17th Annual
17th Annual
17th Annual
This "Best Paper Award" assesses the top scholarly security research from the previous year. The focus of this competition is on research that has a practical impact. With eligibility limited to already published papers or camera-ready papers, CSAW has a reputation for drawing some of the best security research worldwide.
competition timeline
June 2021: Submission Phase Opens
12 September 2021: Submission Deadline, North America
3 October 2021: Submission Deadline, Europe (extended)
10 October 2021: Submission Deadline, MENA
10 October 2021: Submission Deadline, India
September - October 2021: Preliminary Review
by 15 October 2021: Finalist Notification
10 - 14 November 2021: CSAW Conference & Final Competitions
12 November 2021: Virtual Final Presentations & Judging
2021 finalists
CSAW'19 Europe
CSAW'19 India
CSAW'19 MENA
CSAW'19 Europe
2021 competition organizers
The Applied Research Competition is independently organized and judged by each global region.
Email the Organizers
North America Program Committee
Committee members listed in alphabetical order by last name. This list is not exhaustive of all committee members. We are grateful for the support of our reviewers, many of whom have been involved in supporting CSAW competitions in previous years.
Devdatta Akhawe | Figma Inc.
Frederico Araujo | Research Staff Member, IBM Research
Weiteng Chen | University of California, Riverside
Cameron Ballard | NYU Center for Cybersecurity
Animesh Basak Chowdhury | PhD Candidate, NYU Center for Cybersecurity
Ren Ding | Research Scientist, Facebook
Periwinkle Doerfler | Security Engineer, Facebook
Brendan Dolan-Gavitt | Assistant Professor, NYU Center for Cybersecurity
Paul Giura | Security Researcher (PMTS), AT&T - Chief Security Office
Andrea Denisse Gómez | Software Engineer, Independent Security Researcher, Cerby, Arch Linux
Iman Hosseini | PhD Candidate, NYU Center for Cybersecurity
David Kohlbrenner | Assistant Professor, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington
Eugene Kolodenker | Senior Staff Engineer, Lookout
Jay Koven | PhD Candidate, NYU Center for Cybersecurity
Christian Krieg | TU Wien
Trishank Karthik Kuppusamy | Staff Security Engineer, Datadog
Chris Lamb | Reproducible Builds
Yiwen Li
Maria Isabel Mera Collantes | Google
Shayan Mohammed | PostDoc, University of Texas, Dallas
Marina Moore | PhD Candidate, NYU Center for Cybersecurity
Dimitris Mouris | PhD Candidate, University of Delaware
Soyeon Park | PhD Candidate, Georgia Tech
Hammond Pearce | NYU Center for Cybersecurity
Sai Teja Peddinti | Senior Research Scientist, Google
Theofilos Petsios | Amazon Web Services
Rui Qiao
Sazzadur Rahaman | Assistant Professor, University of Arizona
Brandon Reagen | Assistant Professor, NYU Center for Cybersecurity
Nicholas Renner | PhD Candidate, NYU Center for Cybersecurity
Octavian Suciu | PhD Candidate, University of Maryland, College Park
Kejsi Take | PhD Candidate, NYU Center for Cybersecurity
Benjamin Tan | Assistant Professor, University of Calgary
Santiago Torres-Arias | Assistant Professor, Purdue University
Tavish Vaidya | Google
Victor van der Veen | Product Security Engineer, Qualcomm
Marc Waldman | Associate Professor, Computer Information Systems Department, Manhattan College
Jianliang Wu | PurSec Lab, Purdue University
Dongpeng Xu | Assistant Professor, University of New Hampshire
Xiaokuan Zhang | PhD Candidate, Ohio State University
