Since 1980, the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy has been the premier forum for presenting developments in computer security and electronic privacy, and for bringing together researchers and practitioners in the field. The 2016 Symposium will mark the 37th annual meeting of this flagship conference.
The Symposium will be held on May 23-25, and the Security and Privacy Workshops will be held on May 26, 2016. Both events will be in San Jose, California at The Fairmont.
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Organizing Committee
| General Chair | Michael Locasto | SRI International |
| Program Chairs | Vitaly Shmatikov | Cornell Tech |
| Úlfar Erlingsson | ||
| Vice Chair / Registration | Kevin Butler | University of Florida |
| Treasurer | Mark Gondree | Naval Postgraduate School |
| Donations Chair | Jason Li | Intelligent Automation, Inc. |
| Publications Chair | Gabriela Ciocarlie | SRI International |
| Site Chair | Cara Candler | Executivevents, Inc. |
| Registration Manager | Yvonne Lopez | Executivevents, Inc. |
| Publicity Chair | Anuja Sonalker | TowerSec |
| Student Travel Committee Chair | Alvaro Cárdenas | University of Texas at Dallas |
| Co-Student Travel Committee Chair | Cliff Wang | US Army Research Office |
| Posters Chair | Georgios Portokalidis | Stevens Institute of Technology |
| Workshops Chair | Zachary Peterson | California Polytechnic State University |
| Workshop Publications Chair | Ashley Podhradsky | Dakota State University |
| Student PC Chair | Joseph Bonneau | Stanford University / EFF |
| Web Chair | Adam Bates | University of Florida |
| General Chair Emeritus | Sean Peisert | University of California, Davis |
Deadlines
| Conference | Registration opens | February 25, 2016 |
| Early-bird registration deadline | April 22, 2016 | |
| Papers | Paper submission deadline | November 13, 2015 No Extensions |
| Early-reject notification and author appeal period | January 13-15, 2016 [Updated] | |
| Acceptance notification | February 7, 2016 | |
| Approval deadline for shepherded papers | February 26, 2016 | |
| Camera-ready deadline | March 18, 2016 | |
| Posters | Poster abstracts due | Wed Apr 13 2016 23:59:00 Pacific Time |
| Acceptance notification | Mon Apr 18 2016 | |
| Final abstracts due | Fri May 13 2016 | |
| Workshops | Workshop proposals due | September 1, 2015 |
| Acceptance notification | September 11, 2015 | |
| Student PC | Deadline to apply for Student PC | October 1, 2015 |
| Student PC membership notification | October 5, 2015 | |
| Conference submission deadline | November 13, 2015 | |
| Bids for papers to review | November 17, 2015 | |
| Review deadline | December 18, 2015 | |
| Discussion period | December 19-31, 2015 |
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