Sauvik Das
@scyrusk
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Associate Professor (w/o tenure) at @cmuhcii. Director of the SPUD Lab. Join me elsewhere 🦣 [email protected] | 🦋 @sauvik.me
Pittsburgh, PA
Joined October 2010
As of today, I am officially Associate Professor* at @cmuhcii. Surreal — I was out of my depth when I started. Couldn't have done it without my incredible students — the true brains of the operation — and the support of my mentors. Thank you all!. * not yet tenured, because CMU
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2 more days to go to sign up for the mentoring sessions at SOUPS!.
Are you going to be at the best conference, SOUPS (@SOUPSConference )?. If so, consider signing up to be a mentor or mentee for the mentoring program! It's a great way to meet other folks at the conference :)
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How does "AI search" differ from standard web search? Can you trust it?. I spoke to Jon Reed at CNET about this:
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Large language models like ChatGPT and Gemini can go down rabbit holes much faster than you can.
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RT @Tanusree_Sharma: Sauvik @scyrusk and I are co-chairing the SOUPS mentoring session this year!.If you are attending SOUPS, consider sig….
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Are you going to be at the best conference, SOUPS (@SOUPSConference )?. If so, consider signing up to be a mentor or mentee for the mentoring program! It's a great way to meet other folks at the conference :)
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The Twenty-First Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2025), August 10–12, 2025, Seattle, WA, USA.
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Have you ever vibe coded? Consider sharing your experience with us!.
Calling vibe coders 👾. If you’ve ever used Cursor, Copilot, or AI agents to accelerate your programming in any capacity, join our study!. 🎤 60 minute interview (audio recorded).🎁 $25 Amazon gift card.📋 Must be located in the US and 18+. Sign up:
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Consider signing up for this fun study — use a few AI agents and share your experience!.
Interact with AI Agents, Share Your Experience, and Get a $25 Gift Card. We're recruiting participants for a 60 minute online study involving the use of AI Agents. Help us shape the future of AI tools by signing up for our study. Experience with AI is helpful but not required!
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Still plenty of time to submit your work to #HAIPS2025 :).
Still one week left before the workshop deadline!.
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RT @scyrusk: 📢 We now have two amazing keynote speakers lined up for #HAIPS2025 (the 1st Workshop on Human-Centered AI, Privacy, and Securi….
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📢 We now have two amazing keynote speakers lined up for #HAIPS2025 (the 1st Workshop on Human-Centered AI, Privacy, and Security)! @jas0nh0ng and @patrickgage . Submit your:.- Original papers.- Encore papers.- SoK papers.- Vision papers. by June 20th!. 💻
🚨New workshop at @acm_ccs #CCS2025!. Glad to announce the 1st workshop on Human-Centered AI Privacy and Security.(#HAIPS2025, pronounced “hypes” 😎). AI is reshaping lives and S&P research—let’s bring people back to the center. 📢 CFP is out! . 🌊
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😬In sims, 1/100 Asian-coded agents will join a protest if told they shouldn't. All 100 Black-coded agents will join anyway. New #Facct2025 paper led by @YuxuanL_:.Actions Speak Louder than Words: Agent Decisions Reveal Implicit Biases in Language Models.
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RT @hankhplee: @SCSatCMU shared our recent work that is really close to my heart! . You can read more and download Purpose Mode here: .📝 ht….
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A Web extension to browse social media websites with purpose. - hankhplee/purpose-mode
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RT @SCSatCMU: Sauvik Das, assistant professor in @cmuhcii, and a team of researchers have developed a a browser extension called Purpose Mo….
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A CMU research team has developed Purpose Mode — a browser extension that allows users to “toggle off” Attention Capture Damaging Patterns (ACDPs) while using social media platforms.
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Come see what the hype is about at the nexus of #Security and #privacy, #HCI, and #AI at the #HAIPS2025 workshop at #CCS2025. Send us your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, and papers you just had rejected from #usesec25 or #ICML2025.
🚨New workshop at @acm_ccs #CCS2025!. Glad to announce the 1st workshop on Human-Centered AI Privacy and Security.(#HAIPS2025, pronounced “hypes” 😎). AI is reshaping lives and S&P research—let’s bring people back to the center. 📢 CFP is out! . 🌊
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Wednesday: Farida Elsehin (MS grad from CMU, soon to be Ph.D. student at UNCC) will be presenting her work on a mixed-methods study to unpack what cryptocurrency users understand about seed phrases. Headline: Most harbor significant misconceptions. 3/3.
📣 New research: Only 43% of 643 crypto users surveyed in our #CHI2025 study could identify a seed phrase from an image; 58% of those thought they choose their own, like a password. These misconceptions put these users at high risk. Read the paper: 🧵👇
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Wednesday: @hankhplee will be presenting our work on developing "Purpose Mode", a browser extension that reduces distraction on social media from 28% to 7%. 2/3.
📣 Dark / deceptive patterns are rampant on social media — your attention powers a multi-trillion dollar online economy. Check out this new paper from @hankhplee where we introduce Purpose Mode, a tool that suppresses these patterns, allowing for more intentional browsing.
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En route to #chi2025!. 1) Sunday: I will present a keynote talk at the computational UI workshop — the first public discussion of what we're doing at fuguUX, the company I'm co-founding with @jas0nh0ng. "Towards Smart, Automated UI Assessments at Scale". 1/3
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RT @hankhplee: (Reposts appreciated!).Do you work on user-facing Artificial Intelligence (AI) products? We would like to hear from you!. Pl….
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