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2019

(5/2019) Congratulations to Dr. Cory Thoma on a successful PhD defense! Cory's work has appeared at DBSec 2019, CODASPY 2019, SACMAT 2016, SIGMOD 2015 and SMDB 2014.
(5/2019) Our paper Anchor of Trust: Towards Collusion-Resistant Trusted Indoor Location for Enterprise and Industrial Use will appear in the journal Personal and Ubiquitous Computing.
(4/2019) Our paper Shoal: Query Optimization and Operator Placement for Access Controlled Stream Processing Systems will appear at IFIP DBSec 2019.
(4/2019) Our paper NeXUS: Practical and Secure Access Control on Untrusted Storage Platforms using Client-side SGX will appear at IEEE/IFIP DSN 2019.
(3/2019) Our paper Adaptive Modelling of Attentiveness to Messaging: a Hybrid Approach will appear at ACM UMAP 2019.
(2/2019) Our paper Are You There? Identifying Unavailability in Mobile Messaging will appear at ACM CHI 2019 (Late-Breaking Work).

2018

(12/2018) Our paper Authorization-Aware Optimization for Multi-Provider Queries will appear at ACM SAC 2019.
(11/2018) Our paper Behind Enemy Lines: Exploring Trusted Data Stream Processing on Untrusted Systems will appear at ACM CODASPY 2019.
(4/2018) Our paper Sensing or Watching?: Balancing Utility and Privacy in Sensing Systems via Collection and Enforcement Mechanisms will appear at ACM SACMAT 2018.

2017

(11/2017) Our paper Ephemeral Communication and Communication Places - What Influences College-Aged Negotiation of Instant Messaging Usage Within App Ecosystems? will appear at iConference 2018.
(11/2017) I have been named an Affiliate Scholar at the University of Pittsburgh Institute for Cyber Law, Policy, and Security
(9/2017) I will serve as the Associate Dean for Academic Programs at Pitt's School of Computing and Information
(7/2017) New NSF-funded project: SaTC: CORE: Medium: Collaborative: Scalable Dynamic Access Control for Untrusted Cloud Environments
(5/2017) I will serve as the PC Chair for ACM WPES 2017
(1/2017) Our paper Was my message read?: Privacy and Signaling on Facebook Messenger has been accepted to CHI 2017.

2016

(10/2016) Former PhD student Bill Garrison was a runner-up for the 2016 ACM SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Award! Congrats, Bill!
(9/2016) Our paper Viewing the Viewers: Publishers' Desires and Viewers' Privacy Concerns in Social Networks has been accepted to CSCW 2017.
(4/2016) Our paper PolyStream: Cryptographically Enforced Access Controls for Outsourced Data Stream Processing has been accepted to SACMAT 2016.
(2/2016) Our paper On the Practicality of Cryptographically Enforcing Dynamic Access Control Policies in the Cloud has been accepted to IEEE S&P 2016.
(1/2016) Our position paper Improving Privacy through Exposure Awareness and Reactive Mechanisms will be discussed at the CHI 2016 workshop Bridging the Gap between Privacy by Design and Privacy in Practice.

2015

(11/2015) Our paper TPRIVEXEC: Private Execution In Virtual Memory has been accepted to CODASPY 2016.
(11/2015) Congratulations to Andrew Adams on a successful MS defense! Related paper: [SACMAT'13].
(11/2015) Congratulations to Bill Garrison on a successful PhD defense! Related papers: [FAST'11], [NSPW'12], [CSF'13], [CODASPY'14], [SACMAT'14], [CSF'15], plus a few more in the pipeline...
(7/2015) Our paper You're Where? Prove it! Towards Trusted Indoor Location Estimation of Mobile Devices has been accepted to UbiComp 2015.
(5/2015) I will serve on the CODASPY 2016 program committee.
(5/2015) I will serve on the CCSW 2015 program committee.
(4/2015) Our paper Decomposing, Comparing, and Synthesizing Access Control Expressiveness Simulations has been accepted to CSF 2015.
(3/2015) I will serve on the SocialSec 2015 program committee.
(1/2015) Our paper Interrupt Now or Inform Later?: Comparing Immediate and Delayed Privacy Feedback has been accepted as a Note to appear at CHI 2015.
(1/2015) I will serve on the DBSec 2015 program committee.

