DiffAudit awarded Best Student Paper at IMC 2024

DiffAudit awarded Best Student Paper at IMC 2024 Congratulations to Olivia Figueira and collaborators, Rahmadi Trimananda, Athina Markopoulou, and Scott Jordan (UCI), for being awarded the Best Student Paper Award at the ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) 2024, which took place in Nov. 2024 in Madrid, Spain, for “DiffAudit: Auditing Privacy Practices of Online Services…Continue Reading DiffAudit awarded Best Student Paper at IMC 2024

Caveat (IoT) Emptor advances to CSAW 24 Finals

Congratulations to Gene Tsudik and ProperData alumni Sashidhar Jakkamsetti and PhD student Youngil Kim for advancing to the finals of the 2024 CSAW Applied Research Competition! Their ACM CCS 2023 paper, “Caveat (IoT) Emptor: Towards Transparency of IoT Device Presence” is one of 15 papers selected as finalist from a pool of 194 submissions. The…Continue Reading Caveat (IoT) Emptor advances to CSAW 24 Finals

Smart Speaker work awarded 2024 PETS Caspar Bowden Award Runner Up

Congratulations to Umar Iqbal and the rest of the team (Pouneh Nikkhah Bahrami, Rahmadi Trimananda, Hao Cui, Alexander Gamero-Garrido, Daniel J. Dubois, David Choffnes, Athina Markopoulou, Franziska Roesner, and Zubair Shafiq) for receiving the Runner Up to the Caspar Bowden Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies at the 2024 Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium…Continue Reading Smart Speaker work awarded 2024 PETS Caspar Bowden Award Runner Up

PI Shafiq’s recommendations for AI Bias

As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly prevalent, researchers at the University of California are actively addressing the issue of bias in algorithms, aiming to mitigate its impact on society. Zubair Shafiq, Associate Professor of Computer Science at UC Davis, is at the forefront of this effort. Prof Shafiq’s recent paper, “Auditing YouTube’s recommendation system for ideologically…Continue Reading PI Shafiq’s recommendations for AI Bias

Gene Tsudik awarded 2024 NDSS Test of Time Award

Congratulations to Gene Tsudik for being awarded the Test of Time Award at the 2024 Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS 2024)! This award recognizes the most influential papers with significant impact on the field of computer and network security that have been published in past NDSS Symposia. Prof. Tsudik, along with collabortors: Karim…Continue Reading Gene Tsudik awarded 2024 NDSS Test of Time Award