A look back at the Summer School “ai4industry” on July 24-28, 2023
A recap of the 3rd edition of the Summer School on Trustful AI “ai4industry” that took place in Sao Paolo and Saint-Étienne on July 24-28, 2023!
[TALK33] 13.12.2023 Revisiting Wireless Security – Muriel Medard (MIT)
On Fri, Dec 13th, 2023, 2pm CET, we welcome Muriel Medard from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on “Revisiting Wireless Security”.
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Trailer: https://youtu.be/Nx1lpDqvJOE
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Abstract
Wireless security has progressed from an area of specialized interest to a matter of discussion in the mainstream press. The attention the issue receives is in great part due to the increased societal reliance on wireless connectivity, be it by the advent of 5G, or by the heavy use of WiFi for remote work in the last couple of years. On the technical side, the confluence of multiple factors has made the topic increasingly complex. First, the heterogeneity of manufacturers and technologies, ranging from traditional mobile systems to WiFi and satellite, render a centrally orchestrated security solution impractical. Second, the introduction of new technologies, particularly at very high frequencies, present new settings in terms of propagation and associate vulnerabilities. Third, traditional wiretap approaches are not robust to recent security analysis based on guessing attacks. Fourth, the erosion of traditional cryptographic schemes, such as RSA, by quantum computing, coupled with the rise of the possibility of such quantum computation, imply that reliance on traditional data hiding is increasingly fraught. Finally, the widespread use of federated learning entails that a highly connected, omnipresent wireless ecosystem also presents new and complex risks in terms of privacy.
In this talk, we argue that the many of the above developments can, when exploited well, be seen not as vulnerabilities but as techniques to enhance security. Heterogeneous settings permit, through network coding, light-weight, in terms of computational and rate overhead, post-quantum secure operation of networks without central coordination. Leveraging these post-quantum schemes, transmissions at high frequencies can be fashioned to obtain absolute security, which does not rely on statistical notions of signal to noise ratios as in conventional wiretap schemes. Guessing random additive noise decoding (GRAND™) provides the ability to incorporate encryption into error-correcting coding directly. Privacy management even in distributed, uncertain settings, can be enhanced by combining machine learning techniques with coding.
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Muriel Medard
Muriel Médard is the NEC Professor of Software Science and Engineering in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) Department at MIT, where she leads the Network Coding and Reliable Communications Group in the Research Laboratory for Electronics at MIT and Chief Scientist for Steinwurf, which she has co-founded. She obtained three Bachelors degrees, as well as her M.S. and Sc.D, all from MIT. Muriel has supervised over 40 master students, over 20 doctoral students and over 25 postdoctoral fellows. Muriel currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory and served previously as Editor in Chief of the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. Muriel was elected president of the IEEE Information Theory Society in 2012, and serves on its board of governors, having previously served for eleven years. She has over sixty US and international patents awarded, the vast majority of which have been licensed or acquired.
About the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a significant role in the development of many areas of modern technology and science.In particular, the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science is the largest department at MIT, annually preparing hundreds of graduate and undergraduate students for career leadership in fields such as academia, research, and the high-technology industry. Part of both the Schwarzman College of Computing and the School of Engineering, MIT EECS consistently tops the U.S. News & World Report and other college rankings and is widely recognized for its world-class faculty, who provide outstanding education and conduct innovative and award-winning research.
Talk.cybercni.fr
The Cyber CNI Lecture Series is a free monthly event that typically takes place on the last Wednesday of the month from 2pm to 3h30pm CET.
The standard event consists of a 45-minute expert presentation followed by a 45-minute discussion. The special fireside talks emphasize more the discussion and only have a short impulse presentation at the beginning.
The Cyber CNI Speaker series aims to raise awareness and understanding of cyber security issues among all audiences. It aims to enable an ongoing dialogue between experts from industry and academia and the general public (citizens, families, small and large businesses, public organizations, etc.). All of us are concerned.
The events are broadcast live on Youtube (https://talk.cybercni.fr/) and LinkedIn, allowing worldwide remote participation – including a tool to participate in the discussion.
You can add the event calendar via ICS, webcal, HTML.
How the digital transformation is changing our lives
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown all of us the benefits of information technology. It allows us to work at a distance, to live at a distance, and most importantly, to keep in touch at a distance – with younger and older people, those closest to us, and even make new contacts.
Our society relies more and more on information and operational technologies. Examples include water, energy, heat and cooling supply, communications, healthcare, production and processing of goods, transportation, national security, banking, research and education, and food production.
What all these areas have in common is that they make intensive use of networked distributed computer systems. These systems can be attacked in many ways. This is no longer just a problem for computer “pros” because computer systems are essential to all of us. The effects of “cyber-attacks” range from power outages to the collapse of the health care or banking sectors.
Program and registration: https://talk.cybercni.fr/
Webinar on Nov 23rd: “Research on Sustainable Manufacturing within International Projects”
“Research on Sustainable Manufacturing within International Project”
Join us for an online workshop on sustainability-focused manufacturing research organised by the project DARWEEN funded by the German-French Academy for the Industry of the Future (GFA).
