paul Rösler, New York University

Andy Rupp, University of Luxembourg

Reihaneh Safavi-Naini, University of Calgary

Wendy Seltzer, W3C/MIT

Shawn Shan, University of Chicago

Mahmood Sharif, Tel Aviv University

Sandra Siby, EPFL

Georgios Smaragdakis, TU Delft

David Marco Sommer, Zuehlke

Claudio Soriente, NEC Laboratories Europe

Theresa Stadler, EPFL

Guillermo Suarez-Tangil, IMDEA Networks Institute

Jose Such, King's College London

Ruoxi Sun, The University of Adelaide

Iraklis Symeonidis, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Daniel Takabi, Georgia State University

Sai Teja Peddinti, Google

Michael Toth, Inria

Ni Trieu, Arizona State University

Anselme Tueno, SAP

Nirvan Tyagi, Cornell University

Ben Ujcich, Georgetown University

Tobias Urban, Institute for Internet Security & secunet Security Networks AG

Tavish Vaidya, Google

Eugene Vasserman, Kansas State University

Ryan Wails, Georgetown University, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory

Tianhao Wang, University of Virginia

Ding Wang, Nankai University

Liang Wang, Princeton University

Shuai Wang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Attila Yavuz, University of South Florida

Zhikun Zhang, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security

Yongjun Zhao, Nanyang Technological University

Yixin Zou, University of Michigan / Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy

Local Arrangements Chair(arrangements23@petsymposium.org)

Mathias Humbert, University of Lausanne

Publicity/Web Chairs (publicity23@petsymposium.org)

Kat Hanna, The Tor Project

Mathilde Raynal, EPFL

Publication Chairs (publication23@petsymposium.org)

Weijia He, Dartmouth College

Dhruv Kuchhal, Georgia Tech

Artifact Chairs (artifact23@petsymposium.org)

Bailey Kacsmar, University of Waterloo

Pasin Manurangsi, Google Research

Video Chairs (video23@petsymposium.org)

Laurent Girod, EPFL

Lev Velykoivanenko, UNIL

HotPETs Chairs (hotpets23@petsymposium.org)

Rebekah Overdorf, EPFL

Luc Rocher, University of Oxford

Poster Chairs (poster-chairs23@petsymposium.org)

Gunes Acar, Radboud University

Amogh Pradeep, Northeastern University

Rump Session Chair

Roger Dingledine, The Tor Project

Speed Mentoring Chair

Nadim Kobeissi

PET Award Chairs (award-chairs22@petsymposium.org)

Emiliano De Cristofaro, University College London

Dali Kaafar, Macquarie University Sydney Australia

Sponsorship Chairs (sponsorship@petsymposium.org)

Steven Murdoch, University College London

Susan McGregor, Columbia University

Infrastructure Chairs

Roger Dingledine, The Tor Project

Ian Goldberg, University of Waterloo

Stipend Chairs (pets2023-stipend@petsymposium.org)

Tariq Elahi, University of Edinburgh

Murtuza Jadliwala, University of Texas at San Antonio

Susan E McGregor, Columbia University

Veelasha Moonsamy, Ruhr University Bochum

Awais Rashid, University of Bristol

Artifact Review
PoPETs reviews and publishes digital artifacts related to its accepted papers. This process aids in the reproducibility of results and allows others to build on the work described in the paper. Artifact submissions are requested from authors of all accepted papers, and although they are optional, we strongly encourage you to submit your artifacts for review.

Possible artifacts include (but are not limited to):

• Source code (e.g., system implementations, proof of concepts)
• Datasets (e.g., network traces, raw study data)
• Scripts for data processing or simulations
• Machine-generated proofs
• Formal specifications
• Build environments (e.g., VMs, Docker containers, configuration scripts)

Artifacts are evaluated by the artifact review committee. The committee evaluates the artifacts to ensure that they provide an acceptable level of utility, and feedback is given to the authors. Issues considered include software bugs, readability of documentation, and appropriate licensing. After your artifact has been approved by the committee, we will accompany the paper link on petsymposium.org with a link to the artifact along with an artifact badge so that interested readers can find and use your artifact.

Caspar Bowden Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies
You are invited to submit nominations for the 2023 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, 2021 until March 30, 2023.

Andreas Pfitzmann Best Student Paper Award
A winner of the Andreas Pfitzmann PETS 2023 Best Student Paper Award will be selected at PETS 2023. Papers written solely or primarily by a student who is presenting the work to PETS 2023 are eligible for the award.

Artifact Award
A winner of the PETS 2023 Artifact Award will be announced at PETS 2023. Artifacts for papers accepted to PETS 2023 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 website in early 2023.