About
My name is Alaa Daffalla, and I'm a first year PhD in Computer Science student at Cornell advised by Thomas Ristenpart. I'm based in NYC at the Cornell Tech campus. My interests are broadly in usable and applied security and privacy.
Publications
- 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, "SoK: Safer Digital-Safety Research Involving At-Risk Users", IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP)
- Alaa Daffalla, Marina Bohuk, Nicola Dell and Thomas Ristenpart, "Account Security Interfaces: Important, Unintuitive, and Untrustworthy", 2023 USENIX Security Symposium [pdf]
- Alaa Daffalla, Lucy Simko, Tadayoshi Kohno and Alexandru G. Bardas, "Defensive Technology Use by Political Activists During the Sudanese Revolution," 2021 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP) [pdf]
Distinguished Paper Award