I am currently a postdoctoral scholar in the School of Computer Science at University of Washington (UW), working with Prof. Yoshi Kohno and Prof. Franzi Roesner. Prior to UW, I received my PhD and MSc in Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) under Prof. Lorrie Cranor and
Prof. Yuvraj Agarwal in 2020 and 2018, respectively.
At CMU, I was working on devising tools and methods to better inform people's privacy and security decision-making in the world of Internet of Things (IoT). During the summer of 2019, I completed an awesome research internship at the
Cryptography and Privacy Research group under Kristin Lauter and Kim Laine,
and in Summer 2017, I completed another fantastic internship at Intel Corporation under Mohammad Reza Haghighat. Prior to CMU, I received my BSc in Computer
Engineering from Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, Iran in 2015, where I was advised by Prof. Ali Movaghar.
IoT Privacy and Security Label
IoT consumers are concerned about the privacy and security of their smart devices, but they cannot do much about it at the time of purchase as such information is not available to them when making a purchase decision, at least in the
United States and most countries. In the past few years, countries such as Finland, UK, and Singapore started designing a label for IoT devices to inform consumers about the privacy and security practices of smart devices
at the point of sale. We believe US consumers have the same right to know what their devices are doing with their information, therefore we decided to bring this much-needed transparency to consumers at the time of purchase.
By conducting a series of studies and incorporating inputs from thousands of consumers and experts, we developed an informative and usable privacy and security label for IoT devices. In addition, to help manufacturers easily create
these labels for their products, we developed a tool to generate the human and machine readable formats of the labels. Unlike other international efforts in labeling IoT devices, our labels are designed in such a way to not only
inform consumers’ purchase decision making, but also to educate the average consumers about the most critical privacy and security information about their devices.
If you are interested in knowing more, check out our project website.
C8:Pardis Emami-Naeini, Yuvraj Agarwal, Lorrie Cranor, and Hanan Hibshi. Ask the Experts: What Should Be on an IoT Privacy and Security Label?. S&P ’20.
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and Security Label?}, year = {2020}, volume = {}, issn = {2375-1207}, pages = {771-788}, keywords = {internet-of-things-(iot),-privacy-and-security,-label,-expert-elicitation,-delphi}, doi = {10.1109/SP40000.2020.00043}, url
= {https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/SP40000.2020.00043}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA}, month = {may} }
C7: Pardis Emami-Naeini, Yuvraj Agarwal, Lorrie Cranor, and Henry Dixon. Exploring How Privacy and Security Factor into IoT Device Purchase Behavior. CHI ’19.
@inproceedings{10.1145/3290605.3300764, author = {Emami-Naeini, Pardis and Dixon, Henry and Agarwal, Yuvraj and Cranor, Lorrie Faith}, title = {Exploring How Privacy and Security Factor into IoT Device Purchase Behavior}, year
= {2019}, isbn = {9781450359702}, publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300764}, doi = {10.1145/3290605.3300764}, booktitle
= {Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems}, pages = {1–12}, numpages = {12}, keywords = {security, internet of things (iot), consumer disclosures, privacy, purchasing behaviors,
labels, public policy}, location = {Glasgow, Scotland Uk}, series = {CHI ’19} }
C6: Pardis Emami-Naeini, Martin Degeling, Richard Chow, Lujo Bauer, Lorrie Cranor, Mohammad Reza Haghighat, and Heather Patterson. The Influence of Friends and Experts
on Privacy Decision Making in IoT Scenarios. CSCW ’18.
@article{10.1145/3274317, author = {Emami Naeini, Pardis and Degeling, Martin and Bauer, Lujo and Chow, Richard and Cranor, Lorrie Faith and Haghighat, Mohammad Reza and Patterson, Heather}, title = {The Influence
of Friends and Experts on Privacy Decision Making in IoT Scenarios}, year = {2018}, issue_date = {November 2018}, publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, volume
= {2}, number = {CSCW}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3274317}, doi = {10.1145/3274317}, journal = {Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.}, month = nov, articleno = {48}, numpages = {26}, keywords
= {privacy, social influence, decision making, internet of things (iot)} }
C5: Hana Habib, Pardis Emami-Naeini, Summer Devlin, Maggie Oates, Chelse Swoopes, Lujo Bauer, Nicolas Christin, and Lorrie Faith Cranor. User Behaviors
and Attitudes Under Password Expiration Policies. SOUPS ’18.
