UW CSE Security Lab @uw_cse_seclab
Security and Privacy Research Lab, University of Washington, Department of Computer Science. seclab.cs.washington.edu Seattle, Washington Joined January 2009-
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This is @KaimingCheng at his great talk on "User Comprehension and Comfort with Eye-Tracking and Hand-Tracking Permissions in Augmented Reality" at USEC earlier this week. Nice work!! 🎉Check out the paper at ndss-symposium.org/wp-content/upl…
Congrats to soon-to-be-Dr @RachelMcAmis on passing the UW @uwcse General Exam and advancing to PhD candidacy. Her research, with the UW @uw_cse_seclab and the @TechPolicyLab, is focused on satellites and computer security
Congrats to lab alumni @ng_brigham for presenting at the NeurIPS 2024 workshop on Socially Responsible Language Modelling Research (SoLaR)! See the poster: lnkd.in/g4KGbKum SoLar workshop: solar-neurips.github.io
At #SoLaR poster session (11 AM West Room 121,122) 1. Case Studies of Generative AI’s Use in Journalism arxiv.org/abs/2406.13706 2. Differentially Private Learning Needs Better Model Initialization and Self-Distillation arxiv.org/abs/2410.17566
* interrupting your election doomscrolling * I'm on the job market! I address online abuse as the next frontier of security & privacy, so all people using tech feel safe. Open to TT faculty/industry research roles in the US/abroad -- lmk if you know of a good home for my work!
Full house for the last talk and Best Paper Award winner at @ACM_IMC_2024 !
Congrats to Christina Yeung on winning the best paper award at IMC 2024!!!
Super congratulations to @InyoungCheong for successfully defending her PhD yesterday, titled "Collaborative Approaches to AI Governance: Exploring Co-Design and Co-Regulation Models". Great job!! @UW @UWSchoolofLaw @TechPolicyLab @UW_cse_seclab @SocFuturesLab
friday: memed 🥥🌴 my way through a critique of how we (me included!) study sociodemgraphic factors in security and privacy research, 🙏🏻 to @JaronMink Yael Eiger @yoshi_kohno @eredmil1 @franziroesner for their advice & collaboration through all my rants usenix.org/conference/use…
thursday: presented our work on understanding help-seeking and help-giving on Reddit for image-based sexual abuse. what an huge team effort, s/o the absolutely stacked author team usenix.org/conference/use…
Super great presentation from Natalie Grace Brigham at #soups2024, for her paper "'Violation of my body:' Perceptions of AI-generated non-consensual (intimate) imagery", also with @_weimf and @eredmil1 . Paper at usenix.org/conference/sou…
Excellent talk at @USENIXSecurity #usesec24 from @Kabir_Panahi and @lucysimko on "Analysis of the Integration of Biometric Voter Verification in the 2019 Afghan Presidential Elections", also with Shawn Robertson, @yazz_acar, and @AlexGBardas . Paper at usenix.org/conference/use…
tuesday: Grace presented great work on perceptions of AIG-NCII, co-authored also with @yoshi_kohno @eredmil1. watch out for Grace, she's gonna be up to amazing things! x.com/yoshi_kohno/st…
tuesday: Grace presented great work on perceptions of AIG-NCII, co-authored also with @yoshi_kohno @eredmil1. watch out for Grace, she's gonna be up to amazing things! x.com/yoshi_kohno/st…
Great #usesec24 talk from @KaimingCheng on "When the User Is Inside the User Interface: An Empirical Study of UI Security Properties in Augmented Reality" w/ Arka Bhattacharya, Michelle Lin, @jaewook_jae, Aroosh Kumar, Jeffery F. Tian, and @franziroesner: ar-sec.cs.washington.edu/ar_ui/
Honored to be recognized as one of the runners-up for the 2024 Caspar Bowden PET award. Our work proposes a framework to facilitate independent & repeatable audits on unmodified, off-the-shelf smart speakers without relying on cooperation from the platform vendors. Details here:
Honored to be recognized as one of the runners-up for the 2024 Caspar Bowden PET award. Our work proposes a framework to facilitate independent & repeatable audits on unmodified, off-the-shelf smart speakers without relying on cooperation from the platform vendors. Details here: https://t.co/WolzxP1JvH
and Over Fences and Into Yards: Privacy Threats and Concerns of Commercial Satellites Rachel McAmis (University of Washington), Mattea Sim (University of Indiana Bloomington), Mia Bennett (University of Washington), Tadayoshi Kohno (University of Washington) #pets24
#AI generated sexual imagery may be labeled “deepfake,” but the violation can feel very real. A @UW #UWAllen @UW_cse_seclab @Georgetown study revealed varying attitudes to synthetic imagery—raising important questions around privacy + consent. #soups2024 washington.edu/news/2024/08/0…
Super congratulations to both @_weimf and @Tanusree_Sharma!!!
Super congratulations to both @_weimf and @Tanusree_Sharma!!!
I couldn't more highly recommend CNIL's Privacy Research Day -- so much interesting research being done by kind and thoughtful researchers. C'était un plaisir !
I couldn't more highly recommend CNIL's Privacy Research Day -- so much interesting research being done by kind and thoughtful researchers. C'était un plaisir !

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