Danny Y. Huang
@danny_y_huang
Assistant Professor at New York University in security + privacy + data + usability. @WilliamsCollege alum. @ucsd_cse PhD. Former @PrincetonCITP fellow.
And now they want our sleep data and health data theverge.com/23616586/pokem…
Free trip to NYC? Present your published work at CSAW 2024. Submit your papers at csaw24.hotcrp.com. Deadline September 8 Eastern Time. We will select 10 finalists to present their work at NYU, all expenses paid.
Plz RT! USEC 2024 is calling for papers! Deadline 11/28. Details can be found on the website: ndss-symposium.org/ndss2024/co-lo… USEC will be co-located with #ndss2024 in sunny San Diego on 2/26. Send your work!
Strava = proof of work
I'm telling ya. Strava should be the next big social alternative to Twitter. To post something, you gotta do a physical exercise. Will make the world healthy and cut the rubbish on this site* *assuming one doesn't cheat when posting.
Hidden spy devices aresold in big retailers, they work, and are being used against survivors of IPV. But hidden device detectors are mostly snake oil. @RoseCeccio 's first paper! 🎉 With @sophxstephenson @danny_y_huang & Varun Chadha.
My recent work (to be presented at @USENIXSecurity) investigates the ecosystem of spy devices used for Intimate Partner Surveillance (IPS). We found that online retailers such as @amazon @Walmart and @eBay all carry devices that can be used for IPS.
Before grad school, I was really scared I wouldn't be "smart enough" to do well at research. So I want to share some traits & skills other than smarts that helped me. It's cool not to have all of these, everyone is different---just know it's not all about being "smart." 🧵
I was going to vacuum my apartment but then iRobot decided to take a sick leave today
GREPSEC workshop for women and underrepresented grad students in S&P is back, live and in person, colocated with #usesec2023! Applications are due May 22, please help us spread the word! usenix.org/conference/gre…
“I hope this email finds you well.”
When I need to write an email asking someone busy for something, I write a first draft and then go back and eliminate every unnecessary word. If I'm asking them for something, I owe them something in return, and one thing I can do for them is make my email less work to read.
looking forward to these changes!
IEEE Security and Privacy 2024 has a new review process that accounts for many things I've often had an issue with in current reviewing systems. Excited to see how this experiment goes!
Using ChatGPT to help with data labeling
In an attempt to make research budgets stretch a bit further, we've been playing with ChatGPT to see if it can replace human labelling for various Twitter datasets. If curious, we have some early-stage results here: arxiv.org/pdf/2304.10145…
After a long and unsuccessful search for a statistical inference and regression textbook at the right level for our PhD students, I finally decided to write up my lecture notes as a book. The book is publicly available if you are interested: mattblackwell.github.io/gov2002-book/
Also we're hiring postdocs! Talk to me at NDSS, and/or see this link: apply.interfolio.com/121002
At NDSS today and Monday (USEC workshop). DM if you’re also here!
At NDSS today and Monday (USEC workshop). DM if you’re also here!
TIL: TED Talk but for security engineering
Excited about practical engineering research? Sign up to attend #NeverWorkInTheory! neverworkintheory.org I'll be discussing the theory and practice of vuln remediation, and the rest of the lineup looks AMAZING. High quality, actionable talks. What else could you want?
A thriller to read for the weekend:
For those saying they’ve not seen a 2-3 month rewrite succeed. I did. Was part of it. 3 months planned to rewrite Uber’s mobile app… done in 5. ~3-400 engineers, 1M lines of code. We did it. But there was a price and lots of learnings. blog.pragmaticengineer.com/uber-app-rewri…
Explain your research idea in the fewest possible words — good exercise for researchers as they refine their research vision
Partly the goal is to test whether I understand them. But the exercise of finding the shortest possible explanation is also a useful one in itself. It usually helps to clarify the idea.