Awards
The two best paper awards selected by the ICICS 2022 PC Co-Chairs with the PC members are:
- Best Paper Award: Maliciously Secure Multi-Party PSI with Lower Bandwidth and Faster Computation (), authored by Zhi Qiu, Kang Yang, Yu Yu and Lijing Zhou
- Best Student Paper Award: Lightweight and Practical Privacy-Preserving Image Masking in Smart Community (), authored by Zhen Liu, Yining Liu and Weizhi Meng
The four additional awards selected by the ICICS 2022 Local Award Judging Panel are:
- Best Presentation Award: Privacy-aware Split Learning Based Energy Theft Detection for Smart Grids, authored by Arwa Alromih, John A. Clark and Prosanta Gope, presented by Arwa Alromih
- Best Artifact Award: DeepC2: AI-powered Covert Command and Control on OSNs (source code available upon request to the authors; ), authored by Zhi Wang, Chaoge Liu, Xiang Cui, Jie Yin, Jiaxi Liu, Di Wu and Qixu Liu, demonstrated by Zhi Wang
- Best Poster Award: Image-based Neural Network Models for Malware Traffic Classification using PCAP to Picture Conversion (; paper), authored by Georgios Agrafiotis, Eftychia Makri, Ioannis Flionis, Antonios Lalas, Konstantinos Votis, Dimitrios Tzovaras and Nikolaos Tsampieris, presented by Georgios Agrafiotis and Nikolaos Tsampieris
- Best Demo Award: VEREFOO: an automated framework for virtual firewall configuration (source code @ GitHub; ; Paper 1, Paper 2), authored by Daniele Bringhenti, Guido Marchetto, Riccardo Sisto and Fulvio Valenza, presented by Daniele Bringhenti
Award Sponsors
The six awards were kindly supported by two sponsors to provide a cash prize to each award winner: Best Paper Award and Best Student Paper Award by Springer, and the other four awards by the Institute of Cyber Security for Society (iCSS), University of Kent.