Mahsa Saeidi

saeidim at oregonstate dot edu

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I am a rearch associate at Oregon State University working with Dr. Houssam Abbas. Previously I obtained my PhD under the supervision of Dr. Anita Sarma and Dr. Rakesh B. Bobba in the Electrical Engineering & Computer Science department at Oregon State University. My research interest lies at the intersection of privacy, security, and human-computer interaction in smart homes focusing on three aspects: i) studying end-users’ perceptions and expectations of privacy in smart homes, ii) discovering information flows from smart-home apps, iii) developing a new approach to enable end users to manage their privacy easier.

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Publications

Learning Personalized and Context-aware Violation Detection Rules in Trigger-action Apps.
Mahsa Saeidi, Turgay Caglar, Anita Sarma, and Rakesh B. Bobba.
Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS), 2023, Under review.
 
Nudging end users towards privacy and security risks in smart homes.
Mahsa Saeidi, Anita Sarma, and Rakesh B. Bobba.
PETS Workshop on Interdependent and Multi-party Privacy, 2022.
 
If This Context Then That Concern: Exploring users' concerns with IFTTT applets.
Mahsa Saeidi, McKenzie Calvert, Audrey W. Au, Anita Sarma, and Rakesh B. Bobba.
Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS), 2022. [Paper]
 
Understanding user perceptions of privacy, and configuration challenges in home automation.
Kaaz, Kim J., Alex Hoffer, Mahsa Saeidi, Anita Sarma, and Rakesh B. Bobba.
IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC), 2017. [Paper]
 

Teaching

Advanced Cyber Security (with the focus on Usable Privacy and Security)

Awards

Awarded scholarship grant to attend Differential Privacy Summer School, Boston University, 2022.
Awarded honorable mention for OSU EECS graduate students 2018–2019.
Awarded travel scholarship to attend GREPSEC 2019.
Awarded travel scholarship to attend S&P 2018.
Awarded travel scholarship to attend CRA-W Grad Cohort Workshop 2018.
Awarded distinguished B.Sc. student award with honorary acceptance for the M.Sc. degree in 2011.
Ranked 2nd among Information Technology Engineering B.Sc. students in 2010.
Ranked in the top 10 students of the Computer Engineering B.Sc. students in 2010.

Service

Artifact Evaluation Committee, USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC 2022).
Artifact Evaluation Committee, USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design & Implementation (OSDI 2022).
Organization Committee - Web Chair: IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy (S&P 2022).
Co-Instructor: NW Cyber Camp, (OSU-2021).
Teaching assistant: Introduction to Security (OSU-Fall2021), Software Engineering II (OSU-Spring2021,Winter2021)
Student Program Committee: IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy (S&P 2020).
External Reviewer: CCS 2019, ICSE 2019 & 2020, SAC 2018.
Co-Instructor: Video Game Workshop (CHICKTECH), (Corvallis, 2017).

Mentorship

It has been an honor working with many high school, undergraduate, and graduate students at OSU:
  • Manideepa Saginatham
  • McKenzie Calvert
  • Audrey W Au
  • Wesley Alexis
  • Turguy Caglar