This hands-on workshop provides an opportunity to connect and collaborate with individuals and organizations committed to advancing international research in sustainable manufacturing, aiming to create a more sustainable world.
After insights from research and industry experts introducing their sustainability projects you are welcome to collaborate in a discussion about further collaboration possibilities in this cutting-edge topic.
November, 23rd from 9 to 12 am, online
Please register here: https://portail.emse.fr/limesurvey2021/index.php/152263?lang=en
We are looking to welcome you virtually!
Your team from
École des Mines de Saint-Étienne & iwb, TU München
Here. We. Go – The Future Industry Forum
That was our Here.We.Go – The Future Industry Forum 2023! See photos and program highlights here!
Call for proposals: Researchers’ Mobilité 2023 (mobility grants)
Our first CfP for #Mobilité is online! If you are a researcher from IMT/TUM and plan an exchange to the partner country (🇫🇷🇩🇪), please apply for a grant until October 23rd! For more info follow the link!
GFA FLAG ATTACK – The French-German Capture the Flag
We present our Capture the Flag Challenge 2023! Dec 5-6 at Campus Cyber (Paris). 2 days of challenge and knowledge for master students from IMT and TUM! Stay tuned for more info and check our website!
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Call for proposals: Research 2023
Our CFP for #research is online! If you plan a research project and want to work with IMT or TUM, please apply until November 1st! For more info follow the link!
New Education Projects! These projects were selected through our CfP “Education & Knowledge” 2023
In May we published our 3rd CfP “Education and Knowledge”. With the emergence of advanced technologies and increased automation, it has become imperative for higher education institutions to incorporate up-to-date learning formats to meet the skill-set demands of current industrial needs. New and existing formats for intensive tuition enable students to stay abreast of cutting-edge technologies and develop competencies needed for careers in the Industry of the Future.
Our call was addressed to researchers from TUM and IMT or to researchers that wanted to team up with researchers of these institutions. As it is one of our core missions to foster the French-German relations, it was also obligatory that the projects take place on a French-German scale or even an international scale.
This year we received again high quality proposals from brilliant researchers. These projects will be supported from us over the next year:
Summer School “ai4industry”, July 24-28, 2023,
online and on-site at Mines Saint Etienne (France) and Universidade de São Paulo (Brazil) (3rd edition)
The summer school aims to teach the state of the art of the use of AI technologies and models to tackle the challenges of data revolution and to increase automation of cognitive tasks to develop a trustful and resilient Industry 4.0 (or Industry of the Future). The summer school is organized around concrete industry problems structured as use cases. These use cases aim to stimulate the discussion at the academic institutions toward addressing real-world problems and to showcase innovative solutions to industrial partners. More info here: https://ai4industry2023.sciencesconf.org/
Workshop “5G Advanced for the Industry of the Future”,
September 21-22 at EURECOM in Sophia Antipolis (France)
We are delighted to invite you to attend the 2023 international workshop “5G-Advanced for the Industry of the Future”, where you will learn about the latest innovations in mobile networking, and their benefits for different use cases in the context of some of the industry 4.0 leaders. You will also gain insight on what can be expected from the latest R&D national programs in France, Germany and beyond, offering a glimpse into future opportunities related to 6G. The workshop will be held at EURECOM at the heart of Sophia Antipolis, where the leading industry labs and academic research centers meet to build the Future. More info here: https://www.5gsophia.fr/
Hackathon “GreenHack~IT”, 4 days in spring 2024 (2nd edition)
GreenHack~IT endeavors to let final year French and German graduate students (LMD +5) well versed in machine learning and data analytics, unleash their creativity and skill, and challenge themselves through participation in a hackathon, by tackling a significant industrial problem in light of sustainable development objectives that will contribute to ushering the age of Industry 4.0. Relevance in terms of initial and vocational education and/or life-long learning – Although both TUM and IMT students receive high-quality education, nothing replaces hands-on experience on real-life problems, within a time-constrained setting, close to what they would face in their future jobs. This is precisely what GreenHack~IT will provide to students, an opportunity to be better prepared for their future careers but also a type of experience held in high esteem by companies. Website of the last edition in 2022: https://sites.google.com/view/greenhackit/
Capture the Flag Platform “CyberCTF”, launch end of 2024
Capture the Flag (CTF) challenges are probably best known from cybersecurity contexts. However, the concept can also be applied to other learning material, putting gamification elements and competition in the foreground for motivating learners to invest a lot of energy in learning.
Cybersecurity is a key competency for industry today. It is necessary for almost all branches since Information Technology (IT) and Operational Technology (OT) systems are ubiquitous. Providing more and better teaching in cybersecurity is therefore a central requirement on a global scale. This project focuses on the German-French context, giving learners in our tandem area an advantage that can help increasing productivity in both countries.
The motivation behind this project is to leverage the educational benefits of Capture The Flag (CTF) competitions as a powerful tool for teaching practical skills including hacking skills in the cybersecurity context. CTF competitions are popular in the cybersecurity community and are often organized as part of cybersecurity workshops, conferences, and industry events. By presenting students with a series of purposely designed systems with security vulnerabilities, CTF challenges allow them to practice exploiting these vulnerabilities and obtain flags as proof of successfully mastering each challenge. Through this game-based learning approach, students accumulate points based on the number of flags obtained, fostering a competitive environment.
