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Emiliano De Cristofaro
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- affiliation: University of California, Riverside, CA, USA
- affiliation (former): University College London (UCL), Computer Science Department, London, UK
- affiliation (former): Xerox PARC, Palo Alto, CA, USA
- affiliation (PhD 2011): University of California, Irvine, Computer Science Department, CA, USA
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[c112]Meenatchi Sundaram Muthu Selva Annamalai, Borja Balle, Jamie Hayes, Emiliano De Cristofaro:
To Shuffle or not to Shuffle: Auditing DP-SGD with Shuffling. NDSS 2026
[c111]Alessandro Galeazzi, Pujan Paudel, Mauro Conti, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Gianluca Stringhini:
Revealing The Secret Power: How Algorithms Can Influence Content Visibility on Twitter/X. NDSS 2026
[i135]Georgi Ganev, Emiliano De Cristofaro:
Rethinking Anonymity Claims in Synthetic Data Generation: A Model-Centric Privacy Attack Perspective. CoRR abs/2601.22434 (2026)
[i134]Meenatchi Sundaram Muthu Selva Annamalai, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Peter Kairouz:
CLIOPATRA: Extracting Private Information from LLM Insights. CoRR abs/2603.09781 (2026)
[i133]Parth Gaba, Emiliano De Cristofaro:
Group-Differentiated Discourse on Generative AI in High School Education: A Case Study of Reddit Communities. CoRR abs/2603.24972 (2026)
[i132]Chloe Georgiou, Hans Lu, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Gene Tsudik:
What's on Your Mind? Exploring Privacy of Mental Health Apps. CoRR abs/2605.02016 (2026)- 2025
[j38]Emiliano De Cristofaro:
Cryptocurrency Browser-Extension Security: A Wake-Up Call and a Way Forward. Commun. ACM 68(11): 92 (2025)
[j37]Georgi Ganev, Meenatchi Sundaram Muthu Selva Annamalai, Emiliano De Cristofaro:
The Elusive Pursuit of Reproducing PATE-GAN: Benchmarking, Auditing, Debugging. Trans. Mach. Learn. Res. 2025 (2025)
[c110]Georgi Ganev
, Meenatchi Sundaram Muthu Selva Annamalai
, Sofiane Mahiou
, Emiliano De Cristofaro
:
The Importance of Being Discrete: Measuring the Impact of Discretization in End-to-End Differentially Private Synthetic Data. CCS 2025: 3236-3250
[c109]Sara Chennoufi
, Yufei Han, Gregory Blanc, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Christophe Kiennert:
PROTEAN: Federated Intrusion Detection in Non-IID Environments Through Prototype-Based Knowledge Sharing. ESORICS (1) 2025: 103-125
[c108]Georgi Ganev, Emiliano De Cristofaro:
The Inadequacy of Similarity-Based Privacy Metrics: Privacy Attacks Against "Truly Anonymous" Synthetic Datasets. SP 2025: 4007-4025
[c107]Ben Treves
, Emiliano De Cristofaro
, Yue Dong
, Michalis Faloutsos
:
VIKI: Systematic Cross-Platform Profile Inference of Tech Users. WebSci 2025: 32-41
[c106]Meenatchi Sundaram Muthu Selva Annamalai
, Emiliano De Cristofaro
, Igor Bilogrevic
:
Beyond the Crawl: Unmasking Browser Fingerprinting in Real User Interactions. WWW 2025: 3896-3907
[i131]Meenatchi Sundaram Muthu Selva Annamalai, Igor Bilogrevic, Emiliano De Cristofaro:
Beyond the Crawl: Unmasking Browser Fingerprinting in Real User Interactions. CoRR abs/2502.01608 (2025)
[i130]Ben Treves, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Yue Dong, Michalis Faloutsos:
VIKI: Systematic Cross-Platform Profile Inference of Online Users. CoRR abs/2503.14772 (2025)
