2026 IEEE CSR Workshop on Privacy-Preserving Data Processing and Analysis (2P-DPA)

 Call for Papers

The deluge of big data, accompanied by developments in software and hardware technologies leveraging them has created new opportunities for research and industry. As an example, vast databases of medical records and genomics hold the promise of shedding light to up to now hidden disease pathways and novel personalized treatments. Large amounts of data are collected and processed to monitor systems and networks, to make operational decisions, and to provide services to customers in several domains, such as finance, health, security. The main challenges, though, faced by research and industry aiming to exploit the availability of big data are stemming from the fact that these data need to be processed in a privacy-preserving way, as they contain sensitive information. Although several technologies have been developed to facilitate the secure processing of data, hence reaching the ideal situation of maximizing data utility while preserving data privacy, they have not made significant inroads into real use cases due to scalability and implementation issues. This workshop aims at addressing these challenges by presenting technologies, tools, and architecture for scalable, practical, privacy preserving, and secure data processing.

Topics of Interest

Prospective authors are encouraged to submit previously unpublished contributions from a broad range of topics, which include but are not limited to the following:

› Architectures for secure data processing
› Advanced and scalable encryption algorithms
› Privacy preserving data processing
› Big data analytics

› Confidential computing
› Trusted execution environments
› Post-Quantum Cryptography
› Differential Privacy
› Federated Learning

Important Dates

Paper submission deadline: April 13, 2026
Authors’ notification: May 4, 2026
Camera-ready submission: May 25, 2026
Registration deadline (authors): May 25, 2026
Workshop dates: August 3–5, 2026

Submission Guidelines

Submitted manuscripts should not exceed 6 pages (plus 2 extra pages, being subject to overlength page charges) and should be of sufficient detail to be evaluated by expert reviewers in the field. The workshop’s proceedings will be published by IEEE and will be included in IEEE Xplore subject to meeting IEEE Xplore’s scope and quality requirements.

The guidelines for authors, manuscript preparation guidelines, and policies of the IEEE CSR conference are applicable to 2P-DPA workshop. Please visit the authors’ instructions page for more details. When submitting your manuscript via the conference management system, please make sure that the workshop’s track 2T1 2P-DPA is selected in the Topic Areas drop down list.

Workshop Committees

Workshop Chairs

Contact Us

salvatore.dantonio@uniparthenope.it

Organizing Committee

Massimo Ficco, University of Salerno (IT)
Luca Vollero, University of Rome Campus BioMedico (IT)
Dimitris Kavallieros, CERTH-ITI (GR)

Technical Program Committee

Muhammad Atif, University of Florence (IT)
Michal Choras, Bydgoszcz University of Science and Technology (PL)
Simone Guarino, University of Rome Campus BioMedico (IT)
Antonio Guerriero, University of Salerno (IT)
Marek Pawlicki, Bydgoszcz University of Science and Technology (PL)
Federica Uccello, Linkoping University (SE)

Publicity Chairs

Giovanni Mazzeo, University of Naples Parthenope (IT)

Program Information