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Overview

Franziska Roesner is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their research primarily spans fields within Social Sciences and Computer Science, with a focus on several interdisciplinary subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Artificial Intelligence, Information Systems, Communication, and Safety Research.

The main topics addressed in their research include Privacy, Security, and Data Protection; Misinformation and Its Impacts; Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection; COVID-19 Digital Contact Tracing; Security and Verification in Computing; Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data; and Topic Modeling.

Recent publications by Franziska Roesner cover a variety of these topics and are as follows:

  • "Smart Devices in Airbnbs: Considering Privacy and Security for both Guests and Hosts" (2020), Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies
  • "COVID-19 Contact Tracing and Privacy: Studying Opinion and Preferences" (2020), arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "LLM Platform Security: Applying a Systematic Evaluation Framework to OpenAI's ChatGPT Plugins" (2024), Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI Ethics and Society
  • "Misinfo Reaction Frames: Reasoning about Readers' Reactions to News Headlines" (2022), Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
  • "Principles Matter" (2022), Proceedings of the 53rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

Franziska Roesner frequently collaborates with several coauthors, with the most regular collaborators including:

  • Tadayoshi Kohno (17 joint publications)
  • Mattea Sim (4 joint publications)
  • Kurt Hugenberg (4 joint publications)
  • Umar Iqbal (3 joint publications)
  • Lucy Simko (3 joint publications)

Their work is regularly published in prominent venues, notably:

  • arXiv (Cornell University) with 17 publications
  • IEEE Security & Privacy (3 publications)
  • Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (2 publications)
  • Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI Ethics and Society (2 publications)
  • Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) (1 publication)

Franziska Roesner's research contributes to an understanding of privacy and security challenges in computing technologies, especially in areas such as digital contact tracing during the COVID-19 pandemic, misinformation, and privacy-preserving technologies. Their interdisciplinary approach integrates social sciences perspectives with technical advancements in artificial intelligence and information systems.

Best Publications

  • Experimental Security Analysis of a Modern Automobile

    Karl Koscher;Alexei Czeskis;Franziska Roesner;Shwetak Patel

  • Comprehensive experimental analyses of automotive attack surfaces

    Stephen Checkoway;Damon McCoy;Brian Kantor;Danny Anderson

  • Detecting and defending against third-party tracking on the web

    Franziska Roesner;Tadayoshi Kohno;David Wetherall

  • Defending Against Neural Fake News

    Rowan Zellers;Ari Holtzman;Hannah Rashkin;Yonatan Bisk

  • Security and privacy for augmented reality systems

    Franziska Roesner;Tadayoshi Kohno;David Molnar

  • User-Driven Access Control: Rethinking Permission Granting in Modern Operating Systems

    F. Roesner;T. Kohno;A. Moshchuk;B. Parno

  • End User Security and Privacy Concerns with Smart Homes

    Eric Zeng;Shrirang Mare;Franziska Roesner

  • Toys that Listen: A Study of Parents, Children, and Internet-Connected Toys

    Emily McReynolds;Sarah Hubbard;Timothy Lau;Aditya Saraf

  • Internet Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Trackers: An Archaeological Study of Web Tracking from 1996 to 2016

    Adam Lerner;Anna Kornfeld Simpson;Tadayoshi Kohno;Franziska Roesner

  • Who's In Control?: Interactions In Multi-User Smart Homes

    Christine Geeng;Franziska Roesner

  • Towards Security and Privacy for Multi-user Augmented Reality: Foundations with End Users

    Kiron Lebeck;Kimberly Ruth;Tadayoshi Kohno;Franziska Roesner

  • Sex, Lies, or Kittens? Investigating the Use of Snapchat’s Self-Destructing Messages

    Franziska Roesner;Brian T. Gill;Tadayoshi Kohno

  • Fake News on Facebook and Twitter: Investigating How People (Don't) Investigate

    Christine Geeng;Savanna Yee;Franziska Roesner

  • World-Driven Access Control for Continuous Sensing

    Franziska Roesner;David Molnar;Alexander Moshchuk;Tadayoshi Kohno

  • Collaborative Verification of Information Flow for a High-Assurance App Store

    Michael D. Ernst;René Just;Suzanne Millstein;Werner Dietl

  • Securing Augmented Reality Output

    Kiron Lebeck;Kimberly Ruth;Tadayoshi Kohno;Franziska Roesner

  • Securing embedded user interfaces: Android and beyond

    Franziska Roesner;Tadayoshi Kohno

  • Securing vulnerable home IoT devices with an in-hub security manager

    Anna Kornfeld Simpson;Franziska Roesner;Tadayoshi Kohno

  • The Privacy-Utility Tradeoff for Remotely Teleoperated Robots

    Daniel J. Butler;Justin Huang;Franziska Roesner;Maya Cakmak

  • Understanding and Improving Security and Privacy in {Multi-User} Smart Homes: A Design Exploration and {In-Home} User Study

    Eric Zeng;Franziska Roesner

  • Defending Against Neural Fake News

    Rowan Zellers;Ari Holtzman;Hannah Rashkin;Yonatan Bisk

  • Investigating the computer security practices and needs of journalists

    Susan E. McGregor;Polina Charters;Tobin Holliday;Franziska Roesner

Frequent Co-Authors

Tadayoshi Kohno
Tadayoshi Kohno University of Washington
David Molnar
David Molnar Microsoft (United States)
Yejin Choi
Yejin Choi Stanford University
Stephen W. Keckler
Stephen W. Keckler Nvidia (United States)
Helen J. Wang
Helen J. Wang Microsoft (United States)
Doug Burger
Doug Burger Microsoft (United States)
Bryan Parno
Bryan Parno Carnegie Mellon University
Eyal Ofek
Eyal Ofek Microsoft (United States)
Hovav Shacham
Hovav Shacham The University of Texas at Austin
Maarten Sap
Maarten Sap Carnegie Mellon University

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