צוות הגיוס של חברת אינטל מגיע לפגוש את הסטודנטיות והסטודנטים של הפקולטה להנדסה אוניברסיטת תל-אביב, לדבר על העתיד ולייעץ על אפשרויות תעסוקה.

יום שני 6.1.2020,

שעה 11:00

לובי בניין וולפסון להנדסה מכנית.

מומלץ להגיע עם קו"ח

(The talk will be given in English)

Speaker:     Dr. Ran Ben Basat
                     Harvard University

Monday, December 30^th, 2019
15:00 - 16:00

Room 011, Kitot Bldg., Faculty of Engineering

Leveraging Programmable Switches for In-network Computing

Abstract

The network line rate is constantly on the rise to support the exploding amounts of data. This means that we have less time to process individual packets, despite a growing demand for better network telemetry. Moreover, CPU speeds are not rising at the same rate as we near the end of Moore’s law, making it harder to rely on software computations. Programmable hardware switches are an emerging technology that enables flexible packet processing while optimizing for throughput and latency.

In this talk, I will introduce algorithms that leverage programmable switches for accelerating database operations and for improving network telemetry. Switches are orders of magnitude more efficient than traditional hardware accelerators, exist in the datapath, and are ideal for computation offloading. For telemetry, we will discuss how switches can probabilistically encode information across multiple packets to provide fine-grained network visibility with minimal overheads.

Short Bio
Ran is a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University working on network monitoring and algorithms. He is partially sponsored by the Zuckerman and the Hiroshi Fujiwara Cyber Security Research Center postdoctoral fellowships. 

(The talk will be given in English)

Speaker:     Dr. Mor Weiss
                    IDC Herzliya

Monday, January 13^th, 2020
15:00 - 16:00

Room 011, Kitot Bldg., Faculty of Engineering

Cryptography for RAM Machines

Abstract

Cryptography enables protecting communication and computation between multiple distrusting parties. Though it is known since the 1980’s that any function that can be computed, can be computed securely (i.e., while preserving the privacy of the inputs and the correctness of the output), actual implementations of these cryptographic protocols can incur prohibitive overheads. This is because the computation models used in these classic protocols are inconsistent with modern computation models, in which RAM programs are executed on huge datasets.

This talk will focus on designing new cryptographic solutions that operate in realistic computing models, presenting two new constructions. First, I will describe an Oblivious RAM, i.e., a RAM machine in which the access pattern into memory hides the memory contents, with enhanced security guarantees compared to the state of the art. Second, I will present a Fully Homomorphic Encryption scheme, namely encryption that provides the ability to compute on data while it is encrypted, which operates natively on RAM machines.

Short Bio
Mor Weiss is a post-doctoral researcher at IDC Herzliya. Prior to that she was a post-doctoral researcher atNortheastern University in Boston. She holds a PhD in Computer Science from theTechnion, as well as a BSc in Computer Science and a BSc in Mathematics fromthe Technion. Her main research field is cryptography.