Seventeenth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security

August 8–10, 2021
Co-located with
USENIX Security '21
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The Seventeenth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2021) will take place as virtual event on August 8–10, 2021. SOUPS brings together an interdisciplinary group of researchers and practitioners in human-computer interaction, security, and privacy.

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Keynote Address

Thomas Ristenpart, Associate Professor at Cornell Tech and a member of the Computer Science department at Cornell University.

Opportunities to Participate

The SOUPS Mentoring Program is returning for 2021.

Interested in helping to organize future iterations of SOUPS as part of the Program Committee? Please nominate yourself or another member of the SOUPS community.

Registration Information

See the Registration Information page for details.

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About SOUPS 2021

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Symposium Organizers

Sonia Chiasson
Carleton University
General Chair

Technical Papers Co-Chairs

Joe Calandrino, Federal Trade Commission
Manya Sleeper, Google

Technical Papers Committee

Yasemin Acar, Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy
Florian Alt, Bundeswehr University Munich
Olabode Anise, Google
Adam J. Aviv, The George Washington University
Rebecca Balebako, Google
Lujo Bauer, Carnegie Mellon University
Jasmine Bowers, MITRE
Cristian Bravo-Lillo, Ciberseguridad Humana
Lynne Coventry, Northumbria University
Lorrie Cranor, Carnegie Mellon University
Carrie Gates, Bank of America
Maximilian Golla, Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy
Julie Haney, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Marian Harbach, Google
Jun Ho Huh, Samsung Research
Iulia Ion, Google
Hassan Khan, University of Guelph
Bart Knijnenburg, Clemson University
Katharina Krombholz, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
Janne Lindqvist, Aalto University
Shri Mare, Western Washington University
Abigail Marsh, Macalester College
Susan E. McGregor, The Data Science Institute at Columbia University
Mainack Mondal, Indian Institute of Technology
Xinru Page, Brigham Young University
Irwin Reyes, Two Six Labs
Scott Ruoti, The University of Tennessee
Florian Schaub, University of Michigan
Kent Seamons, Brigham Young University
Elizabeth Stobert, Carleton University
Jose M. Such, King's College London
Eran Toch, Tel Aviv University
Blase Ur, University of Chicago
Kami Vaniea, University of Edinburgh
Emanuel von Zezschwitz, Google
Yang Wang, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Rick Wash, Michigan State University
Josephine Wolff, Tufts University
Leah Zhang-Kennedy, University of Waterloo
Mary Ellen Zurko, MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Lightning Talks and Demos Co-Chairs

Sanchari Das, University of Denver
Blase Ur, University of Chicago

Lightning Talks and Demos Junior Co-Chair

Amel Bourdoucen, Aalto University

Karat Award Chair

Nalin Asanka Gamagedara Arachchilage, La Trobe University

Posters Co-Chairs

Camille Cobb, Carnegie Mellon University
Maximilian Golla, Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy

Posters Junior Co-Chair

Yixin Zou, University of Michigan

Tutorials and Workshops Co-Chairs

Katharina Krombholz, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
Leah Zhang-Kennedy, University of Waterloo

Tutorials and Workshops Junior Co-Chair

Imani Sherman, University of Florida

Mentoring Co-Chairs

Adam J. Aviv, The George Washington University
Mohamed Khamis, University of Glasgow

Mentoring Junior Co-Chairs

Ruba Abu-Salma, International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) and University of California, Berkeley
Borke Obada-Obieh, University of British Columbia

Publicity Co-Chairs

Charles Weir, Lancaster University
Yaxing Yao, Carnegie Mellon University

Email List Chair

Lorrie Cranor, Carnegie Mellon University

Accessibility Chair

Liz Markel, USENIX Association

USENIX Liaison

Casey Henderson, USENIX Association

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