[i129]Georgi Ganev, Meenatchi Sundaram Muthu Selva Annamalai, Sofiane Mahiou, Emiliano De Cristofaro:
The Importance of Being Discrete: Measuring the Impact of Discretization in End-to-End Differentially Private Synthetic Data. CoRR abs/2504.06923 (2025)
[i128]Georgi Ganev, Meenatchi Sundaram Muthu Selva Annamalai, Sofiane Mahiou, Emiliano De Cristofaro:
Understanding the Impact of Data Domain Extraction on Synthetic Data Privacy. CoRR abs/2504.08254 (2025)
[i127]Parth Gaba, Emiliano De Cristofaro:
The Ethics of Generative AI in Anonymous Spaces: A Case Study of 4chan's /pol/ Board. CoRR abs/2506.14191 (2025)
[i126]Meenatchi Sundaram Muthu Selva Annamalai, Borja Balle, Jamie Hayes, Georgios Kaissis, Emiliano De Cristofaro:
The Hitchhiker's Guide to Efficient, End-to-End, and Tight DP Auditing. CoRR abs/2506.16666 (2025)
[i125]Sara Chennoufi, Yufei Han, Gregory Blanc, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Christophe Kiennert:
PROTEAN: Federated Intrusion Detection in Non-IID Environments through Prototype-Based Knowledge Sharing. CoRR abs/2507.05524 (2025)
[i124]Georgi Ganev, Reza Nazari, Rees Davison, Amir Dizche, Xinmin Wu, Ralph Abbey, Jorge Silva, Emiliano De Cristofaro:
SMOTE and Mirrors: Exposing Privacy Leakage from Synthetic Minority Oversampling. CoRR abs/2510.15083 (2025)
[i123]Emiliano De Cristofaro, Kris Shrishak, Thorsten Strufe, Carmela Troncoso, Felix Morsbach
:
PETs and AI: Privacy Washing and the Need for a PETs Evaluation Framework (Dagstuhl Seminar 25112). Dagstuhl Reports 15(3): 77-93 (2025)- 2024
[j36]Emiliano De Cristofaro
:
Synthetic Data: Methods, Use Cases, and Risks. IEEE Secur. Priv. 22(3): 62-67 (2024)
[j35]Alexandros Efstratiou
, Marina Efstratiou
, Satrio Baskoro Yudhoatmojo, Jeremy Blackburn
, Emiliano De Cristofaro
:
"Here's Your Evidence": False Consensus in Public Twitter Discussions of COVID-19 Science. Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact. 8(CSCW2): 1-33 (2024)
[c105]Georgi Ganev
, Kai Xu
, Emiliano De Cristofaro
:
Graphical vs. Deep Generative Models: Measuring the Impact of Differentially Private Mechanisms and Budgets on Utility. CCS 2024: 1596-1610
[c104]Mohammad Hammas Saeed, Kostantinos Papadamou, Jeremy Blackburn, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Gianluca Stringhini:
TUBERAIDER: Attributing Coordinated Hate Attacks on YouTube Videos to Their Source Communities. ICWSM 2024: 1354-1366
[c103]Jay Patel
, Pujan Paudel, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Gianluca Stringhini, Jeremy Blackburn:
iDRAMA-Scored-2024: A Dataset of the Scored Social Media Platform from 2020 to 2023. ICWSM 2024: 2014-2024
[c102]Meenatchi Sundaram Muthu Selva Annamalai, Igor Bilogrevic, Emiliano De Cristofaro:
FP-Fed: Privacy-Preserving Federated Detection of Browser Fingerprinting. NDSS 2024
[c101]Meenatchi Sundaram Muthu Selva Annamalai, Emiliano De Cristofaro:
Nearly Tight Black-Box Auditing of Differentially Private Machine Learning. NeurIPS 2024
[c100]Mohammad Naseri, Yufei Han, Emiliano De Cristofaro:
BadVFL: Backdoor Attacks in Vertical Federated Learning. SP 2024: 2013-2028
[c99]Meenatchi Sundaram Muthu Selva Annamalai, Georgi Ganev, Emiliano De Cristofaro:
"What do you want from theory alone?" Experimenting with Tight Auditing of Differentially Private Synthetic Data Generation. USENIX Security Symposium 2024
[d1]Jay Patel
, Pujan Paudel, Emiliano De Cristofaro
