The second ProperData Annual Symposium was hosted December 1-2, 2022, in-person at UC Irvine. (It happened in parallel with the official NSF Site Visit on Dec. 1st.)

Our Symposium Agenda is detailed below, and will continue to be updated as the program is finalized.

For visitors, see Travel below for information on parking, hotel stays, and flights.

Read an overview of our first symposium event held in November 2021 by UCI Samueli School of Engineering News.


Agenda

Wednesday, Nov. 30

Time (PST)LocationDetails
6:30 pm +Sol Mexican CocinaDinner

Thursday, Dec 1. (PI Track, NSF Site Visit)

Time (PST)LocationDetails
7:00 amHyatt –> UCI ISEBTravel from Hyatt to UCI ISEB
7:15 am – 8:00 amISEB 6020Coffee and Breakfast
8:00 am – 8:05 am Athina Markopoulou: Welcome Remarks
8:05 am – 8:15 amPramod Khargonekar (VCR)’s Remarks
8:15 am – 10:15 amResearch Highlights
10:15 am – 10:45 amNSF in 6020, PIs in 6400NSF Executive Break
10:45 am – 11:15 amKnowledge Transfer
11:15 am – 11:45 amISEB 6400Demos + heading downstairs
11:45 am – 12:15 pmISEB 1200Student Lightning Talks + Posters
12:15 pm – 1:30 pmISEB 1st floor lobbyLunch
1:30 pm – 2:00 pmNSF in 6020, PIs in 6610NSF Executive Session
2:00 pm – 2:45 pmISEB 6020 Education and Outreach
2:45 pm – 3:30 pmLeadership + Collaboration
Future Directions
3:30 pm – 3:45 pmISEB stairsGroup Photo + PI Group Photo
3:45 pm – 5:00 pmISEB 1200 + 1st floor lobbyStudent Poster Session + Reception
5:00 pm – 5:30 pmISEB 6020NSF reports questions to PIs
5:45 pm – 9:00 pmISEB 6020PI Working Dinner
7:30 pm +Travel to Restaurant CUCINA Enoteca Newport Beach [Map]Join students at restaurant if able

Thursday, Dec 1. (Students and Post-Docs Track)

Time (PST)LocationDetails
7:00 amHyatt –> UCI ISEBTravel from Hyatt to UCI ISEB
7:15 am – 8:00 amISEB 1st floor lobby Coffee and Breakfast
8:00 am – 10:15 am ISEB 1200Students attend research talks
10:15 am – 10:45 amISEB 1st floor lobbyCoffee Break
10:45 am – 11:15 amISEB 1200Students attend research talks
11:15 am – 11:45 amISEB 1st floor lobbyStudents setup poster; PIs + NSF join students in 1200
11:45 am – 12:15 pmISEB 1200Student Lightning Talks + Posters
12:15 pm – 1:30 pmISEB 1200 + 1st floor lobbyLunch with NSF committee
1:30 pm – 3:30 pmISEB 1200Student Brainstorming Session
3:30 pm – 3:45 pmISEB StairsGroup Photo
3:45 pm – 5:00 pmISEB 1200 + 1st floor lobbyStudent Poster Session + Reception
5:00 pm – 5:30 pmISEB 1st floor lobbyBreak
5:45 pmBus –> RestaurantTravel to restaurant
6:30pm – 9:00pmCUCINA Enoteca Newport Beach [Map]Dinner / Social

Friday, Dec 2.

Time (PST)LocationDetails
7:15 amHyatt –> UCI ISEBTravel from Hyatt to UCI ISEB
7:30 am – 8:30 amISEB 6020Coffee and Breakfast
8:30 am – 9:00 amISEB 6020 PI Response to NSF (PIs/NSF only)
9:00 am – 10:00 amISEB 6610

ISEB 1200
PI Debrief Session

Brainstorming Session
Led by Maritza Campo Salazar
10:00 am – 11:00 amISEB 1200PI + Student Brainstorming Session
Students report to PIs
11:00 am – 12:00 pmISEB 1200Live recording of “Nothing to Hide? A Data Privacy Podcast
– Title: The Future of Privacy
– Hosts: Hieu Le, Umar Iqbal, Johanna Gunawan
– Guests: Athina Markopoulou, Zubair Shafiq, David Choffnes, Nikolaos Laoutaris
12:00pmISEB 1200Site Visit Concludes
12:00 pm – 1:30 pmISEB 1200 + 1st floor lobbyLunch
1:30 pm – 3:30 pmCrystal Cove State ParkAfternoon Walk/Hike Group Activity

Poster Session

Poster Session held on Thursday December 1, 2022. Posters by ProperData members: grad students, post docs, and researchers.

