Nov 18, 2015
I wrote up an article entitled
Safe passwords shouldn’t require people to have a PhD in computer science in Quartz magazine.
Oct 16, 2015
Our team has been selected to be part of the
DARPA Brandeis project to advance the state of the art for privacy.
Oct 15, 2015
Wombat Security has acquired ThreatSim, a provider of simulated phishing attacks.
Read more here.
Sep 11, 2015
Our group presented two papers at Ubicomp 2015. The first is
Knock x Knock: The Design and Evaluation of a Unified Authentication Management System. The second is
Using Text Mining to Infer the Purpose of Permission Use in Mobile App.
Sep 9, 2015
Presented some of our team's work on using smartphones for healthcare at the World Economic Forum at Dalian.
Aug 13, 2015
Our CCS 2014 paper entitled
Increasing Security Sensitivity with Social Proof: A Large-Scale Experimental Confirmation won Honorable Mention at
NSA's Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper Competition.
Aug 12, 2015
My
article about the human element of cybersecurity was published on Slate.
Jul 09, 2015
Gave a talk at the FTC about PrivacyGrade and Social Cybersecurity.
Here are the slides.
Jul 09, 2015
Special thanks to Google for funding several of us at CMU to help build out the Internet of Things.
Read a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article about it.
Jul 02, 2015
I wrote a
short essay about my work on the Internet of Things, Privacy, and advice for high school students about their future.
Jun 30, 2015
Gave a talk at HCIC 2015 on Social Cybersecurity, but the talk was really about the relationship of Theory with Technical HCI.
Here is the workshop paper and
here are the slides.
Jun 17, 2015
I'm honored to now be a
New America National Cybersecurity Fellow.
Apr 5, 2015
My whitepaper for the NITRD National Research Strategy on Privacy, entitled
Research Issues for Privacy in a Ubiquitously Connected World, is now available.
Feb 17, 2015
I was
interviewed by the BBC program The Naked Scientist about smartphones and privacy.
Dec 26, 2014
PrivacyGrade.org, which presents our analysis of the privacy of 1 million Android smartphone apps, has been public for about a month.
So far, our work has appeared on
CNN,
US News and World Report,
New York Times,
CNBC,
IEEE Spectrum,
Forbes, and more.
Dec 1, 2014
I'm very fortunate to have received the
HCII Career Development fellowship. Special thanks to all of my colleagues and the students at CMU.
Oct 30, 2014
I briefed some Congressional staffers about our work on analyzing the privacy of smartphone apps.
Sep 17, 2014
My brother and I have created the
Frances and Chou-Chu Hong graduate fellowship at the Veterinary and Animal Sciences Department at the University of Massachusetts, in honor of our parents.
July 10, 2014
Wombat Security Technologies has closed Series B Funding of $6.7M with Level Equity.
Read more here.
Jun 16, 2014
I gave the keynote talk at the
Mobile Cloud Computing and Services Workshop, at Mobisys 2014. The talk was entitled
Privacy, Ethics, and Big (Smartphone) Data.
Mar 10, 2014
I gave a one hour crash course in UX and UI design.
See the slides here.
Feb 26, 2014
Our group's work on predictive analytics was listed by the World Economic Forum as one of the top ten emerging technologies of 2014.
See the article here.
Oct 25, 2013
Gave a talk at
PopTech 2013 on sensing and privacy. See
slides and
video here.
Dec 26, 2012
Our work on
smartphone app privacy was featured on the CBS Morning Show.
Apr 9, 2012
Livehoods.org is now public.
Our vision is to re-imagine how cities work in the age of social media.
Specifically, we've analyzed and clustered 18m foursquare checkins to
understand how people use a city. We currently have maps for New York
City and Pittsburgh. Livehoods has been featured in
The Atlantic Cities,
Wired Insider,
MIT Technology Review,
Fast Company Co.Design,
New York Post,
Wall Street Journal, and
Haaretz.