, Gianluca Stringhini
, Jeremy Blackburn
:
iDRAMA-Scored-2024: A Dataset of the Scored Social Media Platform from 2020 to 2023. Zenodo, 2024
[i122]Alexandros Efstratiou, Marina Efstratiou, Satrio Baskoro Yudhoatmojo, Jeremy Blackburn, Emiliano De Cristofaro:
"Here's Your Evidence": False Consensus in Public Twitter Discussions of COVID-19 Science. CoRR abs/2401.13248 (2024)
[i121]Jay Patel, Pujan Paudel, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Gianluca Stringhini, Jeremy Blackburn:
iDRAMA-Scored-2024: A Dataset of the Scored Social Media Platform from 2020 to 2023. CoRR abs/2405.10233 (2024)
[i120]Meenatchi Sundaram Muthu Selva Annamalai, Georgi Ganev, Emiliano De Cristofaro:
"What do you want from theory alone?" Experimenting with Tight Auditing of Differentially Private Synthetic Data Generation. CoRR abs/2405.10994 (2024)
[i119]Meenatchi Sundaram Muthu Selva Annamalai, Emiliano De Cristofaro:
Nearly Tight Black-Box Auditing of Differentially Private Machine Learning. CoRR abs/2405.14106 (2024)
[i118]Ashkan Vedadi Gargary, Emiliano De Cristofaro:
A Systematic Review of Federated Generative Models. CoRR abs/2405.16682 (2024)
[i117]Georgi Ganev, Meenatchi Sundaram Muthu Selva Annamalai, Emiliano De Cristofaro:
The Elusive Pursuit of Replicating PATE-GAN: Benchmarking, Auditing, Debugging. CoRR abs/2406.13985 (2024)
[i116]Mauro Conti, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Alessandro Galeazzi, Pujan Paudel, Gianluca Stringhini:
Revealing The Secret Power: How Algorithms Can Influence Content Visibility on Social Media. CoRR abs/2410.17390 (2024)
[i115]Meenatchi Sundaram Muthu Selva Annamalai, Borja Balle, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Jamie Hayes:
To Shuffle or not to Shuffle: Auditing DP-SGD with Shuffling. CoRR abs/2411.10614 (2024)- 2023
[c98]Alexandros Efstratiou
, Jeremy Blackburn, Tristan Caulfield
, Gianluca Stringhini, Savvas Zannettou, Emiliano De Cristofaro:
Non-polar Opposites: Analyzing the Relationship between Echo Chambers and Hostile Intergroup Interactions on Reddit. ICWSM 2023: 197-208
[c97]Pujan Paudel, Jeremy Blackburn, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Savvas Zannettou, Gianluca Stringhini:
Lambretta: Learning to Rank for Twitter Soft Moderation. SP 2023: 311-326
[c96]Utkucan Balci
, Chen Ling
, Emiliano De Cristofaro
, Megan Squire
, Gianluca Stringhini
, Jeremy Blackburn
:
Beyond Fish and Bicycles: Exploring the Varieties of Online Women's Ideological Spaces. WebSci 2023: 43-54
[c95]Satrio Baskoro Yudhoatmojo, Emiliano De Cristofaro
, Jeremy Blackburn
:
Understanding the Use of e-Prints on Reddit and 4chan's Politically Incorrect Board. WebSci 2023: 117-127
[i114]Emiliano De Cristofaro:
What Is Synthetic Data? The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. CoRR abs/2303.01230 (2023)
[i113]Utkucan Balci, Chen Ling, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Megan Squire, Gianluca Stringhini, Jeremy Blackburn:
Beyond Fish and Bicycles: Exploring the Varieties of Online Women's Ideological Spaces. CoRR abs/2303.07099 (2023)
[i112]Mohammad Naseri, Yufei Han, Emiliano De Cristofaro:
BadVFL: Backdoor Attacks in Vertical Federated Learning. CoRR abs/2304.08847 (2023)
[i111]Georgi Ganev, Kai Xu, Emiliano De Cristofaro:
Understanding how Differentially Private Generative Models Spend their Privacy Budget. CoRR abs/2305.10994 (2023)
