Publications

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Like a Hammer, It Can Build, It Can Break: Large Language Model Uses, Perceptions, and Adoption in Cybersecurity Operations on Reddit
Souradip Nath, Chih-Yi Huang, Aditi Ganapathi, Kashyap Thimmaraju, Jaron Mink, Gail-Joon Ahn
Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS), 2026
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SoK: Mapping Threats to Defenses in Online Survey Fraud
Shiza Ali, Wellington Esposito Barbosa, Matthias Fassl, Aditi Ganapathi, Jaron Mink, Adam J. Aviv
Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS), 2026
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"Unlimited Realm of Exploration and Experimentation": Methods and Motivations of AI-Generated Sexual Content Creators
Jaron Mink*, Lucy Qin*, Elissa M. Redmiles
ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT), 2026
PDF Website Poster
News: Harvard Berkman Klein Center Whitepaper on Survivor-Centered NCII Reporting

Open Challenges in Multi-Agent Security: Towards Secure Systems of Interacting AI Agents
Christian Schroeder de Witt, Klaudia Krawiecka, Igor Krawczuk, Ben Hagag, William L. Anderson, Peter Belcak, Ben Bucknall, Xiaohong Cai, Ayush Chopra, Doron Cohen, Ron F. Del Rosario, Andis Draguns, Annie Gray, Keren Katz, Vasilios Mavroudis, Jaron Mink, Sumeet Ramesh Motwani, Jonathan Petit, Leif-Sebastian Rembeck, Chandler Smith, John Sotiropoulos, Steven Young, Sarah Scheffler, Mary Llewellyn
Pre-Print, 2026
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I Can SE Clearly Now: Investigating the Effectiveness of GUI-based Symbolic Execution for Software Vulnerability Discovery
Yi Jou Li, Zeming Yu, James A Mattei, Ananta Soneji, Zhibo Sun, Ruoyu Wang, Jaron Mink, Daniel Votipka, Tiffany Bao
ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2026
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Do Hackers Dream of Electric Teachers?: A Large-Scale, In-Situ Evaluation of Cybersecurity Student Behaviors and Performance with AI Tutors
Michael Tompkins, Nihaarika Agarwal, Ananta Soneji, Robert Wasinger, Connor Nelson, Kevin Leach, Rakibul Hasan, Adam Doupé, Daniel Votipka, Yan Shoshitaishvili, Jaron Mink
Pre-Print, 2026
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SoK (or SoLK?): On the Quantitative Study of Sociodemographic Factors and Computer Security Behaviors
Miranda Wei, Jaron Mink, Yael Eiger, Tadayoshi Kohno, Elissa M. Redmiles, Franziska Roesner
33rd USENIX Security Symposium, 2024
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It's Trying Too Hard To Look Real: Deepfake Moderation Mistakes and Identity-Based Bias
Jaron Mink, Miranda Wei, Collins W. Munyendo, Kurt Hugenberg, Tadayoshi Kohno, Elissa M. Redmiles, Gang Wang
ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2024
PDF Talk
News: NIST AI Executive Order RFI

"Security is not my field, I'm a stats guy": A Qualitative Root Cause Analysis of Barriers to Adversarial Machine Learning Defenses in Industry
Jaron Mink*, Harjot Kaur*, Juliane Schmüser*, Sascha Fahl, Yasemin Acar
32nd USENIX Security Symposium, 2023
PDF Talk Poster Slides
News: Human-Centered Security Podcast, NIST AI Executive Order RFI

SoK: History is a Vast Early Warning System: Auditing the Provenance of System Intrusions
Muhammad Adil Inam, Yinfang Chen, Akul Goyal, Jason Liu, Jaron Mink, Noor Michael, Sneha Gaur, Adam Bates, Wajih Ul Hassan
44th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2023
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Everybody's Got ML, Tell Me What Else You Have: Practitioners' Perception of ML-Based Security Tools and Explanations
Jaron Mink, Hadjer Benkraouda, Limin Yang, Arridhana Ciptadi, Ali Ahmadzadeh, Daniel Votipka, Gang Wang
44th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2023
PDF Talk Slides Teaser
News: Human-Centered Security Podcast, NIST AI Executive Order RFI

FAuST: Striking a Bargain between Forensic Auditing's Security and Throughput
Muhammad Adil Inam, Akul Goyal, Jason Liu, Jaron Mink, Noor Michael, Sneha Gaur, Adam Bates, Wajih Ul Hassan
38th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, 2022
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DeepPhish: Understanding User Trust Towards Artificially Generated Profiles in Online Social Networks
Jaron Mink, Licheng Luo, Natã M. Barbosa, Olivia Figueria, Yang Wang, Gang Wang
31st USENIX Security Symposium, 2022
PDF Supplemental Materials Website Talk Slides
News: Futurum, New Scientist, NIST AI Executive Order RFI

Users Can Deduce Sensitive Locations Protected by Privacy Zones on Fitness Tracking Apps
Jaron Mink, Amanda Rose Yuile, Uma Pal, Adam J Aviv, Adam Bates
ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2022
PDF Supplemental Materials Talk Slides
News: The 21st Show

Beyond Bot Detection: Combating Fraudulent Online Survey Takers
Ziyi Zhang, Shuofei Zhu, Jaron Mink, Aiping Xiong, Linhai Song, Gang Wang
The ACM Web Conference, 2022
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News: The Transmitter

On the Forensic Validity of Approximated Audit Logs
Noor Michael, Jaron Mink, Jason Liu, Sneha Gaur, Wajih Ul Hassan, Adam Bates
36th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, 2020
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