Yousra Javed

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Assistant Professor
School of Information Technology
Illinois State University

Office: Old Union 203A
Phone: +1 309-438-8173
Email: yjaved at ilstu dot edu

Background

 Dr. Yousra Javed is an Assitant Professor at Illinois State University, and is also serving as the mentor of the ISUSec Cybersecurity student club. She completed her Ph.D. from the College of Computing and Informatics at the University of North Carolina Charlotte. Her research interests include Usable Security and Privacy, and the use of AI in Cybersecurity. She is a member of the Center for Cybersecurity Research & Education.

News

  • I am a recipient of the School of IT Outstanding Citizen Award for 2024
  • I will be participating as a mentor in the Distributed Research Experiences for Undergraduates (DREU) by CRA (Summer 2024)
  • I organized the 2024 Central Illinois High School Cyber Defense Competition (CIHSCDC)
  • I am serving on the technical program committee of the 2024 European Symposium on Usable Security
  • Two papers accepted at the 57th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) 2024

    • Research

    My primary research interests lie at the intersection of Human Computer Interaction, and Privacy and Security. This line of investigation focuses on addressing human factors of Cybersecurity and privacy, by leveraging a user-centered design of security and privacy technologies and using mixed methods to understand user behavior, perceptions, and comprehension as well as to evaluate the effectiveness of existing and proposed interventions/systems on a diverse population. I have investigated several case studies including authentication schemes, email access control/encryption tools, social networks, third-party applications, and voice assistants. Additionally, I am interested in designing security education and awareness materials, privacy policy analysis and compliance, and the use of AI in cyber security, privacy, and education.
    I am looking for students to assist me in my research projects. If you are interested, please apply at this link.

    Active Projects

    • Usable Privacy and Security Texts: Exploring natural language processing techniques to help users understand security and privacy texts.
    • CAPTCHA Design and Evaluation: Sector-wise Investigation of Strength and Accessibility of CAPTCHAs on South Asian Websites.
    • Use of AI Chatbots in Education: Systematic review and investigation of the use of generative AI chatbots for learning and inclusiveness
    • Eye-tracking for Security and Privacy: Exploting passive and active uses of eye-tracking to improve end-user security and privacy.

    Recent Publications

    See my CV or Google Scholar profile for a complete list of publications.

    Teaching

    		 Below are the courses that I commonly teach.

    Graduate Students

    • Yunpeng Li - Quantitative Analysis of Universities' Privacy Statements
    • Jay Dev - User Perceptions of DNA Data Privacy
    • Navid Rajabi - IoT Botnet Traffic Classification using MLP-ANN Learning Algorithm
    • Matthew West - Security Manual for Enabling Users
    • Shashank Sethi - Chrome Extension for Understanding Website's Privacy Policy
    • Akshay Singh Jadoun - User Understanding and Awareness of Alexa's Voice Recording Behavior
    • Kunal Hemnani - Survey of Movie Recommender Systems
    • Anagha Bhide - Enroller for Event Management

    Undergraduate Students

    • Elyse Abadeer - ChatGPT Use and Implications in Various Sectors
    • Caleb Howard - Privacy Policy Dataset Compilation
    • Nicholas Spagnola - Security Analysis of WiFi Access Points
    • Casey Johnson - CS vs Non-CS Students' Phishing Comprehension