Athina elected an ACM Fellow 2025

Congratulations to ProperData Director, Athina Markopoulou, for being among the recently announced ACM Fellows 2025. The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the world’s preeminent computing society, elects 1% of its members worldwide every year to elevate to Fellows, in recognition of their outstanding technical and/or service contributions. See the press release here. Athina was elected ACM…Continue Reading Athina elected an ACM Fellow 2025

ProperData at IMC 2025

ProperData at IMC 2025 ProperData continued the tradition of strong presence at the ACM Internet Measurement Conference – the premier conference on Internet measurement and analysis. IMC 2025 took place Oct. 27-31, 2025, in Madison, Wisconsin. Several ProperData members and alumni attended, presented their papers, and participated in various capacities. Papers co-authored and presented by…Continue Reading ProperData at IMC 2025

ProperData researchers present work to U.S. House of Representatives committees

ProperData researchers present work to U.S. House of Representatives committees Elina van Kempen and Gene Tsudik presented their recent research results about the (non)compliance of registered data brokers with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). The presentation was made to the staff of the “Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade (minority)”,  “Committee on Energy and Commerce”, of the U.S. House…Continue Reading ProperData researchers present work to U.S. House of Representatives committees

ProperData UCI PhD student defends thesis

ProperData UCI PhD student defends thesis Congratulations to Renascence Tarafder Prapty, UCI PhD student advised by Gene Tsudik and member of the SPROUT group, for defending her thesis, “Authentication and Attack Detection for IoT Devices and Computing Systems”! She will soon join Cisco as a Software Engineer, focusing on Networking. Renascence Tarafder Prapty also served…Continue Reading ProperData UCI PhD student defends thesis