[i110]Mohammad Hammas Saeed, Kostantinos Papadamou, Jeremy Blackburn, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Gianluca Stringhini:
TUBERAIDER: Attributing Coordinated Hate Attacks on YouTube Videos to their Source Communities. CoRR abs/2308.05247 (2023)
[i109]Meenatchi Sundaram Muthu Selva Annamalai, Igor Bilogrevic, Emiliano De Cristofaro:
FP-Fed: Privacy-Preserving Federated Detection of Browser Fingerprinting. CoRR abs/2311.16940 (2023)
[i108]Georgi Ganev, Emiliano De Cristofaro:
On the Inadequacy of Similarity-based Privacy Metrics: Reconstruction Attacks against "Truly Anonymous Synthetic Data". CoRR abs/2312.05114 (2023)
[i107]Kostantinos Papadamou, Jay Patel
, Jeremy Blackburn, Philipp Jovanovic, Emiliano De Cristofaro:
From HODL to MOON: Understanding Community Evolution, Emotional Dynamics, and Price Interplay in the Cryptocurrency Ecosystem. CoRR abs/2312.08394 (2023)- 2022
[j34]Alexandros Efstratiou
, Emiliano De Cristofaro:
Adherence to Misinformation on Social Media Through Socio-Cognitive and Group-Based Processes. Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact. 6(CSCW2): 1-35 (2022)
[j33]Haris Bin Zia, Aravindh Raman, Ignacio Castro, Ishaku Hassan Anaobi, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Nishanth Sastry
, Gareth Tyson:
Toxicity in the Decentralized Web and the Potential for Model Sharing. Proc. ACM Meas. Anal. Comput. Syst. 6(2): 35:1-35:25 (2022)
[c94]Mohammad Naseri, Yufei Han, Enrico Mariconti
, Yun Shen, Gianluca Stringhini, Emiliano De Cristofaro:
CERBERUS: Exploring Federated Prediction of Security Events. CCS 2022: 2337-2351
[c93]Wai Man Si, Michael Backes, Jeremy Blackburn, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Gianluca Stringhini, Savvas Zannettou, Yang Zhang
:
Why So Toxic?: Measuring and Triggering Toxic Behavior in Open-Domain Chatbots. CCS 2022: 2659-2673
[c92]Georgi Ganev, Bristena Oprisanu, Emiliano De Cristofaro:
Robin Hood and Matthew Effects: Differential Privacy Has Disparate Impact on Synthetic Data. ICML 2022: 6944-6959
[c91]Catherine Jennifer, Fatemeh Tahmasbi, Jeremy Blackburn, Gianluca Stringhini, Savvas Zannettou, Emiliano De Cristofaro:
Feels Bad Man: Dissecting Automated Hateful Meme Detection Through the Lens of Facebook's Challenge. ICWSM Workshops 2022
[c90]Kostantinos Papadamou, Savvas Zannettou, Jeremy Blackburn, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Gianluca Stringhini, Michael Sirivianos:
"It Is Just a Flu": Assessing the Effect of Watch History on YouTube's Pseudoscientific Video Recommendations. ICWSM 2022: 723-734
[c89]Antonis Papasavva, Max Aliapoulios, Cameron Ballard, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Gianluca Stringhini, Savvas Zannettou, Jeremy Blackburn:
The Gospel according to Q: Understanding the QAnon Conspiracy from the Perspective of Canonical Information. ICWSM 2022: 735-746
[c88]Pujan Paudel, Jeremy Blackburn, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Savvas Zannettou, Gianluca Stringhini:
A Longitudinal Study of the Gettr Social Network. ICWSM Workshops 2022
[c87]Mohammad Naseri, Jamie Hayes, Emiliano De Cristofaro:
Local and Central Differential Privacy for Robustness and Privacy in Federated Learning. NDSS 2022
[c86]Bristena Oprisanu, Georgi Ganev, Emiliano De Cristofaro:
On Utility and Privacy in Synthetic Genomic Data. NDSS 2022
