Month: May 2017

Congratulations to Dr. Paul Vines on a successful final defense!

Security Lab PhD student Eric Zeng gave a great Quals Talk today at the Allen School, describing his work studying end user security and privacy concerns with smart homes. The Quals project and talk — along with all the relevant coursework — fulfill a major milestone along the path to a PhD. Eric will be presenting a similar talk at the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS) in July. Congratulations Eric!

Today Security Lab PhD student Kiron Lebeck presented at the 38th IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy (Oakland) in San Jose, CA. Kiron presented his paper “Security Augmented Reality Output”, describing a design for an augmented reality platform that mitigates risks from buggy or malicious application output (e.g., virtual content that obscures a user’s view of important physical world objects, like oncoming cars, or that startles a user). This work was done in collaboration with Security Lab undergraduate researcher Kimberly Ruth and faculty members Yoshi Kohno and Franzi Roesner. Congrats Kiron on a great presentation!

Read the full research paper here and learn more about the UW Security Lab’s efforts on security and privacy for emerging augmented reality platforms here. This work was also recently covered by Science.

Security Lab undergraduate researcher Kimberly Ruth spoke today at UW’s Undergraduate Research Symposium. Kimberly discussed her work on security and privacy for emerging augmented reality technologies, in collaboration with Security Lab PhD student Kiron Lebeck and lab co-directors Professors Yoshi Kohno and Franzi Roesner, which will also appear later this month at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland) 2017. Great talk, Kimberly!