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Emiliano De Cristofaro

@emilianodc.com

Professor at UC Riverside, head of SPALab Home: emilianodc.com

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Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · last mo.

👇🎯 My frustration at the near-total lack of loud, public collective action by university presidents is precisely because of this. The idea that we can just ride out a year or two & it will all be fine & back to business as usual is head-in-the-sand denial. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Stan Oklobdzija@stano.bsky.social · last mo.

So much of the thinking in academia right now is that soon, the chuds will be gone and things will be back to the way they were before. But undoing the damage the GOP has inflicted in this last 18 months will take a decade, if not more.

Emiliano De Cristofaro@emilianodc.com · 2mo ago

Today we're presenting two papers #cysoc2026 #icwsm2026 1. 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐩-𝐃𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐢𝐧 𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐥 𝐄𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: 𝐀 𝐂𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐑𝐞𝐝𝐝𝐢𝐭 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 led by 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐆𝐚𝐛𝐚, a talented high school student workshop-proceedings.icwsm.org/abstract.php...

Proceedings of the ICWSM Workshops

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Emiliano De Cristofaro@emilianodc.com · 4mo ago

Check out our latest article: Improving Peer Review in Top-Tier Cybersecurity Conferences -- A proposal in 10 points linkedin.com/pulse/improv... via LinkedIn

Improving Peer Review in Top-Tier Cybersecurity Conferences -- A proposal in 10 points

1. Introduction The peer review process at top-tier cybersecurity conferences faces well-documented challenges: inconsistent review quality, overburdened program committees, scope creep in submission ...

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Emiliano De Cristofaro@emilianodc.com · 9mo ago

UC, 2024: Your health insurance is going up significantly because we cover GLP-1, so go and hate people on it UC 2025: We are no longer covering GLP-1 unless your BMI is above 40 (if you're 5'10", you'd need to weigh >280 lbs) Also UC, 2025: Your health insurance is going up because GLP-1 Wut?

SpaLab @ UCR/UCL@spalab.cs.ucr.edu · 10mo ago

Congrats to Sundar -- his paper "To Shuffle or not to Shuffle: Auditing DP-SGD with Shuffling" was just accepted to #NDSS2026! Only 21 out of 950 straight accepts this round 😳 Joint work with Borja Balle, Jamie Hayes, & @emilianodc.com Pre-print: arxiv.org/abs/2411.10614

To Shuffle or not to Shuffle: Auditing DP-SGD with Shuffling

The Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DP-SGD) algorithm allows the training of machine learning (ML) models with formal Differential Privacy (DP) guarantees. Since DP-SGD processes t...

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Emiliano De Cristofaro@emilianodc.com · 10mo ago

Hey folks! My Fall quarter class (OS capstone project) has been canceled, which means I'm on an impromptu short sabbatical until Xmas. I'm happy to travel a bit to visit and give talks if anyone is interested!

Emiliano De Cristofaro@emilianodc.com · 11mo ago

I'm aware that I'm known as a hater, but can someone explain to me why on earth anyone would willingly use Overleaf to work on papers? The only use cases that I can think of are: 1) emergency editing from someone else's device or iPad 2) non-CS co-authors not familiar with LaTeX

Emiliano De Cristofaro@emilianodc.com · last yr.

📣 Upcoming CCS'25 paper 📣 The Importance of Being Discrete: Measuring the Impact of Discretization in End-to-End Differentially Private Synthetic Data We investigate the critical yet overlooked role of discretization in end-to-end differentially private (DP) tabular synthetic data generation

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SpaLab @ UCR/UCL@spalab.cs.ucr.edu · last yr.

Conditional congrats to Georgi and Sundar - their paper on Discretization in DP Synthetic Data was accepted with shepherding to CCS’25. Very important work on an overlooked aspect of end-to-end DP pipelines. Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2504.06923 -- feedback welcome!

The Importance of Being Discrete: Measuring the Impact of Discretization in End-to-End Differentially Private Synthetic Data

Differentially Private (DP) generative marginal models are often used in the wild to release synthetic tabular datasets in lieu of sensitive data while providing formal privacy guarantees. These model...

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Emiliano De Cristofaro@emilianodc.com · last yr.

Really interesting work on CCPA-mandated compliance of data brokers with access/deletion requests: arxiv.org/abs/2506.21914 Highlights: - Almost half of the brokers don't respond - Only <5% of brokers provided personal data - No standard/easy way to submit requests - Requests for even more PII

Consumer Beware! Exploring Data Brokers' CCPA Compliance

Data brokers collect and sell the personal information of millions of individuals, often without their knowledge or consent. The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) grants consumers the legal right...

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Emiliano De Cristofaro@emilianodc.com · last yr.

TIL my Internet provider (Cox Communications) creates an access point ("CoxWiFi") from your WiFi router where other Cox customers can connect to at no charge. This was enabled by default and without my explicit consent. How is that legal?

Emiliano De Cristofaro@emilianodc.com · last yr.

Once in a while, I stumble upon an old email of mine — the writing and grammar are awful. I used to feel embarrassed, riddled with imposter syndrome, etc. But for the last couple of years, I’ve focused instead on how much I’ve improved. Cognitive restructuring is such an underrated power…