Twenty-First Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security

August 10–12, 2025
Seattle, WA, USA
Co-located with
USENIX Security '25
Call for Workshops and Beyond submissions due Thursday, March 13

The Twenty-First Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2025) will take place on August 10–12, 2025, at the Seattle Convention Center in Seattle, WA, USA. SOUPS brings together an interdisciplinary group of researchers and practitioners in human computer interaction, security, and privacy.

Opportunities to Participate

The SOUPS 2025 Call for Papers deadline has passed, but there are other opportunities to participate:

  • Call for Workshops and Beyond deadline: Thursday, March 13
  • Call for Posters deadline: Thursday, May 22, 2025
  • Call for Lightning Talks and Demos deadline: Thursday, May 22, 2025
  • 2025 John Karat Usable Privacy and Security Student Research Award Nominations deadline: Thursday, May 22, 2025

Venue

Seattle Convention Center | Arch
705 Pike St
Seattle, WA 98101
USA

USENIX Security '25, August 13–15, 2025, Seattle, WA, USA

About SOUPS 2025

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Symposium Organizers

Patrick Gage Kelley
Google
General Chair
Mainack Mondal
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Technical Papers Co-Chair
Kami Vaniea
University of Waterloo
Technical Papers Co-Chair

Technical Papers Committee

Ruba Abu-Salma, King's College London
Yasemin Acar, Paderborn University and The George Washington University
Florian Alt, LMU Munich
Nalin Asanka Gamagedara Arachchilage, RMIT University
Hala Assal, Carleton University
Adam J. Aviv, The George Washington University
Alexandru Bardas, University of Kansas
Ingolf Becker, University College London
Konstantin Beznosov, University of British Columbia
Eleanor Birrell, Pomona College
Sonia Chiasson, Carleton University
Camille Cobb, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Lynne Coventry, Abertay University
Sascha Fahl, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
Cori Faklaris, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Yuanyuan Feng, University of Vermont
Alisa Frik, International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) 
Carrie Gates, FS-ISAC
Nina Gerber, Technical University of Darmstadt
Maximilian Golla, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
Julie Haney, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Marian Harbach, Google
Jonas Hielscher, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
Jun Ho Huh, Samsung Research
Hassan Khan, University of Guelph
Hyoungshick Kim, Sungkyunkwan University
Bart Knijnenburg, Clemson University
Maina Korir, iLabAfrica, Strathmore University
Katharina Krombholz, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
Kevin Lee, JPMorgan Chase
Byron Lowens, Indiana University
Sana Maqsood, York University
Karola Marky, Ruhr University Bochum
Abigail Marsh, Macalester College
Peter Mayer, University of Southern Denmark and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Michelle Mazurek, University of Maryland
Aleecia M. McDonald, Carnegie Mellon University
Susan E. McGregor, Data Science Institute, Columbia University
Maryam Mehrnezhad, Royal Holloway University of London
Imani Munyaka, University of California, San Diego
Simon Parkin, Delft University of Technology
Karen Renaud, University of Strathclyde
Scott Ruoti, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Florian Schaub, University of Michigan
Kent Seamons, Brigham Young University
Manya Sleeper, Google
Zhibo Sun, University of Drexel
Josephine Wolff, Tufts University
Yaxing Yao, Virginia Tech
Daniel Zappala, Brigham Young University
Leah Zhang-Kennedy, University of Waterloo
Verena Zimmermann, ETH Zurich
Yixin Zou, Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy 
Mary Ellen Zurko, MIT Lincoln Laboratory

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Casey Henderson-Ross, USENIX Association

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