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Introduction

I’m a second-year Computer Science Ph.D. student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, advised by Prof. Kassem Fawaz. My research interests focus on usable security and privacy. I explore how people could build systems that ensure user privacy and usability at the same time.

Publications

Zhang, S., Li, J., Cagiltay, B., Kirkorian, H., Mutlu, B., & Fawaz, K. (2025). A qualitative exploration of parents and their children's uses and gratifications of ChatGPT. Family Relations.

West, J., Cagiltay, B., Zhang, S., Li, J., Fawaz, K., & Banerjee, S. (2025). " Impressively Scary:" Exploring User Perceptions and Reactions to Unraveling Machine Learning Models in Social Media Applications. arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.03927.

Nayak, A., Zhang, S., Wani, Y., Khandelwal, R., & Fawaz, K. (2024). Automatically Detecting Online Deceptive Patterns in Real-time. arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.07441.

Shibo, C., Zhang, H., & Todd, A. (2025, January). Zipper: Latency-Tolerant Optimizations for High-Performance Buses. In Proceedings of the To Appear in The Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, Tokyo, Japan (pp. 20-23).

Li, J., Cagiltay, B., Zhang, S., Sullivan, D., Kirkorian, H., Mutlu, B., & Fawaz, K. (2025, July). Exploring Differences Between Parents' Perceptions and Mediation of ChatGPT and Social Media. [Poster Presentation]. Digital Media and Developing Minds International Scientific Congress, Washington, D.C

Posts & Updates

Our work 'A Qualitative Exploration of Parents and Their Children's Uses and Gratifications to ChatGPT' is accepted by Family Relations - February 25, 2025

Our work 'Zipper: Latency-Tolerant Optimizations for High-Performance Buses' has been accepted by ASP-DAC - September 8, 2024

Shortcuts XML document - July 22, 2024

Website Published - February 28, 2023