Sauvik Das
@scyrusk
Associate Professor (w/o tenure) at @cmuhcii. Director of the SPUD Lab. Join me elsewhere 🦣 [email protected] | 🦋 @sauvik.me
As of today, I am officially Associate Professor* at @cmuhcii. Surreal — I was out of my depth when I started. Couldn't have done it without my incredible students — the true brains of the operation — and the support of my mentors. Thank you all! * not yet tenured, because CMU

📢 We now have two amazing keynote speakers lined up for #HAIPS2025 (the 1st Workshop on Human-Centered AI, Privacy, and Security)! @jas0nh0ng and @patrickgage Submit your: - Original papers - Encore papers - SoK papers - Vision papers by June 20th! 💻haips.com
🚨New workshop at @acm_ccs #CCS2025! Glad to announce the 1st workshop on Human-Centered AI Privacy and Security (#HAIPS2025, pronounced “hypes” 😎) AI is reshaping lives and S&P research—let’s bring people back to the center. 📢 CFP is out! 🌊 haips.com
@SCSatCMU shared our recent work that is really close to my heart! You can read more and download Purpose Mode here: 📝 hankhplee.com/papers/purpose… 💻 github.com/hankhplee/purp…
Sauvik Das, assistant professor in @cmuhcii, and a team of researchers have developed a a browser extension called Purpose Mode that helps social media users stay focused on their desired tasks. bit.ly/3Z660LY
Come see what the hype is about at the nexus of #Security and #privacy, #HCI, and #AI at the #HAIPS2025 workshop at #CCS2025 Send us your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, and papers you just had rejected from #usesec25 or #ICML2025
🚨New workshop at @acm_ccs #CCS2025! Glad to announce the 1st workshop on Human-Centered AI Privacy and Security (#HAIPS2025, pronounced “hypes” 😎) AI is reshaping lives and S&P research—let’s bring people back to the center. 📢 CFP is out! 🌊 haips.com
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Sauvik @scyrusk and I are co-chairing the SOUPS mentoring session this year! If you are attending SOUPS, consider signing up to be a mentor or a mentee. It's a wonderful way to connect with others. I participated as a PhD student and found it to be an incredibly valuable…
Are you going to be at the best conference, SOUPS (@SOUPSConference )? If so, consider signing up to be a mentor or mentee for the mentoring program! It's a great way to meet other folks at the conference :) usenix.org/conference/sou…
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Still plenty of time to submit your work to #HAIPS2025 :)
Still one week left before the workshop deadline!
Come and join us!
📢 We now have two amazing keynote speakers lined up for #HAIPS2025 (the 1st Workshop on Human-Centered AI, Privacy, and Security)! @jas0nh0ng and @patrickgage Submit your: - Original papers - Encore papers - SoK papers - Vision papers by June 20th! 💻haips.com
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📢 We now have two amazing keynote speakers lined up for #HAIPS2025 (the 1st Workshop on Human-Centered AI, Privacy, and Security)! @jas0nh0ng and @patrickgage Submit your: - Original papers - Encore papers - SoK papers - Vision papers by June 20th! 💻haips.com
😬In sims, 1/100 Asian-coded agents will join a protest if told they shouldn't. All 100 Black-coded agents will join anyway. New #Facct2025 paper led by @YuxuanL_: Actions Speak Louder than Words: Agent Decisions Reveal Implicit Biases in Language Models sauvikdas.com/papers/64/serve


Sauvik Das, assistant professor in @cmuhcii, and a team of researchers have developed a a browser extension called Purpose Mode that helps social media users stay focused on their desired tasks. bit.ly/3Z660LY
Happy to share that our work has been accepted to @FAccTConference #FAccT2025!
🚨 Advanced LLMs may sound unbiased—but it's a ruse. We show that demographically-informed language agents reveal stark, implicit biases in decision-making. New preprint: “Actions Speak Louder Than Words: Agent Decisions Reveal Implicit Biases in Language Models” 👉…
🚨o3-mini vastly outperforms DeepSeek-R1 on an unseen probabilistic reasoning task! Introducing k-anonymity estimation: a novel task to assess privacy risks in sensitive texts Unlike conventional math and logical reasoning, this is difficult for both humans and AI models. 1/7