NamePoster Title
Abdul Haddi AmjadTrackerSift: untangling mixed tracking and functional web resources
Ahmed Elkordy & Jiang ZhangHow Much Privacy Does Federated Learning with Secure Aggregation Guarantee?
Alex Gamero-GarridoAssessing the GDPR’s Effectiveness in Preventing Privacy Infringements from Cross-Border Data Transfers
Basileal ImanaHaving your Privacy Cake and Eating it Too: Platform-supported Auditing of Social Media Algorithms for Public Interest
Devriş İşlerPuppy: A Publicly Verifiable Watermarking Protocol
Hadi AskariDiscovering Content Rabbit-Holes on TikTok and YT Shorts
Hao CuiPoliGraph: Automated Privacy Policy Analysis using Knowledge Graphs
Hieu LeAutoFR: Automated Filter Rule Generation for Adblocking
Jad Al AarajMixed Reality Visualization of IoT Devices
Jake SmithA Graph Based Approach to Detect Cookie Syncing
Janus VarmarkenPrivacy Implications of Smart TVs
Jiang ZhangHarpo: Learning to Subvert Online Behavioral Advertising
Johanna GunawanInvestigating the Harms of Dark UX Designs
Levi KaplanTurning the Tables on Facebook
Mengwei YangLocation Leakage in Federated Signal Maps
Muhammad HaroonYouTube, The Great Radicalizer? Auditing and Mitigating Ideological Biases in YouTube Recommendations
Namo AsavisanuPrivacy-Preserving, Community-Based Trust for Cooperative Autonomous Vehicles
Olivia FigueiraPrivacy-Enhancing Technologies to Protect Children Online
Rahmadi TrimanandaOVRseen: Auditing Network Traffic and Privacy Policies in Oculus VR
Renascence Tarafder PraptyMalware Detection in Smart Home Devices through Network Traffic Monitoring and Device Attestation
Rong-Ching ChangExposure to Radicalization on YouTube: Algorithmic Recommendations or Off-platform Factors?
Seoyeon HwangPrivacy-from-Birth: Protecting Sensed Data from Malicious Sensors with VERSA
Shaoor MunirCookieGraph: Measuring and Countering use of First-Party Tracking Cookies
Talha ParachaCertificate Pinning in Android & iOS Apps
Tianrui HuBehavIoT: Using Network-inferred Behavior Models to detect Anomalous IoT Behaviots
Tianyue ChuSecuring Federated Sensitive Topic Classification against Poisoning Attacks
Umar IqbalYour Echos are Heard: Tracking, Profiling, and Ad Targeting in the Amazon Smart Speaker Ecosystem
Varun RaoAn Audit of Images Used by Job Advertisers on Facebook
Yoshimichi NakatsukaVICEROY: GDPR-/CCPA-compliant Enforcement of Verifiable Accountless Consumer Requests
Zixiao ZongPrivacy by Projection, Federated Population Density Estimation by Projecting on Random Features

Travel Information

Hotel: Hyatt Regency, Newport Beach

We recommend that visitors stay at Hyatt Regency, Newport Beach.

Reserve your room in our group block at https://www.hyatt.com/en-US/group-booking/NEWPO/G-IY22

If you need additional nights, they can be added to your reservation with your confirmation number by calling the hotel directly.

Parking for the Symposium

We recommend parking at Lot 16H or the Anteater Parking Structure. Guests can purchase a general daily pass.

Important: Guests can park in any general unmarked spot.

Lot 16H is in quadrant G4 on the campus map. Lot 16h only has a permit dispenser.

Anteater Parking Structure is in quadrant E7 on the campus map and has an attendant at the kiosk (kiosk located through Anteater Drive Entrance).

Airport to Fly In: SNA

We strongly recommend flying into SNA airport, which is 10min from UCI, instead of LAX (~1 hr away).

Uber to Symposium

To Uber to symposium, use the following address: Lot 12B 419 South Circle View Dr Irvine CA. Then walk to the building in front of the parking lot, which is ISEB.

Symposium Location

The Symposium will take place at UCI’s Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building (ISEB). After parking, proceed to the building. ISEB is Building 419 in quadrant F-5 on the campus map.