Rachel McAmis

PhD Student
Security and Privacy Research Lab
University of Washington

Contact
rcmcamis@cs.washington.edu
CV (last updated 08/2024)

About Me

Hello! I'm a third year computer science PhD student at the University of Washington, advised by Yoshi Kohno in the Security and Privacy research lab. Generally, my research explores security and privacy for emerging technologies. I am especially interested in the security and privacy of satellites and other space systems.

Publications

Proactive Runtime Detection of Aging-Related Silent Data Corruptions: A Bottom-Up Approach.
Jiacheng Ma, Majd Ganaiem, Madeline Burbage, Theo Gregersen, Rachel McAmis, Freddy Gabbay, and Baris Kasikci.
International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS) 2025.

Handling Identity and Fraud in the Metaverse.
Rachel McAmis, Betül Durak, Melissa Chase, Kim Laine, Franziska Roesner, and Tadayoshi Kohno.
IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine 2024.

Over Fences and Into Yards: Privacy Threats and Concerns of Commercial Satellites.
Rachel McAmis, Mattea Sim, Mia Bennett, and Tadayoshi Kohno.
Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium 2024.
Runner-Up for Andreas Pfitzmann Best Student Paper Award.

The Writing on the Wall and 3D Digital Twins: Personal Information in (not so) Private Real Estate
Rachel McAmis and Tadayoshi Kohno.
Usenix Security Symposium 2023.

What Factors Affect Targeting and Bids in Online Advertising? A Field Measurement Study
Eric Zeng, Rachel McAmis, Tadayoshi Kohno, Franziska Roesner.
ACM Internet Measurement Conference 2022.

An Empirical Comparison of Preservation Methods for Synthetic DNA Data Storage
Lee Organick, Bichlien H. Nguyen, Rachel McAmis, Weida D. Chen, A. Xavier Kohll, Siena Dumas Ang, Robert N. Grass, Luis Ceze, and Karin Strauss.
Small Methods 2021.