Roya Ensafi
@royaensafi
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Prof @UMichCSE, Researching to safeguard users from network interference and censorship. Founder of CensoredPlanet. Academic mom of anti-censorship community.
Michigan
Joined March 2014
šš Promoted to Associate Professor!. This milestone reflects years of hard work, research, and passion. times it felt like swimming against the current. Big shoutout to my students, mentors, anti-censorship community, friends & family - couldn't have done it without you!
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RT @michigan_AI: šļøš„Our latest Friday Night AI - "Rethinking Privacy in the Age of AI: Whoās Watching, Whoās Protecting?"- is now online!ā¦.
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RT @OpenObservatory: OMG! Summary of the 3rd Open Measurement Gathering (OMG) Ask Me Anything (AMA) event.āØ. View pā¦.
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RT @UMichCSE: CSE PhD student @diwenxue has received a š Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship award recognizing his outstanding research accompliā¦.
cse.engin.umich.edu
The award recognizes Diwenās outstanding research accomplishments and will support his continued work on internet security and measurement.
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ā¦. Banned books ā¦ thanks @citizenlab team and my great friends for this amazing report. š identified three major censorship blocklists which Amazon assigns to different regions. Big tech must be more transparent about their censorship practices.
NEW @citizenlab.ca report out this morning! "Banned Books". Our team found that found 17k+ products that were restricted by Amazon from being shipped to specific world regions, with the most common type of product being books.
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RT @UMWallaceHouse: š International applications for our Knight-Wallace Fellowships for the '25-'26 academic year are CLOSING SOON! š£. Appā¦.
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RT @lawfare: .@HarryOppy, Anna Ablove, and @royaensafi explore the threat to digital equality posed by websites geoblocking users in responā¦.
lawfaremedia.org
Websites, faced with the complexity of applying sanctions to digital services, voluntarily restrict risky countries from their platforms.Ā
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RT @DougMadory: Very excited to finally launch this new tool free and open to the public!. We've been working on this for a while. The CLMā¦.
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RT @UMichCSE: āØVinton G. Cerf will be giving the 22nd William Gould Dow Distinguished Lecture!. šļøJoin us on Nov 8 to hear him speak on theā¦.
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RT @OpenTechFund: ā³1 week left to apply to @OpenTechFund's Surge & Sustain Fund!. The Fund provides resources to help open source, large-scā¦.
opentech.fund
Need support for user costs for your large-scale, open source VPN or anti-censorship tool to respond to demand in repressive information contexts?
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RT @AmritaRoyChowd8: I'll be recruiting PhD students this cycle! If you're interested in working at the intersection of cryptography, diffeā¦.
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RT @nataliabielova: š¢ I am seeking candidates interested in applying for a Tenured Research Position @Inria to join my team!. The interesteā¦.
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RT @citizenlab: CALL FOR PAPERS: Free and Open Communications on the Internet (FOCI) 2025 is looking for two, four, and eight-page submissiā¦.
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RT @OpenObservatory: š¢ Today, in collaboration w/ @DigitalEurasian & Internet Freedom Kazakhstan, we co-published a new research report docā¦.
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RT @BKCHarvard: Meet the BKC 24-25 fellows! @agrabeli_ is the long-time director of @OpenObservatory. As a fellow, she will study the globaā¦.
cyber.harvard.edu
Fellows have expertise and interests that range from psychology and political theology to misinformation and sociology...
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RT @RonDeibert: NEW: I'm *very excited* to announce my forthcoming book, "Chasing Shadows: Cyber Espionage, Subversion, and the Global Fighā¦.
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RT @UMichCSE: CSE is pleased to announce recent alumni from our PhD program who've accepted positions as faculty at institutions of higherā¦.
cse.engin.umich.edu
Congrats to these new faculty!
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RT @ValdikSS: CloudFlare has enabled Encrypted ClientHello (ECH) support on some of the hosted domains. The single configuration is used fā¦.
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RT @radamihalcea: School is about to start! A reminder (to myself included!) that the joy is in the process, not just the outcomes. Insteadā¦.
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RT @UMichCSE: Q&A: Recent research fellow, @levanhieu, who worked within Prof. @royaensafiās Censored Planet group, has just departed Michiā¦.
cse.engin.umich.edu
Hieu Le aims to leverage his experience in developing security and privacy technologies to help protect US consumers.
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