I work at the intersection of Security, AI, and HCI. I study people’s safety concerns, decision-making behaviors, and the role of power dynamics in innovation across the AI development lifecycle, addressing complex privacy and safety challenges in AI as well as leveraging AI’s capabilities to solve long-standing privacy issues. More Recently, I examine the question of: How can we design secure systems that improve the quality of human interaction and human data authenticity in digital ecosystems? Some main lines of research:
Usable Security and Privacy Designing mechanisms to support people with different backgrounds and characteristics to protect their privacy and security Visual Privacy in GenAI (ASSETS 2025) · Youth Safety in GenAI (IEEE S&P 2025) · Data Minimization (USENIX 2024) · Ad Privacy (PETS 2025) PRAC3 Risk Framework for AudioAI (AAAI AIES 2025) ·
Human-Centered AI Designing Method to produce licensed dataset to support downstrem AI systems that are centered around human needs, values, and behavior. BivPriv Obfuscation Support (CHI 2024) · BiVPriv Dataset (CHI 2023, IEEE/CVF 2025, IEEE/CVF 2026) · GuardLens (SOUPS 2023) · PriView · V.O.I.C.E Risk Data/Framework
Content Authenticity, Provenance, and Humanness Designing and evaluating novel solutions for verifying humanness and developing context-aware provenance to combat platform abuse. AIGC Content Labels (Preprint 2025) · Personhood Credential (USENIX PEPR 2025)
Computational AI Governance Developing computational governance mechanisms grounded in participatory, collective intelligence, and decentralized systems. DAO-Based AI Governance (Nature Sci Report) InclusiveAI (AAAI AIES 2025) · DAOs and Power Dynamics (IEEE ICBC 2024) ·
Digital Assets: Cybersecurity, Policy, National Security iWallet (SOUPS 2023) · COINfused (ACM COMPASS 2025) · Risk in Stablecoin Ecosystems (IEEE S&P 2025) · Auditing Web3 Ecosystem (NDSS 2025)
Prospective Students: I’m looking for PhD students and interns to join my group. Please review the Interested to Join Us page, learn more about our Ongoing Research , and email me your CV.
Selected Publications (Google Scholar)
  • Democratic Governance Through DAO-Based Deliberation and Voting for Inclusive Decision Making In AI Model
    Tanusree Sharma, Yujin Potter, Jongwon Park, Yiren Liu, Yun Huang, Sunny Liu, Dawn Song, Jeff Hancock, Yang Wang
    To Appear in Nature Scientific Report
  • Hierarchical Instance Tracking to Balance Privacy Preservation with Accessible Information
    Neelima Prasad, Jarek Reynods, Neel Karsanbhai, Tanusree Sharma,, Lotus Zhang, Abigale Stangl, Yang Wang, Leah Findlater, Danna Gurari
    To Appear in IEEE Winter Conference on Applications in Computer Vision (WACV) 2026
  • Signals of Provenance: Practices & Challenges of Navigating Indicators in AI-Generated Media for Sighted and Blind Individuals
    Ayae Ide, Tory Park, Jaron Mink, Tanusree Sharma
    [preprint]
  • Future of Algorithmic Organization: Large-Scale Analysis of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
    Tanusree Sharma, Yujin Potter, Kornrapat Pongmala, Henry Wang, Andrew Miller, Dawn Song, Yang Wang
    To Appear in ACM Tweb 2026
  • PRAC3 (Privacy, Reputation, Accountability, Consent, Credit, Compensation): Long Tailed Risks of Voice Actors in AI Data-Economy
    Tanusree Sharma, Yihao Zhou, Visar Berisha
    To appear 8th AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society
  • Aligning AI with Public Values: Deliberation and Decision-Making for Governing Multimodal LLMs in Political Video Analysis
    Tanusree Sharma, Yujin Potter, Zachary Kilhoffer, Yun Huang, Dawn Song, Yang Wang
    To appear 8th AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society
  • "Before, I Asked My Mom, Now I Ask ChatGPT": Visual Privacy Management with Generative AI for Blind and Low-Vision People
    Tanusree Sharma, Yu-Yun Tseng, Lotus Zhang, Ayae Ide, Kelly Avery Mack, Leah Findlater, Danna Gurari, Yang Wang
    To appear in ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2025)
  • Verifying Humanness: Personhood Credentials for the Digital Identity Crisis
    Ayae Ide, Tanusree Sharma
    2025 USENIX Conference on Privacy Engineering Practice and Respect (PEPR)
