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I work on human-centered {security|privacy|computing}. Associate Professor (w/o tenure) at @hcii.cmu.edu. Director of the SPUD (Security, Privacy, Usability, and Design) Lab. Non-Resident Fellow @cendemtech.bsky.social
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Sauvik Das @sauvik.me · Nov 20
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.

go.bsky.app/RGsu5jn
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hankhplee.bsky.social
Excited and grateful to share that I’ve been named a Presidential Fellow by @cylab.bsky.social !

Endless thanks to my advisors @sauvik.me and Jodi Forlizzi, and all my collaborators for their constant inspiration as we work toward shaping the future of privacy-preserving AI.
October 24, 2025 at 8:22 PM
sauvik.me
Congrats to my student @hankhplee.bsky.social for being recognized as one of the 2025 CyLab Presidential fellows!

cylab.cmu.edu/news/2025/1...
CyLab names 2025 Presidential Fellows
Each year, CyLab recognizes high-achieving Ph.D. students pursuing security and/or privacy-related research, with a CyLab Presidential Fellowship, covering an entire year of tuition.
www.cylab.cmu.edu
October 21, 2025 at 11:36 PM
sauvik.me
Two spuddies will be at #CSCW2025:

@yuxiwu.com will present our work on designing citizen harm reporting interfaces for privacy (and is on the job market!).

Isadora Krsek will present our work on user reactions to AI-identified self-disclosure risks online.
October 20, 2025 at 1:49 PM
sauvik.me
Honored to be one of the recipients of the Google Academic Research Awards this year!

@alan-ritter.bsky.social and I will further our work on exploring how AI can be used to help users make safe disclosure decisions online.

research.google/programs-an...
Google Academic Research Award Program recipients
research.google
October 17, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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yuxiwu.com
tl;dr: i'm on the academic job market; say hi at #CSCW2025!

i'm a distinguished postdoc fellow at northeastern studying how tech's deep entanglements into society have caused concrete harms to people and changed what privacy fundamentally means (is it dead? is it recoverable? how? 😨)

yuxiwu.com
yuxi wu, phd
yuxiwu.com
October 17, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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willie-agnew.bsky.social
I'm on the job market looking for CS/ischool faculty and related positions! I'm broadly interested in doing research with policymakers and communities impacted by AI to inform and develop mitigations to harms and risks. If you've included any of my work in syllabi or policy docs please let me know!
October 16, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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hcii.cmu.edu
Don't miss 3 TechFest sessions with @hcii.cmu.edu faculty:
-"What can AI do for UX? Separating fact from fiction" Sauvik Das @sauvik.me
-"The Promise and Peril of AI for Products" Jason Hong @jas0nh0ng.bsky.social
-"Rapid Research Methods: Assumption Artifacts" Raelin Musuraca @raelinm.bsky.social
October 13, 2025 at 6:59 PM
sauvik.me
The 1st Human-Centered AI, Privacy, and Security (#HAIPS2025) workshop at CCS will happen on Oct 17th! We have two amazing keynote speakers (@pgk.bsky.social and @jas0nh0ng.bsky.social), and a slate of insightful and provocative papers.

Agenda here: haips.com/#dates

#CCS2025 #AcademicSky
October 13, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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serayibrahim.bsky.social
Such good advice. I’m looking at you R2 …🫣
sauvik.me Sauvik Das @sauvik.me · Oct 6
#chi2026 reviewing season is here! Friendly reminder that it is possible to write thoughtful reviews without nitpicking and without it taking a lot of time. I've actually completed my seven 2AC reviews already.

Some (updated) tips I wrote about this:
sauvik-das.medium.com/a-quick-gui...
A quick guide to reviewing papers quick
Last year, the world was on fire [1]. While it burned, I reviewed. A lot. More than I care to review again in a single year.
sauvik-das.medium.com
October 11, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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cellllla.bsky.social
✨I’m on the academic job market ✨

I’m a PhD candidate at @hcii.cmu.edu studying tech, labor, and resistance 👩🏻‍💻💪🏽💥

I research how workers and communities contest harmful sociotechnical systems and shape alternative futures through everyday resistance and collective action

More info: cella.io
Cella M. Sum –
cella.io
October 9, 2025 at 2:39 PM
sauvik.me
#chi2026 reviewing season is here! Friendly reminder that it is possible to write thoughtful reviews without nitpicking and without it taking a lot of time. I've actually completed my seven 2AC reviews already.

Some (updated) tips I wrote about this:
sauvik-das.medium.com/a-quick-gui...
A quick guide to reviewing papers quick
Last year, the world was on fire [1]. While it burned, I reviewed. A lot. More than I care to review again in a single year.
sauvik-das.medium.com
October 6, 2025 at 1:31 PM
sauvik.me
📣 Accepted to #AIES2025: What do the audio datasets powering generative audio models actually contain? (led by @willie-agnew.bsky.social)

Answer: Lots of old audio content that is mostly English, often biased, and of dubious copyright / permissioning status.

Paper: www.sauvik.me/papers/65/s...
September 27, 2025 at 9:05 PM
sauvik.me
🔐 New #UIST2025 paper by @kyzyl.me

Imago Obscura uses #vision #language #models to understand user #privacy concerns, improve their awareness of image privacy risks, and their ability to address these risks.

