In News:
10/12/2021
Our grant proposal, Evaluating Developers' Privacy Comprehension During Mobile Applications Development Process, got funded by Google’s privacy-related faculty award program.
09/16/2021
Our paper, A Two-Fold Study to Investigate Users' Perception of IoT Information Sensitivity Levels and Their Willingness to Share the Information, got accepted at EISA'21.
08/11/2021
Our paper, Lattice-based Contextual Integrity Analysis of Social Network Privacy Policies, got accepted for presentation at the 3rd Annual Symposium on Applications of Contextual Integrity.
07/03/2021
06/09/2021
Dr. Ghanavati gave a talk at ACM-W Celebrating Technology Leaders: Women in Cybersecurity.
03/12/2021
03/12/2021
Our paper, PHIN: A Privacy Protected Heterogeneous IoT Network, got accepted at RCIS'21.
11/11/2020
Our journal paper, RationalGRL: A Framework for Argumentation and Goal Modeling, has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Argument & Computation, 2020.
10/22/2020
Dr. Ghanavati gave a talk at the first virtual cybersecurity conference at the Center for Criminal Justice, Intelligence and Cybersecurity at SUNY Canton.
07/17/2020
Our proposal, Advancing Legal-Technological Approaches for Protecting Privacy Rights and Civil Liberties in the Age of Big Data has been awarded as part of the AI Initiative seed grant at UMaine.
06/30/2020
Our paper, Towards Variability-Aware Legal-GRL Framework for Modeling Compliance Requirements, has been accepted at the 7th International Workshop on Evolving Security & Privacy Requirements Engineering (ESPRE) at RE 2020.
03/30/2020
Our paper, Towards a heterogeneous IoT privacy architecture, has been accepted at the 35th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, 2020.
03/30/2020
Our paper, A Methodology for Implementing the Formal Legal-GRL Framework: A Research Preview has been accepted at Int. Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality, 2020.
02/07/2020
Our Workshop on PrivateNLP was held in Houston, TX collocated with WSDM20.
02/07/2019
Our paper, Is It Possible to Preserve Privacy in the Age of AI? has been accepted at PrivateNLP Workshop.
11/13/2019
Dr. Ghanavati gave a talk at IEEE COM/CS Chapter, at Husson University.
04/03/2019
Our project, Privacy Consistency Framework for IoT Applications has been selected as the awardee for UMaine Research - Faculty Travel Fund.
03/28/2019
Dr. Ghanavati gave a tech talk at Google Sunnyvale.
03/14/2019
Dr. Ghanavati received a travel grant from NSF to attend CISE Career Workshop on April 8 - 9.
03/08/2019
We received $5,000 in Google Cloud Platform credits for our research proposal.
02/28/2019
Our research project "Privacy Statements’ Recommender System (PSRS) based on Permission Methods of Android Applications" has been funded by Google Faculty Research Award.
01/30/2019
Our extended abstract and poster "Towards Integrating the FLG Framework with the NLP Combinatory Framework" by Amin Rabinia, Mauro Dragoni, and Sepideh Ghanavati has been accepted at PAL: Privacy-Enhancing Artificial Intelligence and Language Technologies - AAAI Spring Symposium.
10/29/2018
Dr. Ghanavati has received a travel award from "Bangor Savings Bank/LuRosso".
09/01/2018
Started a position at UMaine.
08/09/2018
The submission site for AAAI Spring Symposium on Privacy-Enhancing Artificial Intelligence and Language Technologies is now open
07/06/2018
Our paper, Privacy Consistency Analyzer for Android Applications, got accepted at ESPRE workshop.
Our paper, the FOL-based Legal-GRL (FLG) Framework: Towards an Automated Goal Modeling Approach for Regulations got accepted at MODRE workshop.
11/14/2017
Dr. Ghanavati has received NSF Support Grant for Junior Researchers - CNS-1257011 - Schloss Dagstuhl for attending Dagstuhl Seminar 18171, "Normative Multi-Agent Systems", 2017.


























