Month: June 2025

UW Security Lab members presented two papers at the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT) in Athens, Greece this week:

• Kentrell Owens presented his paper (with co-authors Yael Eiger, Basia Radka, Yoshi Kohno, and Franzi Roesner) on “Understanding experiences with compulsory immigration surveillance in the U.S.“.
• Mattea Sim presented her paper (with co-authors Basia Radka, Yoshi Kohno, Franzi Roesner, and Kurt Hugenberg) on “Characterizing the Default Persona During Design: Mental Representations of Technology Users are Gendered“.

The UW Security Lab is so excited to congratulate our 2025 graduates!! It’s been an honor to work with all of you and we can’t wait to see where your careers lead you!

Left to right in the photo: Prof. Franzi Roesner, Prof. Yoshi Kohno, Dr. Miranda Wei (PhD graduate), Dr. Kaiming Cheng (PhD graduate), Evan Lam (BS graduate), Basia Radka (MS graduate), Dr. Kentrell Owens (PhD Graduate).

The end of this academic year bring the (successful) completion of three Security Lab PhDs. In the last several week the following students have successfully defended their dissertations and will soon be off to do great things in the world! Ordered alphabetically:

• Kaiming Cheng defended his dissertation titled “Toward Safer Augmented Reality: Securing Input, Output, and Interaction”. Kaiming will join Meta as a Research Scientist.
• Kentrell Owens defended his dissertation titled “Technology and Power: Examining Imbalances Through Usable Security & Privacy Research”. Kentrell will move to Germany to do a postdoc with Yixin Zou at the Max Planck Institute for Security & Privacy (MPI-SP).
• Miranda Wei defended her dissertation titled “Against Online Abuse and Toward Sociotechnical Security & Privacy”. Miranda will join EPFL as an assistant professor after a year as a postdoc at Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP).

Congratulations, all!!