CONFERENCE PAPERS

  • Evaluating In-Workflow Messages for Improving Mental Models of End-to-End Encryption

    Omer Akgul, Wei Bai, Shruti Das, and Michelle L. Mazurek. USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX), 2021. To appear.

  • Improving Non-Experts’ Understanding of End-to-End Encryption: An Exploratory Study

    Wei Bai, Michael Pearson, Patrick Gage Kelley, and Michelle L. Mazurek. IEEE European Workshop on Usable Security (EuroUSEC), 2020. [PDF] [Slides]

  • A Qualitative Investigation of Insecure Code Propagation From Online Forums

    Wei Bai, Omer Akgul, and Michelle L. Mazurek. IEEE Secure Development Conference (SecDev), 2019. [PDF] [Slides]

  • Understanding User Tradeoffs for Search in Encrypted Communication

    Wei Bai, Ciara Lynton, Charalampos (Babis) Papamanthou and Michelle L. Mazurek. IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P), 2018. [PDF] [Slides]

  • An Inconvenient Trust: User Attitudes toward Security and Usability Tradeoffs for Key-Directory Encryption Systems

    Wei Bai, Doowon Kim, Moses Namara, Yichen Qian, Patrick Gage Kelley and Michelle L. Mazurek. Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS), 2016. [PDF] [Slides]

  • Performance evaluation of NSC in DTNs

    Wei Bai, Richard La, Ginnah Lee and Gregory Stein. Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), 2015. [PDF]

  • MIMO iterative receiver using lattice reduction-aided detection and successive interference cancellation

    Wei Bai, Qiaoyu Li, Lin Bai and Jinho Choi. International Conference on Wireless Communications and Signal Processing (WCSP), 2013. [PDF]

JOURNAL PAPERS

  • Balancing Security and Usability in Encrypted Email

    Wei Bai, Doowon Kim, Moses Namara, Yichen Qian, Patrick Gage Kelley and Michelle L. Mazurek. IEEE Internet Computing Magazine,2017. [PDF]

  • Approximate maximum a posteriori detection for multiple-input-multiple-output systems with bit-level lattice reduction-aided detectors and successive interference cancellation

    Lin Bai, Qiaoyu Li, Wei Bai and Jinho Choi. IET Communications, 2014. [PDF]

POSTERS

  • Understanding User Tradeoffs for Search in Encrypted Communication

    Wei Bai, Ciara Lynton, Charalampos (Babis) Papamanthou and Michelle L. Mazurek. Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS), 2018. [Poster]

  • More skilled internet users behave (a little) more securely

    Elissa M. Redmiles, Shelby Silverstein, Wei Bai, and Michelle L. Mazurek. Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS), 2016. [Abstract]

OTHER

  • Improving Mental Models of End-to-End Encrypted Communication

    Omer Akgul, Wei Bai. Black Hat USA, 2020. [LINK] [SLIDES]

  • An Inconvenient Trust: User Attitudes toward Security and Usability Tradeoffs for Key-Directory Encryption Systems

    Wei Bai, Doowon Kim, Moses Namara, Yichen Qian, Patrick Gage Kelley, Michelle L. Mazurek. Black Hat USA, 2016. [LINK] [TALK]

THESIS

  • [PhD Dissertation] User Perceptions of and Attitudes toward Encrypted Communication

    Wei Bai, University of Maryland, College Park, 2019. [PDF]

  • [Master Thesis] Performance evaluation of nullspace stopping condition incorporating network coding in delay tolerant networks

    Wei Bai, University of Maryland, College Park, 2015.