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Jun 10, 25
My paper, “Ads that Talk Back”: Implications and Perceptions of Injecting Personalized Advertising into LLM Chatbots got accepted at IMWUT/UbiComp 2025! 📊
I co-chaired my advisor’s retirement symposium . We had the CSE Department Chair, President of CMU, Associate Dean of CoE, along with many of Prof. Shin’s alumni in academia and industry give really heartfelt talks! 📢
I am half finished thoroughly studying the list of papers sent by Ilya Sutskever to John Carmack. 📄
I gave two talks at the USENIX Security Symposium this year! Navigating Cookie Consent Violations Across The Globe and TimeTravel . 🎤
I’m attending a conference hosted by YC with lots of AI researchers and CEOs! 📽️
My paper, Navigating Cookie Consent Violations Across The Globe , got accepted at USENIX Security 2025! 🍪
I met a couple Turing award winners who came to campus for lunch and a distinguished talk! 📽️
I’ve been busy focusing on my thesis and writing several grants, which involve creating and evaluating real-time surveillance systems using vision language models (VLMs). 🧑💻
The National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource Pilot proposal I wrote got approved for $20k in cloud credits! (Evaluating Privacy and Surveillance Risks of Large Language Models, NAIRR240418) NAIRR Grant ☁️
I learned how to produce my own music. 🎧
I gave a guest lecture for Barbara McQuade and Florian Schaub’s Law School course: Defending Against Deepfakes and Disinformation . 👨🏫
I flew an airplane for the first time! Learning and performing all the procedures made me feel confident. Starting my journey to earn my pilot’s license. 🛩️
I visited my parent’s home Taiwan for the first time in 22 years! I felt a profound sense of connection to Taipei and its culture. 🇹🇼
I was a finalist at the Bloomberg Summer of Puzzles Competition along with 3 other of my friends in the UMich CSE Ph.D. program! We competed in the final round at Bloomberg’s headquarters in New York. 🏢
The Defense University Research Instrumentation Program proposal I helped write received $300k in equipment funding for the RTCL! (Advanced Instrumentation for Research on Securing Cyber-Physical System Communication and Control) 💸
I was one of the finalists in the University of Michigan 3 Minute Thesis Competition 🎙️
My project, Eye-Shield made it into the press ! 📰
I gave my first in-person talk for my project, Eye-Shield ! 📽️
I filed my first patent for my project, Eye-Shield ! 📑
I attended my first in-person conference at IEEE S&P at San Francisco for my paper, Detection of Inconsistencies in Privacy Practices of Browser Extensions ! 🏨
My paper, Eye-Shield: Real-Time Protection of Mobile Device Screen Information from Shoulder Surfing , got accepted at USENIX Security 2023! 📱🔒
I passed my prelim exam and am now on the path to becoming a PhD Candidate! 🧐
My paper, Fairness Properties of Face Recognition and Obfuscation Systems , got accepted at USENIX Security 2023! 🙅🏻♂️🙅🏿♀️🙅🏿♂️🙅🏻♀️
My paper, Do Opt-Outs Really Opt Me Out? , got accepted at ACM CCS 2022! 🚫
My paper, Detection of Inconsistencies in Privacy Practices of Browser Extensions , got accepted at IEEE S&P 2023! 👩⚖️
My paper, Confidant: A Privacy Controller for Social Robots , got accepted at HRI 2022! 🤖
I received the University of Michigan College of Engineering 1st Year Ph.D. Fellowship! 🧐
I joined the Real-Time Computing Lab at the University of Michigan as a Ph.D. student! 💻
I graduated with a B.S. in Computer Sciences at UW - Madison! 🎓
I gave my first talk (virtual) for my project, Face-Off ! 📽️🧑💻
My paper, Face-Off: Adversarial Face Obfuscation , got accepted at PoPETS 2021! 🙈
I started my software engineering internship at Roblox Corporation ! 🎮
I finished my first paper, Rearchitecting Classification Frameworks For Increased Robustness . 🏛
I joined the Wisconsin Privacy and Security Group at the University of Wisconsin - Madison as an undergraduate student researcher! 🔒
I started my software engineering internship at Optum ! 🏥
I started my undergraduate degree in Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin - Madison! 🏫