[c85]Haris Bin Zia, Aravindh Raman, Ignacio Castro, Anaobi Ishaku Hassan, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Nishanth Sastry, Gareth Tyson:
Toxicity in the Decentralized Web and the Potential for Model Sharing. SIGMETRICS (Abstracts) 2022: 15-16
[c84]Mohammad Hammas Saeed, Shiza Ali, Jeremy Blackburn, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Savvas Zannettou, Gianluca Stringhini:
TrollMagnifier: Detecting State-Sponsored Troll Accounts on Reddit. SP 2022: 2161-2175
[c83]Yugeng Liu, Rui Wen, Xinlei He, Ahmed Salem, Zhikun Zhang, Michael Backes, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Mario Fritz, Yang Zhang:
ML-Doctor: Holistic Risk Assessment of Inference Attacks Against Machine Learning Models. USENIX Security Symposium 2022: 4525-4542
[c82]Chen Ling
, Jeremy Blackburn, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Gianluca Stringhini:
Slapping Cats, Bopping Heads, and Oreo Shakes: Understanding Indicators of Virality in TikTok Short Videos. WebSci 2022: 164-173
[i106]Catherine Jennifer, Fatemeh Tahmasbi, Jeremy Blackburn, Gianluca Stringhini, Savvas Zannettou, Emiliano De Cristofaro:
Feels Bad Man: Dissecting Automated Hateful Meme Detection Through the Lens of Facebook's Challenge. CoRR abs/2202.08492 (2022)
[i105]Haris Bin Zia, Aravindh Raman, Ignacio Castro, Anaobi Ishaku Hassan, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Nishanth Sastry, Gareth Tyson:
Toxicity in the Decentralized Web and the Potential for Model Sharing. CoRR abs/2204.12709 (2022)
[i104]Alexandros Efstratiou, Emiliano De Cristofaro:
Adherence to Misinformation on Social Media Through Socio-Cognitive and Group-Based Processes. CoRR abs/2206.15237 (2022)
[i103]Mohammad Naseri, Yufei Han, Enrico Mariconti
, Yun Shen, Gianluca Stringhini, Emiliano De Cristofaro:
Cerberus: Exploring Federated Prediction of Security Events. CoRR abs/2209.03050 (2022)
[i102]Wai Man Si, Michael Backes, Jeremy Blackburn, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Gianluca Stringhini, Savvas Zannettou, Yang Zhang
:
Why So Toxic? Measuring and Triggering Toxic Behavior in Open-Domain Chatbots. CoRR abs/2209.03463 (2022)
[i101]Alexandros Efstratiou
, Jeremy Blackburn, Tristan Caulfield
, Gianluca Stringhini, Savvas Zannettou, Emiliano De Cristofaro:
Non-Polar Opposites: Analyzing the Relationship Between Echo Chambers and Hostile Intergroup Interactions on Reddit. CoRR abs/2211.14388 (2022)
[i100]Pujan Paudel, Jeremy Blackburn, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Savvas Zannettou, Gianluca Stringhini:
LAMBRETTA: Learning to Rank for Twitter Soft Moderation. CoRR abs/2212.05926 (2022)- 2021
[j32]Emiliano De Cristofaro
:
A Critical Overview of Privacy in Machine Learning. IEEE Secur. Priv. 19(4): 19-27 (2021)
[j31]Chen Ling
, Ihab AbuHilal, Jeremy Blackburn, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Savvas Zannettou, Gianluca Stringhini:
Dissecting the Meme Magic: Understanding Indicators of Virality in Image Memes. Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact. 5(CSCW1): 81:1-81:24 (2021)
[j30]Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Shagun Jhaver, Savvas Zannettou, Jeremy Blackburn, Gianluca Stringhini, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Robert West:
Do Platform Migrations Compromise Content Moderation? Evidence from r/The_Donald and r/Incels. Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact. 5(CSCW2): 316:1-316:24 (2021)
