Dissertations Advised or Co-advised

• Toward Safer Augmented Reality: Securing Input, Output, and Interaction.
  Kaiming Cheng.
  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, June 2025.
  Co-advised with Franziska Roesner.

• Technology and Power: Examining Imbalances Through Usable Security & Privacy Research.
  Kentrell Owens.
  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, June 2025.
  Co-advised with Franziska Roesner.

• Against Online Abuse and Toward Sociotechnical Security & Privacy.
  Miranda Wei.
  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, June 2025.
  Co-advised with Franziska Roesner.

• Collaborative Approaches to AI Governance: Exploring Co-Design and Co-Regulation Models.
  Inyoung Cheong.
  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, August 2024.
  (University of Washington School of Law.)

• Humans and Vulnerability During Times of Change: Computer Security Needs, Practices, Challenges, and Opportunities.
  Lucy Simko.
  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, June 2022.

• Disrupting Machine Learning: Emerging Threats and Applications for Privacy and Dataset Ownership.
  Ivan Evtimov.
  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, June 2021.

• Moving From Passwords to Authenticators.
  Alex Takakuwa.
  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, June 2019.

• Security and Privacy for Emerging Augmented Reality Technologies.
  Kiron Lebeck.
  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, June 2019.
  Co-advised with Franziska Roesner.

• User-to-User Privacy in Social and Communications Applications.
  Camille Cobb.
  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, June 2019.
  Co-advised with Alexis Hiniker.

• Securing the Future of Biotechnology: A Study of Emerging Bio-Cyber Security Threats to DNA-Information Systems.
  Peter Martin Ney.
  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, March 2019.

• Measuring and Improving Security and Privacy on the Web: Case Studies with QR Codes, Third-Party Tracking, and Archives.
  Ada Lerner.
  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, June 2017.
  Co-advised with Franziska Roesner.

• Surveillance: From Solutions to New Problems.
  Paul Vines.
  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, June 2017.
  Co-advised with Franziska Roesner.

• Using Component Isolation to Increase Trust in Mobile Devices.
  Temitope Oluwafemi.
  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, September 2015.
  Co-advised with Franziska Roesner.

• Securing Embedded Systems: Analyses of Modern Automotive Systems and Enabling Near-Real Time Dynamic Analysis.
  Karl Koscher.
  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, September 2014.

• Machine Learning Based Attacks and Defenses in Computer Security: Towards Privacy and Utility Balance in Sensor Environments.
  Miro Enev.
  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, August 2014.

• Human-Centric Security and Privacy for Emerging Technologies.
  Tamara Denning.
  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, June 2014.

• Security and Privacy from Untrusted Applications in Modern and Emerging Client Platforms.
  Franziska Roesner.
  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, June 2014.

• Practical, Usable, and Secure Authentication and Authorization on the Web.
  Alexei Czeskis.
  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, August 2013.

• Regaining Control over Cloud and Mobile Data.
  Roxana Geambasu.
  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, August 2011.
  Co-advised with Steve Gribble and Hank Levy.