Scott Ruoti

Assistant professor @EECS_UTK. Researching computer security and human factors. Follower of Jesus Christ and a member of His restored church (@Ch_JesusChrist).

[Scott Ruoti @scottruoti]

The University of Tennessee, Knoxville is looking to hire a faculty member in the area of cyber-physical systems. If you or anyone you know would be interested, have them apply. It says grid security, but any CPS candidate will receive equal consideration. https://t.co/xX7n7CTIMz

[Scott Ruoti @scottruoti]

The University of Tennessee, Knoxville is looking to hire a faculty member in the areas of software engineering, software systems, or programming languages. If you know any students nearing graduation in these areas, please share this opportunity with them https://t.co/dQYIzMW10X

[Scott Ruoti @scottruoti]

@mahdi_tcs At the University of Tennessee it is a flat $10K every year. If we consistently fail to meet the expectation, we have to teach an additional class each year. We also get no overhead recovery (i.e., can't pay for graduate computers) until we satisfy recovery.

[Scott Ruoti @scottruoti]

https://t.co/ciAZ7RUrJX
The University of Tennessee is hiring in the area of cybersecurity. I would love to have a colleague in the area of usable security. Feel free to reach out to me with any questions.

[Russell M. Nelson @NelsonRussellM]

Because Jesus Christ overcame this fallen world and because He atoned for each of us, you too can overcome this sin-saturated, self-centered, and often exhausting world. #GeneralConference

[Jeremy Clark @PulpSpy]

Podcast (Futurati w/ @Trent_STEMpunk and @ThomasFrey) episode with me introducing L2s, cryptographic voting, and other topics:

https://t.co/WIxfE6Bmuk

Also check out the episode before with @scottruoti: https://t.co/6m9rbEcTrc

[Scott Ruoti @scottruoti]

@kcotsneb @AnantaSoneji @adamdoupe @IEEESSP @mzurko For one, it makes sure I am an advocate for at least one paper during PC discussions. It also keeps me from having unrealistically high expectations in my reviews (and clearly flags it if I do).

[Scott Ruoti @scottruoti]

@kcotsneb @AnantaSoneji @adamdoupe @IEEESSP Great recommendations. Another you might consider is marking the best paper in your review stack with the highest rating available, then calibrate the other reviews from there. This was advice I got from
@mzurko and it has changed how I review in a very positive way.

[Scott Ruoti @scottruoti]

Great talk about the semi-broken review process in security venues: https://t.co/aIoylpKQjX. Even in my limited time in the community, I think we have improved significantly. I think the future is bright for security venues. @IEEESSP #SP22

[Scott Ruoti @scottruoti]

27% increase in accepted papers at @IEEESSP #SP22 (115→146). This is wonderful to hear! This is how you grow a community.

[Joe Calandrino @inplaintext]

📢 Job announcement: FTC OTech is hiring for a computer scientist position! OTech provides tech expertise and conducts publishable research to inform and advance the FTC's mission.

[Scott Ruoti @scottruoti]

@yazz_acar @IEEESSP Congrats!

[Alex Williams @acwio]

My department wrote a press release about @senjutidutta2's forthcoming #CHI2022 paper on mobilizing crowdwork through design. (cc: @rhemalinder, @AnaKuzminykh)

PS: Paper available soon! #ProudAdvisor

https://t.co/eL73BGihWQ

[Association for Computing Machinery @TheOfficialACM]

Congratulations to Jack Dongarra, who receives 2021 #ACMTuringAward for pioneering contributions to numerical algorithms and libraries that enabled high performance computational software to keep pace with exponential hardware improvements for decades." https://t.co/RxTTGaZ7Mx

[Scott Ruoti @scottruoti]

@snagycs @VT_CS @UUtah @UtahSoC Congrats!

[Scott Ruoti @scottruoti]

I'm excited to announce that our paper (@oeschsec, @AnujAnujgautam1) examining password manager usage in the wild will appear at CHI '22. Our results shed light on how, and more importantly why people use password managers as they do. Preprint here: https://t.co/klSd00lZRi

[Scott Ruoti @scottruoti]

@eredmil1 @v0max @IEEESSP It could be either. It can be beneficial to submit to the wrong track (or submitting security work at non-security venues). Reviewers often focus on your cool results without being able to detect the problems with your methodology. Sort of the flip of what Serge is dealing with.

[Scott Ruoti @scottruoti]

@v0max @eredmil1 @IEEESSP I would also note that this isn't limited to just conference reviews, but also NSF panel reviews. I've had plenty of reviews from subject matter experts that clearly didn't understand the methods used, providing feedback that is nonsensical for the methods described.

[Scott Ruoti @scottruoti]

@v0max @eredmil1 @IEEESSP One problem with the expertise question is that it conflates subject matter expertise and methodological expertise. I've had plenty of reviewers who clearly knew my subject area, but were not qualified to evaluate the methods I used. Sometimes to my benefit, often not.