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Thank you Zellic for sponsoring MapleCTF! Zellic hires top CTF talent and applies them to the world's most critical security problems. They specialize in securing blockchain companies and smart contract protocols. Learn more about Zellic at zellic.io/blog/the-audit…

MapleCTF is on now! The team has put on a great set of challenges - check them out!

We are hiring research faculty too! (This is the first of our three positions ... stay tuned.) cs.ubc.ca/our-department…

Life goal complete: get quote-tweeted by the director of cybersecurity at the NSA

Had a blast at #UIST2023! Anika Sayara gave a great presentation on her project, GestureCanvas, which was joint with Emily Chen, Cuong Nguyen and Dongwook Yoon! Looking forward to seeing everyone again at next year’s conference :)

Congratulations to Robert Xiao who was the fastest to solve the challenge SSTIC for the 4th year in a row! There are 2 places left on the speed podium!

Three papers submitted to ACM UIST 2024, and won the SSTIC CTF challenge for a fourth year in a row! Overall, a good week :)

Untitled Goose lives in my office now.

Students in my security class joked they should just hack the server to change their grade to 100%, so I handed them my CSRF token for the gradebook and told them to have at it

We are thrilled to announce "Layered Diffusion Brushes": a real-time training-free image editor powered by diffusion models. 🎨✨ This is new work from my PhD student Peyman Gholami Peyman Gholami. Explore the interactive demo and check out more videos at: layered-diffusion-brushes.github.io

I got tenure! Our dean, @ISTtapia, met me in person and handed me the magic paper. I'll be an Associate Professor with tenure, effective July 1. Thanks to everyone in PSU Crowd AI Lab, my collaborators, mentors, friends, family & my caring, loving partner. This is truly for you.

If you're at #CHI2024, come to 313A at 11:00am to see Michael Yin (@yinsecurity1)'s latest work on how lies and hallucinations within game narratives affect player perception and experience!

Hello World! Aiyang and I are thrilled to announce our latest & greatest creation, Bernard Xiong Xiao! We can’t wait to see what exploits he gets up to in his future 😁

I’ll be coming to Vegas for DEF CON this year! The baby’s doing great & will have lots of family to take care of him 😊. I’ll also aim to make it out to Pittsburgh for UIST & say hi to all the folks at CMU. After that I probably won’t be travelling for a little while!

Our paper, "VirtualNexus: Enhancing 360-Degree Video AR/VR Collaboration with Environment Cutouts and Virtual Replicas", was accepted to UIST 2024! Work with @yinsecurity1,  Kaseya Xia, and my advisor Robert Xiao. Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2408.02914, Demo: youtu.be/P4gYAOsB7-c

We won DEF CON CTF for a third year in a row! I am awed by the skill and persistence of everyone on Maple Mallard Magistrates - as always, it was a blast hacking with y’all this weekend!

I am at ⁦UbiComp⁩ this week! I am presenting SurfShare, a mixed reality surfaces sharing technology with adhoc virtual replicas. Come to our presentation at 2pm today in session 2A (Brisbane room)! #ubicomp programs.sigchi.org/ubicomp-iswc/2…

Happy to announce that I have received Tenure (effective July 1)! Thanks to all of my collaborators, students & all the support from my colleagues in UBC Computer Science!

Our paper on “Streamlining Image Editing with Layered Diffusion Brushes” was accepted to ICCV 2025 - our first ICCV paper ever! Congratulations to Peyman Gholami - I’m happy all of his hard work has paid off!