SECURITY AND PRIVACY ADVANCED RESEARCH LABORATORY (SPA LAB) AT UCR/UCL

WHAT IS SPA LAB?

The Security and Privacy Advanced research Laboratory (SPA Lab) is a distributed research group with members at University of California, Riverside and University College London, led by Prof. Emiliano De Cristofaro.

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RECENT PUBLICATIONS

SMOTE and Mirrors: Exposing Privacy Leakage from Synthetic Minority Oversampling 14th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2026)
Georgi Ganev, MohammadReza Nazari, Rees Davison, Amirhassan Fallah Dizche, Xinmin Wu, Ralph Abbey, Jorge G Silva, Emiliano De Cristofaro
To Shuffle or not to Shuffle: Auditing DP-SGD with Shuffling 33rd Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS 2026)
Meenatchi Sundaram Muthu Selva Annamalai, Borja Balle, Jamie Hayes, Emiliano De Cristofaro
Revealing The Secret Power: How Algorithms Can Influence Content Visibility on Twitter/X 33rd Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS 2026)
Alessandro Galeazzi, Pujan Paudel, Mauro Conti, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Gianluca Stringhini
The Importance of Being Discrete: Measuring the Impact of Discretization in End-to-End Differentially Private Synthetic Data 32nd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM CCS 2025)
Georgi Ganev, Meenatchi Sundaram Muthu Selva Annamalai, Sofiane Mahiou, Emiliano De Cristofaro
The Inadequacy of Similarity-based Privacy Metrics: Privacy Attacks against "Truly Anonymous" Synthetic Datasets 46th IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy (S&P 2025) Distinguished Paper
Georgi Ganev, Emiliano De Cristofaro
Beyond the Crawl: Unmasking Browser Fingerprinting in Real User Interactions 34th The Web Conference (WWW 2025)
Meenatchi Sundaram Muthu Selva Annamalai, Igor Bilogrevic, Emiliano De Cristofaro