Scholar
Lucy Qin
Google Scholar ID: z6IxKgYAAAAJ
Georgetown University
Citations & Impact
Citations
371
H-index
9
i10-index
9
Publications
19
Co-authors
0
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- - Paper: Stop the Nonconsensual Use of Nude Images in Research, NeurIPS 2025
- - Paper: “Did They F***ing Consent to That?": Safer Digital Intimacy via Proactive Protection Against Image-Based Sexual Abuse, USENIX Security 2024
- - Paper: Secure Account Recovery for a Privacy-Preserving Web Service, USENIX Security 2024
- - Paper: Synq: Public Policy Analytics over Encrypted Data, IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy 2024
- - Paper: You Still See Me: How Data Protection Supports the Architecture of ML Surveillance, NeurIPS Workshop on Regulatable ML 2023
- - Paper: Attached to “The Algorithm”: Making Sense of Algorithmic Precarity on Instagram, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2023
- - Paper: A Decentralized and Encrypted National Gun Registry, IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy 2021
- - Paper: From Usability to Secure Computing and Back Again, USENIX Symposium on Usable Security and Privacy (SOUPS) 2019
- - Paper: Callisto: A Cryptographic Approach to Detecting Serial Perpetrators of Sexual Misconduct, ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS) 2018
- - Report: Toward Safer Intimate Futures: Recommendations for Tech Platforms to Reduce Image Based Sexual Abuse, European Sex Workers Rights Alliance Report, 2023
- - Report: Outside Looking In: Approaches to Content Moderation in End-to-End Encrypted Systems, Center for Democracy and Technology Report, 2021
- - Best Student Paper Runner-Up, AAAI/ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society (AIES) 2024
Research Experience
- - Fritz Postdoctoral Fellow, Georgetown University
- - Research project: Addressing image-based sexual abuse
- - Member of Callisto's cryptography advisory board, contributing to their cryptographic design since 2018
Education
- PhD in Computer Science with a focus on applied cryptography from Brown University, advised by Seny Kamara.
Background
- Security/privacy researcher. Currently a Fritz Postdoctoral Fellow at Georgetown University and works closely with Elissa Redmiles. Also part of the Safer Digital Intimacy research collective, working on projects focused on addressing image-based sexual abuse.
Miscellany
- Organizes the Re-Imagining Cryptography and Privacy (ReCAP) Workshop, exploring the intersection of cryptography and privacy with society to design, create, and sustain technologies that explicitly benefit marginalized communities.
Co-authors