Research Publications

Tavish Vaidya, Yuankai Zhang, Micah Sherr, and Clay Shields. Cocaine Noodles: Exploiting the Gap between Human and Machine Speech Recognition. In USENIX Workshop on Offensive Technologies (WOOT), August 2015.

Tavish Vaidya and Micah Sherr. Mind your (R, Φ)s: Location-Based Privacy Controls for Consumer Drones. In Security Protocols Workshop, March 2015.

W. Brad Moore, Henry Tan, Micah Sherr, and Marcus A. Maloof. Multi-Class Traffic Morphing for Encrypted VoIP Communication. In Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC), January 2015.

Adam Bates, Kevin Butler, Micah Sherr, Clay Shields, Patrick Traynor, and Dan Wallach. Accountable Wiretapping -or- I Know They Can Hear You Now. Journal of Computer Security, 23:167-195, 2015.

Lisa Singh, Grace Hui Yang, Micah Sherr, Andrew Hian-Cheong, Kevin Tian, Janet Zhu and Sicong Zhang. Public Information Exposure Detection:Helping Users Understand Their Web Footprints. In Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2015).August 25-28, 2015. Paris, France.

Sicong Zhang, Hui Yang, Lisa Singh. Applying Epsilon-Differential Private Query Log Releasing Scheme to Document Retrieval. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Privacy-Preserving IR (PIR 2015) in SIGIR 2015. August 9-August 13, 2015. Santiago, Chile.

Lisa Singh, Hui Yang, Micah Sherr, Yifang Wei, Andrew Hian-Cheong, Kevin Tian, Janet Zhu, Sicong Zhang, Tavish Vaidya, Elchin Asgarli. Helping Users Understand Their Web Footprints. (poster). In the Proceedings of the 24th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2015). May 18-22, 2015. Florence, Italy.

Sicong Zhang, Hui Yang, Lisa Singh. Increased Information Leakage from Text. In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Privacy-Preserving IR (PIR 2014) in SIGIR 2014. July 6 - July 11, 2014. Gold Coast, Australia.

Brad Moore, Yifang Wei, Adam Orshefsky, Micah Sherr, Lisa Singh, Hui Yang. Understanding Site-Based Inference Potential for Identifying Hidden Attributes. In the Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust (PASSAT), September 2013. Alexandria, Virginia.

John Ferro, Lisa Singh, Micah Sherr. Identifyin Individual Vulnerability Based on Public Data In the Proceedings of the Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust (PST), July 2013. Catalonia, Spain.

Frank Nagle, Lisa Singh, and Aris Gkoulalas-Divanis. EWNI: Efficient Anonymization of Vulnerable Individuals in Social Networks. In theProceedings of the Pacific Asian Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD), May 2012. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Aditi Ramachandran, Lisa Singh, Edward Porter, Frank Nagle. Exploring re-identification risks in public domains. In the Proceedings of the Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust (PST), July 2012. Paris, France. Received Best Student Paper Award

Jiyun Luo, Sicong Zhang, Xuchu Dong and Hui Yang. Designing States, Actions, and Rewards for Using POMDP in Session Search. In Proceedings of The 37th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2015).March 29-April 02, 2015. Vienna, Austria.

Hui Yang, Dongyi Guan, Sicong Zhang. The Query-Change Model: Modeling Session Search as a Markov Decision Process. ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS). 2015.

Sicong Zhang, Jiyun Luo, Hui Yang. A POMDP Model for Content-Free Document Re-ranking (short paper). In Proceedings of the 37th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR 2014). July 6 - July 11, 2014. Gold Coast, Australia.

Jiyun Luo, Sicong Zhang, Hui Yang. Win-Win Search: Dual-Agent Stochastic Game in Session Search. In Proceedings of the 37th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR 2014). July 6 - July 11, 2014. Gold Coast, Australia.

Dongyi Guan, Sicong Zhang, Hui Yang. Utilizing Query Change for Session Search (full paper). In the Proceedings of the ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), July 2013. Dublin, Ireland.

Sicong Zhang, Dongyi Guan, and Hui Yang. Query Change as Relevance Feedback in Session Search (short paper). In the Proceedings of the ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), July 2013. Dublin, Ireland.

Jiyun Luo, Dongyi Guan, and Hui Yang. InfoLand: Information Lay-of-Land for Session Search (demo paper). In the Proceedings of the ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), July 2013. Dublin, Ireland.

Dongyi Guan and Hui Yang. Increasing Stability of Result Organization for Session Search. In the Proceedings of the European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR), March 2013. Moscow, Russia.