Towards Automating Data Access Permissions in AI Agents. Y. Wu, K. Yang, F. Roesner, T. Kohno, N. Zhang, and U. Iqbal. IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy, 2026.
Ethics in Computer Security Research: A Data-Driven Assessment of the Past, the Present, and the Possible Future. H.S. Ramulu, H. Schmitt, B. Rerich, R.G. Rodriguez, T. Kohno, and Y.Acar. CCS, October 2025.
Short: Unencrypted Flying Objects: Security Lessons from University Small Satellite Developers and Their Code. R. McAmis, G. Haas, M. Sim, D. Kohlbrenner, and T. Kohno. VehicleSec, August 2025.
Biased AI Outputs Can Impact Humans' Implicit Bias: A Case Study of the Impact of Gender-Biased Text-to-Image Generators. M. Sim, N.G. Brigham, T. Kohno, T.E.S. Charlesworth, A. Caliskan. AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES), October 2025.
Analyzing the AI Nudification Application Ecosystem. C. Gibson, D. Olszewski, N.G. Brigham, A. Crowder, K. Butler, P. Traynor, E.M. Redmiles, and T. Kohno. USENIX Security Symposium, August 2025. (Internet Defense Prize Runner-up and Distinguished Paper Honorable Mention at USENIX Security; recipient of the 2025 CSAW Applied Research Competition Best Paper in Social Impact Award.)
To Reveal or Conceal: Privacy and Marginalization in Avatars. M. Sim, B. Radka, E. Yoshikawa, F. Roesner, K. Hugenberg, and T. Kohno. Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PoPETs), July 2025.
A Common Pool of Privacy Problems: Legal and Technical Lessons from a Large-Scale Web-Scraped Machine Learning Dataset. R. Hong, J. Hutson, W. Agnew, I. Huda, T. Kohno, J. Morgenstern. arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.17185, June 2025. [Technology Review]
Characterizing the Default Persona During Design: Mental Representations of Technology Users are Gendered. M. Sim, B. Radka, T. Kohno, F. Roesner, and K. Hugenberg. ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT), June 2025.
Understanding Experiences with Compulsory Immigration Surveillance in the U.S. K. Owens, Y. Eiger, B. Radka, T. Kohno, and F. Roesner. ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT), June 2025.
Extending the Heilmeier Catechism to Evaluate Security & Privacy Systems: Who is Left Out? K. Butler, K. Hugenberg, E. Jain, A. Kapadia, T. Kohno, E.M. Redmiles, F. Roesner, M. Sim, P. Traynor, and H. Barakat. IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine, May-June 2025.
"You Have to Ignore the Dangers": User Perceptions of the Security and Privacy Benefits of WhatsApp Mods. C.W. Munyendo, K. Owens, F. Strong, S. Wang, A.J. Aviv, T. Kohno, and F. Roesner. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, May 2025.
"We're Utterly Ill-prepared to Deal with Something Like This": Teachers' Perspectives on Student Generation of Synthetic Nonconsensual Explicit Imagery. M. Wei, C. Yeung, F. Roesner, and T. Kohno. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), April 2025. (Best Paper Honorable Mention.)
IsolateGPT: An Execution Isolation Architecture for LLM-Based Systems. Y. Wu, F. Roesner, T. Kohno, N. Zhang, and U. Iqbal. Network and Distributed Security Symposium (NDSS), February 2025. [Previously on arXiv at arXiv:2403.04960, March 2024]
User Comprehension and Comfort with Eye-Tracking and Hand-Tracking Permissions in Augmented Reality. K. Cheng, M. Sim, T. Kohno, and F. Roesner. Usable Security and Privacy Symposium (USEC), February 2025.