The project aims to build a CTF platform and use it to enhance students’ understanding of cybersecurity principles and techniques. It also aims to provide them with invaluable hands- on experience in a controlled and simulated environment. By addressing real-world scenarios and domains, such as IoT and automotive systems, this project intends to allow students to gain practical skills to excel in cybersecurity and make them more prepared for future careers in the industry. In traditional classroom settings, such practical skills cannot be gained.
Winter School for the Multiphase Erasmus Mundus Master’s Program
(program starting in 2024, first winter school early 2025)
The MULTIPHASE project proposes an Erasmus Mundus master’s joint program in the booming field of Multiphase Systems, with the ambition of educating a new generation of industrial experts, engineers, and researchers, to bring the Chemical Industry into a new age based on sustainable processes, circular economy and all the potential of digital tools.
This Erasmus Mundus MSc. Program will give the opportunity to learn state-of-the-art knowledge and methods to understand, manipulate and design innovative industrial processes involving particles, drops and bubbles. These systems are ubiquitous in nature and industry: energy, environment, chemical, health, additive manufacturing, …
The GFA is a sponsor for the annual winter school of the master’s program.
More info here: https://www.multiphase-master.eu/
Article from Research in Bavaria: New Solutions for the Industry of the Future – Digital Twins and Cybersecurity Strategies for the Modern World of Work
The GFA is honoured to be spotlighted in this wonderful article by Vera Spaett from Research in Bavaria.
Here the part regarding the GFA:
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A Joint German-French Project Targeting Commercial Success
In 2016, TUM co-founded another long-term project, the German-French Academy for the Industry of the Future (GFA), with the aim of preparing and strengthening industry in France and Germany. The GFA is the result of close cooperation on research, education, and innovation between TUM and the Institut Mines-Télécom (IMT)—the biggest grande école in France, which has campuses across the country.
Since the project started, teams comprised of German and French researchers have collaborated on over 27 research projects, jointly supporting the education of students and doctoral candidates.
“The GFA is a vibrant forum for exchange and international understanding. A whole host of motivated people are putting a lot of energy into strengthening German-French research cooperation,” says Professor Marc-Oliver Pahl, holder of the Chair of Cybersecurity for Critical Networked Infrastructures at IMT. He knows both university partners in the GFA well, having worked at TUM from 2008 to 2019 before accepting a professorship with IMT Atlantique in France.
Graduate Opportunities with the GFA
The GFA’s mission is to strengthen the life-long learning of international students and doctoral candidates, as well as working professionals, around the changes underway in the world of work and the digitalization of the economy. As part of German-French collaboration, the GFA co-organizes PhD schools as well as workshops and hackathons for international students, doctoral candidates, and other researchers in conjunction with industry partners.
Pahl is a member of the GFA steering committee and provides advice on future educational activities at the GFA. He has been teaching students and engaging with digital learning formats for many years, having played a pioneering role in the field of eLearning. The GFA therefore offers free digital learning formats, such as MOOCs, on topics such as the future of work.
The TRUE-VIEW Project: Enhanced Cybersecurity Through the Metaverse
Another way of connecting with the GFA is by engaging with its research projects. With computer systems becoming increasingly ubiquitous, data is increasingly collected and processed sometimes without us even realizing. In a recent project called TRUE-VIEW, Pahl and his team explored how the metaverse could be used to raise awareness about invisible data collection and processing.
In the metaverse, users wear headsets to enter collaborative virtual worlds. As part of this work, the team developed several extended reality (XR) interfaces with virtual and augmented reality (VR, AR) as proofs of concept. The scientists created scenarios that provided a virtual representation of Wi-Fi signals at the TUM Department of Informatics, as well as of data processing in factory automation systems and ambient data processing in classrooms, all using 3D headsets.
GFA Seed Funding a Pathway to Career Success
The TRUE-VIEW project led to Pahl’s involvement in the joint Horizon Europe “CyberSecDome” project, which includes 13 partners including TUM and IMT and over €6 million in funding. The GFA also awards seed funding to promising high-risk project ideas to support the preparation of applications for more extensive grants, such as those awarded by the EU and gained by Pahl. Its research topics include Cybersecurity, Artificial Intelligence, Advanced Manufacturing, and Network Systems. Over 35 large and medium-sized companies from Germany and France work with the GFA. “It’s wonderful to see so many industrial and academic entities wanting to partner with us. Nothing could illustrate the GFA’s success better,” says Pahl.
Please find the full article here: https://www.research-in-bavaria.de/industry-of-the-future
Female Founders Focus with Flore de Durfort
Female Founders Focus @ GFA Startup LEX:
Flore de Durfort, Co-Founder at Point Twelve Energy: “In moments of doubt, I like to remind myself that being an entrepreneur means remaining an active player in my own life – and that I can hardly lose at that game.” Read the full interview here!
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