Keynote Speaker: Supreeth Shastri

Title: Legalizing Personal-data Systems

Abstract:

In recent years, many societies are granting a new fundamental right to the people—the privacy and protection of personal data. While regulations such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) are already in effect, modern computing systems are struggling to comply with them. In this talk, I will show how these laws invalidate computing principles and practices that have decades of precedence, and why it is challenging to legalize personal-data systems. The focus of my research has been to bridge this gap between (legal) intention and (computing) implementation. I will share the work that my collaborators and I have been doing in this space, and identify some of the interesting open problems.

Bio: Supreeth Shastri is an Assistant Professor of computer science at the University of Iowa. His research interests lie in experimental computer science with an emphasis on systems and networking. He received his PhD from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and MS from Columbia University. Previously, he held a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Texas at Austin, and spent several years writing system software at ARM and Cisco Systems. His research has been adapted into best practices in the industry, deployed at the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, integrated into courses at a dozen universities across the US and Europe.

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