DFRWS encourages the active participation of students studying digital forensics. One or more Student Scholarships are made available for students to present their accepted research papers for each event.
Scholarships are awarded on a first come first serve basis, depending on financial need and sponsorship funding available each year. Exact award amounts will vary, but usually cover registration expenses at a minimum.
Please apply using the Google form below.

Topics of Interest

DFRWS welcomes new perspectives that push the envelope of what is currently possible in digital forensics. Potential topics (alphabetical) to be addressed by submissions include, but are not limited to:

• Anti-forensics and anti-anti-forensics
• Artificial intelligence-assisted digital forensics
• Case studies and trend reports
• Copyright infringement response
• Cryptocurrency investigation
• Data decoding, deserialization and decryption
• Deleted/Damaged data recovery methods and tools
• Development of digital forensic infrastructures
• Digital evidence sharing and exchange
• Digital forensic preparedness / readiness
• Digital forensic tool validation
• Digital forensics in smart cities
• Digital investigation case management
• Event reconstruction methods and tools
• Forensic analysis of anonymous network based activities
• Forensic analysis of cloud and virtualized environments
• Forensic analysis of cloud-based services
• Forensic analysis of databases
• Forensic exploration of newly emerging devices, OSes, apps and services
• Incident response on malware and targeted attacks
• Laws and policies for digital evidence
• Machine learning and data mining for digital forensics
• Memory acquisition and analysis
• Methodological frameworks for digital forensic activities
• Mobile and embedded device forensics
• Multimedia (image, audio, video) data analysis
• Multi-source data integration and correlation analysis
• Network and distributed system forensics
• Non-traditional forensic scenarios / contexts
• Steganography and steganalysis
• Vehicle forensics (e.g., drones, cars, vessels)
• Visualization methods and tools for forensic analysis

Committees

Organizing Committee