Happy Lab News

September 14, 2026

Do Newer Models Make Better Tutors?: Characterizing Real-World Failures of AI Tutors in Higher Education Across Two Years, Two Prompts, and Five Models was accepted to SIGCSE TS 2027. Congrats to the authors!

September 14, 2026

Operationalizing Welcoming in Cybersecurity Communities: How Organizers Try to Shape Culture was accepted to IEEE S&P 2027. Congrats to the authors!

September 4, 2026

The Atlantic covered our work on Is This AI? Longitudinal Analysis of Strategies Used for AI Detection on Two Subreddits.

July 17, 2026

Do Hackers Dream of Electric Teachers? was accepted to CCS 2026. Congrats to the authors!

July 16, 2026

"I Thought You Were The Uncensored Place": Norms, Rules, and Moderation in AI-Generated Sexual Content Communities was accepted to AIES 2026. Congrats to the authors!

July 16, 2026

Is This AI? was accepted to AIES 2026. Congrats to the authors!

May 25, 2026

Humans of Generative AI @ CVPR, a workshop on understanding how sociotechnical insights can inform technical AI design, is coming to Denver in just under two weeks. Hope to see you there!

May 19, 2026

Two papers were conditionally accepted to SOUPS 2026: SoK: Mapping Threats to Defenses in Online Survey Fraud and Like a Hammer, It Can Build, It Can Break. Congrats to the authors!

April 15, 2026

Our paper with Drs. Lucy Qin and Elissa M. Redmiles from Georgetown University, "Unlimited Realm of Exploration and Experimentation": Methods and Motivations of AI-Generated Sexual Content Creators", was accepted to FAccT!

January 19, 2026

Work with the SEFCOM and TSP Lab, "I Can SE Clearly Now: Investigating the Effectiveness of GUI-based Symbolic Execution for Software Vulnerability Discovery", has been conditionally accepted to CHI 2026, congrats all!

September 22, 2025

A joint work with Lindsay Sanneman and Anil Murthy was accepted to NeurIPS LLM-Eval Workshop.

June 17, 2025

Jaron and Tanusree from the GPSLab were recently awarded Google Research Scholar Grant for their proposal: "Designing Accessible Tools for Blind and Low-Vision People to Navigate Deepfake Media"

May 19, 2025

We're excited to welcome Ashely Ishoel and Harshit Mathur for their SURI internships!

January 31, 2025

Aditi, Joy, and Nihaarika are the newest folks working with the Happy Lab! Welcome!

October 23, 2024

Jaron was interviewed by the Human-Centered Security Podcast. Check it out!

September 3, 2024

Jaron is heading out to the Bi-Annual NSF PI meeting to represent ASU's Grant with Tufts

August 11, 2024

We're on the move to the annual SOUPS+USENIX Security conference marathon and Miranda Wei will be presenting her paper "SoK or So(L)K? On the Quantitative Study of Sociodemographic Factors and Computer Security Behaviors". Check it out!

August 7, 2024

Jaron gave an invited talk at Loyola University's SecureAI Cybersecurity Training Program!

May 31, 2024

Jaron gave a guest lecture at MadS&P in Madison on the "Human Factors in Secure and Non-Abusive AI"!