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Two current lab members will continue their PhD studies in our group! Sean Tang, currently an undergraduate researcher, will stay on as a PhD student starting Fall 2027. Kaiyuan Zhang, currently a Master’s student, will also remain in the lab as a PhD student starting Spring 2027, co-advised with Prof. Abeer Alwan.

Prof. Tian will serve as associate chair for IEEE S&P 2027. Please submit your interesting papers!

We are excited to be selected as one of the 10 international teams for Amazon Nova AI Challenge: Trusted Software Agents. Congratulations to Ying Li, Peiran Wang, and Di Wu as the team captain of Bruinweb!

Thanks, Coefficient Giving, for supporting our research on trustworthy Agents with Kai-Wei Chang, Cho-Jui Hsieh, and Nanyun Peng!

Welcome Peiran Wang, Zhiyuan Zhang, and Zihang Xiang to the lab!

Our paper “Breaking the Illusion: Automated Reasoning of GDPR Consent Violations” will appear in the 47th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland) 2026.

Our paper “From Perception to Protection: A Developer-Centered Study of Security and Privacy Threats in Extended Reality (XR)” has been accepted to appear in the 33rd Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) 2026.

Thanks, NSF, for supporting our research on trustworthy medical AI!

Our paper “Location-Enhanced Information Flow Analysis for Smart Home Automations” will appear in the 26th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS) 2026.

Prof. Tian will give a talk at 8th Deep Learning Security and Privacy Workshop.