Majed will present our work on The Web of Abuse (pages.cs.wisc.edu/~chatterjee/pa…) at IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy 2024. Main takeaways: 1/ A large fraction of survivors of tech-facilitated intimate partner surveillance (IPS) look for help online and often rely on search engines for that.

Once upon a time in Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security, It's been ten years already 🤔 #Throwback

The little (algae) engines that could

It seems that the lack of deletion privacy is plaguing Github now: trufflesecurity.com/blog/anyone-ca… Actually this is a persistent privacy problem of archival systems (here is our Usenix Security'22 paper defining deletion privacy: usenix.org/conference/use…)

We had a great first day at Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security with talk sessions, SOUPS history from Lorrie Cranor , retrospective panel and a celebration of 20 years of SOUPS! Looking forward to the second day! It is amazing to see so many inspiring people and works around. #soups2024

Now that I am sort of out of jet lag and done with first day of SOUPS 2024 ... (switching to chirpy voice) --- I am excited to be in Philly till end of this week to attend Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security and USENIX Security . Let me know if you are around, I would love catch up :) #soups2024

📢: I will present our paper on VPN app switching at USENIX Security on Friday. Rohit Raj , an undergrad, made this work possible (he could not travel due to visa issue). 🗓 Friday, 16 August, 1:15-2:15 pm 📍Track 1, Salon AB, USENIX Security 🔗usenix.org/conference/use…

Check out the video recording from the Web3 Randomness workshop youtube.com/playlist?list=… w/ organized with Pratyay Mukherjee and Supra I learned a lot to learn from this workshop. Lots of open problems for researchers! special thanks to all speakers and attendees

A surprising & little-known results in classical statistics: mean (μ) and median (m) are within one std deviation: |μ−m| ≤ σ For unimodal densities, bound is even tighter |μ−m| ≤ 0.7746 σ This beautiful results first appeared in a 1932 paper by Hotelling & Solomons 1/3

#CornellTech congratulates Associate Professor Nicola Dell on being awarded a 2024 MacArthur Foundation #fellowship for her work developing tech interventions to address the needs of overlooked populations. Congrats, Nicki! tech.cornell.edu/news/cornell-t… MacArthur Foundation Cornell University #MacFellow

📢 I am seeking candidates interested in applying for a Tenured Research Position Inria to join my team! The interested candidate must reach out and express their interest before the end of October 2024. 👉 More info here: www-sop.inria.fr/members/Natali…

Thanks Google AI for awarding me and Yixin Zou a Google Academic Research Award. We will work to design tech for defending emerging adults from scams on platforms like TikTok where content sometimes gets a bit undeserved trust. Thanks for the support Max Planck Society, IIT Kharagpur🇮🇳

We (human-centered security and privacy group at Max Planck Society #MPI_SP) are hiring interns to start anytime in 2025! Applications are due on Nov. 1, 2024. If interested, submit an application to the central portal (cis.mpg.de/internships/) and email me a quick note after. 1/3

My interview with IIT Bombay trust lab just is just out. They did a beautiful job of systematically capturing tales from my past, current and future journey while understanding human factors in digital security. Thanks IITB Trust Lab ! trustlab.iitb.ac.in/trust-matters-…

Today on the "AI-writes, AI-reviews" news : intology.ai/blog/zochi-acl Title "Zochi Achieves Main Conference Acceptance at ACL 2025" ACL 2025 Wow!

Starting tomorrow for the next two weeks I am quite excited to be in Germany. I am really looking forward to meet a lot of awesome researchers and brainstorm. Schedule so far: Bochum -> Kaiserslautern -> Dagstuhl Please let me know if you are around. Would love to catch up