Publications

Kurt Thomas, Sai Teja Peddinti, Sarah Meiklejohn, Tara Matthews, Amelia Hassoun, Animesh Srivastava, Jessica McClearn, Patrick Gage Kelley, Sunny Consolvo, Nina Taft (2027). Understanding Help Seeking for Digital Privacy, Safety, and Security. PETS.

Vijayanta Jain, Sepideh Ghanavati, Sai Teja Peddinti, Collin McMillan (2026). Verity: A Framework to Generate Privacy Captions from Android Source Code using LLMs. SCAM.

Sai Teja Peddinti, Omer Akgul, Michelle L. Mazurek, Nina Taft (2026). Nudging Developers Toward Privacy: Evaluating the Impact of Personalized App Review Reports. SOUPS.

Smirity Kaushik, Kyle Beadle, Gauri Nayak, Madelyn Rose Sanfilippo, Mainack Mondal, Yang Wang, Sai Teja Peddinti, Jingjie Li, Yixin Zou (2026). "You have been selected as the winner": Characterizing User-Reported Scams on TikTok. SOUPS.

Jiaxun Cao, Yu Dong, Chunxi Zhan, Rithvik Neti, Sai Teja Peddinti, Pardis Emami-Naeini (2026). Understanding U.S. Users' Security and Privacy Transparency Needs for Consumer-Facing Generative AI. SOUPS.

Sarah Meiklejohn, Sunny Consolvo, Patrick Gage Kelley, Tara Matthews, Sai Teja Peddinti, Renee Shelby, Lenin Simicich, Kurt Thomas (2026). HelpBench: Assessing the Ability of LLMs to Provide Privacy, Safety, and Security Advice. arXiv.

Taufiq Islam Protick, Sai Teja Peddinti, Nina Taft, Anupam Das (2026). LLM-Powered Analysis of IoT User Reviews: Tracking and Ranking Security and Privacy Concerns. ICWSM.

Synthia Wang, Sai Teja Peddinti, Nina Taft, Nick Feamster (2026). Beyond PII: How Users Attempt to Estimate and Mitigate Implicit LLM Inference. CHI.

Rameen Mahmood, Sai Teja Peddinti, Tousif Ahmed, Danny Yuxing Huang (2025). What's on My Network? Using Large Language Models to Identify Real-World IoT Devices at Scale. CoNEXT.

Alexandra Klymenko, Stephen Meisenbacher, Patrick Gage Kelley, Sai Teja Peddinti, Kurt Thomas, Florian Matthes (2025). "We are not Future-ready": Understanding AI Privacy Risks and Existing Mitigation Strategies from the Perspective of AI Developers in Europe. SOUPS.