📜: sauvik.me/papers/66/se...
🔗: cmu-spuds.github.io/imago-obscura/

#PrivacySky
September 26, 2025 at 1:58 PM
sauvik.me
Honestly, now I want to write a piper titled: "[mention a specific relevant paper by them]"
September 18, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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hystericalblkns.bsky.social
If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.
The new TOC from academia dot edu. By creating an Account with Academia.edu, you grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license, permission, and consent for Academia.edu to use your Member Content and your personal information (including, but not limited to, your name, voice, signature, photograph, likeness, city, institutional affiliations, citations, mentions, publications, and areas of interest) in any manner, including for the purpose of advertising, selling, or soliciting the use or purchase of Academia.edu's Services.
September 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
sauvik.me
How does "AI search" differ from standard web search? Can you trust it?

I spoke to Jon Reed at CNET about this: www.cnet.com/tech/service...
AI Is Taking Over Your Search Engine. Here's a Look Under the Hood
ChatGPT, Gemini and company are going down the rabbit holes so you don't have to.
www.cnet.com
July 29, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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markriedl.bsky.social
Hi all. I am delighted to announce our first Keynote speaker for the 2025 Summit on Responsible, Computing, AI, and Society: Dr. Rumman Chowdhury rcais.github.io
July 22, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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tanusrees.bsky.social
@sauvik.me and I are co-chairing the SOUPS mentoring!

If you are attending SOUPS, consider signing up to be a mentor or a mentee. It's a wonderful way to connect with others.
www.usenix.org/conference/s...
SOUPS 2025 Mentoring Program
The Twenty-First Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2025), August 10–12, 2025, Seattle, WA, USA.
www.usenix.org
July 22, 2025 at 4:29 PM
sauvik.me
Are you going to be at the best conference, SOUPS (@soupsconference.bsky.social)?

If so, consider signing up to be a mentor or mentee for the mentoring program! It's a great way to meet other folks at the conference :) www.usenix.org/conference/s...
SOUPS 2025 Mentoring Program
The Twenty-First Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2025), August 10–12, 2025, Seattle, WA, USA.
www.usenix.org
July 22, 2025 at 3:31 PM
sauvik.me
Who are all you people searching for my thumbprint?!
July 21, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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willie-agnew.bsky.social
One of the largest text-image datasets is full of PII, including credit card numbers and birth certificates. Excellent writeup by @eileenguo.bsky.social www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/18/1... Read our full audit and legal analysis arxiv.org/pdf/2506.17185
A major AI training data set contains millions of examples of personal data
Personally identifiable information has been found in DataComp CommonPool, one of the largest open-source data sets used to train image generation models.
www.technologyreview.com
July 19, 2025 at 12:02 AM
sauvik.me
I've been receiving a new kind of email lately: people who GPT has convinced to email professors in order to get their "deeply insightful" conversations w/ GPT published.

It's a weird confluence of AI sycophancy + human loneliness and delusions of grandeur.
v0max.bsky.social Serge Egelman @v0max.bsky.social · Jul 16
Someone needs to goad these guys into writing a paper, submitting it for review, and then publicly posting the reviews.
paleofuture.bsky.social Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Jul 15
"I’ll go down this thread with GPT or Grok and I’ll start to get to the edge of what’s known in quantum physics and then I’m doing the equivalent of vibe coding, except it’s vibe physics,” said Travis Kalanick, the founder of Uber.

gizmodo.com/billionaires...
July 16, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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shriram.bsky.social
Usability is like security: if you don't design around it from the very start, when you try to patch it on, unless you get lucky, you'll discover all kinds of architectural commitments that make it really hard, and you'll always play catch-up.
July 10, 2025 at 4:51 PM
sauvik.me
As of today, I am officially Associate Professor* at @hcii.cmu.edu. Surreal — I was out of my depth when I started. Couldn't have done it without my incredible students — the true brains of the operation — and the support of my mentors. Thank you all!

* not yet tenured, because CMU
July 1, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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yuxiwu.com
new paper incoming at USENIX Security 2025 📬

"Navigating Security and Privacy Threats in Homeless Service Provision"

really grateful to have worked with @hongshen.bsky.social, Fei Fang, and a team of amazing undergrads and community collaborators on this project

yuxiwu.com/pubs/sec25_h...
Navigating Security and Privacy Threats in Homeless Service Provision People experiencing homelessness interact with service providers to access essential services. As clients, homeless individuals are expected to reveal sensitive information about themselves to service providers, while personal security and privacy (S&P) preferences fall by the wayside. Simultaneously, providers take on S&P-adjacent responsibilities: helping clients fill out applications, safekeeping clients’ personal documents, monitoring clients’ online safety, undergoing workplace S&P training, etc. We created five storyboards to represent S&P challenges that clients can face when they interact with providers. In interviews with homeless individuals and service providers in the Northeastern United States, we use these storyboards to explore the S&P challenges in client-provider relationships within homeless services. We find a set of mismatches in S&P priorities between clients and providers, leading to mistrust between the two parties. We provide design recommendations, envisioned by both parties, for providers to bridge these mismatches.
June 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM