Roya Ensafi

🎉🎉 Promoted to Associate Professor! This milestone reflects years of hard work, research, and passion... times it felt like swimming against the current. Big shoutout to my students, mentors, anti-censorship community, friends & family - couldn't have done it without you!

👁️🎥Our latest Friday Night AI - "Rethinking Privacy in the Age of AI: Who’s Watching, Who’s Protecting?"- is now online! Experts unpack the urgent questions around surveillance & #AI: Profs. @royaensafi, Florian Schaub, & @radamihalcea youtube.com/watch?v=9pKT9W…

OMG! Summary of the 3rd Open Measurement Gathering (OMG) Ask Me Anything (AMA) event ooni.org/post/2025-omg/ ✨ View presentations & learn about updates and future plans from OONI, @CensoredPlanet, @MeasurementLab & @IODA_live! 🐙💫 #keepiton #OpenData #censorship

@niloofar_mire @CMU_EPP @LTIatCMU @AIatMeta @kamalikac Congratulations YAY🎆🎉

📣Thrilled to announce I’ll join Carnegie Mellon University (@CMU_EPP & @LTIatCMU) as an Assistant Professor starting Fall 2026! Until then, I’ll be a Research Scientist at @AIatMeta FAIR in SF, working with @kamalikac’s amazing team on privacy, security, and reasoning in LLMs!

CSE PhD student @diwenxue has received a 🏆 Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship award recognizing his outstanding research accomplishments and his work on internet security and measurement. 👇Click below for more on Diwen's research [article]: cse.engin.umich.edu/stories/diwen-…

@UMichCSE @jayhersk congrats Jaylin🎉

Join us in congratulating PhD student Jaylin Herskovitz on receiving the 🏆 Susan Lipschutz Award! 🎉 This honor from @UMichRackham recognizes her academic excellence, social responsibility, and support for women in academia. 🔗 Read more: cse.engin.umich.edu/stories/phd-st… @jayhersk

It's arrived!

…. Banned books … thanks @citizenlab team and my great friends for this amazing report 👉 identified three major censorship blocklists which Amazon assigns to different regions Big tech must be more transparent about their censorship practices

🌍 International applications for our Knight-Wallace Fellowships for the '25-'26 academic year are CLOSING SOON! 📣 Apply now and take the next step in your journalism journey! 🚀✍️ #KnightWallaceFellowships #WallaceHouse

.@HarryOppy, Anna Ablove, and @royaensafi explore the threat to digital equality posed by websites geoblocking users in response to political risks from sanctions, and provide recommendations for combatting this widespread practice. lawfaremedia.org/article/how-ge…

Very excited to finally launch this new tool free and open to the public! We've been working on this for a while. The CLM enables everyone to explore latencies between 100+ cloud regions around the world!

@natynettle @cyberscoop @timstarks @accessnow @CyberScoopNews Congratulations 🎊 truely well deserved

I am honored to receive the 2024 #CyberScoop50 award! My work exposing Russian phishing operations & Pegasus spyware & seeking accountability for victims would not have been possible in many ways w/out @CyberScoop & amazing journalists like @timstarks cyberscoop.com/cyberscoop-50-…

✨Vinton G. Cerf will be giving the 22nd William Gould Dow Distinguished Lecture! 🗓️Join us on Nov 8 to hear him speak on the "Implications of Our Dependence on a Digital Ecosystem." ⭐@vgcerf ⭐ #UMCSE #UMEECS 👉 Event details: cse.engin.umich.edu/event/implicat…

⏳1 week left to apply to @OpenTechFund's Surge & Sustain Fund! The Fund provides resources to help open source, large-scale VPNs and other anti-censorship tools sustain current users and respond to growing demand for their tools. Deadline: Oct 30 ow.ly/J4wn50TqjUF

@AnhongGuo @EllieSeehorn @jayhersk @XRDS_ACM Wow this is amazing

A nice article @EllieSeehorn and @jayhersk wrote about our lab, appearing in the Fall Crossroads magazine @XRDS_ACM: dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.114…

@eredmil1 @TheOfficialACM @acm_ccs 😍🎉🎉🎉🎉 congratulation 🎉🎉🎉

I’m honored to have been awarded the @TheOfficialACM SIGSAC Outstanding Early-Career Researcher Award for “pioneering research contributions in the area of sociotechnical security research” today at @acm_ccs #ccs24

I'll be recruiting PhD students this cycle! If you're interested in working at the intersection of cryptography, differential privacy, and ML, please reach out. I'll also be at @acm_ccs next week—find me if you'd like to chat! RTs appreciated 🙏

📢 I am seeking candidates interested in applying for a Tenured Research Position @Inria to join my team! The interested candidate must reach out and express their interest before the end of October 2024. 👉 More info here: www-sop.inria.fr/members/Natali…

@nataliabielova @Inria Congrats Nataliia. YAY🎉

🤩 Happy to announce that starting from today, I became a Research Director at @Inria! Research Director is similar to Full Prof. in academic system, and soon I'll be creating my own team! More news coming up! www-sop.inria.fr/members/Natali…

CALL FOR PAPERS: Free and Open Communications on the Internet (FOCI) 2025 is looking for two, four, and eight-page submissions on topics broadly relating to Internet freedom. Deadline for Issue 1 (virtual event) is November 8. Learn more: #cfp" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">foci.community/#cfp

📢 Today, in collaboration w/ @DigitalEurasian & Internet Freedom Kazakhstan, we co-published a new research report documenting TLS MITM attacks & various blocks in #Kazakhstan. Read our report in: • English: ooni.org/post/2024-kaza… • Russian: ooni.org/ru/post/2024-k… 🧵