Paul Chung
Ph.D. Student
Computer Science @ UC San Diego
I am a strong enthusiast for security and privacy, working under Professors Stefan Savage, Geoffrey M. Voelker, and Deepak Kumar in the Sysnet and CryptoSec research groups. As an empiricist, my work primarily focuses on solving real-world problems that users face. Specifically, I am interested in measuring security and privacy issues and building systematic solutions. More recently, I am into the intricacies of Cybercrime, Network Security, Web Tracking, Technology Abuse, and Social Network Algorithms.
Before joining UC San Diego, I was a Goldwater, Mark Mensink, and a Hilldale Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison under Professors Rahul Chatterjee and Kassem Fawaz in the MadS&P group.
If you would like to know more about me or my work, please reach out to me by email.
Education
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Ph.D. in Computer Science
University of California, San Diego
Sep 2024 - Present |
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B.S. in Computer Science
University of Wisconsin—Madison
Sep 2020 - May 2024 |
News
- 05/28/2025 — Our Abusing Automation Apps paper got accepted to USENIX Security 2025 🎉
- 05/10/2025 — I'll be attending IEEE S&P 2025 in San Francisco. Please come and say hi!
- 04/21/2025 — I'll be serving on the ACM IMC '25 Shadow TPC.
- 09/26/2024 — I have graduated from UW-Madison and joined UC San Diego for PhD.
- 08/22/2024 — I am serving on the PETS 2025 Artifact Evaluation Committee.
- 04/04/2024 — I received an Honorable Mention for the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
Publications
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Abusability of Automation Apps in Intimate Partner Violence
Shirley Zhang, Paul Chung, Jacob VerVelde, Nishant Korapati, Rahul Chatterjee, and Kassem Fawaz
USENIX Security Symposium, 2025 -
Unpacking Privacy Labels: A Measurement and Developer Perspective on Google's Data
Safety Section
Rishabh Khandelwal, Asmit Nayak, Paul Chung, and Kassem Fawaz
USENIX Security Symposium, 2024 [pdf] -
Araña: Discovering and Characterizing Password Guessing Attacks in Practice
Mazharul Islam, Marina Sanusi Bohuk, Paul Chung, Thomas Ristenpart, and Rahul Chatterjee
USENIX Security Symposium, 2023 [pdf] -
Comparing Privacy Labels of Applications in Android and iOS
Rishabh Khandelwal, Asmit Nayak, Paul Chung, and Kassem Fawaz
Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES), 2023 [pdf] -
Consistency of Self-reported Practices in Privacy Labels and Privacy Policies
Rishabh Khandelwal, Paul Chung, Asmit Nayak, and Kassem Fawaz
arXiv Preprint, 2023 [pdf] -
Exploitation of Bluekeep RDP Vulnerability on Embedded Systems and Possible Mitigations
Yi Won Chung and Tae Gyeom Heo
Conference on Information Security and Cryptography-Winter (CISC-W'), 2019 [pdf]