Security and Privacy Research Lab
Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington
Congratulations to Grace Brigham for presenting her work on case studies of generative AI’s use in journalism at the NeurIPS 2024 workshop on Socially Responsible Language Modelling Research (SoLaR)! This work was conducted with Chongjiu Gao, Yoshi Kohno, Franziska Roesner, and Niloofar Mireshghallah.
Here is the link to the paper and the poster for more details!
Super congratulations to Tina Yeung (Security Lab PhD student), Yoshi Kohno (Security Lab faculty member), and Franzi Roesner (Security Lab faculty member) for being awarded the Best Paper Award at the 2024 Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) in Madrid, Spain!!! See Tina receiving the award in the image below, and read the paper here: On the (In)Accessibility of Web Ads: Measurement and User Study.
Congratulations to Rachel Hong for a excellent talk at EAAMO, hosted in San Luis Potosí, Mexico this year. Rachel presented the paper “Who’s in and who’s out? A case study of multimodal CLIP-filtering in DataComp”. Check out the details here.
Welcome to our new PhD students, Aarushi Dubey and Henry Wong, who have recently joined the UW Security Lab!
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!
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Congratulations to Miranda Wei for presenting at the La Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL) in France. Miranda presented her work (collaborative with Google and UW researchers) on “Understanding Help-Seeking & Help-Giving on Social Media for Image-Based Sexual Abuse”. More information and full replay about the CNIL’s Privacy Research Day 2024 can be found here: https://www.cnil.fr/en/privacy-research-day-2024-topics-registration.
Congratulations to Alexandra Michael, Gregor Haas, Tina Yeung, and Yael Eiger for passing their PhD Qualifying Exams this quarter! Alexandra presented her work on “Assembly Transformations for Countering Instruction-Centric Microarchitectural Timing Channels”. Gregor presented his work on “Hardware Sharing for Keystone Enclaves”. Tina presented her work on “Analyzing the Accessibility of Online Advertisements”. Yael presented her work on “Why Johnny Spent Money on Roblox: Manipulative Design in the Roblox Monetization Ecosystem”; Yael will officially pass Quals once she completes the required breadth coursework next year.
Congratulations to everyone for earning their MS degrees and completing the first of three major milestones on the path to a PhD!
Congratulations to Kentrell Owens for passing his General Exam and officially becoming an Allen School PhD candidate! Kentrell’s past and proposed work studies consumer protection for underserved communities. He proposed a user-focused approach that prioritizes questions posed by people directly impacted by the technologies.
Congratulations to Rachel McAmis and Rachel Hong for passing their qualifying exams! Rachel McAmis, a member of the UW Security and Privacy Research lab and the UW Tech Policy lab, presented her work on “Privacy Threats and Concerns of Commercial Satellites”. Rachel Hong, a member of the UW Security and Privacy Research lab and the Washington AI Lab (WAIL), presented her work on “Evaluation of targeted dataset collection on racial equity in face recognition”. You can find more information on these projects by reading Rachel McAmis’s paper and Rachel Hong’s paper.
This has been a very productive and busy summer for the UW Allen School Security and Privacy Research Lab! To celebrate the end of summer, the lab ventured on an outing to “Molly Moon’s Homemade Ice Cream”, a short walk from our building. It was a beautiful day, and great ice cream! 🙂
