Was an honor to be invited by President Biden to the 30th Anniversary celebration of the Violence Against Women Act at which President Donald J. Trump announced tech company commitments to mitigate Image Based Sexual Abuse, including principles I contributed to creating: cdt.org/press/companie….

Publishing in a new research discipline is like creating a new island by throwing rocks into the ocean. Eventually, the island becomes visible, though the process of getting there can be discouraging and challenging medium.com/navigating-aca…

TPL Co-Director Aylin Kamelia Caliskan was recently named a @nsf early career award winner for her work on bias in artificial intelligence. ischool.uw.edu/news/2024/09/i…

The last slide in a conference presentation is important — it is what is left up during Q&A, and what audience members will read even if they miss part of the talk. Suggestion: include key contents, e.g., a talk summary and takeaways, on that last slide. medium.com/navigating-aca…

The Japanese/Chinese zodiac, seasons, time, and academia. On the rest-plant/sprout-grow-harvest cycles, with thoughts on #academia, the importance of rest, appreciating each part of the cycle for what offers, and the cycles within research projects medium.com/navigating-aca…

Cross-disciplinary research is rewarding when one deeply cares about the intersecting areas of research. Some thoughts on exploring cross-disciplinary research: medium.com/navigating-aca…

I’m honored to have been awarded the Association for Computing Machinery SIGSAC Outstanding Early-Career Researcher Award for “pioneering research contributions in the area of sociotechnical security research” today at ACM CCS 2024 #ccs24

* interrupting your election doomscrolling * I'm on the job market! I address online abuse as the next frontier of security & privacy, so all people using tech feel safe. Open to TT faculty/industry research roles in the US/abroad -- lmk if you know of a good home for my work!

And the best paper award goes to: On the (In)Accessibility of Web Ads: Measurement and User Study , presented by Christina Yeung (University of Washington). Congrats!!!!

Full house for the last talk and Best Paper Award winner at @ACM_IMC_2024 !

At #SoLaR poster session (11 AM West Room 121,122) 1. Case Studies of Generative AI’s Use in Journalism arxiv.org/abs/2406.13706 2. Differentially Private Learning Needs Better Model Initialization and Self-Distillation arxiv.org/abs/2410.17566

Great poster by Natalie *Grace* Brigham at the NeurIPS 2024 SoLaR workshop! Paper: gracebrigham.github.io/assets/Develop… . Poster: gracebrigham.github.io/assets/Brigham… .

Congrats to soon-to-be-Dr Rachel on passing the UW Allen School General Exam and advancing to PhD candidacy. Her research, with the UW UW CSE Security Lab and the Tech Policy Lab, is focused on satellites and computer security

This is Kaiming Cheng at his great talk on "User Comprehension and Comfort with Eye-Tracking and Hand-Tracking Permissions in Augmented Reality" at USEC earlier this week. Nice work!! 🎉Check out the paper at ndss-symposium.org/wp-content/upl…

📣Thrilled to announce I’ll join Carnegie Mellon University (CMU Engineering & Public Policy & Language Technologies Institute | @CarnegieMellon) as an Assistant Professor starting Fall 2026! Until then, I’ll be a Research Scientist at AI at Meta FAIR in SF, working with Kamalika Chaudhuri’s amazing team on privacy, security, and reasoning in LLMs!

So excited to share my first solo authored book! The book explains what makes technology so hard for law to analyze and regulate, and provides a step-by-step method for generating wiser tech policy. A steal at $40. 😉 All thoughts warmly welcome. global.oup.com/academic/produ…

In a collaboration between computer science and legal scholars, we find a significant amount of PII in a common AI training dataset and conduct a legal analysis showing that these issues put web-scale datasets in tension with existing privacy law. [🧵1/N] arxiv.org/abs/2506.17185

A great MIT Technology Review article quoting from Rachel Hong and Willie Agnew | [email protected]!