Tadayoshi Kohno (Yoshi Kohno) (he/him)


Professor
Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering
University of Washington

Associate Dean, Faculty Success
College of Engineering
University of Washington

UW CSE Security and Privacy Research Lab
UW Tech Policy Lab

"Navigating Academia" Blog

Email: yoshi@cs.washington.edu

Scientific / Technical Articles, Papers, and Reports

See the Other Publications tab for other publications.

2025

  • Analyzing the AI Nudification Application Ecosystem.
    C. Gibson, D. Olszewski, N.G. Brigham, A. Crowder, K. Butler, P. Traynor, E.M. Redmiles, and T. Kohno
    USENIX Security Symposium, August 2025.

  • To Reveal or Conceal: Privacy and Marginalization in Avatars.
    M. Sim, B. Radka, E. Yoshikawa, F. Roesner, K. Hugenberg, and T. Kohno.
    Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PoPETs), 2025.

  • Extending the Heilmeier Catechism to Evaluate Security & Privacy Systems: Who is Left Out?
    K. Butler, K. Hugenberg, E. Jain, A. Kapadia, T. Kohno, E.M. Redmiles, F. Roesner, M. Sim, P. Traynor, and H. Barakat.
    IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine, 2025.

  • "You Have to Ignore the Dangers": User Perceptions of the Security and Privacy Benefits of WhatsApp Mods.
    C.W. Munyendo, K. Owens, F. Strong, S. Wang, A.J. Aviv, T. Kohno, and Franziska Roesner.
    IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, May 2025.

  • "We're Utterly Ill-prepared to Deal with Something Like This": Teachers' Perspectives on Student Generation of Synthetic Nonconsensual Explicit Imagery.
    M. Wei, C. Yeung, F. Roesner, and Tadayoshi Kohno.
    ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), April 2025.
    (Best Paper Honorable Mention.)

  • IsolateGPT: An Execution Isolation Architecture for LLM-Based Systems.
    Y. Wu, F. Roesner, T. Kohno, N. Zhang, and U. Iqbal.
    Network and Distributed Security Symposium (NDSS), February 2025.
    [ Previously on arXiv at arXiv:2403.04960, March 2024 ]

  • User Comprehension and Comfort with Eye-Tracking and Hand-Tracking Permissions in Augmented Reality
    K. Cheng, M. Sim, T. Kohno, and F. Roesner.
    Usable Security and Privacy Symposium (USEC), February 2025.

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