Eric Zeng
Eric Zeng

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 (2025, to appear)
https://doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3714318
[ Dataset ]

Transparency or Information Overload? Evaluating Users' Comprehension and Perceptions of the iOS App Privacy Report

Xiaoyuan Wu, Lydia Hu, Eric Zeng, Hana Habib, Lujo Bauer
Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (2025)

Attributions for ML-based ICS Anomaly Detection: From Theory to Practice

Clement Fung, Eric Zeng, Lujo Bauer
Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (2024)

Towards Usable Security Analysis Tools for Trigger-Action Programming

McKenna McCall, Eric Zeng, Faysal Hossain Shezan, Mitchell Yang, Lujo Bauer, Abhishek Bichhawat, Camille Cobb, Limin Jia, Yuan Tian
Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security (2023)

What Factors Affect Targeting and Bids in Online Advertising? A Field Measurement Study

Eric Zeng, Rachel McAmis, Tadayoshi Kohno, Franziska Roesner
ACM Internet Measurement Conference (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1145/3517745.3561460
[ GitHub ] [ Slides ]

Anti-Privacy and Anti-Security Advice on TikTok: Case Studies of Technology-Enabled Surveillance and Control in Intimate Partner and Parent-Child Relationships

Miranda Wei, Eric Zeng, Tadayoshi Kohno, Franziska Roesner
Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security (2022)
[ Slides ]

Polls, Clickbait, and Commemorative $2 Bills: Problematic Political Advertising on News and Media Websites Around the 2020 U.S. Elections

Eric Zeng, Miranda Wei, Theo Gregersen, Tadayoshi Kohno, Franziska Roesner
ACM Internet Measurement Conference (2021)
https://doi.org/10.1145/3487552.3487850
Runner-Up for Best Paper Award
[ Project Page ] [ IMC Talk ]
[ UW News ]

What Makes a "Bad" Ad? User Perceptions of Problematic Online Advertising

Eric Zeng, Tadayoshi Kohno, Franziska Roesner
ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (2021)
https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445459
[ CHI Talk ] [ Dataset ] [ Data Explorer ]
[ Interview on Data Skeptic Podcast ]

Bad News: Clickbait and Deceptive Ads on News and Misinformation Websites

Eric Zeng, Tadayoshi Kohno, Franziska Roesner
Workshop on Technology and Consumer Protection (2020)
[ Slides ] [ Dataset ]
[ Big Picture Science ] [ The Record ] [ UW News ]

Understanding and Improving Security and Privacy in Multi-User Smart Homes: A Design Exploration and In-Home User Study

Eric Zeng, Franziska Roesner
USENIX Security Symposium (2019)
[ GitHub ] [ Slides ] [ Presentation ]

Fixing HTTPS Misconfigurations: An Experiment with Security Notifications

Eric Zeng, Frank Li, Emily Stark, Adriana Porter Felt, Parisa Tabriz
Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (2019)
[ Slides ]

End User Security and Privacy Concerns with Smart Homes

Eric Zeng, Shrirang Mare, Franziska Roesner
Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (2017)
[ Slides ]

Confidante: Usable Encrypted Email - A Case Study with Lawyers and Journalists

Ada Lerner*, Eric Zeng*, Franziska Roesner
IEEE European Symposium on Security & Privacy (2017)
[ Website ] [ Slides ]

*Co-first authors listed in alphabetical order

Theses, Tech Reports, and Other Writing

Characterizing and Measuring "Bad" Ads on the Web

Eric Zeng
Doctoral Dissertation (2022)

Why "bad" ads appear on "good" websites – a computer scientist explains

Eric Zeng
The Conversation (April 2022)

Technology-Enabled Disinformation: Summary, Lessons, and Recommendations

John Akers, Gagan Bansal, Gabriel Cadamuro, Christine Chen, Quanze Chen, Lucy Lin, Phoebe Mulcaire, Rajalakshmi Nandakumar, Matthew Rockett, Lucy Simko, John Toman, Tongshuang Wu, Eric Zeng, Bill Zorn, Franziska Roesner
University of Washington Technical Report UW-CSE-18-12-02 and arXiv:1812.09383 (2018).