Organizers

Kaiming Cheng

Kaiming Cheng is a PhD candidate at the University of Washington, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science, advised by Franziska Roesner and Tadayoshi Kohno. His research studies and addresses security, privacy, and safety challenges with emerging AR technologies. He completed his bachelor's degrees in Computer Science and Music at the University of Virginia.

Shwetha Rajaram

Shwetha Rajaram is a PhD candidate at the University of Michigan School of Information, advised by Dr. Michael Nebeling. Her research explores how to enable more privacy-friendly AR experiences, by developing tools and frameworks to guide AR creators and end-users to address potential risks. She completed her bachelors in Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Michigan, with a minor in Art & Design. 

Franziska Roesner

Franziska (Franzi) Roesner is the Brett Helsel Associate Professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, where she co-directs the Security and Privacy Research Lab. Her research focuses broadly on computer security and privacy for end users of existing and emerging technologies. Her work has studied topics including online tracking and advertising, security and privacy for marginalized and/or vulnerable user groups, security and privacy in emerging augmented reality (AR) and IoT platforms, and online mis/disinformation. She is the recipient of a Google Security and Privacy Research Award and a Google Research Scholar Award, a Consumer Reports Digital Lab Fellowship, an MIT Technology Review "Innovators Under 35" Award, an Emerging Leader Alumni Award from the University of Texas at Austin, and an NSF CAREER Award. She has received paper awards or runners-up at the USENIX Security Symposium, the IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy, the Internet Measurement Conference, and the WebConf; as well as Test of Time Awards at NSDI and the IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy. She serves on the USENIX Security and USENIX Enigma Steering Committees (having previously co-chaired both conferences). She received her PhD from the University of Washington in 2014 and her BS from UT Austin in 2008.

Tadayoshi Kohno

Tadayoshi Kohno (Yoshi) is a professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, where he is also the associate dean for Faculty Success in the College of Engineering. He has adjunct appointments in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, the Information School, and the School of Law. He co-directs the University of Washington Computer Security & Privacy Research Lab and the Tech Policy Lab. Kohno was a founding member of the National Academies Forum on Cyber Resilience and is currently a member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation Technical Advisory Board and the USENIX Security Steering Committee. Kohno received his Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego.

Michael Nebeling

Michael Nebeling is an Associate Professor at the University of Michigan, where he directs the Information Interaction Lab. He is interested in designing and studying novel methods and tools to create virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (XR) experiences that are easy and safe to use. His current focus is on creating new toolkits, authoring tools, and interaction techniques that improve XR interactions from a usability, accessibility, and security/privacy perspective. He joined U-M in 2016 after completing a postdoc in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University and a PhD in the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zurich. He previously spent his one-year sabbatical in Reality Labs-Research at Meta.

Mark Billinghurst

Mark Billinghurst is Director of the Empathic Computing Laboratory, and Professor at the University of South Australia in Adelaide, Australia, and also at the University of Auckland in Auckland, New Zealand. He earned a PhD in 2002 from the University of Washington and conducts research on how virtual and real worlds can be merged, publishing over 750 papers on Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, remote collaboration, Empathic Computing, and related topics. In 2013 he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand, in 2019 was given the ISMAR Career Impact Award in recognition of his lifetime contribution to AR research and commercialization.