Privacy and Security in Emerging Technologies: Privacy in LLMs and AI Agents; Privacy in XR and Behavioral Data; Privacy-Preserving and Policy-Aware Machine Learning.
Selected Publications and Preprints Google Scholar 📑
[* denotes equal contribution 1st author]
(1) Ismat Jarin, Tu Le, Athina Markopoulou, "ForgetMeNot: Understanding Memory-Driven Privacy Risks in Consumer AI Agents" (in preparation).
(2) Raj Mohanty*, Ismat Jarin*, Athina Markopoulou, "MotionPrint: An Open-World Framework for Motion-Based User Identification in XR", (under submission). *=equal contribution 1st Author
(3) Elina van Kempen*, Ismat Jarin*, Chloe Georgiou, "Dead Men Tell No Tales: Assessing Post-Mortem Data Protection in GenAI Chatbots", Proceeding on 10th Workshop on Technology and Consumer Protection (ConPro ’26) , Co located with IEEE S&P, 2026. *=equal contribution 1st Author
(4) Ismat Jarin, Olivia F., Yu Duan, Tu Le, Athina Markopoulou "VRProfiLens: User Profiling Risk in Consumer Virtual Reality Apps", Proceeding on 16th Usable Security and Privacy Symposium (USEC), co-located with NDSS, 2026.
Poster Accepted and Presented at WiCyS Annual Conference, Washington DC, 2026.
(5) Ismat Jarin, Yu Duan, Rahmadi Trimananda, Hao Cui, Salma Elmalaki, Athina Markopoulou "BehaVR: User Identification Based on VR Sensor Data", Proceeding on Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS), 2025, Issue 1.
Poster Presented at UCI AI and Cloud workshop, 2024.
(6) Ismat Jarin, Tu Le, Athina Markopoulou " MLSherlock: An Audit Lens for Machine Un-Learning Systems", WiML Workshop, Co-located with NeurIPS, 2024. [Paper link]
(7) Mengwei Yang, Ismat Jarin, Baturalp Buyukates, Salman Avestimehr, Athina Markopoulou "Maverick-Aware Shapley Valuation for Client Selection in Federated Learning", ISIT Workshop on Information-Theoretic Methods for Trustworthy Machine Learning, 2024.
(8) Ismat Jarin, Birhanu Eshete "MIAShield: Defending Membership Inference Attacks via Preemptive Exclusion of Members", Proceeding on Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS) 2023. [Talk]
Coauthored work featured in DEFCON 30 BiC Village talk, Las Vegas, Nevada, 2022.
(9) Ismat Jarin, Birhanu Eshete "DP-UTIL: Comprehensive Utility Analysis of Differential Privacy in Machine Learning", ACM CODASPY 2022.
(10) Ismat Jarin, Birhanu Eshete "PRICURE: Privacy-Preserving Collaborative Inference in a Multi-Party Setting" IWSPA ’21: ACM Workshop on Security and Privacy Analytics, 2021.
(11) Ismat Jarin, Tahsin Mostafiz, Celia Shahnaz "Retinal Vein detection using Residual Block Incorporated UNet Architecture and Fuzzy Inference System" IEEE International WIE Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (WIECON-ECE), 2018 .
(12) Ismat Jarin, Celia Shahnaz "Natural and Medical Image Encryption using Self-Adaptive permutation and DNA Encoding." IEEE International WIE Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (WIECON-ECE), 2018.
(13) Ismat Jarin, Majumdar, S. P. , "Performance evaluation of MLD and ZFE in a MIMO OFDM system impaired by carrier frequency offset, phase noise, and timing jitter ", 2017 IEEE International Conference on Telecommunications and Photonics (ICTP 2017).
(14) Ismat Jarin, Sharmin, R., Majumdar, S. P. "Performance evaluation of SISO OFDM system in the presence of CFO, timing jitter, and phase noise for Rayleigh and Rician fading channels", 2017 IEEE Region 10 Humanitarian Technology Conference (R10-HTC), 498-501.