@inproceedings {219404, author = {Hana Habib and Pardis Emami Naeini and Summer Devlin and Maggie Oates and Chelse Swoopes and Lujo Bauer and Nicolas Christin and Lorrie Faith Cranor}, title = {User Behaviors and
Attitudes Under Password Expiration Policies}, booktitle = {Fourteenth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security ({SOUPS} 2018)}, year = {2018}, isbn = {978-1-939133-10-6}, address = {Baltimore, MD}, pages
= {13--30}, url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/soups2018/presentation/habib-password}, publisher = {{USENIX} Association}, month = aug, }
C4: Sarah Pearman, Jeremy Thomas, Pardis Emami-Naeini, Hana Habib, Lujo Bauer, Nicolas Christin, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Serge Egelman, and Alain Forget.
Let’s Go in For a Closer Look: Observing Passwords in Their Natural Habitat. CCS ’17.
@inproceedings{10.1145/3133956.3133973, author = {Pearman, Sarah and Thomas, Jeremy and Naeini, Pardis Emami and Habib, Hana and Bauer, Lujo and Christin, Nicolas and Cranor, Lorrie Faith and Egelman, Serge and Forget,
Alain}, title = {Let’s Go in for a Closer Look: Observing Passwords in Their Natural Habitat}, year = {2017}, isbn = {9781450349468}, publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery}, address = {New
York, NY, USA}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3133956.3133973}, doi = {10.1145/3133956.3133973}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security}, pages
= {295–310}, numpages = {16}, keywords = {field study, usable security, passwords, user study, authentication}, location = {Dallas, Texas, USA}, series = {CCS ’17} }
C3: Pardis Emami-Naeini, Sruti Bhagavatula, Hana Habib, Martin Degeling, Lujo Bauer, Lorrie Cranor, and Norman Sadeh. Privacy Expectations and Preferences in an IoT World. SOUPS ‘17.
@inproceedings {205174, author = {Pardis Emami Naeini and Sruti Bhagavatula and Hana Habib and Martin Degeling and Lujo Bauer and Lorrie Faith Cranor and Norman Sadeh}, title = {Privacy Expectations and Preferences
in an IoT World}, booktitle = {Thirteenth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security ({SOUPS} 2017)}, year = {2017}, isbn = {978-1-931971-39-3}, address = {Santa Clara, CA}, pages = {399--412}, url =
{https://www.usenix.org/conference/soups2017/technical-sessions/presentation/naeini}, publisher = {{USENIX} Association}, month = jul, }
C2: Blase Ur, Felicia Alfieri, Maung Aung, Lujo Bauer, Nicolas Christin, Jessica Colnago, Lorrie Faith Cranor, Henry Dixon, Pardis Emami-Naeini,
Hana Habib, Noah Johnson, and William Melicher. Design and Evaluation of a Data-Driven Password Meter. CHI ’17.
@inproceedings{10.1145/3025453.3026050, author = {Ur, Blase and Alfieri, Felicia and Aung, Maung and Bauer, Lujo and Christin, Nicolas and Colnago, Jessica and Cranor, Lorrie Faith and Dixon, Henry and Emami Naeini,
Pardis and Habib, Hana and Johnson, Noah and Melicher, William}, title = {Design and Evaluation of a Data-Driven Password Meter}, year = {2017}, isbn = {9781450346559}, publisher = {Association for Computing
Machinery}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3026050}, doi = {10.1145/3025453.3026050}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing
Systems}, pages = {3775–3786}, numpages = {12}, keywords = {passwords, meter, feedback, usable security, data-driven}, location = {Denver, Colorado, USA}, series = {CHI ’17} }
C1: Primal Pappachan, Martin Degeling, Roberto Yus, Anupam Das, Sruti Bhagavatula, William Melicher, Pardis Emami-Naeini, Shikun Zhang, Lujo Bauer,
Alfred Kobsa, Sharad Mehrotra, Norman Sadeh, and Nalini Venkatasubramanian. Towards Privacy-Aware Smart Buildings: Capturing Communicating, and Enforcing Privacy Policies and Preferences. ICDCSW ’17.
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and N. {Sadeh} and N. {Venkatasubramanian}}, booktitle={2017 IEEE 37th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops (ICDCSW)}, title={Towards Privacy-Aware Smart Buildings: Capturing,
Communicating, and Enforcing Privacy Policies and Preferences}, year={2017}, volume={}, number={}, pages={193-198},}
