Wei Bai 白炜
Ph.D.
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Maryland, College Park
Email: wbai [AT] umiacs [DOT] umd [DOT] edu
I obtained my Ph.D. degree in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Maryland, College Park in 2019. My research adviser is Prof. Michelle L. Mazurek.
My research focuses on human factors in security and privacy, which combines seucrity, privacy and human-computer interaction. I am interested in understanding users’ security or privacy perceptions and behaviors, and designing or improving systems to be secure as well as usable.
I received my M.S. degree in ECE at UMD in May 2015. Before attending UMD, I obtained my B.S. degree in ECE at Beihang University (BUAA), Beijing, China in June 2012.
Update: I have left UMD, and now work at Google LLC as a software engineer. I will still regularly update this website for academic interests. Drop me a line if anything here interests you.
News
| Feb 8, 2021 | Our paper about using in-workflow messages to nudge users to learn how End-to-End Encrytion works will appear in USENIX Security'21! |
| Sep 7, 2020 |
Presented our work about improving non-experts' understanding of End-to-End Encryption in EuroUSEC'20 |
| Aug 6, 2020 |
Omer and I presented our briefing “Improving Mental Models of End-to-End Encrypted Communication” at BlackHat USA |
| Jun 22, 2020 | Our paper “Improving Non-Experts’ Understanding of End-to-End Encryption: An Exploratory Study” was accpected by EuroUSEC’20. |
| May 8, 2020 | Our briefing submission to BlackHat USA 2020 “Improving Mental Models of End-to-End Encrypted Communication” was accepted. |
| Sep 25, 2019 | Omer presented our paper about how insecure code on StackOverflow propagates over Github in IEEE SecDev’19 in McLean, VA. |
| Jun 10, 2019 | Our paper about how insecure code on StackOverflow propagates over Github was accepted by IEEE SecDev’19. |
| Apr 6, 2019 | Passed my Ph.D. dissertation defense. |
| Apr 23, 2018 | Presented our work about user perceptions of search in encrypted communication in Euro S&P in London. |
| Jan 18, 2018 | Our work got accepted in PrivacyCon Student Poster Session. |
| Nov 20, 2017 | Our paper got accepted in IEEE EuroS&P’18. See you in London next year! |
| Oct 20, 2017 | Gave a talk at DC-Area Anonymity, Privacy, and Security Seminar about our work: user perceptions of search in encrypted communication. |
| Aug 20, 2017 | Completed UX research internship at Google user identity team. |
| May 25, 2017 | Gave a talk at UMD 34th HCIL Symposium about our work about user perceptions of search in encrypted communication. |