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SALT LAB


Social Computing Systems Lab
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)



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Openings: motivated students interested in qualitative and quantitative data
analysis, graphic design, web/mobile app/smart contract development, and
professional writing. Please send resume to Prof. Yun Huang. and Prof. Yang
Wang.




ABOUT

The SALT (Social Computing Systems) lab focuses on systems research in social
computing. We seek deep understandings of how people interact with
sociotechnical computing systems. We develop original designs that either enable
new forms of user/social interaction or impact existing user/social interaction.
We propose, develop and evaluate novel infrastructure solutions for a variety of
social computing applications. Example projects include mobile crowdsourcing
systems for public safety, systems for protecting people's privacy in social
media, designs for enabling new forms of interactions between librarians and
patrons, and mechanisms for making authentication more accessible for people
with disabilities. Currently, our research is funded by NSF, Department of
Health and Human Services, Institute of Museum and Library Services, Google,
Meta, and OpenAI.




NEWS

Congrats to SALT lab alum Dr. Natã Barbosa, Prof. Yang Wang and their
collaborators for their USENIX Security 2022 paper on DeepPhish attacks

Congrats to Prof. Yun Huang for a new NSF grant on online learning accessibility

Congrats to doctoral student Smirity Kaushik, Prof. Yang Wang and their
collaborators for winning the IAPP SOUPS Privacy Award for their paper on solely
automated decision-making

Congrats to Prof. Yun Huang and Prof. Yang Wang for a new NSF grant on AI ethics

Congrats to Prof. Yang Wang for a new NSF grant on visual privacy

Congrats to SALT lab alum Dr. Natã Barbosa, Prof. Yang Wang and their
collaborators for their UbiComp2021 paper on the whoami system

Congrats to Dr. Natã Barbosa for defending his thesis! Natã will join the
Facebook Privacy team as a researcher

Congrats to Prof. Yang Wang and his collaborators for a USENIX Security2021
papers

Congrats to Prof. Yun Huang and her collaborators for four CSCW2021 papers

Congrats to doctoral student Si Chen, Prof. Yun Huang and their collaborators
for winning an Honorable Mention Award for their CSCW2020 paper on live video
streaming for education!

Congrats to Dr. Yaxing Yao for defending his thesis! Yaxing will join the Dept.
of Information Systems at UMBC as an assistant professor

Congrats to doctoral student Natã Barbosa and Prof. Yang Wang for receiving a
Facebook Privacy Preserving Technologies Research Award

Congrats to doctoral student Natã Barbosa for being named a finalist for the
2020 Facebook Fellowship in the area of privacy and data use

Doctoral student Natã Barbosa has a paper accepted in WWW2020

Prof. Yun Huang has two CHI2020 papers

Congrats to Jordan Hayes, Smirity Kaushik, Charlotte Price, and Prof. Yang Wang
for their SOUPS2019 paper, which won the IAPP Privacy Award

Congrats to Yaxing Yao, Oriana McDonough, Justin Basdeo, and Prof. Yang Wang for
their CSCW2019 paper, which won a Best Paper Honorable Mention

Doctoral student Natã Barbosa and Prof. Yang Wang has a new US Patent on
accessible authentication

Prof. Yun Huang has a CSCW2019 paper

Prof. Yun Huang has a paper in the ACM Transactions on Social Computing

Doctoral student Nata Barbosa has a CHI2019 paper

Doctoral student Yaxing Yao, Justin Basdeo, Smirity Kaushik, and Prof. Yang Wang
have a CHI2019 paper

Congrats to Prof. Yun Huang and Qunfang Wu for their iConference2018 Best Paper
Award!



GRANTS

(2023- 2024) OpenAI Research Award on Democratic Design-Making: “Inclusive.AI: A
ChatGPT Plugin and DAO to Engage Marginalized Groups in AI”, total $110,000.
PIs: Yang Wang and Yun Huang.

(08/22-07/25) Institute of Museum and Library Services Early CAREER Research
Development Award: “Empowering Libraries with Conversational AI”, total
$399,996. Single PI: Yun Huang.

(09/2021-09/2024) NSF: Advancing STEM Online Learning by Augmenting
Accessibility with Explanatory Captions and AI, total $849,990, Lead PI, Yun
Huang. Co-PIs: Lawrence Angrave (UIUC), Meng Jiang (Notre Dame), Qi Wang
(Gallaudet University).

(10/2021-09/2025) NSF SaTC Medium: Novel Algorithms and Tools for Empowering
People Who Are Blind to Safeguard Private Visual Content, total ~$1.1M, UIUC
$315,931, PI, Yang Wang. Lead PI Danna Gurari (Univ. of Colorado Boulder), PI
Leah Findlater (Univ. of Washington).

(07/2021-06/2023) NSF SaTC-Edu: Teaching High School Students about
Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence Ethics via Empathy-Driven Hands-On
Projects, total ~$300K, UIUC $154,754, PI Yang Wang. Co-PIs: Yun Huang (UIUC),
Pilyoung Kim (Univ. of Denver), and Tom Yeh (Univ. of Colorado Boulder).

(07/2018-06/2021) National Leadership Grants for Libraries, Learning Spaces in
Libraries, Log Number: Log Number: LG-80-15-0212-15, $249,908, PI, Yun Huang.
Co-PIs: Jian Qin, Xiaozhong Liu.

(06/2017-05/2022) NSF CAREER Award, Inclusive Privacy: Effective Privacy
Management for People with Visual Impairments, $497,873, PI, Yang Wang.

(11/2015-10/2016) Syracuse University Internal Research Grant Program,
Accessible Online Social Learning via Crowdsourcing, $11,250, PI, Yun Huang.

(10/2015-09/2018) National Leadership Grants for Libraries, Learning Spaces in
Libraries, Log Number: LG-80-15-0212-15, $281,263, PI, Yun Huang. Co-PI, R.
David Lankes, Jian Qin. Out of total 155 applications, only 15 projects were
awarded (less than 10% award rate).

(08/2015-09/2016) Google Research Award, 14% award rate (805 proposals, 113
projects were funded and 27% of the funding awarded to universities outside the
U.S), $38,514, PI, Yun Huang.

(06/2015-06/2016) Syracuse University's Information Technology Services (ITS),
$3,600, PI, Yun Huang.

(06/2015-06/2016) SU ADVANCE Cross-Sector/Interdisciplinary Opportunity Grants,
$10,000, PI, Yun Huang.

(09/2015-08/2016) REU supplements National Science Foundation IIS 1464312,
$16,000, Yun Huang.

(2015-2017) National Science Foundation, CRII SaTC: Privacy-Enhancing User
Interfaces Based on Individualized Mental Models, Standard Grant, $159,586, PI,
Yang Wang.

(09/2015-08/2016) National Science Foundation, CRII: CHS: Mobile Crowdsourcing
System for Public Safety, Standard Grant, $189,141, PI, Yun Huang.

(09/2014-08/2018) National Science Foundation, Spreading SEEDS: Large-Scale
Dissemination of SEED Labs for Security Education, Standard Grant, total
$827,385 for 4 years. PI, Kevin Du, Co-PI, Yang Wang.

(09/2013-08/2018) National Institute for Disability Rehabilitation Research
(NIDRR) ICWC, DRRP on Inclusive Cloud and Web Computing, Syracuse University
Subcontract, total $866,000 for 5 years. PI, Yang Wang, Co-PI, Yun Huang.




CONTACT

Email: yvw AT illinois DOT edu
Lab Phone: 217-244-0401
Address: SALT Lab, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL 61820-6211







Last Updated on Oct. 2020.