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The study was presented at the recent Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium.</span> </a> </div> <div class="filterable"> <a data-categories="" href="0618-pepr.html"> <div aria-label="Composite of portraits of Yuanyuan Feng, Lorrie Cranor, and Sarah Pearman" class="img" role="img" style="background-image:url(images/0618-hl-pepr.png)"> </div> <small>Friday, June 18, 2021</small> <h2 class="name" tabindex="-1">ISR/CyLab researchers shine at PEPR 2021</h2> <span>Last week, more than 500 people gathered virtually to share and learn about the state of the art in privacy engineering at the third annual Conference on Privacy Engineering Practice and Respect (PEPR), co-hosted by CyLab and the Future of Privacy Forum, likely making the event the largest gathering of privacy engineers ever.</span> </a> </div> <div class="filterable"> <a data-categories="" href="0615-seammip21.html"> <div aria-label="Composited portrait of Garlan, Schmerl, and Cheng." class="img" role="img" style="background-image:url(//cms-staging.andrew.cmu.edu/isr-2/news/2020/images/david-bradley-owen-square.jpg)"> </div> <small>Tuesday, June 15, 2021</small> <h2 class="name" tabindex="-1">ISR Researchers Honored for Most Influential Paper in Adaptive Systems</h2> <span>Researchers from the Institute for Software Research received a Most Influential Paper award this past May during the International Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems (SEAMS 2021). </span> </a> </div> <div class="filterable"> <a data-categories="" href="0614-aurelia.html"> <div aria-label="Aurelia Augusta in a white shirt with her chin in her hand" class="img" role="img" style="background-image:url(images/aurelia.png)"> </div> <small>Monday, June 14, 2021</small> <h2 class="name" tabindex="-1">Interdisciplinary Research for an Intersectional Student</h2> <span>Aurelia Augusta, a Ph.D. student in societal computing, works to improve online experiences. </span> </a> </div> <div class="filterable"> <a data-categories="" href="0112-easyoptout.html"> <div aria-label="Photo of pixelated mobile phone" class="img" role="img" style="background-image:url(images/anon_phone.jpg)"> </div> <small>Wednesday, May 19, 2021</small> <h2 class="name" tabindex="-1">What if opting out of data collection were easy?</h2> <span>New study shows dearth of privacy opt-out choices and offers solution to empower users to readily identify choices often buried deep in the text of privacy policies</span> </a> </div> <div class="filterable"> <a data-categories="" href="0518-amazonaward.html"> <div aria-label="Portrait of Heather Miller and Chris Meiklejohn" class="img" role="img" style="background-image:url(images/millermeiks.jpg)"> </div> <small>Tuesday, May 18, 2021</small> <h2 class="name" tabindex="-1">Meiklejohn and Miller Tapped for Amazon Research Award</h2> <span>A research team consisting of the Institute for Software Research’s Heather Miller and Chris Meiklejohn, is among those selected to receive a coveted 2020 Amazon Research Award. </span> </a> </div> <div class="hide filterable" data-img="images/iotassist.jpg"> <a data-categories="" href="0517_iotassist.html"> <div class="img">Researchers develop new guidance for designing privacy choices</div> <small>Monday, May 17, 2021</small> <h2 class="name" tabindex="-1">Researchers develop new guidance for designing privacy choices</h2> <span>People can have greater control over their personal data today than they have for a while, at least in theory. Privacy regulations like the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) have created a path towards empowering people to control their privacy.</span> </a> </div> <div class="hide filterable" data-img="images/fang_news_small.jpg"> <a data-categories="" href="0517_fangchair.html"> <div class="img">Fei Fang Honored With Endowed Professorship</div> <small>Monday, May 17, 2021</small> <h2 class="name" tabindex="-1">Fei Fang Honored With Endowed Professorship</h2> <span>Institute for Software Research assistant professor Fei Fang was among eight faculty members across Carnegie Mellon University who recently received Career Development Chairs to support their continued research and teaching.</span> </a> </div> <div class="hide filterable" data-img="images/dsc04401-s.jpg"> <a data-categories="" href="0324-vasilescu-early.html"> <div class="img">Vasilescu Recognized for Early Career Achievement</div> <small>Wednesday, March 24, 2021</small> <h2 class="name" tabindex="-1">Vasilescu Recognized for Early Career Achievement</h2> <span>Bogdan Vasilescu, Assistant Professor in the Institute for Software Research, is a recipient of this year’s MSR Ric Holt Early Career Achievement Award.</span> </a> </div> <div class="hide filterable" data-img="images/1211-hl-icon.png"> <a data-categories="" href="0322-resprivlaw.html"> <div class="img">ISR/CyLab research impacts new privacy law</div> <small>Monday, March 22, 2021</small> <h2 class="name" tabindex="-1">ISR/CyLab research impacts new privacy law</h2> <span>A groundbreaking law that gives consumers more agency over the sale of their private information was updated in California this week, and it reflects the work of researchers from CMU and the University of Michigan.</span> </a> </div> <div class="hide filterable" data-img="images/0317-hl-antihate-center.png"> <a data-categories="" href="0317-cah.html"> <div class="img">CMU and Pitt launch center dedicated to combating extremist hate</div> <small>Wednesday, March 17, 2021</small> <h2 class="name" tabindex="-1">CMU and Pitt launch center dedicated to combating extremist hate</h2> <span>Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh are jointly launching a new center to study extremist hate. Scholars at both universities will partner through the Collaboratory Against Hate — Research and Action Center to develop effective tools that inhibit hate’s creation, growth, and destructive consequences.</span> </a> </div> <div class="hide filterable" data-img="images/0308-muri-2021.png"> <a data-categories="" href="0308-muri.html"> <div class="img">Researchers awarded MURI grant to study human-bot teams</div> <small>Monday, March 08, 2021</small> <h2 class="name" tabindex="-1">Researchers awarded MURI grant to study human-bot teams</h2> <span>Lujo Bauer, Matt Fredrikson, and Cleotilde Gonzalez are part of a team of researchers that was named a winner of a prestigious US Department of Defense (DoD) Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) Award. The team’s project aims to address the challenge of human-bot cybersecurity teams (HBCTs), which are commonly deployed to combat cybersecurity threats and attacks but are not yet well understood.</span> </a> </div> <div class="hide filterable" data-img="images/reuse-cra.jpg"> <a data-categories="" href="0111-reusecra.html"> <div class="img">REUSE Students Tapped for Top Computing Research Honors</div> <small>Monday, January 11, 2021</small> <h2 class="name" tabindex="-1">REUSE Students Tapped for Top Computing Research Honors</h2> <span>Research Experience for Undergraduates in Software Engineering (REUSE) program students Lindsay Popowski and Reed Oei were recently tapped for top honors as a part of the Computer Research Association’s Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award program.</span> </a> </div> <span class="loadmore align-center"><a class="btn ghost wide" href="javascript:void(0);">Load more articles</a></span> </div> </div> <footer class="grid column3 invert"> <div> <p> 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