The 8th International Symposium on Cyber Security, Cryptology and Machine Learning (CSCML 2024) is an international forum for researchers and practitioners in the theory, design, analysis, implementation, or application of cyber security, cryptography, and machine learning systems and networks; and, in particular, of conceptually innovative results.

Keynote Speakers

Thursday Dec 19

Professor Andrew Yao

Dean of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences (IIIS) at Tsinghua University

Andrew Yao

Andrew C. Yao is Dean of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences (IIIS) at Tsinghua University.

His research interests include algorithms, cryptography, and quantum computing. Professor Yao is recipient of the Turing Award in 2000, and the Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology in 2021.

He is member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and foreign member of the US National Academy of Sciences.

Prior to his position at the IIA, he worked in a variety of senior management positions at anumber of different companies, the most recent of which was Apple, as the first GM of Apple Israel and Vice President of Apple Global corporate.Today he is active in a consulting company he founded, C-Perto. Aharon holds a B.Sc and M.Sc degree in Computer Engineering and Electrical Engineering, respectively from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, where he lectured for over 15 years

Professor Roberto Baldoni

former Director General at National Cybersecurity Agency of Italy

Roberto Baldoni served as the inaugural General Director of Italy’s National Cybersecurity Agency (ACN). Prior to this, he spent four years as the Deputy General Director of Italian Intelligence. With over two decades of experience as an esteemed researcher in "secure and reliable distributed systems" and Professor of Computer Science at Sapienza University of Rome, he has been a key figure in shaping Italy’s cybersecurity landscape. His main contributions, as high government official, include architecting the designing of the Italian Cybersecurity Architecture (decree law 82/2021), the "National Security Perimeter for Cyber” law, the “Italian Cybersecurity Strategy for 2022-2026” and, most importantly, he set the ACN up and made it operational in a few weeks in a very complex geopolitical landscape.

Roberto Baldoni

former Director General at National Cybersecurity Agency of Italy

In 2022 Dr. Dor chaired the national committee to select the Israel Prize for technology and innovation. Dr. Dor holds a Ph.D. and M.S degree in computer science from Tel-Aviv University, in addition to graduating cum laude for her Bachelor of Science degree.

Her research about graph decomposition, median selection and geometric pattern matching in d-dimensional space has been published in several influential scientific journals.

Esti Peshin

VP, General Manager, Cyber Division at IAI - ELTA

Esti Peshin

Esti Peshin is VP & General Manager of the Cyber Division at the Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd. At the beginning of 2017, under Ms. Peshin’s management IAI’s cyber activity was expended from a Directorate to a Division.

She served until 2019 as the Director General (pro bono) of the Israeli Hi-Tech Caucus at the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament. She served 11 years in the Israeli Defense Forces, in an elite technology unit, where she was Deputy Director.

Esti Peshin is also a General Aviation and a ULM/LSA (Light Sports Aircraft) pilot.

Elad Raz

Founder & CEO, NextSilicon

Elad Raz

Mr. Elad Raz is the founder of NextSilicon, established in 2018, marking his fifth venture in over two decades in the IT industry. Prior to this, he founded and served as the CTO and Board Chair of Integrity Project, a notable software development company that was acquired by Mellanox Technologies (now a part of NVIDIA) in 2014. Under his leadership, NextSilicon has secured $300M in funding and boasts a team of 300 employees. Beyond his entrepreneurial success, Mr. Raz has been granted two patents and actively contributes his expertise to several private advisory boards. His commitment to excellence can also be traced back to his service in the elite intelligence unit 8200 of the Israeli Defense Forces.

Claire Vishik

Senior Director of Trust Technology & Policy and a Senior Principal Engineer at Intel

Claire Vishik

Until recently, Claire was Intel Fellow and group CTO. She is now focusing on portfolios of startups and research projects. She worked in the areas of Artificial Intelligence, hardware and network security, Trusted Computing, privacy enhancing technologies, some aspects of cryptography and related global policy and trade issues. Claire was appointed to numerous advisory boards and boards of directors for technical organizations and government agencies, e.g., the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) and TDL (Trust in Digital Life), ENISA, FCC CSRIC VIII on 5G network resilience, CyBoK, or UK Royal Society Cybersecurity effort. She led or co-led many initiatives, for example, IEEE blockchain TC, NIST CPS Public Working Group, or Cyber Leap Year Summit. In addition to Intel, she held leadership positions at Schlumberger Laboratory for Computer Science and AT&T Laboratories.

Sol (Shlomo) Gradman

CEO ASG Ltd., Chairman, Israel High Tech CEO Forum

Sol (Shlomo) Gradman

Shlomo (Sol) Gradman is an Israeli entrepreneur and investor. He is one of Israel's senior executives of high-tech companies and acts as the chairman of the Israeli High Tech CEO Forum.

Gradman gained his rich managerial and global experience while living both in Israel and the US and working for multinationals such as IBM, Orbotech and ASP Computer Products. In the mid 90's he started his involvement with young high technology companies and led (as CEO/SVP) four companies to success. Three were acquired by large multinational companies and one went public in TASE.

Gradman acts today as the Chairman of Israel's High Tech CEO Forum and the Chairman of the Israeli Silicon Club. As part of his activities to promote the Israeli high tech industry he initiated three major annual conferences.