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Emiliano De Cristofaro
Researcher at University College London
Publications - 262
Citations - 9897
Emiliano De Cristofaro is an academic researcher from University College London. The author has contributed to research in topics: Social media & Computer science. The author has an hindex of 47, co-authored 251 publications receiving 7263 citations. Previous affiliations of Emiliano De Cristofaro include Boston University & Nokia.
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Why So Toxic?: Measuring and Triggering Toxic Behavior in Open-Domain Chatbots
Waiman Si,Michael Backes,Jeremy Blackburn,Emiliano De Cristofaro,Gianluca Stringhini,Savvas Zannettou,Yong Zhang +6 more
TL;DR: It is shown that publicly available chatbots are prone to providing toxic responses when fed toxic queries, and an attack, ToxicBuddy, which relies on fine-tuning GPT-2 to generate non-toxic queries that make chatbots respond in a toxic manner is designed and experimented on.
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Analyzing Genetic Testing Discourse on the Web Through the Lens of Twitter, Reddit, and 4chan
TL;DR: The connection between genetic testing and racism is explored on platforms with a reputation for toxicity, namely, Reddit and 4chan, where it is found that discussions around genetic testing often include highly toxic language expressed through hateful and racist comments.
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Preserving query privacy in urban sensing systems
TL;DR: This is the first attempt to define and address both query and data privacy in the context of Urban Sensing, and proposes a distributed privacy-preserving technique that is tunable, trading off the level of privacy assurance with a small overhead increase.
Posted Content
Local and Central Differential Privacy for Robustness and Privacy in Federated Learning.
TL;DR: The authors investigates whether and to what extent one can use differential privacy (DP) to protect both privacy and robustness in federated learning and presents a first-of-its-kind evaluation of Local and Central Differential Privacy (LDP/CDP) techniques in FL, assessing their feasibility and effectiveness.
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Research data supporting "Adblocking and Counter-Blocking: A Slice of the Arms Race"
Rishab Nithyanand,Sheharbano Khattak,Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez,Mobin Javed,Marjan Falahrastegar,Julia Powles,Emiliano De Cristofaro,Hamed Haddadi,Steven J. Murdoch +8 more
TL;DR: Adblocking and Counter-Blocking: A Slice of the Arms Race as mentioned in this paper is an excellent overview of the state of the art in ad blocking and counter-blocking.