Alexandra Nisenoff Research

Computer Science

"It was honestly just gambling": Investigating the Experiences of Teenage Cryptocurrency Users on Reddit.
Elijah Bouma-Sims, Hiba Hassan, Alexandra Nisenoff, Lorrie Faith Cranor, and Nicolas Christin.
Proceedings of the 20th Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security. Philadelphia, PA, August 2024.
[Paper Forthcoming]
A Two-Decade Retrospective Analysis of a University's Vulnerability to Attacks Exploiting Reused Passwords.
Alexandra Nisenoff, Maximilian Golla, Miranda Wei, Juliette Hainline, Hayley Szymanek, Annika Braun, Annika Hildebrandt, Blair Christensen, David Langenberg, and Blase Ur.
Proceedings of the 32nd USENIX Security Symposium. Anaheim, CA, August 2023
Distinguished Paper Award
[Paper] [Slides]
Defining "Broken": User Experiences and Remediation Tactics When Ad-Blocking or Tracking-Protection Tools Break a Website's User Experience.
Alexandra Nisenoff, Arthur Borem, Madison Pickering, Grant Nakanishi, Maya Thumpasery, and Blase Ur.
Proceedings of the 32nd USENIX Security Symposium. Anaheim, CA, August 2023
[Paper][Slides]
Measuring the Risk Password Reuse Poses for a University
Alexandra Nisenoff, Maximilian Golla, Blase Ur
USENIX ;login: July 27, 2023.
[Article][Author's Copy]
User Awareness and Behaviors Concerning Encrypted DNS Settings in Web Browsers.
Alexandra Nisenoff, Ranya Sharma, Nick Feamster.
Proceedings of the 32nd USENIX Security Symposium. Anaheim, CA, August 2023
[Paper]
A US-UK Usability Evaluation of Consent Management Platform Cookie Consent Interface Design on Desktop and Mobile.
Elijah Bouma-Sims, Megan Li, Yanzi Lin, Adia Sakura-Lemessy, Alexandra Nisenoff, Ellie Young, Eleanor Birrell, Lorrie Faith Cranor, and Hana Habib.
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). Hamburg, Germany. April 2023.
[Paper]
"The Same PIN, Just Longer": On the(In)Security of Upgrading PINs from 4 to 6 Digits.
Collins W. Munyendo, Philipp Markert, Alexandra Nisenoff, Miles Grant, Elena Korkes, Blase Ur, Adam J. Aviv.
Proceedings of the 31st USENIX Security Symposium. Boston, MA, August 2022.
[Paper]
User Expectations and Understanding of Encrypted DNS Settings
Alexandra Nisenoff, Nick Feamster, Madeleine A. Hoofnagle, Sydney Zink
NDSS DNS Privacy Workshop. Virtual, 2021.
[Paper][Slides]

Other

As an undergrad I helped design a new online database of radio lightcurve data and updated/maintained the Supernova X-Ray Database (SNaX) for Professor Vikram Dwarkadas in the Astrophysics department.

Early in undergrad I worked as a lab tech in a geophysical sciences lab where I did some otimization work on the data processing pipeline for research on water isotopologue ratios in the atmosphere.

Way back in high school I did psychology research on project based learning and presented a poster at the National Association of School Psychologists with my collaborators.

Supernova X-Ray Database (SNaX) Updated to Ensure Long-term Stability.
Alexandra Nisenoff, Vikram V. Dwarkadas, Mathias C. Ross.
Res. Notes AAS 4 195. 2020.
[Paper][Website]