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Our team’s demo paper has been officially accepted to be demoed at the IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SmartComp) 2025.

Web-CozyBench: A Web-Based Platform to Benchmark Thermal Comfort Provision using Digital Twins

Jun Ma, Aziz Boubaker, Sabrine Azaiez (Télécom SudParis, France), Roberto Yus (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA), Georgios Bouloukakis (University of Patras, Greece)

Our paper has been accepted at the IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SmartComp) 2025!

DigiGuide: A DT-based Occupant Guiding System for Optimizing Comfort and Energy Consumption

Jun Ma (Télécom SudParis, France), Roberto Yus (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA), Georgios Bouloukakis (University of Patras, Greece)

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)

Our team’s project, LiDAR Occupancy and Analysis Detection System (LOADS), has been officially accepted to be demoed at the IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom) 2025.

LOADS: LiDAR-based Privacy-Preserving Queue Monitoring and Analysis

Saisricharan Malkireddy, Sumedh Kane, Sourimitra Medepalli, Satvik Racharla, Bharg Barot, Christian Badolato, Roberto Yus (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA)

We got a second demo paper accepted in collaboration with Portland State University. This work presents a system to identify suspicious trackers.

BL(u)E CRAB: A User-Centric Framework for Identifying Suspicious Bluetooth Trackers.

Dylan Conklin (Portland State University, United States), Primal Pappachan (Portland State University, United States) and Roberto Yus (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, United States).

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

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)

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!

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)