Month: June 2024

Huge congratulations to Security Lab MS graduate Grace Brigham, who received multiple awards at this year’s graduation: in addition to an Outstanding Senior Award, she was honored with the Outstanding Master’s Thesis Award for “Violation of my body: Perceptions of non-consensual (intimate) imagery.” That work, which Brigham completed under the supervision of Security Lab professor Tadayoshi Kohno, provided new insights into people’s perceptions of AI-generated non-consensual imagery that are already being used to inform national and international conversations about how to mitigate harms associated with such use of AI. The paper will be presented at the 20th Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2024).

(Details and photo from Allen School News, photo by Kerry Dahlen.)

The UW Security and Privacy Research Lab is incredibly excited to congratulate our many graduates this year! It has been a tough couple of years for everyone, and our BS, MS, PhD, and Postdoc graduates have nevertheless conducted incredible research and contributed to a great lab community. We will miss you all, and we can’t wait to see where your careers take you!

Congratulations to:

• Micheal Chung (BS, advised by David Kohlbrenner) –> Software Engineer @ Apple
• Grace Brigham (MS, advised by Yoshi Kohno) –> Software Engineer @ Microsoft
• Vadym Denysenko (BS, advised by Franzi Roesner) –> Data Engineer @ MAQ Software
• Chongjiu Gao (MS, advised by Franzi Roesner) –> Software Engineer @ F5
• Theo Gregersen (MS, advised by Franzi Roesner) –> PhD program @ CMU
• Shaoqi Wang (MS, advised by Yoshi Kohno and Franzi Roesner) –> PhD program @ Northeastern