Alena Naiakshina
Scholar

Alena Naiakshina

Google Scholar ID: 6HPZRskAAAAJ
Professor for IT Security, University of Cologne
Developer-centered SecurityUsable Security and PrivacyHuman Factors
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
1,035
 
H-index
13
 
i10-index
16
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
40
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Honorable Mention at CHI’25 for "Women Security Experts Are Not The Enemy: A Qualitative Study on Gender-Related Communication Challenges"
  • Honorable Mention at CHI’25 for "Exploring the Impact of Intervention Methods on Developers’ Security Behavior in a Manipulated ChatGPT Study"
  • Distinguished Paper Award at SOUPS’22 for "Let’s Hash: Helping Developers with Password Security – A User Study"
  • Finalist for CAST/GI IT Security Dissertation Award 2022
  • John Karat Usable Privacy and Security Student Research Award at SOUPS’21
  • Honorable Mention at CHI’19 for "‘If you want, I can store the encrypted password’: A Password-Storage Field Study with Freelance Developers"
  • Program Committee Member for top-tier conferences including CCS 2026, ACM ASIACCS 2026, USENIX Security 2025, IEEE S&P 2025, SOUPS 2024
  • Reviewer for ACM TOPS and Associate Chair for Privacy & Security subcommittee at CHI’24