Developing Story: Case Studies of Generative AI's Use in Journalism. N.G. Brigham, C. Gao, T. Kohno, F. Roesner, and N. Mireshghallah. Socially Responsible Language Modeling Research (SoLaR), December 2025. [Previously on arXiv at arXiv:2406.13706, June 2024]
On the (In)Accessibility of Web Ads: Measurement and User Study. C. Yeung, T. Kohno, and F. Roesner. ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), November 2024. (Best Paper Award) [Project Page]
Who's In and Who's Out? A Case Study of Multimodal CLIP-filtering in DataComp. R. Hong, W. Agnew, T. Kohno, and J. Morgenstern. Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization (EAAMO), October 2024. [Previously on arXiv at arXiv:2405.08209, May 2024]
LLM Platform Security: Applying a Systematic Evaluation Framework to OpenAI's ChatGPT Plugins. U. Iqbal, T. Kohno, and F. Roesner. AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES), October 2024. [Previously on arXiv at arXiv:2309.10254, September 2023]
Particip-AI: A Democratic Surveying Framework for Anticipating Future AI Use Cases, Harms and Benefits. J. Mun, L. Jiang, J. Liang, I. Cheong, N. DeCairo, Y. Choi, T. Kohno, and M. Sap. AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES), October 2024. [Previously on arXiv at arXiv:2403.14791, March 2024]
Face the Facts: Using Face Averaging to Visualize Gender-by-Race Bias in Facial Analysis Algorithms. K. Owens, E. Freiburger, R. Hutchings, M. Sim, K. Hugenberg, F. Roesner, and T. Kohno. AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES), October 2024.
Understanding Help-Seeking and Help-Giving on Social Media for Image-Based Sexual Abuse. M. Wei, S. Consolvo, P.G. Kelley, T. Kohno, T. Matthews, S. Meiklejohn, F. Roesner, R. Shelby, K. Thomas, and R. Umbach. USENIX Security Symposium, August 2024.
SoK (or SoLK?): On the Quantitative Study of Sociodemographic Factors and Computer Security Behaviors. M. Wei, J. Mink, Y. Eiger, T. Kohno, E.M. Redmiles, and F. Roesner. USENIX Security Symposium, August 2024.
"But They Have Overlooked a Few Things in Afghanistan:" The Integration of Biometric Voter Verification into the 2019 Afghan Presidential Elections. K. Panahi, S. Robertson, Y. Acar, T. Kohno, A.G. Bardas, L. Simko. USENIX Security Symposium, August 2024.
When the User is Inside the User Interface: An Empirical Study of UI Security Properties in Augmented Reality. K. Cheng, A. Bhattacharya, M. Lin, J. Lee, A. Kumar, J.F. Tian, T. Kohno, and F. Roesner. USENIX Security Symposium, August 2024. [UI Security Properties in AR Project Page] [AR/MR/XR Security and Privacy Project Page]
"Violation of My Body:" Perceptions of AI-generated Non-consensual (Intimate) Imagery. N.G. Brigham, M. Wei, T. Kohno, and E. Redmiles. 20th Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS), August 2024.
Over Fences and Into Yards: Privacy Threats and Concerns of Commercial Satellites. R. McAmis, M. Sim, M. Bennett, and T. Kohno. Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PoPETs), July 2024. (Runner Up, Andreas Pfitzmann Best Student Paper Award.)
Handling Identity and Fraud in the Metaverse. R. McAmis, B. Durak, M. Chase, K. Laine, F. Roesner, and T. Kohno. IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine, January-February 2025.
It's Trying Too Hard To Look Real: Deepfake Moderation Mistakes and Identity-Based Bias. J. Mink, M. Wei, C.W. Munyendo, K. Hugenberg, T. Kohno, E.M. Redmiles, and G. Wang. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), May 2024.
Safeguarding Human Values: Rethinking US Law for Generative AI’s Societal Impacts. I. Cheong, A. Caliskan, and T. Kohno. AI and Ethics, May 2024.
Experimental Analyses of the Physical Surveillance Risks in Client-Side Content Scanning. A. Hooda, A. Labunets, T. Kohno, E. Fernandes. Network and Distributed Security Symposium (NDSS), February 2024.
Please see my previous homepage at https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~yoshi/research-pubs.html for papers in 2023 and earlier.