MAY 12-15, 2025 AT THE HYATT REGENCY SAN FRANCISCO, SAN FRANCISCO, CA
46th IEEE Symposium on
Security and Privacy
Since 1980, the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP) has been the premier forum for the presentation of developments in computer security and electronic privacy, and for bringing together researchers and practitioners in the field. To expand opportunities for scientific exchanges, the IEEE CS Technical Committee on Security and Privacy created the Security and Privacy Workshops (SPW). The typical purpose of such a workshop is to cover a specific aspect of security and privacy in more detail, making it easy for the participants to attend IEEE SP and a specialized workshop at SPW with just one trip. Furthermore, the co-location offers synergies for the organizers. The number of workshops and attendees has grown steadily in recent years. Workshops can be annual events, one-time events, or periodic.
The 2025 Security and Privacy Workshops will be held on Thursday, May 15, 2025. All workshops will occur on that day. Up to seven workshops will be hosted by SPW.
All deadlines are 23:59:59 AoE (UTC-12).
| Workshop proposals due | September 26, 2024 |
| Acceptance notification | October 26, 2024 |
| Workshop date | May 15, 2025 |
Submit your proposal (a single PDF file) at
Please direct questions to sp25-workshopchair@ieee-security.org.
There will be some interaction in deciding upon and setting up a workshop, but the initial proposal should already contain a considerable amount of information. A workshop proposal template is available online at the IEEE S&P “Call for Workshops” website, providing instructions and a more detailed description of information to include in proposals:
All workshops associated with the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy will be under the financial and legal responsibility of the IEEE Computer Society. This has great advantages for organizers, e.g., with respect to risk coverage and insurance, but also entails some responsibilities and constraints. The SPW organizers can help you with the following: meeting rooms at the conference hotel, meeting logistics (A/V, meals, etc.), registration, awards production, publishing proceedings with IEEE conference publication services (via IEEEXplore), and workshop publicity complimentary with IEEE S&P publicity efforts. Workshops will be advertised through, and workshop websites can be hosted at, ieee-security.org. The SPW committee will also help with publicity via mechanisms available to the IEEE Technical Committee on Security and Privacy, like the Cipher newsletter, and email lists of past attendees (those with opt-in).
Workshop organizers have responsibility for maintaining their workshop website; publicity for their workshop; soliciting, reviewing, and accepting papers; constructing the final program; and all interactions with authors, speakers, etc. Reviewing should be done in accordance with IEEE guidelines (3 reviews per paper, avoid conflict of interest (COI), program chair must review all comments before they are sent back to authors, etc.). If you are interested, we will send you a more detailed list of the responsibilities, meeting room configuration options, template schedule for sessions, etc., and would hope to jointly set up a successful workshop. We encourage workshop organizers to seek their own sponsor funding for their needs (e.g., support invited keynote speakers or panelists) but this is not required. However, workshop organizers must check with the main conference’s Donation Chairs before approaching the sponsors.
The purpose of SPW is to complement IEEE S&P and provide an environment conducive to new ideas and discussion. The criteria for evaluation are intended to assess workshop proposals in this context by considering the following:
| Workshop Chairs | Gang Wang | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| Ziming Zhao | Northeastern University | |
| Web Chair | Andreas Brüggemann | TU Darmstadt |
| Adam Doupe | Arizona State University |
| Ben Stock | CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security |
| Benjamin Fuller | University of Connecticut |
| David Balenson | University of Southern California |
| Earlence Fernandes | University of California San Diego |
| Limin Jia | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Luyi Xing | Indiana University Bloomington |
| Shirin Nilizadeh | The University of Texas at Arlington |
| Xiali Hei | University of Louisiana at Lafayette |
| Yuan Tian | University of California, Los Angeles |