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Many members of the Security Lab (and friends and at least one alum) greatly enjoyed the Allen School’s annual ski day yesterday!

Kaiming Cheng gave a great talk on “User Comprehension and Comfort with Eye-Tracking and Hand-Tracking Permissions in Augmented Reality” at the Symposium on Usable Security and Privacy (USEC) earlier this week. Check out the paper at https://www.ndss-symposium.org/wp-content/uploads/usec25-5.pdf.

Congratulations to soon-to-be-Dr. Rachel McAmis on passing the UW General Exam and advancing to PhD candidacy! Her research, with the UW Security & Privacy Research Lab and the UW Tech Policy Lab, is focused on satellites and computer security.

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.

The UW Security Lab enjoyed a whirlwind week at SOUPS and USENIX Security last week, one of our favorite weeks every year!

• MS student Grace Brigham spoke about “Measuring and mitigating harms at the intersections of generative AI and image-based sexual abuse” in the Societal & User-Centered Privacy in AI (SUPA) workshop
• Grace also presented her first-author paper at SOUPS: “‘Violation of my body:’ Perceptions of AI-generated non-consensual (intimate) imagery” (also with collaborators Miranda Wei, Yoshi Kohno, and Elissa Redmiles)
• PhD student Miranda Wei co-organized the Gender, Online Safety, and Sexuality Workshop (GOSS) workshop
• Miranda was also awarded the John Karat Award at SOUPS, already reported here
• Miranda also presented two first-author papers at USENIX Security:
  • “Understanding Help-Seeking and Help-Giving on Social Media for Image-Based Sexual Abuse” (also with collaborators from Google, Sunny Consolvo, Patrick Gage Kelley, Tara Matthews, Sarah Meiklejohn, Renee Shelby, Kurt Thomas, and Rebecca Umbach, as well as UW collaborators Franzi Roesner and Yoshi Kohno)
  • “SoK (or SoLK?): On the Quantitative Study of Sociodemographic Factors and Computer Security Behaviors” (also with collaborators Yael Eiger, Yoshi Kohno, Elissa Redmiles, and Franzi Roesner)
• PhD student Kaiming Cheng presented his first-author paper at USENIX Security: “When the User Is Inside the User Interface: An Empirical Study of UI Security Properties in Augmented Reality” (also with collaborators Arka Bhattacharya, Michelle Lin, Jaewook Lee, Aroosh Kumar, Jeffery Tian, Yoshi Kohno, and Franzi Roesner)

Congratulations to UW School of Law and Security Lab PhD student Inyoung Cheong (advised by Yoshi Kohno) for successfully defending her PhD yesterday, titled “Collaborative Approaches to AI Governance: Exploring Co-Design and Co-Regulation Models”!

Big congratulations to Security Lab PhD student Miranda Wei for winning the John Karat Usable Privacy and Security Student Research Award this year!! The Karat Award is announced each year at the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS), and is awarded based on a senior PhD student’s (1) research in usable privacy and security, (2) their efforts to mentor others, and (3) their community service for usable privacy and security. Miranda is hugely deserving of this award, and we are so proud of her! Congratulations also to this year’s other winner, Tanusree Sharma from UIUC.