16 January 2014 : Just finished teaching an IAP class (Unlocking smartphone data for research purpose).
30 September 2013 : Our project about building smartphone apps for disaster relief featured on MIT News!
11 September 2013 : Paper on Unlocking Smartphone Data for Educational Use in Teaching and Learning Environment (joint work with Weihua Li) accepted to Smart Univesity Workshop in Eighth International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context, 2013.
25 Augugst 2013 : Paper on No Surprises: Measuring Intrusiveness of Smartphone Applications By Detecting Objective Context Deviations accepted to Twelfth Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society
22 July 2013: Paper on Understanding People's Preferences for Disclosing Contextual Information to Smartphone Apps received best paper award in 15th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (thematic area: Human Aspects of Information Security, Privacy and Trust)
31 May 2013: Paper on Democratizing Mobile App Development for Disaster Management accepted to Workshop on Semantic Cities at IJCAI 2013
20 February 2013: Presenting privacy research on Privacy Fingerprint of Smartphone Apps in Federal Trade Commission office in Washington, DC.
17 January 2013: Invited talk on New Challenges of Personal Privacy in the age of Big data (in Chinese) at Industrial Technology Research Institute in Taiwan
4 September 2012: Fox News Boston interviewed me about my research in smartphone privacy. Interview video clip
2 September 2012: Boston Globe reported my research on Privacy Fingerprint (joint work with Frances Zhange)