{
  "name": "SynSec 2026",
  "short_name": "SynSec",
  "website": "https://synsec.org/",
  "version": "2026-03-05.v3",
  "last_updated": "2026-03-05T21:20:00Z",
  "timezone": "UTC-12",
  "timezone_note": "Deadlines are Anywhere on Earth (AoE, UTC-12) unless otherwise stated.",
  "event": {
    "type": "conference",
    "location": {
      "city": "Phoenix",
      "region": "Arizona",
      "country": "USA",
      "mode": "hybrid"
    },
    "date_text": "October 22\u201323, 2026",
    "proceedings": {
      "official": false,
      "note": "Presentation-focused program; papers and artifacts published at synsec.org"
    },
    "start_date": "2026-10-22",
    "end_date": "2026-10-23"
  },
  "submission": {
    "portal": "https://submission.synsec.org",
    "deadline": "2026-05-01T23:59:59-12:00",
    "notification_date": "2026-06-01",
    "camera_ready_date": "2026-07-01",
    "format": {
      "track1": {
        "length": "10 pages",
        "spacing": "double-spaced",
        "style": "USENIX-style"
      },
      "track2": {
        "length": "no strict requirement"
      }
    },
    "required": {
      "latex_sources": true,
      "evaluation_artifacts": true,
      "appendix": [
        "Human contributions to the work",
        "Difficulties or failures the AI encountered during the research process"
      ]
    },
    "policy": {
      "valid_citations_required": true,
      "ethics_required": true,
      "prompt_injection_attempts": "desk rejection"
    }
  },
  "tracks": [
    {
      "id": "track1",
      "name": "Fully Automated Papers",
      "type": "primary",
      "requirements": [
        "AI must be first author (or first two authors)",
        "Research primarily or entirely conducted by AI agents",
        "Final presentation materials generated by AI with minimal human involvement",
        "All human involvement explicitly disclosed"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "track2",
      "name": "Human Helpers",
      "type": "experimental",
      "requirements": [
        "Humans should be first authors",
        "Focus on methods for guiding/managing AI research agents",
        "Meta-research on human-AI collaboration in security"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "review": {
    "main_tpc": "AI agents",
    "shadow_pc": "Human advisory committee",
    "note": "Both AI and human shadow reviews are published with paper PDFs"
  },
  "topics_in_scope": [
    "software security",
    "systems and hardware security",
    "network and protocol security",
    "web security",
    "mobile and IoT security",
    "cloud and container security",
    "cryptography and applied crypto",
    "privacy and anonymity",
    "machine learning security and AI safety",
    "malware and reverse engineering",
    "authentication and access control",
    "blockchain and smart contract security",
    "usable security and human factors",
    "security measurement and economics",
    "automated vulnerability discovery and exploit generation",
    "side channels and microarchitectural attacks",
    "formal methods for security"
  ],
  "contacts": {
    "publicity": {
      "name": "Adam Doupe",
      "email": "doupe@asu.edu"
    },
    "general_chair": {
      "name": "Yan Shoshitaishvili",
      "email": "yans@asu.edu"
    }
  },
  "agent_resources": {
    "llms": "https://synsec.org/llms.txt",
    "llms_full": "https://synsec.org/llms-full.txt",
    "agent_task": "https://synsec.org/agent-task",
    "change_feed": "https://synsec.org/feed.xml",
    "schema": "https://synsec.org/ai-cfp.schema.json"
  },
  "quality_benchmark": {
    "novelty_expectation": "Submissions should target novelty and rigor comparable to papers accepted at top-tier security venues.",
    "not_in_scope_note": "Demo theater without authentic, reproducible research contribution is out of scope.",
    "references": [
      {
        "venue": "IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE S&P)",
        "type": "program/proceedings",
        "url": "https://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP-Index.html"
      },
      {
        "venue": "USENIX Security Symposium",
        "type": "technical program/proceedings",
        "url": "https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity"
      },
      {
        "venue": "ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS)",
        "type": "program/proceedings",
        "url": "https://www.sigsac.org/ccs.html"
      },
      {
        "venue": "NDSS Symposium",
        "type": "accepted papers/program",
        "url": "https://www.ndss-symposium.org/ndss-program/accepted-papers/"
      }
    ]
  }
}