Pauline Anthonysamy
Dr. Pauline Anthonysamy is a Senior Staff Privacy Engineer at Android, dedicated to making mobile privacy a reality. Holding a PhD in Computer Science from Security Lancaster, Lancaster University, UK, she translates complex security concepts into tangible features that protect users. Her work includes developing privacy-preserving telemetry, strengthening network security with 2G downgrade prevention (praised by the EFF), fortifying sensor security through rate limits, and enhancing user control with ephemeral guest mode.
Before her current role, she focused on empowering developers to build trust with their users by creating tools that surfaced privacy improvement signals within the Play Developer Console. Her research interests extend to applying natural language processing and machine learning to privacy, and utilizing large-scale data to model user behavior and understand privacy preferences. Dr. Anthonysamy's contributions directly impact millions of Android users, ensuring their data remains secure.
Before her current role, she focused on empowering developers to build trust with their users by creating tools that surfaced privacy improvement signals within the Play Developer Console. Her research interests extend to applying natural language processing and machine learning to privacy, and utilizing large-scale data to model user behavior and understand privacy preferences. Dr. Anthonysamy's contributions directly impact millions of Android users, ensuring their data remains secure.
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Analyzing User Perspectives on Mobile App Privacy at Scale
International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) (2022)
Reducing Permission Requests in Mobile Apps
Martin Pelikan
Giles Hogben
Proceedings of ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) (2019)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: A Study of Security Decisions in a Cyber-Physical Systems Game
Awais Rashid
Maria Pinto-Albuquerque
Asad Syed
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Issue: 99 (2017)
Privacy Requirements: Present & Future
Awais Rashid
Ruzanna Chitchyan
39th International Conference on Software Engineering (2017)
Inferring semantic mapping between policies and code: the clue is in the language
Matthew Edwards
Chris Weichel
Awais Rashid
International Symposium on Engineering Secure Software and Systems, Springer (2016)
Software engineering for privacy in-the-large
Awais Rashid
International Conference in Software Engineering, IEEE Press (2015)
