Cynthia Kuo

Senior Research Scientist
NRC Palo Alto

Cynthia is a researcher in the Mobile Internet Services Systems team. Her specialty is user experience design for mobile applications and usable security / privacy. She earned a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University and B.S. from Stanford University.

Professional Activities

Adjunct professor, Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley

Teaching

Human Factors in Security, Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley, Spring 2009

Program Committee

Invited Talks and Panels Chair, Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS) 2010

Publications

Sun, Feng-Tso, Cynthia Kuo, Martin Griss, and Patricia Collins.
"Activity-aware Mental Stress Detection Using Physiology Signals." To appear in the Second International Conference on Mobile Computing, Applications, and Services (MobiCASE 2010), Santa Clara, CA, October 25 - 28, 2010.

Setlur, Vidya, Cynthia Kuo, and Peter Mikelsons.
"Towards Designing Better Map Interfaces for the Mobile: Experiences From Example."
1st International Conference on Computing for Geospatial Research & Application (COM.geo 2010), Washington, DC, June 21-31, 2010.

Kuo, Cynthia, Adrian Perrig, and Jesse Walker.
"Designing User Studies for Security Applications: A Case Study with Wireless Network Configuration."
International Journal of Security and Networks (IJSN), Vol. 409, Nos. 1/2, pp. 101 - 109, 2009.

Kuo, Cynthia, Ahren Studer, and Adrian Perrig.
"Mind Your Manners: Socially Appropriate Wireless Key Establishment for Groups."
First ACM Conference on Wireless Network Security (WiSec '08), Alexandria, VA, March 31 - April 2, 2008.

Kuo, Cynthia, Mark Luk, Rohit Negi, and Adrian Perrig.
"Message-In-a-Bottle: User-Friendly and Secure Key Deployment for Sensor Nodes."
ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor System (SenSys 2007), Sydney, Australia, November 6 - 9, 2007.

Kuo, Cynthia, Jesse Walker, and Adrian Perrig.
"Low-cost Manufacturing, Usability, and Security: An Analysis of Bluetooth Simple Pairing and Wi-Fi Protected Setup."
Usable Security (USEC'07), Lowlands, Tobago, February 15 - 16, 2007.

Kuo, Cynthia, Sasha Romanosky, and Lorrie Cranor.
"Human Selection of Mnemonic Phrase-based Passwords."
Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2006), Pittsburgh, PA, July 12 - 14, 2006.

Parno, Bryan, Cynthia Kuo, and Adrian Perrig.
"Phoolproof Phishing Prevention."
10th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC'06), Anguilla, British West Indies, February 27 - March 2, 2006.