Project Info
Security and Privacy Analysis of Smartphone Apps
Chuan Yue
chuanyue@mines.edu
Project Goals and Description:
We use a number of apps on our smartphones. Those apps often collect a lot of
sensitive information, such as user location and contacts, to improve
their usability, functionality, etc. However, it is not clear if apps
provide strong protections to the collected sensitive information
or not. In this project, we design user studies, new algorithms,
and new systems to analyze the security and privacy of smartphone apps.
More Information:
Grand Challenge: Secure cyberspace.
WtaGraph: Web Tracking and Advertising Detection using Graph Neural Networks.
By Zhiju Yang, Weiping Pei, Monchu Chen, and Chuan Yue. In proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 2022
A Comparative Measurement Study of Web Tracking on Mobile and Desktop Environments.
By Zhiju Yang and Chuan Yue. In proceedings of the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS), 2020.
Please contact Dr. Chuan Yue (chuanyue@mines.edu) for more publications and resources.
Primary Contacts:
Dr. Chuan Yue (chuanyue@mines.edu) and his PhD students (TBD).
Student Preparation
Qualifications
Students who major in Computer Science, already took 200-level CS courses, familiar with Web and/or mobile app programming techniques.
TIME COMMITMENT (HRS/WK)
4~5 hours per week.
SKILLS/TECHNIQUES GAINED
Research methodology; system design principles and skills; research paper reading, presentation, and writing; communication.
MENTORING PLAN
1. Weekly project meeting.
2. Highly level guidance on research direction and methodology.
3. Teamwork with PhD and master students.
PREFERRED STUDENT STATUS
Sophomore
Junior
Senior