About Me

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

I grew up in Shanghai, China and came to the United States during summer in 2015. After spending three years in California, I came to DC and began pursuing my undergraduate degree at GWU. I graduated from GWU in 2022 with a Bachelor of Science Degree, majoring in Computer Science and Mathematics.

Publication

• User Perceptions of Five-Word Passwords
  _{Xiaoyuan Wu, Collins W. Munyendo, Eddie Cosic, Genevieve A. Flynn, Olivia Legault, Adam J. Aviv}
  Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC 22). Dec 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 22). Aug 2022

Teaching Experience

• Learning Assistant
  _{January - May 2020 & January - May 2021}
  Discrete Structures I - CSCI 1311

• Undergraduate Teaching Assistant
  _{August - December 2021, January - May 2022}
  Software Engineering - CSCI 2113

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