Collins Munyendo

🗓️ Friday 9:00 am - 10:30 am (Social Issues and Security)
I'll present our USENIX Security paper on the security and privacy challenges of shared tech infrastructure in rural Ghana, w/ Emmanuel Tweneboah and Yixin Zou.
📄 Paper: shorturl.at/YRwr4

🗓️ Wednesday 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm (Usable Privacy and Security 1)
I'll present our USENIX Security paper on how security and privacy perceptions and practices vary between WEIRD vs non-WEIRD countries, w/ Franziska Herbert, Jonas Hielscher, Steffen Becker, and Yixin Zou.
📄 Paper: shorturl.at/o1gfr

🗓️ Tuesday 11:30 am - 12:30 pm (Authentication)
Lily Klucinec will present our SOUPS paper on privacy-preserving protocols for agent-facilitated mobile money services, w/ Karen Sowon, Eunice Maingi, Gerald Suleh, Lorrie Cranor, Giulia Fanti, Conrad Tucker, and Assane Gueye.
📄 Paper: shorturl.at/2OpCO

After a 3-year hiatus, I'm excited to be heading back to SOUPS and USENIX Security next week in Seattle! Looking forward to reconnecting with old friends and meeting new ones : ) Here's some work we'll be presenting:

Delighted to be serving in the EuroUSEC 2025 programming committee again!

Please consider submitting your valuable work on Usable Security and HCI at EuroUSEC 2025

Detail: eurousec2025.cis.strath.ac.uk#cfpapers

Paper Registration deadline: May 5, 2025

Thank you : )

The call for submissions for the Re-Imagining Cryptography & Privacy Workshop (ReCAP 2025) is now available on our website: recapworkshop.online

Deadline: April 10, 2025.

We welcome work and perspectives from social scientists, humanities scholars, community organizations, and technologists!

We are looking for motivated folks to join the ACSAC Program Committee! Please nominate yourself or people you know.

Being on the academic job market while simultaneously trying to write a dissertation should be illegal : )

Congrats, Jo!

Are you doing interesting research on consumer protection? Please consider submitting to ConPro '25. The deadline is Jan 22.

www.ieee-security.org/TC/SPW2025/C...

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GW Engineering Student Wins Prestigious Google Fellowship | GW Today | The George Washington University Fifth-year computer science Ph.D. student Collins Munyendo was one of only six winners in the security, privacy and abuse prevention category.

Congratulations again to @collinsmunyendo.bsky.social on being selected a Google Graduate Fellow. Read more about the amazing work he is doing. #proudadvisor

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Interested in a postdoc at CMU in AI, cybersecurity, robotics, or sustainability? Consider applying for a Carnegie Bosch Fellowship by Jan 31! carnegiebosch.cmu.edu

USENIX Security '25 Call for Papers

Please consider sending your awesome computer security & privacy papers to
USENIX Security
'25! The cycle 2 deadline is Jan 22 AoE. Remember that writing about research ethics and open science (sharing datasets, code, scripts, etc.) is required! usenix.org/conference/u...
@gianko.bsky.social

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I am recruiting 2 PhD students and 2-3 masters students to join my group at UAlberta in Fall 2025!

PhD: I'm looking for people who are either,
(1) Background in HCI and interest in privacy research
(2) Background in cryptography or systems security

Application FAQ bkacsmar.github.io//advising/

💭 got an academic magazine-length take on gender, sexuality, and online safety? i'm guest editing a special issue for IEEE Security & Privacy magazine w/ Kovila Coopamootoo @eredmil1.bsky.social and we want to see your thoughts!

deadline dec 16 -- just two weeks away 🔥

if you are (or know) an undergraduate interested in HCI Research, tell them about the @cmuhcii.bsky.social (CMU HCII) REU program!

they could apply to work with me and Chris Maury on a project using AI to help with civic participation at the local government level!

hcii.cmu.edu/news/hcii-se...

Hi, so I've spent the past almost-decade studying research uses of public social media data, like e.g. ML researchers using content from Twitter, Reddit, and Mastodon.

Anyway, buckle up this is about to be a VERY long thread with lots of thoughts and links to papers. 🧵

I am looking for PhD students and masters students to start in Fall 2025 to work with me at university of Alberta.

If you don't know, the Canadian style thesis-based master's is like a mini-PhD.

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CMU is hiring tenure-track faculty who'd like to do fun and exciting research in computer security and privacy. Please consider applying! www.cylab.cmu.edu/about/hiring...

CHI 2025 Late-Breaking Work: Application for AC roles (due: Nov 30) The CHI 2025 Late-Breaking Work (LBW) Co-chairs invite you to volunteer as an Associate Chair (AC) for the CHI 2023 (LBW) Program Committee! Please use the form below to provide details about yourself...

Help with CHI Late Breaking Work program! We are looking for associate chairs (ACs). Not only is the LBW an excellent track for our community to show new work at CHI, but it is also an important step to train new ACs in our community: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #hci #CHI2025

#chi2026 is looking for volunteers to join our organizing team! Submit your applications here: chi2026.acm.org/2024/10/31/w... we hope this will be an exciting CHI with lots of ways that we sincerely hope will improve the experience of attendees & our community's growth! @sigchi RT #chi2025 #VR #hci

@scyrusk.bsky.social has created one here: go.bsky.app/RGsu5jn

Cultural Vandalism — My Eulogy for Twitter I really liked Twitter. But it was vandalized. So I’m leaving for BlueSky and Mastodon. Or at least I’ll try those platforms out and maybe…

I suppose I'm preaching to the choir here, but it's only appropriate that my first post here is this one:

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I created a starter pack for researchers who work at the nexus of HCI & cybersecurity / privacy here.

Please do let me know if you would like to be added to the list!I'm sure I've missed many folks.

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Hi all! We are conducting a study looking at how software developers use ethical frameworks in their day-to-day jobs. See attached flyer for details. Please spread the word and/or consider participating if eligible!