Heading to DC today for #PETS2025!
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Assistant Teaching Professor @ Purdue
Andrew KuznetsovIf you know someone applying to a CS PhD this year - make sure they know of grad app support programs!!
Free informal feedback (on statements, etc) from current PhD students before formally applying. Kinda new, but great stuff.
I track them here (2025):
https://www.andrewkuz.net/public/dashboards/cs-hci-phd-application-review-programs/2025/html/cs-hci-phd-application-review-programs-2025.html
Dr. Casey FieslerOh also I should share the new work out of my lab that was presented at #SIGCSE2024 this year!
"How do Computing Students Conceptualize Cybersecurity? Survey Results and Strategies for Curricular Integration," led by PhD student Noah Cowit, reports on a survey of computing students' preconceptions of cybersecurity and what this might suggest about strategies for integrating security concepts across CS curriculum. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3626252.3630869
Priyanka NanayakkaraEver wondered how to explain differential privacy's guarantees to end users?
Today at the DP session at #usesec23 I'll present on explaining epsilon to people contributing data. Please join if you're here!
Joint work w/ @masmart, Rachel Cummings, Gabriel Kaptchuk, & Elissa M. Redmiles
https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity23/presentation/nanayakkara
USENIX AssociationApply to attend GREPSEC VI! USENIX is hosting the sixth GREPSEC workshop on August 8, 2023 in Anaheim, CA, co-located with USENIX Security '23 and SOUPS 2023. Applications are due May 24: https://bit.ly/grepsecvi
GREPSEC is a workshop for PhD students in computer security and privacy, focusing on underrepresented populations, including women, non-binary, and gender minorities, Black, Hispanic/Latino/Latina, Native American and Indigenous students, and LGBTQ+ students.
SOUPS Conference🥳 Call for workshop papers is live! We have 6 workshops that cover: privacy engineering in practice, gamified approaches to security/privacy, privacy threat modeling, security information workers, kids’ online privacy & safety, inclusive privacy & security https://usenix.org/conference/soups2023/call-for-workshops-submissions
The message behind most security trainings seems to be that you should never trust anyone. I understand when that mindset can be useful, but at the same time it feels very misaligned with my own values and instincts.
Really enjoyed Eva Wolfangel’s keynote, and appreciated that she shared how she herself fell for a phishing email. “The message is not humans are stupid.” Even experts can fall for social engineering. #CHI2023
Ashe DrydenIf you were on Facebook anytime from 2007-2022, sign up for the Cambridge Analytica settlement suit.
# Facebook owes us $725 million: here’s how to get your cut https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/19/23689775/facebook-meta-cambridge-analytica-data-privacy-trump
# Facebook owes us $725 million: here’s how to get your cut https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/19/23689775/facebook-meta-cambridge-analytica-data-privacy-trump
Excited to attend my first in-person CHI next week! #CHI2023