Thursday 24 September 2026

8.30–9.00    

Registration and networking

9.00–9.15

Welcome remarks

Professor Anil A. Bharath, IN-CYPHER Programme Director, Imperial Global Singapore

IN-CYPHER overview

Professor Bharath, IN-CYPHER Programme Director, Imperial Global Singapore and Professor Chang Chip Hong, IN-CYPHER Principal Investigator, Nanyang Technological University (NTU)

9.15–10.15

Keynote #3: Echoing Machine – Leakage Paths in Modern Microarchitectures

Presented by Professor Debdeep Mukhopadhyay, Institute Chair Professor in the Department of CSE at IIT Kharagpur and Secured Embedded Architecture Laboratory (SEAL) Founder, and chaired by Professor Chang Chip Hong, IN-CYPHER Principal Investigator, NTU
10.15–10.45 

Morning break
10.45–11.45

Spotlight Talks (Hardware)

Chaired by Dr Vivek Mohan, Circuits and Systems Team Lead in IN-CYPHER, Imperial Global Singapore and Professor Sebastian Steinhorst, Associate Professor of Embedded Systems and Internet of Things in the Department of Computer Engineering of the School of Computation, Information and Technology at Technical University of Munich (TUM).

  • Evidence-Based Auditing for Third-Party Libraries in C and C++ Binaries
    • Dr Zhengzi Xu, Senior Research Fellow in IN-CYPHER, Imperial Global Singapore
  • QT-PUF: Quantum Tunneling Leakage Based PUF for Implantable IoMT Devices
    • Mr Yueqi Ma, Integrated Circuit Design Research Engineer in IN-CYPHER, Imperial Global Singapore
  • Retrofitting Post-Quantum End-to-End Security via Auditable Middleware for Legacy Medical Devices
    • Dr Yuan Lu, Senior Scientist at A*STAR specialising in applied cryptography for real-world systems
  • Understanding and Mitigating Co-Resident Attacks on BLE Medical Devices
    • Dr Bowen Hu, Research Fellow in IN-CYPHER, Imperial Global Singapore
11.45–12.30

Poster presentations
12.30–13.30

Lunch
13.30–14.30

Keynote #4: Cybersecurity 2.0 – Diversified and Just-in-Time Software by AI Developers

Presented by Professor Johan Jendle, Professor and Director, Research Centre of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Örebro University, Sweden and chaired by Professor Nick Oliver, Imperial Global Singapore
14.30–15.15

Panel Discussion #2: Ensuring Impact – Bringing Academic Research and Industry Innovation to the Bedside

Moderated by Dr Jeff Tully, co-director of the Center for Healthcare Cybersecurity (CHC) at UC San Diego and featuring the following panellists:

  • Mr Lee Chee Chong, Group Chief Information Security Officer, SingHealth
  • Mr Stefan Gentsch, Cybersecurity Officer for Asia Pacific, Siemens Healthineers
  • Mr Billy Leung, Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) security Lead, SingHealth Biomedical Engineering (BME)
15.15–15.45

Afternoon break
15.45–16.30

Closing remarks

Professor Anil A. Bharath, IN-CYPHER Programme Director, Imperial Global Singapore