Events

Yaron Minsky, Technology Group Head
Jane Street

Electronic exchanges play an important role in the world’s financial system, acting as focal points where actors from across the world meet to trade with each other.

But building an exchange is a difficult technical challenge, requiring high transaction rates, low, deterministic response times, and serious reliability.

Woojung Kim, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Yaron Minsky, Technology Group Head
Jane Street

Trading in financial markets is a data-driven affair, and as such, it requires applications that can efficiently filter, transform and present data to users in real time.

But there's a difficult problem at the heart of building such applications: finding a way of expressing the necessary transformations of the data in a way that is simultaneously easy to understand and efficient to execute over large streams of data.

Ankit Vadehra, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Kristofer Siy, Graduate student
Combinatorics and Optimization

Chathura Kankanamge, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Ju Wang, Postdoctoral fellow
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Passive radio frequency identification (RFID) tags are ubiquitous today due to their low cost (a few cents), relatively long communication range (7–11 m), ease of deployment, lack of battery, and small form factor. This talk shows how even hobbyists can transform commodity RFID tags into sensors by physically altering ('hacking') them using COTS sensors and a pair of scissors. Importantly, this requires no change to commercial RFID readers.

Amira Ghenai, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Cristina Tavares, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Anonymization with Differential Privacy • Ben Weggenmann
SAP Security Research