Scholar
Kassem Fawaz
Google Scholar ID: 8TINuv4AAAAJ
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Citations & Impact
Citations
2,654
H-index
25
i10-index
45
Publications
20
Co-authors
100
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Research Experience
- Currently Associate Professor and Associate Chair for Research at UW-Madison ECE
- Leads the WI-PI research group with multiple active projects
- User-centered Privacy: Developed intuitive privacy awareness and control systems for privacy policies, online settings, cookie notices, always-listening voice assistants, social robots, and video conferencing apps
- Security and Privacy of ML Systems: Investigated privacy and security of face recognition, image classification, keyword spotting, speaker identification, and skill squatting
- Data and Sensor Privacy: Designed theoretically grounded, deployable, and usable privacy-preserving mechanisms for eye tracking, speech recognition, and acoustic sensing
- User Authentication: Built authentication mechanisms using commodity sensors for biometric challenge-response, pedestrian-vehicle authentication, and device-to-device pairing
Background
- Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Wisconsin - Madison
- Affiliate faculty in the Department of Computer Sciences
- Serves as the inaugural Associate Chair for Research in ECE
- Leads the WI-PI research group
- Research interests primarily include security and privacy for users interacting with their devices, with emphasis on voice interfaces, privacy policies, malware detection, data privacy, and wireless security and privacy
- Overall research goal is to bring effective, practical, and usable security and privacy protection to the masses, especially in the emerging Internet of Things computing paradigm
- Past research contributions also span software systems, wireless communications, and networks