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  • Exploring Parent-Child Perspectives on Safety in Generative AI: Concerns, Mitigation Strategies, and Design Implications
    Yaman Yu, Tanusree Sharma, Melinda Hu, Justin Wang, Yang Wang
    IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P 2025)
    [preprint]
  • BIV-Priv-Seg: Locating Private Content in Images Taken by People With Visual Impairments
    Yu-Yun Tseng, Tanusree Sharma, Lotus Zhang, Abigale Stangl, Leah Findlater, Yang Wang, Danna Gurari
    IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision 2025
    [preprint]
  • Privacy Perceptions and Behaviors Towards Targeted Advertising on Social Media: A Cross-Country Study
    Smirity Kaushik, Tanusree Sharma, Yaman Yu, Amna F. Ali, Bart Knijnenburg, Yang Wang, Yixin Zou
    25th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETs 2025)
    [preprint TBD]
  • Coinfused: Navigating the Current Practices and Perceived Risks among the Cryptocurrency Users
    Tanusree Sharma, ATM Mizanur Rahman, Silvia Sandhi, Yang Wang, Rifat Shahriyar, SM Taiabul Haque
    Proceedings of the ACM Computing and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS2025)
    [preprint]
  • Honey Trap or Romantic Utopia: A Case Study of Final Fantasy XIV Players PII Disclosure in Intimate Partner-Seeking Postss
    Yihao Zhou, Tanusree Sharma
    Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2025
    [preprint]
  • Exploring User Perceptions of Security Auditing in the Web3 Ecosystem
    Molly Huang, Rui Jiang, Tanusree Sharma, Kanye Ye Wang
    Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium 2025
    [preprint]
  • Security Perceptions of Users in Stablecoins: Advantages and Risks within the Cryptocurrency Ecosystem
    Yongqi Guan, Yaman Yu, Tanusree Sharma, Z.Huang, K.Qin, Yang Wang, Kanye Ye Wang
    IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P 2025)
    [preprint]
  • I'm not convinced that they don’t collect more than is necessary: User-Controlled Data Minimization Design in Search Engines
    Tanusree Sharma, Lin Kyi, Yang Wang, Asia J. Biega
    Usenix Security 2024
    [preprint]
  • “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Custodial!”: Usable Trustless Decentralized Key Management.
    Tanusree Sharma, Vivek Nair, Henry Wang, Yang Wang, Dawn Song
    (CHI 2024) The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing and Systems
    [preprint]
  • Unpacking How Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) Work in Practice.
    Tanusree Sharma, Yujin Kwon, Kornrapat Pongmala, Henry Wang, Andrew Miller, Dawn Song, Yang Wang
    (IEEE ICBC 2024) IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency
    [preprint]
  • Designing Accessible Obfuscation Support for Blind People’s Visual Privacy
    Lotus Zhang, Abigale Stangl, Tanusree Sharma, Yu-Yun Tseng, Inan Xu, Danna Gurari, Yang Wang, Leah Findlater
    (CHI 2024) The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • "Don't put all your eggs in one basket": Understanding Crypto Users' Perceptions and Practices Towards Multi-Wallet Usage
    Yaman Yu, Tanusree Sharma, Sauvik Das, Yang Wang
    (CHI 2024) The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
    [Preprint]
  • Understanding User-Perceived Security Risks and Mitigation Strategies in the Web3 Ecosystem
    Jianing Si, Tanusree Sharma, Ye Wang
    (CHI 2024) The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
    [Preprint]
  • Disability-first Design and Creation of a Dataset Showing Private Visual Information Collected with People Who are Blind
    Tanusree Sharma, Abigale Stangl, Lotus Zhang, Yu-Yun Tseng, Inan Xu, Leah Findlater, Danna Gurari, Yang Wang.
    (CHI 2023) The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
    [PDF]
  • User Perceptions and Experiences of Targeted Ads on Social Media Platforms: Learning from Bangladesh and India
    Tanusree Sharma*, Smirity Kaushik*, Yaman Yu*, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Yang Wang
    (CHI 2023) The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
    [PDF]
  • A Mixed-Methods Study of Security Practices of Smart Contract Developers
    Tanusree Sharma, Zhixuan Zhou, Andrew Miller, and Yang Wang
    (USENIX Security 23) 32nd USENIX Security Symposium
    [PDF]
  • Iterative Design of An Accessible Crypto Wallet for Blind Users.
