yuxi 👩🏻‍🏫

@yuxiwu.com

privacy, design, hiking, photography postdoc @ northeastern khoury

“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.

presenting this work at #usesec25 friday morning at 11am! please come by and say hello to an academic job market candidate (me 👩🏻‍🏫) official link to paper: www.usenix.org/system/files...

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yuxi 👩🏻‍🏫@yuxiwu.com · last yr.

new paper incoming at USENIX Security 2025 📬 "Navigating Security and Privacy Threats in Homeless Service Provision" really grateful to have worked with @hongshen.bsky.social, Fei Fang, and a team of amazing undergrads and community collaborators on this project yuxiwu.com/pubs/sec25_h...

Navigating Security and Privacy Threats in Homeless Service Provision

People experiencing homelessness interact with service providers to access essential services. As clients, homeless individuals are expected to reveal sensitive information about themselves to service providers, while personal security and privacy (S&P) preferences fall by the wayside. Simultaneously, providers take on S&P-adjacent responsibilities: helping clients fill out applications, safekeeping clients’ personal documents, monitoring clients’ online safety, undergoing workplace S&P training, etc. We created five storyboards to represent S&P challenges that clients can face when they interact with providers. In interviews with homeless individuals and service providers in the Northeastern United States, we use these storyboards to explore the S&P challenges in client-provider relationships within homeless services. We find a set of mismatches in S&P priorities between clients and providers, leading to mistrust between the two parties. We provide design recommendations, envisioned by both parties, for providers to bridge these mismatches.

If someone new to activism tells you about something like Blackout Friday, my feeling is you respond and say, “Cool!” and take part because it costs you nothing, then follow up with “Thanks for telling me about that—do you want to join me on [sustained action]?”