About Me

My name is Xiaoyuan (Owen) Wu, currently a third year Societal Computing PhD student at CMU advised by Professor Lujo Bauer. I was previously advised by Professor Adam J. Aviv at GWUSEC.

Publications

• Measuring Risks to Users’ Health Privacy Posed by Third-Party Web Tracking and Targeted Advertising
  _{Eric Zeng, Xiaoyuan Wu, Emily Ertmann, Lily Huang, Danielle Johnson, Anusha Mehendale, Brandon Tang, Karolina Zhukoff, Michael Adjei-Poku, Lujo Bauer, Ari Friedman, Matthew McCoy}
  ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2025). April 2025. To appear.
• Transparency or information overload? Evaluating users’ comprehension and perceptions of the iOS App Privacy Report
  _{Xiaoyuan Wu, Lydia Hu, Eric Zeng, Hana Habib, and Lujo Bauer}
  Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS 2025). February 2025.
• Poster: Longitudinal Measurement of the Adoption Dynamics in Apple’s Privacy Label Ecosystem
  _{David G. Balash, Mir Masood Ali, Monica Kodwani, Xiaoyuan Wu, Chris Kanich, Adam J. Aviv}
  ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS 2023). November 2023
• User Perceptions of Five-Word Passwords
  _{Xiaoyuan Wu, Collins W. Munyendo, Eddie Cosic, Genevieve A. Flynn, Olivia Legault, and Adam J. Aviv}
  Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC 2022). December 2022
• Security and Privacy Perceptions of Third-Party Application Access for Google Accounts
  _{David G. Balash, Xiaoyuan Wu, Miles Grant, Irwin Reyes, and Adam J. Aviv}
  31st USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 2022). August 2022
• Longitudinal Analysis of Privacy Labels in the Apple App Store
  _{David G. Balash, Mir Masood Ali, Xiaoyuan Wu, Chris Kanich, Adam J. Aviv}
  arXiv preprint 2206.02658. June 2022

Teaching Experience

• Teaching Assistant
  _{September 2024 - Present}
  Introduction to Computer Security - 18330
• Undergraduate Teaching Assistant
  _{August - December 2021, January - May 2022}
  Software Engineering - CSCI 2113
• Learning Assistant
  _{January - May 2020 & January - May 2021}
  Discrete Structures I - CSCI 1311

Awards/Recognitions

• Dean’s List
  _{Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Spring 2021}
• Heros of Systems at GWU
  _{Fall 2020}
  Achievement for CSCI 3411 - Operating Systems