Scholar
Alena Naiakshina
Google Scholar ID: 6HPZRskAAAAJ
Professor for IT Security, University of Cologne
Developer-centered Security
Usable Security and Privacy
Human Factors
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Citations
1,035
H-index
13
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16
Publications
20
Co-authors
40
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Publications
6 items
From Chasing Ghosts to Missed Attacks: Perspectives and Perceptions of SOC Practitioners on LLM Integration, Risks, and Readiness
2026
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Poking Around in the Dark: Why a Shared Understanding of Components Matters
2026
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The Impact of AI-Assisted Development on Software Security: A Study of Gemini and Developer Experience
2026
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"I need to learn better searching tactics for privacy policy laws.''Investigating Software Developers'Behavior When Using Sources on Privacy Issues
2025
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"Sorry for bugging you so much."Exploring Developers' Behavior Towards Privacy-Compliant Implementation
2025
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A Taxonomy of Functional Security Features and How They Can Be Located
2025
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Resume
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
Co-authors
10 total
M. Angela Sasse ML, FREng
Professor of Human-Centred Security, Ruhr University Bochum & Prof. Human-Centred Technology, UCL
Joseph Bonneau
New York University
Ruba Abu-Salma
Senior Lecturer (~Associate Professor) in Computer Science, King’s College London
Yasemin Acar
Paderborn University & The George Washington University
Awais Rashid
Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol, UK
Daniel Votipka
Tufts University
Akond Rahman
Auburn University
Sascha Fahl
CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security