June 23 – June 28, 2024: We are currently accepting applications for our Privacy, IoT & AI summer program! This is the fourth in a series of programs we have hosted at UCI for undergraduate students. This year, we have updated our curriculum to be delivered specifically to a high school student audience, it will also feature an added focus on Artificial Intelligence, to highlight the applications and threats from generative AI. For maximum consider, please apply here by Sunday, April 7, 11:59pm PT. Extended to April 21. [2024 Workshop]

June, 17 2024: Funded by a Samueli donation, to further strengthen the ties between the two UCLA and UCI Samueli Schools of Engineering, we will be hosting a one-day joint UCI-UCLA workshop on Privacy at UC Irvine in June. We will invite engineering faculty, as well as privacy policy and law experts from both UCI and UCLA, to attend. The goal of this workshop is to identify teams with common interests, facilitate collaborations, and lead to faculty pursuing funding opportunities. [UCI+UCLA Engineering Privacy Workshop]

Apr 5, 2024: ProperData hosted Ari Waldman, for a seminar talk titled, “The Algorithmic Dead Hand”. The seminar was hosted in hybrid format on zoom and in person at UCI in ISEB 1200. Zoom regist here. [Seminar Series]

Feb 2, 2024: ProperData is hosting Yuan Tian, for her talk on, “Towards Regulated Security and Privacy in Emerging Computing Platforms“. This talk will be in hybrid format on zoom and in person at UCI at ISEB 1200. [Seminar Series]

Jan 30, 2024: The UCI WiCyS chapter, hosted UCI EECS graduate student Joann Chen for her talk on “Envisioning the Future of Digital Privacy: Bridging Theory and Practice in Differential Privacy”. This talk served as a rehearsal for Joann’s academic job talk, as she is currently on the market for faculty positions. [WiCyS Event Page]

Dec 1, 2023: ProperData hosted Christo Wilson, for his talk on, “Towards Transparency of the Algorithmically Mediated World”. [Seminar Series]

Nov 15, 2023: The UCI WiCyS chapter, hosted Professor Habiba Farrukh for a seminar titled “Rethinking Security & Privacy fro Emerging Computing Platforms”. [WiCyS Event Page]

Nov 3, 2023: ProperData hosted Franziska Roesner, for her seminar talk titled, “Security, Privacy, and Safety for AR/VR: The Next 10 Years”. [Seminar Series]

Oct 26, 2023: The UCI WiCyS chapter, hosted a Security & Privacy Research Mixer for undergraduate and graduate students interested in learning more about cybersecurity and privacy research being conducted at UCI. [WiCyS Event Page]

Fall 2023: ProperData is launching our Privacy Frontiers Seminar Series this Fall. The seminars will take place on the first Friday of every month and the format will be hybrid or on zoom. Registration for zoom links will be required; registration links for each seminar will be available on the event page. [Seminar Series]

Sept. 18 – Sept. 19, 2023: ProperData hosted our third Annual Symposium on Sept. 18-19, 2023, in Boston at the Northeastern University campus. The Symposium brought together ProperData faculty, students, and invited guests from industry and the government and policy sector. [ProperData 3rd Symposium]

June 20 – June 30, 2023: 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 new module on advertising, tracking, and profiling in the TikTok environment was delivered. [2023 Workshop]

Mar. 31 – Apr. 1, 2023: In “Beyond the FTC: The Future of Privacy Enforcement“, law and computer science scholars from across the country will identify and propose solutions to barriers that inhibit enforcement of privacy rights. PIs Hartzog, Jordan, Choffnes, Markopoulou, and Shafiq will speak on how regulators can use privacy research to improve tech accountability. [Event Page]

Dec. 1 – 2, 2022: ProperData hosted our second Annual Symposium on December 1-2, 2022, at our UC Irvine campus. The Symposium brought together ProperData faculty, students, and invited guests from the industry and policy sectors and was combined with an NSF Site Visit. [ProperData 2nd Symposium]

June 20 – July 1, 2022: ProperData hosted our second Privacy and IoT Research Exploration Workshop in-person at UC Irvine for 18 undergraduates. The focus of our curriculum was on smart speakers and how voice assistant interaction data is used for ad tracking and targeting. Students received hands on training on network traffic collection and web crawling and built their own voice assistant device from scratch utilizing a Raspberry Pi microcomputer. [2022 Workshop]

May 6, 2022: ProperData, PI Markopoulou, and our student advisee group, UCI WiCyS, participated in hosting the National Academy of Engineering’s EngineeringGirl Ambassadors on their visit to the UCI Henry Samueli School of Engineering.

May 3, 2022: Our student advisee group, the UCI Chapter of WiCyS, hosted their first in-person social event of 2022. This student organization works to promote careers and opportunities for women in the fields of security and privacy. [WiCyS Event Page]

Apr. 13, 2022: Our two SATC Frontier projects (SPLICE and ProperData) hosted a joint virtual workshop. The focus of the workshop was on smart IoT home devices and the new privacy and security threats, including national-security ones, arising from their rapidly increasing integration into consumer lives. Our panelists discussed the law, policy, and national concerns of these devices, in addition to the intersecting technical privacy and security aspects of IoT devices. This event was open only to ProperData and SPLICE members and guests, no press was allowed. [Workshop Recap]

Nov. 4-5, 2021: The first ProperData Annual Symposium was be hosted on Nov. 4-5, 2021. The event was hosted in-person at UC Irvine, with options for remote participation. The Symposium brought together ProperData faculty, students, advisors as well as invited speakers from the industry and policy sectors. [ProperData Symposium]

Apr. 2021: The Research Exploration Workshop on Internet-of-Things (IoT) and Privacy aims to broaden the participation among underrepresented groups in cybersecurity research, including women, Latinx/Hispanics, Blacks/African Americans, Native Americans, persons with disabilities, and those from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds. [Workshop]

Nov. 2020: ProperData Kickoff. A 3-hour event across all four institutions, faculty, students, and advisors to kickoff the ProperData project.

Oct. 2020: A virtual workshop on the privacy aspects of (digital) contact tracing. The workshop brought together participants with technical background (security and privacy, networking, user interfaces), as well as policy expertise (data protection, disease surveillance and other information-related aspects of public health). [Workshop]