Are you a student having hardship paying application fees for PhD programs? Feeling difficult to find fee waiver information, I created a list of application fee waivers from different schools!👇 github.com/KaiserWhoLearn…

SOUPS and USENIX Security are next week, so here is a throwback to a couple of my early attempts at embroidery

Wishing everyone the best of luck on their #CHI2023 submissions!

I should not be trusted with a sewing machine. One intrusive thought and now I have a Chrome bucket hat.

GREPSEC workshop for women and underrepresented grad students in S&P is back, live and in person, colocated with #usesec2023! Applications are due May 22, please help us spread the word! usenix.org/conference/gre…

📢 Are you an underrepresented applicant for CMU School of Computer Science PhD program? We're here to help! Daye Nam and I are leading SCS GASP. We match PhD applicants with student mentors for application feedback. To be considered, please complete the form by Sep 30: cs.cmu.edu/~gasp

We're launching the grad app program to help queer scholars get into grad school! Please amplify so this can reach people who need it.

#UWAllen University of Washington Ph.D. student Miranda Wei explores user (dis)empowerment in the context of computer security and privacy. Mitchell Wortsman aims to ensure large #AI models are robust and accurate after pretraining. Both were named 2023 Google Ph.D. Fellows. #CSforGood news.cs.washington.edu/2023/10/23/all…

we're running the student application support program for computer science phd student applicants at UChicagoCS again this year! apply by nov 25th! forms.gle/j63A9Kfg49nauz…

Our countdown of the 23 most impactful CyLab news stories of 2023 continues with a look back 32nd USENIX Security Symposium, which featured 10 presented papers co-authored by CyLab researchers, including two Distinguished Paper Award honorees: cylab.cmu.edu/news/2023/08/0… #Top23of23

Our #Top23of23 countdown continues with a deep dive on recent CyLab research findings that cookie consent banners miss the mark, and may not be the best way to offer #privacy options to website visitors: cylab.cmu.edu/news/2023/05/0…

Congrats to everyone with papers accepted to #CHI2024!

I’m late to this - but very happy to announce this best-paper award winning work with Kevin Bryson Alek Binion Ahmad Bamba Luca Dovichi Arthur Borem and Blase Ur at #CHI2024 We look at how data scientists make fairness related decisions throughout the DS cycle 🧵

📢 Attending IEEE S&P ? Check out Saiid El Hajj Chehade 's presentation on our work "SINBAD: Saliency-informed detection of breakage caused by ad blocking", on 20 May (Track 1 Session 2). #IEEESP2024 #adblocking #webbreakage #webprivacy. 1/6

Congratulations to Professor Nicolas Christin (Nicolas Christin), CyLab faculty member and Co-Director of the Carnegie Mellon University Secure Blockchain Initiative, on being named the new department head at CMU's CMU Software and Societal Systems Department! Learn more: cylab.cmu.edu/news/2024/07/0…

Congratulations to my student Daisuke Kawai on successfully defending his PhD, "An empirical analysis of the cryptocurrency ecosystem toward better regulation and supervision." Daisuke works at the intersection of Internet measurements, statistics, economics, & policy. (1/3)

Many schools offer similar programs for CS Ph.D. applicants, particularly those from underrepresented groups! - MIT: eecs-gaap.mit.edu - CMU: cs.cmu.edu/academics/phd/… - UCSB: cs.ucsb.edu/education/grad… - Stanford: cs.stanford.edu/admissions-stu…

Good luck to everyone finishing up their #CHI2025 submissions! 🌸

📢If you're applying to CMU School of Computer Science PhD and come from a traditionally underrepresented group, current students are here to help! Apply to the Graduate Applicant Support Program (GASP) by Oct. 8, 2024 to receive feedback on your application materials: cs.cmu.edu/~gasp

* 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!