Happy Lab News

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!

Two papers were conditionally accepted to SOUPS 2026! Congrats to the authors!

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!

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!

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

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"

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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