ProperData hosted our third Privacy and IoT Research Exploration Workshop in-person at UC Irvine for 17 community college students. Program curriculum built on our previous program and included hands on experiences programming a Raspberry Pi (RPi) microcomputer, network traffic monitoring analysis, and trained students on how to build a voice assistance device from scratch. A…Continue Reading Privacy and IoT Research Exploration Workshop 3
Our UCI student advisee group, WiCyS (Women in CyberSecurity), along with Women in Leadership (WIL) hosted an internal alumni mixer for UCI students on Wednesday November 16, 2022. Six alumni from Business and Computer Science (CS), served as panelist at the event to discussed their journeys through graduate school, internships, their career paths, and navigating…Continue Reading UCI WiCyS hosts Alumni Mixer
Congratulations to ProperData team members for receiving invitations to present their research at the FTC’s seventh annual PrivacyCon 2022. Johanna Gunawan, graduate student at Northeastern in PI Choffnes’ group, will be presenting , “A Comparative Study of Dark Patterns across Mobile and Web Modalities”. Additionally, Piotr Sapiezynski, research scientist in Co-PI Mislove’s group, will be…Continue Reading Four papers invited to FTC’s PrivacyCon 2022
We hosted our second Privacy and IoT Research Exploration Workshop at UCI from June 20, 2022 to July 1, 2022. Our workshop exposed 18 undergraduate students to a privacy and IoT academic curriculum, in which they built a voice assistant speaker from scratch utilizing Raspberry Pi microcomputers and received hands on privacy tutorials and cutting-edge…Continue Reading Privacy and IoT Research Exploration Workshop 2
UCI WiCyS co-chair, Rozhin Yasaei, returns from the National Women in Cybersecurity (WiCyS) Conference with renewed energy to continue her efforts in promoting women in the fields of privacy and security. Read a review of the conference by UCI Samueli School of Engineering news here. [UCI WiCyS Page]…Continue Reading UCI WiCyS co-chair promotes inclusivity in cybersecurity