[Colloquium] Today at 2 pm ~ Computer Science Department Seminar ~ Danny Huang

[Annie Simmons]

University of Chicago   
Computer Science Department


Danny Huang
Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton

Tuesday, October 22, 2019 at 2:00 - 3:00 pm
JCL Room 298


Title:
Watching IoTs That Watch Us: Empirically Studying IoT Security & Privacy at Scale

Abstract:
Consumers today are increasingly concerned about the security and privacy risks of smart home IoT devices. However, few empirical studies have looked at these problems at scale, partly because a large variety and number of smart-home IoT devices are often closed-source and on private home networks, thus making it difficult for researchers to systematically observe the actual security and privacy issues faced by users in the wild.
 
In this talk, I describe two methods for researchers to empirically understand these risks to real end-users: (i) emulating user-inputs to study how thousands of smart TV channels (i.e., apps) track viewers [CCS ‘19]; and (ii) crowdsourcing network traffic from thousands of real smart home networks [in submission]. Both methods have allowed us to conduct the largest security and privacy studies on smart TV and other IoT devices to date. Our labeled datasets have also created new opportunities for other research areas, such as machine learning, network management, and healthcare.

Bio:
Danny Y. Huang is a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy. He is broadly interested in the security and privacy of emerging technologies, such as cryptocurrency and IoT. He obtained his PhD in Computer Science from University of California, San Diego. For more information visit https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~yuxingh/ <https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~yuxingh/>

Host: Marshini Chetty






Annie Simmons
Project Assistant IV
Computer Science Department
John Crerar Library Building
5730 S. Ellis
Chicago, IL 60637 
773.834.2750
773.702.8487
simmons3 at cs.uchicago.edu

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