Nathan Malkin
Assistant Professor, Informatics
About Me
I work on making technology more private and secure by studying and simplifying people's decisions. My research lies at the intersection of (cyber)security & privacy with human-computer interaction & social computing.

See my website, below, for more information!
Education
Ph.D. ; University of California-Berkeley ; Computer Science ; 2021

B.S. ; Brown University ; Computer Science & Economics ; 2013

Website
https://malk.in
2025 Fall Courses
IS 790A - DOCT DISSERTATION & RES

IT 488 - INDEPENDENT STUDY

CS 488 - INDEPENDENT STUDY IN CS

IS 491 - SENIOR PROJECT - IS

IS 701B - MASTER'S THESIS

IS 726 - INDEPENDENT STUDY II

IS 792 - PRE-DOCTORAL RESEARCH

IS 700B - MASTER'S PROJECT

IS 776 - IS RESEARCH STUDY

IS 489 - INFO UNDERGRAD THESIS RESEARCH

IS 393 - USABLE SECURITY AND PRIVACY

CS 792 - PRE-DOCTORAL RESEARCH

IS 488 - INDEPENDENT STUDY IN INFO

IS 725 - INDEPENDENT STUDY I

Past Courses
CS 485: ST: USABLE SECURITY AND PRIVACY

CS 698: ST: HUMAN FACTORS IN SECURITY & PRIVACY

CS 698: ST: HUMAN FACTORS IN SECURITY AND PRIVACY

IS 485: ST: USABLE SECURITY AND PRIVACY

IS 698: ST: HUMAN FACTORS IN SECURITY & PRIVACY

IS 698: ST: HUMAN FACTORS IN SECURITY AND PRIVACY

Research Interests
Human-centered security and privacy
Journal Article
Abreu, Giselle Mendon\c ca, Alexandra Pan, Alison E. Post, Nathan Malkin, Karen Trapenberg Frick. "How Do Cyber-Risks Vary Across Smart City Technologies?." Journal of Urban Technology , vol. 0 , no. 0 , pp. 1--21.

Giselle Mendonça Abreu, Alexandra Pan, Alison E. Post, Nathan Malkin, Karen Trapenberg Frick. 2025. "How do Cyber-Risks Vary Across Smart City Technologies?." Journal of Urban Technology , pp. 1-21.

Nathan Malkin. 2023. "Contextual Integrity, Explained: A More Usable Privacy Definition." IEEE Security \& Privacy , pp. 2--9.

Nathan Malkin. 2023. "Contextual Integrity, Explained: A More Usable Privacy Definition." IEEE Security & Privacy , vol. 21 , no. 1 , pp. 58-65.

Nathan Malkin, David Wagner, Serge Egelman. 2022. "Can Humans Detect Malicious Always-Listening Assistants? A Framework for Crowdsourcing Test Drives." Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction , vol. 6 , no. CSCW2 , pp. 1-28.

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Conference Proceeding
"Do You See If I See? Investigating Reciprocity in Interpersonal Access-Control Settings (in the U.S.)"
2025.

"Privacy Solution or Menace? Investigating Perceptions of Radio-Frequency Sensing"
2025.

""That's something that as a senior person you have to consider now": Unpacking Older Adults' Preferences for End-of-Life Data Planning"
ACM, July (3rd Quarter/Summer), 2025.

"Characterizing Everyday Misuse of Smart Home Devices"
IEEE, May, 2023.

"Is Cryptographic Deniability Sufficient? Non-Expert Perceptions of Deniability in Secure Messaging"
IEEE, May, 2023.

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Conference Paper
"Understanding How People Share Passwords"
Twentieth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2024), August, 2024.

"Write, Read, or Fix? Exploring Alternative Methods for Secure Development Studies"
Twentieth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2024), August, 2024.

Technical Report
"The Cybersecurity Risks of Smart City Technologies: What Do The Experts Think?"
February, 2021.