Tanusree Sharma
@Tanusree_Sharma
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Assistant professor @penn_state | Ph.D. @UofIllinois | Security, Safety, Decentralized Governance | Formerly @Google, @maxplanckpress
State College, Pennsylvania
Joined May 2016
I am looking to hire two Ph.D. students this coming Fall 2025. If you have strong design/system-building skills and are interested in any of the following- -Privacy and security solutions for marginalized and underserved communities -Human-in-the-loop governance for LLMs -Usable
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Motivation: Current AI alignment approaches are often top-down, controlled by small groups, raise safety concerns. Concepts like AI alignment emphasize diverse public perspectives to AI improvements, there is limited understanding how to coordinate public input, aggregate signals
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Paper: https://t.co/n5tRlzzkXp InclusiveAI provides a method and solution to.. 1. Facilitate deliberation on AI value topic engaging users, policymakers 2. Aggregate diverse input 3. Facilitate the community to make proposals 4. Offers a flexible voting mechanism
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New Solution for AI governance to be present at #AAAI #AIES2025. InclusiveAI, a decentralized approach to AI governance that allows deliberation and participation power to ensure different viewpoints are heard for AI decision-making. @YunHuang_HCI @dawnsongtweets Yang Wang
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🔭 Searching for a postdoc to join me at @nyutandon ! Focus on human-AI interaction x mental wellbeing research x future of work. 📧 Questions? Email me w/ sub: [Prospective Postdoc] 🔗 Apply: https://t.co/QOvlcD6iC6 🙏 pls RTs! #AcademicTwitter #HCI #AI
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Announcing the Financial Cryptography 2026 call for papers. Paper deadline is Sep 16 (not a ton of time!) w/ Co-chair Stefanie Roos (RPTU) https://t.co/9Xc8IS9nGM
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Today, July 31st, is the deadline to register for the SOUPS mentoring session @SOUPSConference. If you are planning to attend, consider signing up as a mentor or mentee
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The Twenty-First Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2025), August 10–12, 2025, Seattle, WA, USA.
Sauvik @scyrusk and I are co-chairing the SOUPS mentoring session this year! If you are attending SOUPS, consider signing up to be a mentor or a mentee. It's a wonderful way to connect with others. I participated as a PhD student and found it to be an incredibly valuable
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Sauvik @scyrusk and I are co-chairing the SOUPS mentoring session this year! If you are attending SOUPS, consider signing up to be a mentor or a mentee. It's a wonderful way to connect with others. I participated as a PhD student and found it to be an incredibly valuable
usenix.org
The Twenty-First Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2025), August 10–12, 2025, Seattle, WA, USA.
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AI is getting more sophisticated - it's hard to know what's real and what's fake. @ISTatPennState's @Tanusree_Sharma is designing #accessible tools to make it easier for folks who are #blind and #VisuallyImpaired. #BlindNewWorld Story via @Penn_State ⬇️ https://t.co/nu0Qkt5zOP
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Tanusree Sharma, assistant professor in the Penn State College of Information Sciences and Technology, received a $60,000 Google Research Scholar Award for a project to help blind and low-vision...
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Many thanks to my PhD student, Ayae Ide (@privacyhci), for leading the early research that motivates this proposal.🙂
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Thanks @GoogleResearch for the generous gift in supporting our research on “ Designing Accessible Tools for Blind and Low-Vision People in Navigating Deepfake Media.”Excited to continue this work with my colleague and friend @JaronMink. https://t.co/tAAVyrNFUa
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In a parallel universe, there's no Bitcoin. No blockchain industry. Not even digital signatures to sign transactions. In that universe, U.S. science lacked the strong federal support it had here after WWII. We're headed that way now. Open letter from 9 U.S. colleagues and me:
An open letter from leading academics highlights the critical role of university research in driving crypto and blockchain innovation. They argue that the U.S. can't lead crypto innovation through regulation alone; it needs top-notch research. Opinion. https://t.co/nYXUc0xHHW
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Please help spread the words!
Hi everyone, we are looking for teens (13-17) to participate in an NSF-funded research project on online safety for teens. If you and your teen are interested in participating, please take a look at the details below and register using the link: https://t.co/qtu0PX2Yyq. Thank you!
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Science of Blockchain Conference (SBC): Just two days left to submit . Deadline: Thursday, 13 March. To learn more and submit, visit https://t.co/FKrmWORy1c. Co-organized by @BerkeleyRDI, @CBRStanford, and @initc3org. Co-chaired with @dawnsongtweets and @danboneh.
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Excited for Design Assurance Standard v1.0 to be out! https://t.co/rBUHVGQTGw 🔐 The Standard confirms whether an organization’s product, service, or process was designed, developed, or deployed with privacy aforethought 🏛️ Regulators can potentially reference it as a benchmark
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🔍 Our work surfaces how people reason about unknown privacy and security guarantees of PHCs compared to current verification methods 🔍 Investigates the impact of factors on how people would like to manage PHCs, including, issuers (e.g. gov), data (e.g. biometrics, physical
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We approached with a competitive analysis of existing tools, followed by a user study that helped conceptualize actionable design recommendations for various use cases.
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A work by @sjgadler I find very compelling in the same line that highlights guidelines of personhood credentials for policymakers, technologists, and standards bodies https://t.co/srl18vWtdb Our research complements by adding knowledge of public perspectives by identifying key
What can be done about bots masquerading as real people online? Honored to share: our work on personhood credentials has received @futureofprivacy’s 15th annual Privacy Papers for Policymakers Award.
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AI is getting better at mimicking humans - can we keep up? how? Our 📄#new_paper on Personhood Credentials. preprint: https://t.co/rJPNg5qpRY We highlight the critical role of technical design in shaping personhood credentials. Specifically, we emphasize the need for a co-design
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