2014

(11/2014) Congratulations to Nick Farnan on a successful PhD defense! Related publications: [WPES'10], [ESORICS'11], [SACMAT'13], [VLDB'13], [ICDE'14]
(11/2014) I will serve on the ESORICS 2015 program committee.
(8/2014) I will serve on the PETS 2015 program committee.
(7/2014) I will serve on thet ASIACCS 2015 program committee.
(6/2014) I will serve as PC co-Chair for SACMAT 2015.
(5/2014) I will serve on the ACSAC 2014 program committee.
(5/2014) I will serve on the WPES 2014 program committee.
(5/2014) I will serve as the Poster Chair for CODASPY 2015.
(4/2014) Our paper An Actor-Based, Application-Aware Access Control Evaluation Framework has been accepted to SACMAT 2014.
(3/2014) We were given an Outstanding Paper Award for our paper On the Suitability of Dissemination-centric Access Control Systems for Group-centric Sharing at CODASPY 2014.
(2/2014) I will serve as Tutorial co-Chair for CCS 2014.
(2/2014) I will serve on the SECRYPT 2014 program committee.
(1/2014) Our paper Reflection or Action?: How Feedback and Control Affect Location Sharing Decisions has been accepted to CHI 2014.
(1/2014) I will serve on the DBSEC 2014 program commitee.

2013

(12/2013) I will serve on the NSS 2014 program committee.
(11/2013) I will serve on the ESORICS 2014 program committee.
(11/2013) I will serve on the SECOTS 2014 program committee.
(11/2013) Our paper On the Suitability of Dissemination-centric Access Control Systems for Group-centric Sharing has been accepted to CODASPY 2014.
(10/2013) I will serve on the PETS 2014 program committee.
(10/2013) Our paper PAQO: Preference-Aware Query Optimization for Decentralized Database Systems was accepted to ICDE 2014.
(9/2013) I will serve on the SACMAT 2014 program committee, and will be demonstration chair for the conference.
(6/2013) I will serve on the CODASPY 2014 program committee.
(4/2013) Our paper Application-Sensitive Access Control Evaluation using Parameterized Expressiveness has been accepted to CSF 2013.
(4/2013) I will serve on the ACSAC 2013 program committee.
(3/2013) I am serving on the PETools organizing committee. Please consider submitting!
(3/2013) Our paper Combining Social Authentication and Untrusted Clouds for Private Location Sharin has been accepted to SACMAT 2013.
(2/2013) A new technical report about our work on access control suitability analysis is available.

2012

(11/2012) I will serve on the ESORICS 2013 program committee.
(10/2012) I will serve on the DBSec 2013 program committee.
(9/2012) Our paper Confidentiality-Preserving and Fault-Tolerant In-Network Aggregation for Collaborative WSNs has been accepted to CollaborateCom 2012.
(8/2012) I will serve on the PETS 2013 program committee.
(8/2012) I will serve on the NSS 2013 program committee.
(8/2012) Our paper Policy Administration in Tag-Based Authorization has been accepted to FPS 2012.
(7/2012) I will serve on the SACMAT 2013 program committee.
(7/2012) I will serve on the ICDE 2013 program committee.
(7/2012) I will serve on the CODASPY 2013 program committee.
(6/2012) Our paper The Need for Application-Aware Access Control Evaluation has been accepted to NSPW 2012.
(5/2012) Our paper Reasons, Rewards, Regrets: Privacy Considerations in Location Sharing as an Interactive Practice has been accepted to SOUPS 2012.
(3/2012) Our paper PlexC: A Policy Language for Exposure Control has been accepted to SACMAT 2012.
(1/2012) I will serve on the SECRYPT 2012 program committee.

2011

(12/2011) Our paper My Privacy Policy: Exploring End-user Specification of Freeform Location Access Rules has been accepted to USEC 2012.
(12/2011) Our paper When Privacy and Utility are in Harmony: Towards Better Design of Presence Technologies has been accepted to Personal and Ubiquitous Computing.
(11/2011) Our paper Bounding Trust in Reputation Systems with Incomplete Information has been accepted to CODASPY 2012.
(11/2011) I will serve on the ESORICS 2012 program committee.
(10/2011) I will serve on the DBSec 2012 program committee.
(10/2011) I will serve on the NSS 2012 program committee.
(9/2011) I will serve on the SACMAT 2012 program committee.
(9/2011) I will serve on the ACNS 2012 program committee.
(8/2011) Our paper TBA: A Hybrid of Logic and Extensional Access Control Systems has been accepted to FAST 2011.
(7/2011) I will co-chair the poster and demonstration session at CCS 2011. Please consider submitting!
(5/2011) Our paper Don't Reveal My Intension: Protecting User Privacy using Declarative Preferences during Distributed Query Processing has been accepted to ESORICS 2011.
(5/2011) Our paper Eyeing your Exposure: Quantifying and Controlling Information Sharing for Improved Privacy has been accepted to SOUPS 2011.
(5/2011) I will serve on the WPES 2011 program committee.
(4/2011) I will serve on the PASSAT 2011 program committee.
(3/2011) I will serve on the SecureComm 2011 program committee.
(3/2011) Our paper Enforcing Policy and Data Consistency of Cloud Transactions has been accepted to ICDCS-SPCC 2011.
(3/2011) Our paper Secured Histories for Presence Systems has been accepted to SECOTS 2011.
(2/2011) I will serve on the NSS 2011 program committee.

