Publications

Operationalizing Welcoming in Cybersecurity Communities: How Organizers Try to Shape Culture
Carson Powers, Aman Shah, Jaron Mink, Daniel Votipka, Ari Schlesinger
48th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE S&P), 2027
In Preparation

Do Newer Models Make Better Tutors?: Characterizing Real-World Failures of AI Tutors in Higher Education Across Two Years, Two Prompts, and Five Models
Michael Tompkins, Nihaarika Agarwal, Robert Wasinger, Connor Nelson, Daniel Votipka, Yan Shoshitaishvili, Jaron Mink
58th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE TS), 2027
In Preparation

Do Hackers Dream of Electric Teachers?: A Large-Scale, In-Situ Measurement of Cybersecurity Student Behaviors and Educational 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
33rd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2026
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"I Thought You Were The Uncensored Place": Norms, Rules, and Moderation in AI-Generated Sexual Content Communities
Lucy Qin^*, Jaron Mink^*, Elissa M. Redmiles
9th AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES), 2026
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Is This AI? Longitudinal Analysis of Strategies Used for AI Detection on Two Subreddits
Christina Yeung, Galen Weld, Jaron Mink, Franziska Roesner
9th AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES), 2026
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Press: The Atlantic

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
22nd 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
22nd 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
9th ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT), 2026
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Press: Harvard Berkman Klein Center Whitepaper on Survivor-Centered NCII Reporting, Lawfare Daily: Consent in the Age of AI

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
44th ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2026
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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
arXiv, 2025
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Press: OWASP Agentic AI Security Risk Scoring (AIVSS), Schmidt Sciences, Cloud Security Alliance, Infosecurity Magazine, Institute for AI Policy and Strategy

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 (USENIX Security), 2024
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Press: Japan Science and Technology Agency: Center for Research and Development Strategy Report

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
42nd ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2024
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Press: Response to NIST RFI on AI Safety, Security, and Synthetic Content

"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 (USENIX Security), 2023
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Press: Human-Centered Security Podcast, Response to NIST RFI on AI Safety, Security, and Synthetic Content

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 (IEEE S&P), 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 (IEEE S&P), 2023
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Press: Human-Centered Security Podcast, Response to NIST RFI on AI Safety, Security, and Synthetic Content

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 (ACSAC), 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 Figueira, Yang Wang, Gang Wang
31st USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security), 2022
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Press: Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review, Futurum, New Scientist, Response to NIST RFI on AI Safety, Security, and Synthetic Content

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
40th ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2022
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Press: Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ), The 21st Show

Beyond Bot Detection: Combating Fraudulent Online Survey Takers
Ziyi Zhang, Shuofei Zhu, Jaron Mink, Aiping Xiong, Linhai Song, Gang Wang
31st ACM Web Conference (WWW), 2022
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Press: Prolific Guidance to Prevent AI-Generated Responses, 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 (ACSAC), 2020
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