MAY 12-15, 2025 AT THE HYATT REGENCY SAN FRANCISCO, SAN FRANCISCO, CA
46th IEEE Symposium on
Security and Privacy
Since 1980, the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy has been the premier forum for presenting developments in computer security and electronic privacy, and for bringing together researchers and practitioners in the field. The 2025 Symposium marks the 46th annual meeting of this flagship conference.
This year, IEEE S&P 2025 will have two poster recognitions!
Presenting a poster at IEEE S&P is a great chance for researchers to obtain valuable feedback on their ongoing work from knowledgeable participants at the conference. Posters are solicited that present unpublished, in-progress, late-breaking research, or extensions of published work on security-and privacy-related topics. Additionally, posters presenting interdisciplinary work that is relevant to security and privacy research but was published outside the security community are welcome.
Poster abstracts are due Tuesday, April 15, 2025. At least one author of each accepted poster will be required to attend the conference in person. Accepted poster abstracts will be posted on the conference website.
Poster abstracts due: Tuesday, Apr 15, 2025, AOE
Acceptance notification: Tuesday, Apr 22, 2025
Submit an abstract no longer than two pages describing the work, together with a draft of the poster itself. The abstract title should begin with the keyword “Poster:”. Include all authors with contact information and institutional affiliation in your abstract. Abstracts should briefly describe the particular problem being addressed, and detail your approach to the problem. Providing preliminary results is suggested but not required. If the work was previously published outside the security community or is an extension of any published work, please include a reference to the existing publication.
Please use the 2 column IEEE conference proceedings style for preparing your abstract. All submissions should be in PDF format. Your abstract should not exceed the two page limit; non-conforming submissions will not be considered for review. All submissions must also include a draft of the poster to receive feedback before the conference. Presented posters can be sized up to 24 x 36 inches (or A1), either portrait or landscape, but should be scaled down to letter or A4 for submission as a PDF.
All materials should be submitted to https://posters.sp2025.ieee-security.org
If accepted, at least one author must be registered and a final version of the poster abstract must be submitted by Wednesday, April 30, 2025. The abstract will be placed on the conference website prior to the poster session, but will not be included in the conference proceedings.
[From SOUPS 2024] Please consider the poster’s accessibility (e.g., use text large enough to read when viewed from a reasonable standing distance, use simple non-serif fonts and high contrast between text and background). You can check this guide for more information. For the submission as PDF, please scale the poster down to normal paper size (US letter or A4).
For more information, please contact the posters chair at sp25-posters@ieee-security.org.
New this year: we will have a best poster award. The poster jury will vote on the best poster during the submission period. The jury will consider different factors, including poster organization, graphics, text legibility, space utilization, and clarity of the material
Similar to last year, we will have a special competition where a subset of four multimodal models: GPT-4o, Gemini 2, and Molmo, and Qwen2.5-VL will judge the actual posters for a set of criteria. The overall score will be the average from the utilized models. The posters receiving full score on the criteria below will be recognized during the awards ceremony. Of course, there are multiple ways by which one can design a poster that is scored perfectly by a vision-language model!
Please be aware that by participating in this context, your poster will be uploaded to a cloud-based API. You can opt-out from this competition on the submission website.
This is the GitHub repository that contains the code, which will be used to score the posters: https://github.com/wi-pi/ai-selected-best-poster. And the criteria is listed below. It is worth noting that this criteria might change before the conference date. However, the repository will always be up-to-date.
If you are presenting a paper at S&P, you are eligible to submit your poster. Your poster will be selected depending on availability of space. Priority will be given to posters not corresponding to papers that will be presented at S&P.
TBA
This is the criteria to be used to score the posters. It is mostly adapted from the Rubric for Scientific Posters provided by the writing center at Harvard University: