IFIP Working Group 10.4 Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance 90th Meeting Charlotte, NC, USA June 25-28, 2026

Meeting Hosts

Bojan Cukic, Marco Vieira University of North Carolina at Charlotte, US

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Program-at-a-Glance and Contents

Workshop
Trustworthy Identity and Biometric Systems

Workshop  Organizers

Homa Alemzadeh, University of Virginia, US Stephanie Schuckers, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, US

Session 1 - Benchmarking and evaluation

Session 2 - Ethics, policy, and responsible deployment

Session 3 - Behavioral biometrics and Human factors

Session 4 - Adversarial robustness and applications

Session 5 - Research Reports

Session 6 - Session Summaries

Research Reports

Business Meeting

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Session 1 - Benchmarking and evaluation

Face Recognition: A Solved Problem? Patrick Grother, NIST, US
Biometric Recognition: Accuracy, Privacy, and Trustworthiness Xiaoming Liu, UNC Chapel Hill, US

Session 2 - Ethics, policy, and responsible deployment

Challenges in Biometrics: Security and Permanence Stephanie Schuckers, UNC Charlotte, US
Biometrics Are Not the New Password. They Are the New Trust Boundary Stephan Hutchinson, Consultant, US

Session 3 - Behavioral biometrics and Human factors

Behavior-Aligned Mouse Dynamics Segmentation Daqing Hou, Rochester Institute of Technology, US
Dear AI: Handle this. Biometrics in the New Age. Roy Maxion, CMU, US

Session 4 - Adversarial robustness and applications

Identity, Authorization, and Trust in Agentic LLM Systems: An Agent-as-Principal Security Paradigm Victor Vargas Arce, Microsoft, UNC Charlotte, US

Session 5 - Research Reports

Characterizing and Enhancing the Resilience of Generative Large Language Models against Soft Errors Lishan Yang
Activity-aware Error Recovery in Tele-Operated Robotic Surgery Homa Alemzadeh
Identity, Ethics, and Cooperation in the Age of AI: The Adlerian Software Engineer and the Adlerian Classroom Marco Vieira
Security analysis in real-world OT scenarios: the HASE approach Domenico Cotroneo
Capable but Unwilling: Separating refusal from capability in code LLMs Pietro Liguori
A Self-orchestration Model for Business Collaborations with Verifiable Credentials Kocsis Imre
Advancing Software Dependability through Understanding Human Errors: A Systematic Framework Fuqun Huang
AI Accelerators Dependability: Assessment and Performance Isolation Strategies Marcello Cinque
Revisiting Software Diversity with LLMs João Campos
TrustDevSecAI: Towards a Trustworthy DevSecOps Pipeline José D'Abruzzo Pereira
Toward understandable distributed systems Amy Babay
From Reaching to Triggering: Intelligent Directed Fuzzing for Vulnerability Discovery Long Wang
Fast-ReRoute with Highly-Connected Routes & More Elias Duarte

Session 6 - Session Summaries

Session 1 - Benchmarking and evaluation Pietro Liguori
Session 2 - Ethics, policy, and responsible deployment Long Wang, Tsinghua University, CN
Session 3 - Behavioral biometrics and Human factors Hui Lin
Session 4 - Adversarial robustness and applications Guanpeng Li

Business Meeting

90th IFIP WG 10.4 Meeting - Business Meeting Marco Vieira, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, US