Finalists 2025

A total of 189 papers were submitted, from which 27 program committee members nominated 11 finalists to join us in person at NYU to present their work at the Applied Research Competition poster session in front of a panel of industry judges.

Finalists

Full Name School Paper Title (PDF)
Meira Gilbert University of Washington "TikTok, Do Your Thing": User Reactions to Social Surveillance in the Public Sphere
Mohammad Namvarpour Drexel University AI-induced Sexual Harassment: Investigating Contextual Characteristics and User Reactions of Sexual Harassment by a Companion Chatbot
Daniel Olszewski University of Florida Analyzing the AI Nudification Application Ecosystem
Amna Batool University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI Between Court Orders and Platform Policies: Understanding Law Enforcement and Meta Interactions in Addressing Non-Consensual Image Disclosure Abuse
Maryam Motallebighomi Northeastern University eSIMplicity or eSIMplification? Privacy and Security Risks in the eSIM Ecosystem
Shaopeng Lin University of Toronto, Department of Computer Science GPUHammer: Rowhammer Attacks on GPU Memories are Practical
Zheng Yu Northwestern University PATCHAGENT: A Practical Program Repair Agent Mimicking Human Expertise
Joshua Wiedemeier The University of Texas at Dallas PyLingual: Toward Perfect Decompilation of Evolving High-Level Languages
Junming Chen George Mason University Tracking You from a Thousand Miles Away! Turning a Bluetooth Device into an Apple AirTag Without Root Privileges
Francisca Wijaya Wesleyan University Websites' Global Privacy Control Compliance at Scale and over Time
Peter Whiting University of Waterloo IRBlock: A Large-Scale Measurement Study of the Great Firewall of Iran

Program Committee

Our program committee comprises a mix of industry and academic researchers.

  • Frederico Araujo
  • Dimitris Mouris
  • Jay Koven
  • Kevin Hong
  • Marc Waldman
  • Markus Jakobsson
  • Nicholas Renner
  • Paul Giura
  • Hossein Siadati
  • Iman Hosseini
  • Tavish Vaidya
  • Erin Avllazagaj
  • Maria Mera
  • Santiago Torres-Arias
  • Yixin Sun
  • Fan Sang
  • Zephyr Yao
  • Yaxing Yao
  • Nathan Malkin
  • Marshini Chetty
  • Weijia He
  • Jake Chanenson
  • Jerry Chai
  • Eman Abdel Muhd Abu ishgair
  • Jessica Staddon
  • Sophie Stephenson
  • Snahil Singh