Month: March 2021

Congratulations to Security Lab PhD student Miranda Wei for receiving an Honorable Mention for the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship!

Congratulations to Security Lab PhD student Kentrell Owens for receiving an Honorable Mention for his paper “‘You Gotta Watch What You Say’: Surveillance of Communication with Incarcerated People“, which will appear at the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in May. Big congratulations to Kentrell and to his co-authors at CMU, Camille Cobb (a UW Security Lab alum) and Lorrie Cranor!!

Also appearing at CHI this year: Security Lab PhD student Eric Zeng’s paper on “What Makes a ‘Bad’ Ad? User Perceptions of Problematic Online Advertising“, as well as an impressively long list of contributions from others at the University of Washington. Congrats to everyone!

Congratulations to Christine Geeng and Ivan Evtimov, who both recently passed their General Exams and became official PhD Candidates, a major milestone on the way to a PhD. Congratulations and thanks for sharing your exciting research with us!