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Sophie Stephenson
PhD Candidate, UW-Madison CS
Assistant Professor (incoming), UT Arlington CSE
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2026
- Trauma-Informed Digital Evidence Collection: A Design Inquiry into Evidence Practices for Technology-Facilitated Abuse in Intimate Partner Violence.
Sophie Stephenson, Naman Gupta, Kyle Huang, David Youssef, Kayleigh Cowan, and Rahul Chatterjee.
ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘26).
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🏆 Best Paper Award
- Consent Under Constraints: Negotiating Photography and Media Sharing in Institutionalized Childcare.
Meghna Gupta, George Zhang, Sophie Stephenson, Franziska Roesner, and Julie A. Kientz.
ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘26).
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2025
- Legal Evidence of Technology-Facilitated Abuse in Wisconsin: Surfacing Barriers Within and Beyond the Courtroom.
Sophie Stephenson, Naman Gupta, Akhil Polamarasetty, Kyle Huang, David Youssef, Kayleigh Cowan, and Rahul Chatterjee.
****Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 9, Issue CSCW7.
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📰 Coverage: [UW Madison](<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56lP5ngfT_M>)
🏅 Honorable Mention for Best Paper
- Digital Technologies and Human Trafficking: Combating Coercive Control and Navigating Digital Autonomy.
Sophie Stephenson, Lana Ramjit, Thomas Ristenpart, and Nicola Dell.
*****ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘25)*.
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- Investigating Legal Professionals' Knowledge and Attitudes Toward Technology-Enabled Abuse in Intimate Partner Violence.
Robin Koshelev, Jiaxun Cao, Danielle Kim Park, Marvin Tai, Pardis Emami-Naeini, and ****Sophie Stephenson.
ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Late-Breaking Work (CHI LBW ‘25).
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- ACM CCS Young Scholars Development Program.
F. Betül Durak, Fengjun Li, and Sophie Stephenson.
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS ‘25).
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2024
- Sharenting on TikTok: Exploring Parental Sharing Behaviors and the Discourse Around Children’s Online Privacy.
Sophie Stephenson, Christopher Nathaniel Page, Miranda Wei, Apu Kapadia, and Franziska Roesner.
*****ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘24)*.
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📰 Coverage: [UW Madison](<https://cdis.wisc.edu/stephensons-research-highlights-tiktok-sharenting-privacy-concerns/>)
- Poster: A Case Study on Legal Evidence of Technology-Facilitated Abuse in Wisconsin.
Sophie Stephenson, Naman Gupta, Akhil Polamarasetty, Kyle Huang, David Youssef, Rose Ceccio, Kayleigh Cowan, Alexandra Zinkus, and Rahul Chatterjee.
****USENIX SOUPS Posters.
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2023
- Abuse Vectors: A Framework for Conceptualizing IoT-Enabled Interpersonal Abuse.
Sophie Stephenson, Majed Almansoori, Pardis Emami-Naeini, Danny Yuxing Huang, and Rahul Chatterjee.
USENIX Security Symposium.
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- “It’s the Equivalent of Feeling Like You’re in Jail”: Lessons from Firsthand and Secondhand Accounts of IoT-Enabled Intimate Partner Abuse.
Sophie Stephenson, Majed Almansoori, Pardis Emami-Naeini, and Rahul Chatterjee.
****USENIX Security Symposium.
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- Sneaky Spy Devices and Defective Detectors: The Ecosystem of Intimate Partner Surveillance with Covert Devices.
Rose Ceccio, ****Sophie Stephenson, Varun Chadha, Danny Yuxing Huang, and Rahul Chatterjee.
USENIX Security Symposium.
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2022
- SoK: Authentication in Augmented and Virtual Reality.
Sophie Stephenson, Bijeeta Pal, Stephen Fan, Earlence Fernandes, Yuhang Zhao, and Rahul Chatterjee.
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P ‘22).
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