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Alaa Daffalla

PhD Student, Computer Science
Cornell University

Biography

My name is Alaa Daffalla, and I'm a third-year PhD in Computer Science student at Cornell University advised by Thomas Ristenpart and Nicola Dell. I'm based in NYC at the Cornell Tech campus. I'm broadly interested in usable and applied security and privacy. More recently my research has focused on the detection of online tech abuse and designing new interventions for abuse mitigation and prevention.

Publications

Alaa Daffalla, Arka Bhattacharya, Jacob Wilder, Rahul Chatterjee, Nicola Dell, Rosanna Bellini, Thomas Ristenpart
USENIX Security Symposium 2025
Carolina O Perez*, Alaa Daffalla*, Thomas Ristenpart
* co-first authors
USENIX Security Symposium 2025
Rosanna Bellini, Emily Tseng, Noel Warford, Alaa Daffalla, Tara Matthews, Sunny Consolvo, Jill Woelfer, Patrick Gage Kelley, Michelle Mazurek, Dana Cuomo, Nicola Dell, and Thomas Ristenpart
IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy (Oakland) 2024
Alaa Daffalla, Marina Bohuk, Nicola Dell, Rosanna Bellini, and Thomas Ristenpart
USENIX Security Symposium 2023
Distinguished Paper Award
Alaa Daffalla, Lucy Simko, Tadayoshi Kohno and Alexandru G. Bardas
IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine March-April 2022
Alaa Daffalla*, Lucy Simko*, Tadayoshi Kohno and Alexandru G. Bardas
* co-first authors
IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy (Oakland) 2021
NSA Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper Competition Honorable Mention