Associate Professor Sugawara Ken (菅原 健) will deliver an invited lecture at a CSS2026 special session, introducing the path to achieving the Grand Slam and the outlook ahead. The event will be held on 21 October 2026 at Act City Hamamatsu.
CSS2026 will be held from 19 to 23 October 2026. Associate Professor Sugawara Ken (菅原 健), Department of Informatics, will speak at the special session “How to Get Papers Accepted at the Top 4 Security Conferences: The Path to the Grand Slam and the Outlook Ahead.”
The special session will feature invited lectures and a panel discussion by Associate Professor Sugawara and Murakami Takao (村上 隆夫), 2 of the Japanese researchers whose papers have been accepted at all 4 top international conferences: IEEE S&P, ACM CCS, USENIX Security and NDSS. They will discuss the path to that achievement and the outlook ahead.
Associate Professor Sugawara will give an invited lecture titled “Chronicles of the Top Conferences,” explaining his experience leading to the achievement and his outlook for the future. Murakami Takao (村上 隆夫) and others will take part in the panel discussion, moderated by Mori Tatsuya (森 達哉).
The event will be held from 11:00 to 13:45 on Wednesday, 21 October 2026, at Act City Hamamatsu. Information on registration and enquiries is available from the CSS2026 Secretariat.