FACULTY OF COMPUTER SCIENCE

CS4413/6413: Foundations of Privacy

Project Outline
Winter 2019

Professor: Dr. Rongxing Lu

Office: GE 114
Office Hours: T (2:30 PM – 3:30 PM) (tentative, subject to change), or by appointment
Email: rlu1@unb.ca
Phone: 451-6966

Projects:

The final project is worth 20% of your final grade for this course, and it consists of a final report and the
corresponding final report presentation slides, as described below.

1. Establish your group by yourselves, each group is formed by no more than 3 people. Note that each group
cannot be mixed by undergraduates and graduates, all people in the same group will receive the same grade in
the same project.
2. Select one reading paper from the following 4 top-security conferences: select one privacy-related paper
from
 https://www.sigsac.org/ccs/CCS2018/program/ (main conference papers, not workshop papers)
 https://www.ndss-symposium.org/ndss2018/programme/ (main conference papers only)
 https://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2018/program.html (main conference papers only)
 https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity18/technical-sessions (main conference papers only)
Notify the instructor of your group members, and your group selected topic via email (rlu1@unb.ca) by
January 31 before class. Note that each paper can only be taken by one group in general, collisions will be
resolved in a first-come-first-served basis or determined by the instructor.
3. Read the selected paper carefully in the whole winter 2019 term. ACM CCS, NDSS, S&P, and Usenix Security
Conferences are four top security conferences; therefore, it is a good opportunity for you to read some high-
level privacy relevant papers in this course. The course project only requires you to focus on one paper and
understand it as thorough as possible. Of course, in order to fully understand the paper, you also need to read
some relevant papers you choose.
4. Write a survey according to your group selected paper and relevant papers (around 6 pages for CS6413, and 3
pages for CS4413), using MS word or IEEE Transactions Latex Template IEEEtran.zip. Your survey must contain
the following section headings: (1) abstract, (2) introduction, (3) detailed description of the topic, (4) related
work in this area (introduce as many as possible relevant papers in addition to the selected paper), (5) your
thoughts and remarks, and (6) references (additional sections are not allowed). The final version of your survey
is worth 15% of your final grade for this course.
5. Deliver a group-based presentation（25 minutes） to the instructor and all students in classroom, and
answer several questions raised by the instructor and audiences. The presentation is worth 5% of your final
grade for this course.
 All presentations will be arranged in lecture time after all topics in lecture notes are finished. Possibly after
March 18, 2019. Each student is required to attend all groups’ presentations.