[j29]Periwinkle Doerfler, Andrea Forte, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Gianluca Stringhini, Jeremy Blackburn, Damon McCoy:
"I'm a Professor, which isn't usually a dangerous job": Internet-facilitated Harassment and Its Impact on Researchers. Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact. 5(CSCW2): 341:1-341:32 (2021)
[j28]Kostantinos Papadamou
, Savvas Zannettou, Jeremy Blackburn, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Gianluca Stringhini, Michael Sirivianos:
"How over is it?" Understanding the Incel Community on YouTube. Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact. 5(CSCW2): 412:1-412:25 (2021)
[c81]Yuping Wang, Savvas Zannettou, Jeremy Blackburn, Barry Bradlyn, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Gianluca Stringhini:
A Multi-Platform Analysis of Political News Discussion and Sharing on Web Communities. IEEE BigData 2021: 1481-1492
[c80]Anaobi Ishaku Hassan, Aravindh Raman, Ignacio Castro, Haris Bin Zia, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Nishanth Sastry, Gareth Tyson:
Exploring content moderation in the decentralised web: the pleroma case. CoNEXT 2021: 328-335
[c79]Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Jeremy Blackburn, Barry Bradlyn, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Gianluca Stringhini, Summer Long, Stephanie Greenberg, Savvas Zannettou:
The Evolution of the Manosphere across the Web. ICWSM 2021: 196-207
[c78]Yuping Wang, Fatemeh Tahmasbi, Jeremy Blackburn, Barry Bradlyn, Emiliano De Cristofaro, David Magerman, Savvas Zannettou, Gianluca Stringhini:
Understanding the Use of Fauxtography on Social Media. ICWSM 2021: 776-786
[c77]Max Aliapoulios, Emmi Bevensee, Jeremy Blackburn, Barry Bradlyn, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Gianluca Stringhini, Savvas Zannettou:
A Large Open Dataset from the Parler Social Network. ICWSM 2021: 943-951
[c76]Shiza Ali, Mohammad Hammas Saeed, Esraa Aldreabi
, Jeremy Blackburn, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Savvas Zannettou, Gianluca Stringhini:
Understanding the Effect of Deplatforming on Social Networks. WebSci 2021: 187-195
[c75]Antonis Papasavva, Jeremy Blackburn, Gianluca Stringhini, Savvas Zannettou, Emiliano De Cristofaro:
"Is it a Qoincidence?": An Exploratory Study of QAnon on Voat. WWW 2021: 460-471
[i99]Max Aliapoulios, Emmi Bevensee, Jeremy Blackburn, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Gianluca Stringhini, Savvas Zannettou:
An Early Look at the Parler Online Social Network. CoRR abs/2101.03820 (2021)
[i98]Chen Ling, Ihab AbuHilal, Jeremy Blackburn, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Savvas Zannettou, Gianluca Stringhini:
Dissecting the Meme Magic: Understanding Indicators of Virality in Image Memes. CoRR abs/2101.06535 (2021)
[i97]Max Aliapoulios, Antonis Papasavva, Cameron Ballard, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Gianluca Stringhini, Savvas Zannettou, Jeremy Blackburn:
The Gospel According to Q: Understanding the QAnon Conspiracy from the Perspective of Canonical Information. CoRR abs/2101.08750 (2021)
[i96]Yugeng Liu, Rui Wen, Xinlei He, Ahmed Salem, Zhikun Zhang, Michael Backes, Emiliano De Cristofaro, Mario Fritz, Yang Zhang:
ML-Doctor: Holistic Risk Assessment of Inference Attacks Against Machine Learning Models. CoRR abs/2102.02551 (2021)


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