DAMS Research Group

The DAMS (DAta Management & Semantics) Research Group at UMBC is lead by Professor Roberto Yus. We focus on semantic and privacy-aware data management in IoT environments.

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Christian Badolato, Kaur Kullman, Nikolaos Papadakis, Manav Bhatt, Georgios Bouloukakis, Don Engel, Roberto Yus (2025). Your Smart Home Exchanged 3M Messages: Defining and Analyzing Smart Device Passive Mode. International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom).

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Aamir Hamid, Hemanth Reddy Samidi, Primal Pappachan, Tim Finin, Roberto Yus (2024). GenAIPABench: A Benchmark for Generative AI-based Privacy Assistants. Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies.

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Jun Ma, Dimitrije Panic, Roberto Yus, Georgios Bouloukakis (2024). Co-zyBench: Using Co-Simulation and Digital Twins to Benchmark Thermal Comfort Provision in Smart Buildings. International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communication (PerCom).

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Projects

Passive Mode for IoT

Addressing the current gap in IoT mode definitions by introducing and analyzing passive mode designations for smart devices

GenAIPABench assesses the effectiveness of GenAIPAs across multiple dimensions including accuracy, relevance, and consistency, using a curated set of privacy-related questions and metrics. The benchmark aims to advance the development of AI privacy assistants by providing a standard evaluation framework.

PrivacyLens

Framework aimed at discovering, collecting, and analyzing privacy policies of smart devices using NLP and ML algorithms, to provide insights to users, policy authors, and regulators.

SmartSpec

Generating realistic synthetic IoT datasets

SemIoTic

Facilitating the development of applications in IoT spaces

Latest News

Best Artifact Paper award at PerCom 2025!

Our paper on the analysis of smart home IoT devices while not in active use won the Best Artifact Paper award at PerCom 2025!

Your Smart Home Exchanged 3M Messages: Defining and Analyzing Smart Device Passive Mode

Christian Badolato (University of Maryland, Baltimore County), Kaur Kullman (University of Maryland, Baltimore County), Nikolaos Papadakis (Institut Polytechnique de Paris), Manav Bhatt (University of Maryland, Baltimore County), Georgios Bouloukakis (Institut Polytechnique de Paris), Don Engel (University of Maryland, Baltimore County), and Roberto Yus (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)

Mar 23, 2025 1 min read

Best Artifact Paper award at PerCom 2025!

Paper accepted at PerCom 2025!

Our paper on the analysis of smart home IoT devices while not in active use has been accepted at PerCom 2025! This is Christian’s first paper accepted at a conference!

Your Smart Home Exchanged 3M Messages: Defining and Analyzing Smart Device Passive Mode

Jan 20, 2025 2 min read

Aamir's presentation at PETS 2024!

Aamir Hamid did a great job today at #PETS2024 presenting our work (with Hemanth Reddy Samidi, Primal Pappachan, and Tim Finin) on designing a benchmark to evaluate GenAI systems answering questions about privacy.

First conference presentation of (hopefully) many! Amazing job Aamir Hamid!

Jul 1, 2024 1 min read

Paper accepted at PETS 2024!

Our team’s research on GenAIPABench, a novel benchmark for Generative AI-based Privacy Assistants, has been officially accepted for publication at the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS) 2024. This recognition underscores our contribution to enhancing digital privacy through AI.

GenAIPABench: A Benchmark for Generative AI-based Privacy Assistants

Aamir Hamid, Hemanth Reddy Samidi, Tim Finin (University of Maryland, Baltimore County,USA), Primal Pappachan (Portland State University,USA), Roberto Yus (University of Maryland, Baltimore County,USA)

Feb 1, 2024 1 min read

Paper accepted at PerCom 2024!

Our paper on a benchmark to evaluate thermal comfort provision systems on smart buildings has been accepted at PerCom 2024. More information at the PerCom 2024 website.

Co-zyBench: Using Co-Simulation and Digital Twins to Benchmark Thermal Comfort Provision in Smart Buildings

Jun Ma (Telecom SudParis, France); Dimitrije Panic (Telecom SudParis, France); Roberto Yus (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA); Georgios Bouloukakis (Telecom SudParis, France)

Jan 26, 2024 2 min read

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