2010

(12/2010) Our paper Confidentiality-Preserving Proof Theories for Distributed Proof Systems has been accepted to ASIACCS 2011.
(12/2010) Our paper Receipt-Mode Trust Negotiation: Efficient Authorization Through Outsourced Interactions, has been accepted to ASIACCS 2011.
(11/2010) I will serve on the ESORICS 2011 program committee.
(9/2010) The ASIACCS 2011 submission deadline has been extended to October 8th. Please consider submitting a paper.
(9/2010) I will serve on the POLICY 2011 program committee.
(9/2010) I will serve on the DBSec 2011 program committee.
(9/2010) I will serve on the MDM 2011 program committee.
(9/2010) I will serve on the IFIPTM 2011 program committe.
(8/2010) Our paper Investigating Privacy-Aware Distributed Query Evaluation has been accepted to WPES 2010.
(7/2010) I will serve on the SACMAT 2011 program committee.
(7/2010) I will serve on the ASIACCS 2011 program committee.
(6/2010) Please consider submitting a poster or demo to CCS 2010. The deadline for submissions is July 12th.
(4/2010) Department article on a recent NSF Trustworthy Computing award.
(3/2010) I will serve on the WPES 2010 program committee.
(3/2010) Our paper Towards Quantitative Analysis of Proofs of Authorization: Applications, Framework, and Techniques has been accepted to CSF 2010.
(1/2010) I will serve on the PASSAT 2010 program committee.
(1/2010) The SACMAT 2010 submission deadline has been extended to Jan. 15th. Please consider submitting a paper!

2009

(12/2009) Our paper Oblivious Enforcement of Hidden Information Release Policies was accepted to ASIACCS 2010.
(12/2009) Our paper Effective Trust Management Through a Hybrid Logical and Relational Approach was accepted to ASIACCS 2010.
(11/2009) Yann Le Gall has been awarded the Arts & Sciences Chancellor's Undergraduate Research Fellowship to work with our group. Congratulations, Yann!
(11/2009) I will serve on the POLICY 2010 program committee.
(10/2009) Department and University Times articles on recent NSF award.
(8/21/2009) I will serve on the IDtrust 2010 program committee.
(8/20/2009) I will serve on the SACMAT 2010 program committee.
(8/2009) I will serve on the program committee for the WWW 2010 Security and Privacy track.
(7/1/2009) My office has moved to 6111 SENSQ.
(4/7/2009) I will serve on the IFIPTM 2010 program committee. The call for papers is now available.
(3/9/2009) Our paper Towards a Dynamic and Composite Model of Trust has been accepted to SACMAT 2009.
(3/2/2009) The ISC09 Call for Papers is now available
(2/24/2009) Our paper TrustBuilder2: A Reconfigurable Framework for Trust Negotiation has been accepted to IFIPTM 2009.
(1/19/2009) I will serve on the ISC 2009 program committee.

2008

(11/30/2008) Our paper Confidentiality-Preserving Distributed Proofs of Conjunctive Queries has been accepted to ASIACCS 2009.
(9/5/2008) I will serve on the SACMAT 2009 program committee.
(8/26/2008) Our paper On the Consistency of Distributed Proofs with Hidden Subtrees has been accepted to ACM TISSEC.
(8/11/2008) I have completed my move to the University of Pittsburgh!
(7/28/2008) Our paper Secure Aggregation in a Publish-Subscribe System has been accepted to WPES 2008.
(7/17/2008) I will serve on the IFIPTM 2009 program committee.
(6/13/2008) I will serve on the IDtrust 2009 program committee. The call for papers is now available.