SOUPS 2021

Seventeenth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security

August 8–10, 2021

Co-located with

Grant applications due July 28, 2021

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.

View the technical sessions program and register today.

Keynote Address

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

Apply for a grant! The grant application deadline for Student Grants, Diversity Grants, and Grants for Black Computer Science Students is Wednesday, July 28, 2021. See the USENIX Conference Grant Programs page for details.

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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We are unable to offer refunds, cancellations, or substitutions for any registrations for this event. Please contact the Conference Department at conference@usenix.org with any questions.

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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