Results of DTL Award Grants’15

Nikolaos LaoutarisKrishna Gummadi

TIMELINE OF DTL AWARD GRANTS’15

• Final Ok 1st week of April

• Worked over Easter to – set up the Program Committee– Review Form, Instructions for PC– prepare CFP– HotCRP, DTL website, submission handbook

• 15 April Opened the site for submissions for one month

• advertise (sigcomm newsletter, TCCC, targeted emails)

• 15 May closing deadline (62 proposals)

• Review process …

+ 4 external reviewers • Dina Papagiannaki (Telefonica)• Marco Mellia (Polito)• Soritis Ioannidis (FORTH)• Dave Choffness (Northeastern))

• 202 reviews in 10 days

• Online discussion

• Telephone TPC-meeting 29 May

… despite overlap with IMC and ERC reviewing periods

really BIG thank you to all committee members!

Finally

• 13 shortlisted proposals in 3 categories

– Tools: transparency + individual results (software)– Platform: beyond transparency + aggregate (software)– Research: no software promised

• Ranked according to Merit with each category

TOOLS

#55-- HCI issues in targeted advertising-- “DoubleClick knows your are a euro-traveler”

#24-- Machine learning tool for mobile PII leakage detection-- Mitigation, user input

#37-- OSN data valuation tool-- “How much are you worth to fb?”

#65-- Detection of personalization & targeting-- PII leakage mitigation vs. function

#54-- HCI visualization of tracked topics and sites-- Platform for storing the collected data in safes

#27-- PII leakage detection plugin-- Crowdsourced platform for learning from others

#48

#20

PLATFORMS

#58-- Platform for auditing sites (crawling)• Circumvention of cookie blocking• PII leakage• Canvas fingerprinting -- monthly report across 1 million sites

#22-- privacy preserving crowdsourcing-- anonymity platforms

RESEARCH

#19-- reverse engineering Uber’s “surge pricing”

#46-- User study around the threats for retargeting -- Using metadata

#12-- Theoretical AI work -- Application on making systems forget (recommenders)

Some ideas

• Base = 5 tools + 1 platform

• Base + more tool (+27)• Base + hard/risky platform (+22)• Base + diversity (+19)

• Combinations of Base + 1

Tools

5524376554274820

Platf

5822

Res

194612