I am a PhD candidate in Computer Science in the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences (ICS) at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). I obtained my BS in Computer Science and Engineering from Santa Clara University (SCU) and my MS in Computer Science from UCI.
I am a member of the UCI Networking Group and NSF SaTC Frontier ProperData Center, and I am advised by Athina Markopoulou and Scott Jordan. My research interests include usable privacy, children's and teens' online privacy and safety, system auditing and compliance, privacy legislation and regulation, and human-computer interaction (HCI). I am also President of the Women in CyberSecurity (WiCyS) student chapter at UCI. For more information, see my CV.
DiffAudit Receives ACM IMC 2024 Best Student Paper Award
November 2024
Our paper DiffAudit: Auditing Privacy Practices of Online Services for Children and Adolescents has been awarded the Best Student Paper Award at the 2024 ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC)!
ARCS Scholar Award
August 2024
I have been selected as a 2024-2025 ARCS Scholar! Thank you to the ARCS (Achievement Rewards for College Scientists) Foundation and UCI Graduate Division for this honor.
DiffAudit Accepted to ACM IMC 2024
July 2024
Our work, DiffAudit: Auditing Privacy Practices of Online Services for Children and Adolescents, has been accepted to the 2024 ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC)!
DiffAudit: Auditing Privacy Practices of Online Services for Children and Adolescents
Olivia Figueira, Rahmadi Trimananda, Athina Markopoulou, and Scott Jordan
In ACM IMC 2024, Best Student Paper Award
Presented at PrivaCI Symposium 2024
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VBIT: Towards Enhancing Privacy Control Over IoT Devices
Jad Al Aaraj, Olivia Figueira, Tu Le, Isabela Figueira, Rahmadi Trimananda, and Athina Markopoulou
Under Submission
Pre-print
Demo
Privacy of Virtual Reality: Our Future in the Metaverse and Beyond
Authors: Girard Kelly, Jeff Graham, Jill Bronfman, and Steve Garton
Contributors: Olivia Figueira and Aya Nouiouat
Common Sense Media, Privacy Program, 2022
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DeepPhish: Understanding User Trust Towards Artificially Generated Profiles in Online Social Networks
Jaron Mink, Licheng Luo, Natã M. Barbosa, Olivia Figueira, Yang Wang, and Gang Wang
In USENIX Security 2022
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Understanding COVID-19 Public Sentiment Towards Public Health Policies Using Social Media Data
Olivia Figueira, Yuka Hatori, Liying Liang, Christine Chye, and Yuhong Liu
In IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC) 2021
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Distress Among Undergraduates: Marginality, Stressors and Resilience Resources
Paula S. Nurius, Yasaman S. Sefidgar, Kevin S. Kuehn, Jake Jung, Han Zhang, Olivia Figueira, Eve A. Riskin, Anind K. Dey, and Jennifer C. Mankoff
In Journal of American College Health 2021
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