    Tanusree Sharma*, Zhixuan Zhou*, Luke Emano, Sauvik Das, Yang Wang.
    (SOUPS 2023) Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security
    [PDF]
  • Rethinking Data Minimization from a User-Centered Approach: A Paradigm.
    Tanusree Sharma, Lin Kyi, Yang Wang, Asia Beiga
    (USENIX PEPR 23) 2023 USENIX Conference on Privacy Engineering Practice and Respect
    [PDF]
  • GuardLens: Supporting Safer Online Browsing for People with Visual Impairments
    Smirity Kaushik, Natã M. Barbosa, Yaman Yu, Tanusree Sharma, Zachary Kilhoffer, JooYoung Seo, Sauvik Das, and Yang Wang
    (SOUPS 2023) Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security
    [PDF]
  • Using ChatGPT in HCI Research—A Trioethnography
    Smit Desai, Tanusree Sharma, Pratyasha Saha
    (ACM CUI '23) Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Conversational User Interfaces
    [PDF]
  • A First Look into Software Security Practices in Bangladesh.
    Tanusree Sharma*, Ankit Shrestha*, Pratyasha Saha, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Mahdi Nasrullah Al-Ameen
    (ACM COMPASS 23) ACM Journal on Computing and Sustainable Societies
    [PDF]
  • “It's A Blessing and A Curse": Unpacking Creators' Practices with Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) and Their Communities.
    Tanusree Sharma, Zhixuan Zhou, Yun Huang, Yang Wang
    (CESC 22) Crypto Economics Security Conference (CESC 22)
    [PDF]
  • Privacy during pandemic: A global view of privacy practices around COVID-19 apps
    Tanusree Sharma, Md Mirajul Islam, Anupam Das, SM Taiabul Haque, and Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed.
    (ACM COMPASS 21) ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable.
    [PDF]
  • Mapping risk assessment strategy for COVID-19 mobile apps’ vulnerabilities
    Tanusree Sharma, Hunter A. Dyer, Roy H. Campbell, and Masooda Bashir
    (Computing Conference 2021) Proceedings of the Computing Conference 2021.
    [PDF]
  • Enabling user-centered privacy controls for mobile applications: COVID-19 perspective.
    Tanusree Sharma, Hunter A. Dyer, and Masooda Bashir
    (ACM TOIT 2021) ACM Transactions on Internet Technologies
    [PDF]
  • Use of apps in the COVID-19 response and the loss of privacy protection.
    Tanusree Sharma, and Masooda Bashir.
    (Nature 2020) Nature Comment 2020
    [PDF]
  • Towards inclusive privacy protections in the cloud
    Tanusree Sharma, Tian Wang, Carlo Di Giulio, and Masooda Bashir.
    (ACNS 20) In Applied Cryptography and Network Security.
    [PDF]
  • Preserving Privacy in Cyber-Physical Social Systems: An Anonymity and Access Control Approach
    Tanusree Sharma, John Bambenek, Masooda Bashir.
    (IOT'20) Proceedings of International Conference on the Internet of Things 2019
    [PDF]
  • Privacy apps for smartphones: An assessment of users’ preferences and limitations.
    Tanusree Sharma, and Masooda Bashir.
    (HCII 2020) In HCI for Cybersecurity, Privacy, and Trust.
    [PDF]
  • A restful e-governance application framework for people identity verification in the cloud.
    Ahmedur Rahman, Shanto Roy, Tanusree Sharma, Md Whaiduzzaman.
    (CLOUD 2018) In Cloud Computing–CLOUD 2018
    [PDF]
  • PSO-NF-based vertical handoff decision for ubiquitous heterogeneous wireless network (UHWN).
    Saoreen Rahman, Tanusree Sharma, S. M. Reza, M. M. Rahman, and M. S. Kaiser.
    (IWCI 2016) In 2016 International Workshop on Computational Intelligence IWCI.
    [PDF]
  • A dynamic data placement policy for heterogeneous Hadoop cluster.
    Tushar Saha. Tanusree Sharma.
    (ICAEE 2017) In 2017 4th International Conference on Advances in Electrical Engineering (ICAEE)
    [PDF]