Yaxing Yao
@yaxingyao
Assist. Prof. @JHUCompSci. Father of 3. Previously @CarnegieMellon @CyLab | @SyracuseU @iSchool | @UW_iSchool. Human-centered privacy, HCI, AI.
Some personal news to share: Starting this July, I will be joining the Department of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University (@JHUCompSci) as an Assistant Professor, with an affiliation at the new Data Science and AI Institute (@HopkinsDSAI ).
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
📢 Hey folks, are you interested in Humans + AI privacy & security? Let’s talk! Join us for the HAIPS workshop (haips.com) at @acm_ccs #CCS2025 .
🚨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
🚨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
(Reposts appreciated!) Do you work on user-facing Artificial Intelligence (AI) products? We would like to hear from you! Please fill out this survey to sign up for the study: cmu.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2o…
🦕🖥️We'll do an interactive exhibit at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History @NMNH Friday afternoon on Digital Privacy and Security! Come and chat with us if you are in DC ❤️ @yaxingyao @juliaqian21 @LanjingLiu @CharlieCRChen @lucy_institute @ND_CSE naturalhistory.si.edu/events/privacy…
Presenting our paper on VR users' privacy expectations, concerns, & protective behaviors at #PETS this Wednesday (session 4D)! Huge thanks to co-authors @yaxingyao, @yixinzouu & @AnupamDas009! P.S. Looking for Spring/Summer'26 internships! DM if you have leads! #VR #Research
My lab @JohnsHopkins is recruiting research and communications professionals, and AI postdocs to advance our work ensuring that AI is safe and aligned to human well-being worldwide: We're hiring an AI Policy Researcher to conduct in-depth research into the technical and policy…
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
Please reshare! Important piece on American Science, Health, and Technology funding. Medical and Scientific Research Makes America Great | TIME time.com/7286127/medica…
we are looking for adolescent participants for a study that aims to empower them to cope with cybergrooming risks. Please participate!!
Hi everyone, we are looking for teens (13-17) to participate in an NSF-funded research project on online safety for teens. If you and your teen are interested in participating, please take a look at the details below and register using the link:bit.ly/vt-cg. Thank you!
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Hi everyone, we are looking for teens (13-17) to participate in an NSF-funded research project on online safety for teens. If you and your teen are interested in participating, please take a look at the details below and register using the link:bit.ly/vt-cg. Thank you!
We studied how GUI agents like OpenAI Operator and Claude behave under privacy & security threats. We find: ❌ Fine-Print Injection worked up to 74% of the time. ❌ Humans performed even worse than the agents. Here’s a 30-second flash video of what we found 👇 #LLM #privacy #AI